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Warning: like always, 'bad' language, violence

CHAPTER 5: SCARLET MOON

"This race ain't so bad... I've eaten worse." Raditz commented with a grin.

Turles nodded while still chewing on a villager's thighbone, "Under which the food at Frieza's base."

"Hell yeah... the fucking bastard gets a lot better food than the crap we get."

"Thanks for stating the obvious, little brother..."

"And at least that's better than the shit that always comes from your mouth..."

Vegeta spit a small bone piece out and clicked on his scouter. "Are you bakas done with your nonsense? Then we can finally get to work. The capital's still a long way from here." He clicked his scouter back off, standing up.

"Hai, Ouji-sama." The two brothers replied in unison.

"Once the capital's destroyed, the rest is a piece of cake..." Turles said as he stood up.

"What? Is it really that easy?" exclaimed Raditz.

"No... far from easy, brother. This planet is A-rated, and, in contrast to the last, the rating is true. Their technology is known to do some serious damage. That's probably the reason why Frieza was interested in this race in the first place..."

"Indeed. And it's the reason why we will use our transformation. But don't mess around this time. We have to hurry, we got only one night to defeat them. Let's go to that damn capital already, before the moon rises and we would transform accidentally before we get there." Vegeta said while starting to fly up.

The other two Saiyans followed him as they took off.


"So everyone in the Western country was killed? Just like that?"

"Yes, your Highness... And we haven't heard anything of any survivors yet, but..."

"And who is the one responsible for all of this?"

"We... haven't found out yet, your Highness, no one has seen these attackers yet. The only thing we know is that three space pods were spotted entering our atmosphere, and would have landed in the Western country. We can only guess that these concluded the attackers..."

"What else would have? Couldn't you tell me earlier, goddamnit!"

The king of Calor jumped from his seat furiously, "These are soldiers from Frieza, you baka! We didn't prepare for an attack for nothing! But now an entire country is wiped away, JUST LIKE THAT!"

An other officer ran into the throne room, "Sir! Whatever has destroyed the Western country is coming right this way, destroying every village and city in its path! It will probably arrive here by nightfall!"

"... Hm... yes, we will use the night to our advantage. They cannot see our artillery in the dark. Enhance our defences and prepare to attack!"

"YES, SIR!" all the officers in throne room yelled, saluting and running off to their respective posts.


"Lightning... Crush..." Vegeta threw his hands in front of him, releasing the gathered, seething energy "ATTACK!" A large beam of white, hot fire shot from his hands, cracking with energy in light blue lightning streaks, tearing its way through the land and engulfing the entire city of suburbs and slums in a huge explosion. In the distance, he saw Turles, and on the other side, Raditz, doing a similar attack, followed by an bright flash.

They would soon be closing in to the capital, which was surrounded by a ring of suburbs, not really for defence, but housing the people that couldn't afford to live in the city. The city itself was probably heavily guarded, and strong on the offence. Vegeta always hated to have to admit weakness, but they probably wouldn't make it if they didn't transform.

The three Saiyans landed on the field a few miles in front of the main gate of the capital Calor, named after the planet.

"... What the hell... Turles, wasn't there supposed to be a full moon tonight?"

"Yes... there was..."

"How come I don't see one?"

Turles looked up to the night's sky "... It should have risen by now... Dodoria said there was a full moon this night..."

"WHAT? You got that information from DODO-BRAIN?"

"Er... yes..."

"You know that that pink blub of pudding would jump at the chance to get us killed 'accidentally' in a mission! MAYBE THIS PLANET DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A MOON!"

(A/N: Man... I could be SO evil to stop here... Muahahahahahahahahahaha cough, wheeze erm... JUST KIDDING ... here ya go )

Raditz gulped audibly. He wasn't afraid, but... he didn't survive Vegeta-sei to just die on a stupid planet like this either! Vegeta was glaring daggers at Turles. But amazingly enough, Turles himself seemed rather relaxed.

"NOW WHAT? WHAT THE HELL ARE WE GONNA DO NOW?"

"Calm down, my prince... You won't help our situation by losing your temper either."

"WHAT? I SHOULD KILL YOU RIGHT NOW FOR BOTH YOUR INSOLENCE AND STUPIDITY!"

"I thought you would know better than to act on your emotions. They cloud your vision."

Vegeta snorted and turned around crossing his arms over his chest, but calmed down anyway, as he knew Turles was actually right. Killing the baka wouldn't help... for now.

"So if you both have calmed down now finally..." Turles continued, looking from Vegeta to Raditz and back, "then we'll finally transform and start the attack."

"..." Raditz stared at him.

"... Did you now loseall of yourbrains or something?" Vegeta looked back to Turles raising an eyebrow.

