Life Renewed
By
Lady Mystra
Chapter 3:
Ryoga woke to find himself surrounded by darkness the only light appearing from above. "Where am I?"
"Hello dear." Ryoga turned around and a woman with long spiky black hair and a brown tail waved behind her. She was wearing a simple dress.
"Mom." Ryoga ran over to the woman and gave her a hug.
"How are you dear I know it has been along time."
"I've missed you so much," replied a crying Ryoga.
"Me too." They hugged each for a few minutes and then she pulled away from him. "What happened my son?"
"What do you mean?" His mother pointed to his chest the scar visible on his torn tunic.
"I got into a fight." Ryoga answered embarrassed.
"No, you let yourself get mutilated."
"I know who did it."
"You do?" flinched Ryoga.
"Yes, how could you let a woman do that to you where was your pride your own self worth?"
"I don't know…" replied a sorrowful Ryoga.
"To let yourself become her pet how could you do such a thing."
"You have failed my son." She looked down at the ground sadly and turned to walk back into the darkness. He was about to go after her when he heard someone behind him. Turning around he faced the silhouette of someone he did not recognize.
"Weakling, a disgrace to your people and to your race." The figure was short yet well muscled and his hair was like a flame.
"Who are you?" replied Ryoga.
"I'm ashamed to be your father."
"No son of mine would have been so weak or so filled with self loathing."
"You should just die like the pig your are."
"You should change and let someone feed on your carcass."
Ryoga could only look in horror as he heard the words.
"Father…"
"Shut up brat you do not deserve to have a father."
It was at that moment that something snapped, Ryoga was mad he was tired of being put down and looked down by everybody.
"ENOUGH!" screamed Ryoga as he stood up to confront his father.
"Finally showing some back bone brat."
"Come on you want to take a crack at me then come on prove to me that you are not a weakling."
"I suffered from a curse after mother died and wandered alone traveling the earth by myself never knowing where I was just trying to survive in a cold and dark world."
"I suffered in a hell that was not my own, she was the only light in my world and I gave up everything just to be with her my honor, my pride, my life."
"Just to be with her I would of gone to hell and back, but she did not see, she did not hear, she only had eyes for one person." He fell on his knees.
"My enemy, my rival."
"And now you whimper and cower like a whipped dog over this onna?" Smirked Ryoga's father as he looked down on him.
"What a waste." He began to turn and walk away.
Still on his knees he held his head in pain. "ENOUGH, NO MORE!"
Ryoga got up from the ground and looked at his fathers back as he walked away. He was never this mad in his life his hands glowed red and he lifted them as the energy around them grew. Bring his arms forward the energy gathered in his hands.
"Get back here who said I was done talking to you." With that he released the energy.
"SHI SHI HOUKOU DAN!"
A large beam of black and white energy ripped through the darkness and headed for Ryoga's father. He had turned around and smirked as the beam came towards him. The beam hit him with the force of a freight train and exploded consuming everything around Ryoga's father. Ryoga collapsed and looked at his hands in shock.
"How…" Realizing what he did Ryoga falls to his knees.
"What have I done?" Still in shock he did not see someone come up behind him. "You have released your anger and let it all go." "And through your rage you struck out against your own father." Ryoga turned to the voice and saw his mother standing behind him. She was dressed differently then when he had last saw her. She was wearing spandex shorts and some kind of black armor with gold trim a brown belt was wrapped around her waist.
"Mom?"
"Yes, son?"
"What…Who…"
"This how I looked when I first met your father."
"You are one of the few of a race of warriors called the Saiyan's."
"Like your father you are stubborn and proud, but you lost everything else to your obsession for Akane Tendo."
"In the end my son she was not worth it."
"It would have been better to have drowned at Jusenkyo then to go through what you did."
"Saiyan's value honor, strength and pride above all else, but you have none of these."
He looked into her eyes in confusing.
"Yes, you are not human but from a warrior race called the Saiyan's"
"But you would be lower than the dust to our people."
"I see no way out for you except through death."
Ryoga's eyes fell to the ground as he heard her words. They ripped through him worse than any fight he had ever been in.
"Only fire can cleanse you of your sins."
"You must purge yourself in the fire of your own will."
"Only then can you truly be free and regain what you have lost."
"How can I do this mother?"
"Like this." She then raised her hand the palm pointed straight at him. A red sphere of chi appeared in front of her palm.
"By remembering what and who you are," answered a voice near by.
"Father!" replied a shocked Ryoga. He looked at him steeled himself as he rose from the ground.
"Finally you have some pride in you still." His father raised his hand his fingers closed together and pointed up his thumb in front and across his hand. A blue sphere of chi appeared in his hand as he moved to stand with his mother. Their chi sphere's pointed directly at Ryoga. Ryoga looked at them and spread his arms still staring them as he readied himself for what was to come.
"This day Hibiki Ryoga dies," replied Ryoga.
His mother and father both flared their auras the energy in their hands growing.
"I am ready." With that, they fired into Ryoga pouring their energy into him.
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
"HAAAAAAAAAAAAA!"
Ryoga was engulfed in their attack the energy consuming his body. He seemed to resist but then he let it all go as his body burned in the flames of chi. Ryoga screamed as his body was overwhelmed in the conflagration. For what seemed like an eternity their energy faded and Ryoga collapsed. Smoke was rising from his now nude body. Ryoga rose from the ground and looked at his parents. A fanged smirk appeared on his lips as stood in front of them.
"Who are you," replied his mother as she crossed her arms looking back at him with the same smirk.
"I am Vegeta Ryoga!"
"Warrior of the Saiyan Race!"
With that said his aura flared, black outlined in white. Releasing his energy he screamed to the heavens in his rage.
A/N: Hope you like it.