Disclaimer: Don't own DBZ…

Warning: violence, language, mentioning of rape (only briefly)

CHAPTER 11: ARRIVAL… SAFE AT LAST?

They were once again in the large hall of what Bardock by now assumed the palace of Daimoon. "How much time has passed?"

"When we arrive there… several years."

"… Then… what you showed me… it has happened already?"

"No… The flow of time has changed, look." Kira drew the Vision Rune in the air; the white sphere reappeared. The white void changed, the mist in the sphere turned in dazzling whirlpool before finally, forms started to become distinctive. Bardock's eyes widened in both horror and anger as he recognised the repulsive sight of Frieza … raping his son. His fists clenched, the blade pulsated along with his fury.

"Unconsciously, you saved your sons' lives."

He tore his eyes from the vision to look at her, while she kept looking to it "How could I have done that?"

Kira nodded her head to the sphere, "Look."

Bardock looked again as something suddenly seemed to change in Raditz. His eyes were a pure burning inferno; with a rage as if the Devil himself possessed him, he slashed the axe into the tyrant's flesh and bones, and with a strength that was impossible for him. The fire in his eyes didn't disappear when he got to his feet, yelled something to the squirming, agonised lizard and left the room, carrying someone in his arms. Bardock didn't immediately recognise the person, but he seemed familiar somehow. He looked aside to Kira and noticed she had that strange 'triumphant' smile again.

Focusing back on the vision, he watched, with a fatherly pride, how his son defeated Ginyu. And finally, Turles, Raditz and the other Saiyan escaped from the wretched lizard's base.

"When did all this happen?"

"The part with the axe… exactly on the moment when your armour accepted you… what just happened is that Raditz's burning anger combined with the fact that the Fourth Horseman awoke, caused a part of his dormant soul to awake… even only momentarily, it is a good sign."

"How can the awakening of my soul affect him?"

"The Four Horsemen are mentally linked to each other. The power coming from you must have broken some of the mental bounds of his subconscious… But now we have to hurry."

Kira waved her hand and the vision disappeared again. She glanced to Bardock, turned around and walked out through the large entrance doors. Bardock slid the sword back in its sheath, which clung to his armour's belt and followed her.


Frieza woke up with a start, sitting up in the bed he was lying in. He regretted the sudden move soon after as a strong pain came up in his abdomen and lower. At his loud yelling, Kui, the person who at that moment had to guard his Lord's quarters, quickly entered the Ice-jin tyrant's room.

"Er… are you alright, sir?"

Frieza growled frustrated "No, of course not, you idiot! …" letting out another growl, he added "I assume I spent a bit of time in the regeneration tank…" this thought alone already aggravated him to no end "… then how come my body still hurts like hell…"

Kui gulped nervously, droplets of sweat ran over his fish-like head. "That… er… because……"

Frieza growled again "TELL ME, DAMN IT!"

Kui's eyes went wide like saucers "Your… lower body was damaged beyond reparation, sir… we even had to …" he gulped again "…amputate your manhood, sir…"

Frieza exploded "WHAT?" and the room did too… 'poor' Kui was slammed against the cracking wall and splattered to bloody bits by the huge amount of ki that followed (A/N: like a melon!… if we're busy anyway with these kind of comparisons).


A while later…

Frieza was sitting in his hover chair in the control room of the base. He couldn't believe this… he couldn't even use his legs or tail anymore; the monkey had crushed and shattered his spine to about the half of his back. No wonder it still hurt like shit…

But what irritated him even more, was that the monkeys were nowhere to be found. Obviously, they had taken some space pods and left the base, but even then they should be easy to be tracked. But nooo, the spaceship-tracking device was blown up and it would take a few days to recover the files and programs through the main computer. So they could only start searching them over a few days.

More bad news he had to swallow: Ginyu was dead, the rest of the Ginyu force had disappeared, also nowhere to be found.

'Sigh… this just isn't my day…' (A/N: you better believe it!)


The old man sitting on the bank of the lake sighed "I've been sitting here all day and still I haven't caught any fish at all…" He sighed again, leaning his head in his hand, which rested on his knee. He blinked a few times, thinking he heard something. Gazing up to the sky, he noticed in awe how several bright stars had appeared in the air… and seemed to grow bigger by the second. "What in the world…"

Mere seconds later, the entire area shook under a mighty earthquake as the 'stars' hit the surface of the Earth. "H-Holy shit!"