"No. Never did. Allow me to show you a little trick my father once taught me..." Turles held his palm out, creating a shining white sphere. When it gained the right size (which is about the size of a basketball), he hurled the ball into the air "Fiat Lux... heh heh..."

Vegeta and Raditz watched not really expecting anything but the meaning of the strange act immediately dawned on them as the Moon Ki Ball came to its full potential, high in the sky.


The king stood on the balcony of the Watchtower by the main gate, accompanied by several officers. "If that are the ones that destroyed all that... then why aren't they attacking?"

"Er... maybe they got scared when they saw our artillery, sire..."

"Don't be foolish... They wouldn't have come all this way to cower out so suddenly... and they can't see our army in the dark."

"Sire! What's that?" An officer yelled and pointed to a shining white orb in the sky.

"It seems like... an imitation of the moon? Why the hell would..."

One of the older generals suddenly stepped back, wide-eyed, stammering "... I-I've ... seen this before... an other planet... It can only mean one thing... T-Those are... SAIYANS!"

"WHAT?" The king turned back around at the ominous sounds in the field. Thunderous roars filled the air as three gigantic ape-like creatures howled to the sky.

With incredible speed, seeing how large they are, the first one flew forward, slamming its full weight into the main gate. The gate didn't stand a chance and fell under a loud cracking sound to the ground, crushing everything and everyone that was standing behind it. The creature roared triumphantly, standing on the gate and was soon followed by the other two.

"WHAT ARE YOU WAITING FOR!" The king roared "ATTACK! ATTACK!" Several orders were yelled from everywhere. Tanks and robots in the street opened fire on the monsters that rampaged through the first part of the city by the gate.


First, the attacks merely stung for gigantic Ouzaru Vegeta, but soon started to get rather painful, certainly as the cannons and lasers on the city's wall joined in the fight. Vegeta turned his head to the main street, where the largest combat robots rode towards them, shooting all the time. He spread his mouth open wide, starting to gather raw energy. Vegeta released the energy in a huge blast of pure ferocious ki from deep within his throat. The entire battalion of robots were obliterated in a shrieking scream of energy. The blast pierced its way through the city, destroying everything in its path, houses, people, buildings, ...

But the assault didn't stop. They only got the Ouzaru madder and madder though. Turning his head, Vegeta saw that Raditz was taking care of wall's artillery, while Turles worked his way towards the inner city, slamming his fists through the building which fell apart like card houses and squashing whatever had the luck to end up under his boots. His tail slashed madly through the air, sweeping away whatever tried to attack his back.

He was looking for something between the richest buildings, the huge governmental palaces and found it, the city's reactor, its main source of power. Turles looked closely and saw the thick wires, tied together in a strong, large cable, coming from within the building and towards another, from which the power was divided and sent to the entire city. He grabbed the cable and opened his powerful jaws. One bite, the cable snapped right through and the entire city was down. The panic grew even larger. Sending a ki ball into the reactor, the following explosion put everything around on blazing hot fire.

Vegeta snarled, feeling the annoying stings from the attacking robots again and turned back around. A large combat robot had emptied its gattling gun onto the large Ouzaru and was switching onto heavier material. He never got the chance to, however, as the main part was crushed under the massive fist of its 'victim', and a huge explosion followed, wiping away everything around it. Vegeta grinned in a sharp-fanged smirk. The heat of the battle, the ferocious, raw power of the Ouzaru, this was his moment. He roared out in a long, powerful howl.


"T-This can't be!" The king stared in disbelief to the spreading havoc in the capital of his world, the pearl in the wasteland, the beautiful metropolis, HIS jewel was burning! His troops were losing... majorly. They were prepared for a huge army, hundreds of heavy armed robots, thousands of heavily trained soldiers, but this? People were screaming their lungs out, running in every direction, mothers left their children behind in blind panic, once brave soldiers were screaming like cowards, trampling each other to try and save their own lives, trying to find an escape. Chaos was overall. But it wasn't over yet.

The king ran into the Watchtower's artillery room, grabbed the strongest bazooka and went outside onto the battlements, just to come face-to-eye with a gigantic, long-maned beast. The king was paralysed and, not being able to hold the heavy weapon in his trembling hands, dropped the bazooka. He couldn't even move when the monster opened its mouth and breathed out a seething energy blast, obliterating the king in a strangled death scream and the entire Watchtower.


Raditz fired several other ki blasts into the strong wall of the city and thus blocking any means of escape, due to the collapsed gates and the ruined walls, impossible to climb.

Soon enough, the entire, once so proud city of Calor was burning on its own ruins, no survivors at all...

Three figures sat on the scattered ruins of the Royal Palace in the centre of Calor. They were surrounded by collapsed buildings, still smoking craters, crushed body parts, rare full, but mangled corpses, ...

"Hey, look..." Raditz pointed at a certain point at the horizon "There WAS a full moon... it only came up rather late..."

Vegeta raised an eyebrow and turned around, looking to whatever his comrade meant. "It is... but how come we don't transform?"

"Don't know..." answered Turles, "Maybe our bodies are too tired from the last transformation? Or... well, the moon isn't really shining... it has such a weird colour..."

"Yeah, it's ... blood red..." said Vegeta.

"A Scarlet Moon..." Raditz commented.


Several years ago...

A knocking sounded on the large wooden door. "Come in!" said an annoyed Kaioshin. "Ah, Kabito... What's it this time?"

"Good news, Supreme Kai."

"Oh yeah?" Kaioshin said up in his chair, rather curious "And what would that be?"

"Everything is falling into place. The flow of 'Fate' is taking care of everything. The one named Bardock will be killed with the rest of race when Frieza destroys Vegeta-sei. Raditz will be killed at the hand of his brother, and Turles will share his fate. Their brother will live and become the hero Goku. And as for Vegeta, he will stay ignorant till the day of his death, ironically even helping us, as ally of Goku. You see, Your Highness, there is nothing to worry about."

Kaioshin nodded and even smiled "Very well."


"Say, Turles..."

"Yes, little brother?"

"You... er... never miss our home?"

"... What would it help to miss it... Everyone's dead..."

"Even our father..." Even if it sounded and was meant as just a statement, it was actually a question.

"Hm... I don't know... you see, just before I left the planet... I heard that Bardock had mysteriously disappeared."


A/N: THE END ...

... of this chapter. Muahahahaha ducks a rotten tomato from the audience

What? You're still here? Why?

You guys want to know what happened to Bardock? ...

Oh, alright then.


A few years ago……… Planet Vegeta

A bloodied soldier wearing a battered armour struggled his way as fast as he could through the halls of the vast building. His eyes stood wide and his breath was ragged at times. It was clear that he was wounded rather badly and needed healing, fast. Though it wasn't the medical bay he was headed for.

Bardock slammed his fist against a button and the door slid open to reveal a crowded Saiyan pub. At his entrance, he couldn't handle the pain anymore for a moment, lost balance and knocked a table over in his fall. Every head turned to his direction, gazing at him.

"Bardock!" chuckled a tall guy with short, spiky hair, "Got beat up again, huh? The medical bay is the other direction, baka."

The wounded soldier ignored the man, slowly got up and staggered a bit back, finding support against the wall.

"F-Frieza... he ..." Bardock tried and took a deep breath "My team... a trap, killed them all... he's coming for us... He's gonna attack us! He will destroy the planet!"

The Saiyans blinked momentarily, before bursting into laughter. "So Bardock gets his ass kicked and it's the end of the world!" joked the shorthaired man.

"Better run with your tail between your legs, Bardock, Frieza's coming!" laughed the next one.

"So you're finally gonna stop to pretend your an elite? Welcome to reality!"

"It hurts, doesn't it?" More sarcastic comments and jokes were yelled at the scarred man and the laughter grew.

"YOU'RE DEAD!" Bardock suddenly yelled out. Everyone fell silent again, staring at him. "YOU'RE ALL DEAD!" With that he turned back around and ran out of the pub.

"He has gone crazy..."

"Hm... he lost his team..."

"He hit his head very hard, if ya ask me."

Bardock ran into the empty corridor, seething of anger. But his body couldn't handle it anymore, and once again, he fell down. He managed to sit up with his back leaning against the wall, taking in deep, ragging breaths. 'I need to rest for a few seconds... I can't waste any more time... I have to warn ...'

A dark, female voice echoed suddenly in his head "Those fools deserve to die, Bardock... Why do you even bother?"

Bardock's head jerked up at the sound of the voice, but he didn't see anyone. "... W-Who are you... how do you know my name... what do you mean?"

"Sssh... you need your breath, Bardock..."

"Where are you? I can't see you!"

A shadow came to life in the darkness of the corridor. The figure stepped in front of Bardock, showing itself. He heaved his head with trouble.

He couldn't believe his eyes at what he saw. The creature was distinctively female indeed but was far from a normal woman. Her feet and hands were cloven into hoofs and deadly claws. She wore black pants and a low belt with jewels adorned her hips. A black armour with several blood-red rune-like signs and writing covered her chest, dark leather gloves were drawn up to her elbows, four sharp talons poked through neatly cut holes where her fingers were supposed to be. Upon her chest rested the pendant from her necklace, a horned skull with a strange sign graved in its forehead. Her face was beautiful however, with blazing green eyes, but fangs were easily noticeable in her grin. Long, silver hair flowed down from her head to her waist. Large, draconic wings were folded across her back. And was that a dragon tail swaying behind her?