He stood up, soaked because of the water that washed out of the lake due to the strong earthquakes, trembling on his legs. He gulped and started moving his shaking body towards the place of impact, his curiosity somehow stronger than his fear. When he arrived at the crash site, a rather large crowd had already gathered around three craters, talking, yelling, some even screaming. But they suddenly all felt silent when a soft hiss went through the air, followed by two others. All eyes gazed towards the craters. A tall, tailed figure jumped up into the air with black hair standing in spikes in every direction.

Turles looked disgusted to the mob of people of this alien race. He grew even more annoyed noticing the reading of his scouter, together these people didn't even reach a powerlevel of 50. He took his scouter off, remembering the fact that everything they would say would be recorded at Frieza's base through the thing. Momentarily ignoring that his brother went over to the open space pod of the Prince, who apparently was unconscious, he floated right above them and concentrated his ki, sending a shockwave of energy around him, blowing away all those vermin weaklings.

Turles floated back down and landed beside his brother by the Prince's space pod "… Is there something wrong?"

"He doesn't seem hurt… I think he's just really tired… after all he's just been through."

"And how about yourself, little brother?"

"Turles, I can't rest, I have to protect the Prince…"

"And who's going to protect you when we're attacked… you have been through enough as well, so you should rest."

"Here, in the open?"

"No, we should find some place to …" Turles stiffened and whirled around.

"… What's wrong?"

"I… I thought I heard something…"

"One of these aliens, obviously…"

"I… er… you're probably right."

Raditz picked up Vegeta into his arms, closed the pod and floated out of the crater. Turles followed, looking around the area. "See… there's nothing around here…"

"Oh, but there is, little monkey…"

Raditz and Turles's eyes widened as they turned around… to see Guldo, Recoome and Burter. 'Kuso! I didn't check if we were followed… they probably had faster spaceships… oh no…'

Raditz held the Prince away from them in a sort of protective embrace, while Turles made a few steps forward in front of them, his tail lashing furiously from side to side while he scowled menacingly at the three Ginyu force members.

"Aw, the poor little monkeys… thought you really had escaped, huh?"

"Bummer…" Recoome laughed loudly.

"Yeah… you, you killed our captain" said Guldo, pointing to Raditz "So you'll pay for that now. Doesn't matter if you try to protect each other, you're all going to die now anyway."

Turles snarled, ki flaring around him in an aura "Oh yeah? Then come and get it, frog face! Or are you just the cowardly chicken everyone knows you are…"

Guldo fumed "Why you…"; the frog-like alien took in a very deep breath.

Turles raised an eyebrow, wondering what the hell he was up to, but suddenly felt an enormous pain shooting up through his spine and he fell to his knees. Turning his head slightly, he saw Guldo squeezing his tail. 'H-How the hell did he do that?'

But to his great relief, the strong pressure on his tail was all of a sudden released and he quickly rose to his feet. Guldo's split-open corpse thudded down beside him in the dirt. Raditz stood behind him with his blood-soaked axe in his hands, the Prince lying down behind him.

Raditz smirked, of course he had taken his axe with, the weapon had damn saved his and Vegeta's life! He had it held on his back, held up by his tail and hidden by his long mane of hair. "Never turn you back to me, baka'ro…"

Turles grinned at Raditz "Thanks bro, I owe you one…", and looked back to Recoome and Burter, who were looking very furious by now. "Two of you have been killed at exactly the same way… how do you two want to die?" he yelled tauntingly at them.

"We aren't going to die, monkey… but you are!"

"The last one that said that lies here next to me in the mud…"

"He was stupidly careless! Prepare to die!" Recoome charged forward, throwing a stone-shattering punch at the Saiyan, who managed to dodge it and counter with an uppercut in the liver. The giant grunted in pain, turned and kicked Turles aside. Flying over the ground by the hit, he pushed off on his arms, flipped over in the air and landed back on the ground, facing Recoome, but just to receive a hard blow in his face and a low kick against his legs. Turles lost his balance and was fired a ki blast from point blank in his chest. The Saiyan was slammed back into a cliff's wall.

Recoome laughed "Got less talk now, huh monkey?" and sent several blasts after him, causing the entire mountain to collapse on Turles. Raditz watched in horror, crouching next to the Prince and holding him protectively to his chest. 'No… this can't be…isn't there any way to get out of this nightmare…'

Several stones rolled aside and Turles rose from the ruins. "Oh, so you're still alive? Not for long though!" Recoome laughed again.

Turles wiped the blood from his mouth with the back of his hand "You didn't manage to kill me…"

'Don't lie to yourself, Turles… you're at the end of your strength…brother…'

"We'll just see 'bout that." Recoome stepped forward towards him, still laughing, holding his hands up, ready to crush all the bones in the Saiyan's body. But the bulky giant was stopped in his tracks when suddenly something very fast whizzed right in front of his face. Recoome blinked and looked aside to a small throwing knife, now stuck in a large rock not far from him.

He looked behind him 'B-But… the other monkeys are behind me!… Then who…' His question was answered when something dashed out of the shadows, darker than the night itself and faster than the throwing knife, towards him. He couldn't move an inch when it happened in the mere fragment of a second as the creature passed him. He almost didn't even feel the blade entered him on one side and left through the other. But he did feel that he seemed to be pulled along with it, through his own body! The blade had just torn his mind, his soul, his very being from the vassal of flesh it inhabited, and devoured him. Enormous pain shuddered through him, as if every molecule of his body was torn from each other and burned in the merciless hunger of the sword.

The two parts of Recoome hit the ground, cut up at the waist. Burter didn't know what hit him either as he was thrown into the air by the same dark force. He was too surprised to react, to stop himself in the air as he fell back down … and was impaled on the blade as the creature held it up. A cold, deep laughter that seemed to come from Hell itself filled the air as the shadow creature kicked the soulless corpse from his sword.

It turned around looking to Turles and then to Raditz. Raditz blinked in awe and disbelief 'What the hell is that creature…' It was black from head to toe, with arcane silvery signs written over the armour… or was it really armour? A tail of the same colour waved behind the creature, but its head… neither of the Saiyan brothers had ever seen anything like this. The ferocious wolf stared at them from deep, red eyes, then turned around and dashed off, disappearing into the shadows as if it had never been there.

"W-Wait!" yelled Raditz. But it was apparently already gone. Turles staggered back to Raditz and Vegeta. Raditz looked rather concerned to his older brother "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, yeah, I'm fi-…" He let out a sharp yell in pain, closing his eyes. "… The rocks broke my shoulder… and my leg…" His right arm hung limp next to his body, his leg bent in a strange angle.

Momentarily forgetting the strange creature, Raditz hauled Vegeta over his shoulder and supported his brother. "We got to find some place to stay for the night…"

"… There is a house over there."

"We can chase off the inhabitants… alright, let's go."


"… Un-be-lievable…" Piccolo had watched the entire scene from the moment the first pods with the ugly aliens had arrived, apparently waiting for someone or something. This someone arrived soon after, this is where he got his first shock: the one appearing first from the crater looked exactly like that Son Goku. Just wearing a strange-shaped armour and a darker skin. He even had a tail. The other two creatures apparently had tails as well. They were obviously of the same race, the 'Goku twin' had even called the lion-maned one his brother, while this one acted protectively over the third person, a smaller but just as handsome young man with hair that stood up like a flame.

But what followed gave him more than just a shock. The fight between the 'Goku twin' and the ugly giant was already amazing for him, he had never seen such power. But when that … shadow appeared… it seemed however that the tailed creatures were as amazed and surprised as him.

Maybe he should render a visit to these… intriguing creatures.


The Saiyans had spread some mattresses and blankets on the floor of the small house they had found. It had been empty, the inhabitants probably had left a little while ago. 'They were probably part of that crowd… heh…' thought Turles as he lay down on one of the mattresses and was quickly asleep.

Raditz held the still unconscious Vegeta close to him under the blankets, his tail curled itself securely around the smaller waist. He purred softly and soothingly, nuzzling in that flame of hair, taking his scent in deeply. He soon drifted off to sleep as well…