Bardock blinked a few times. 'Oh great... it's one of those visions again...' But he suddenly realized it wasn't. Looking behind him, he still heard the noise from the pub and saw the light coming from the door. Bardock flinched. This creature was real!

"Of course I'm real..."

'...And can read my mind too... what the hell...'

"Now tell me, Bardock..." She took his chin in her claw, forcing him to look up into her face, "What happened..."

He eyed her fromher fanged smirk to her shining jade eyes "You know... don't you?"

Her grin grew, indicating she indeed did.

"Ah yes... After many years of loyal service, Frieza decides that he's tired of you guys and wants to destroy you now. Ironic 'justice' isn't it... you are to be killed the same way you have killed millions of people, but the executioner... is the one that sent you to destroy all these people. This is the Gods's idea of fair. It's how this universe fits together under their rule... how noble, righteous and good, hm? But do you know why Frieza wants to destroy your race?"

Bardock remained silent.

"He himself claims that it is because he thinks the Saiyan race is getting too strong... that is true, yes. But the real reason... involves more than that... a LOT more... actually, he wants to destroy YOU, Bardock."

"...M-ME? ... Why would he?"

"He doesn't even know himself... But you will know, in time. We have to get out of here, now. He is on his way here indeed."

"B-But... the others, I ... I have to warn them!"

The demon looked amused to him "Hm... how was it again... 'Cassandra'... Being able to foresee your own doom, but nobody believes you..."

She laughed "What did you do to deserve such fate? But listen to me Bardock, they do not deserve to live! They're just a bunch of fools, laughing at you while you try to save them! Let them die! But you... you are worthy... Bardock, you must live." She reached her claw out to him.

Bardock hesitantly grabbed her hand and pulled himself up. "F-Frieza's coming! I have to stop him! I'm the only one that..."

"And find a certain death? You aren't strong enough yet, Saiyan. He will kill you along with these fools! You want that?"

"... No, but..."

She placed a razor-sharp talon over his lips to silence him. She turned around and walked to the stairs.

Bardock gazed at her retreating back "... Who... What are you?"

She stopped on the staircase and turned her head to look sideways to him. "What and who I am doesn't matter now... But you can call me Kira." Kira indicated with her claw to him to follow her.

They arrived at the top of the building. Kira walked onto the balcony and placed her claws on the balustrade. Bardock walked up to her side, staying silent. High up in the sky, the distinctive shape of a spaceship was visible.

"You foresaw your own death?" The Saiyan swallowed slightly and nodded. "That is the future. You are 'destined' to die at Frieza's hands... along with your race and planet. But... we can change the future, Bardock. Your destiny is far more vast than that... but there are many that are trying to stop us."

"... Who? ... And who are 'us'?"

"I can't explain that now, I said that you will know in time. Bardock..."

She turned her head to face him, "You see, I got strict orders to bring you with me... but... I want to give you a choice. A choice that will have great consequences. One way, you pick the path Fate has chosen for you... you stubbornly ignore all that I've said and go after Frieza and meet your doom. The other way... you come with me and join us, but mind that once you've decided, there's no way back."

"You don't give me much choice, do you... or I die, or I obey you. However... you don't really look like a trustworthy person. How do I know that I can trust you? Besides, I'm the only one that can stop Frieza now! I have to avenge my team and kill the bastard before he can destroy the planet!"

He started to float up, but Kira grabbed him by the shoulder. "Are you sure of that choice, Bardock? Do you really think you have the slightest chance of defeating Frieza now? Bardock... this is what they WANT you to do. Aren't you smarter than that? I came here to save you from Fate's trap..."

"You said I had a choice..."

"I did. But, I also say that you should think well over your choice. This isn't nothing... It's a choice of great importance and has vaster consequences than you can imagine, Bardock! You don't know yet, but you are very important to us. Use your mind, warrior!"

"..." Bardock landed back on the balcony's floor, staring up to the spaceship. A strong light started to form above it.

He looked to Kira, who was staring right into his eyes.

"It is time... On this moment balances the flow of history. Have you made your choice, Bardock?"

He nodded. Kira smiled and nodded in return. She turned around and held her claw up. Kira moved her talon, leaving a dark blue streak and thus drawing a sign in the air. Finishing the transportation rune, she stepped back and the rune shone a bright light, as if trying to compensate the strong light forming in the air. Bardock watched, eyes wide and mouth agape in awe, as the sign disappeared to form a circular, dark portal. It looked as if someone had cut a break in the air, a riff in time and space.

Kira stood right in front of the portal, looked back to the Saiyan and held her claw to him. Bardock didn't hesitate any longer and took her hand. Together, they disappeared in the vortex.

Mere moments later, Vegeta-sei was no more.