Disclaimer: I do not own Dragon Ball (Z/Super/GT) or its characters.
Author Notes: Okay, direct to the story this time.
"Are you really sure about this?" Asparus looked at Cabba, both of them walking in a slow pace.
"Just give a rest already." Cabba sighed. "If with this I can get the information from him, I don't care about fighting."
"Can you hear that?" Asparus stopped and put a hand in front of Cabba, making him stop as well.
Both of them stopped in the middle of an empty hall leading to the big arena of the soldier's garrison. The prince didn't even know about this place to begin with, he was never a soldier and at first only tagged along with Cabba because of an order from his father. With the two Saiyans in complete silence, the chatter and noises coming from the arena started to get louder and more noticeable.
"How many people are there?" Cabba squinted his eyes trying to see the distant end of the hall.
"We took no even one hour to get here, and he mobilized an army of spectators." Said the prince in awe. "Maybe he had this planned far before inviting you."
"The way you say it, it's like he is stalking me." Cabba cringed at the thought.
"Nice, now you have two stalkers." Asparus scoffed at him, which made Cabba glare in disapproval at him.
Cabba resumed his pace, the prince soon followed after him. They proceed to enter the ground floor of the arena. In the giant ring of structures surrounding the place, are set enormous grandstands divided in three different levels, almost all seats of this stands were full of saiyans, soldiers or commoners alike. At the center of the grounds stood a large and wide arena, elevated to be at the same level of the lowest grandstand, on the sides of this structure are stone circling stairs, going from the ground level to the floor of the battle field.
"Holy sh… I never imagined this was so big." Looking at all sides, like a lost kid, Asparus was shocked at the sight of arena the soldiers use for their sports.
"It's supposed to be used by a large number of warriors in training." Lifting his right hand up, Cabba started to explain, but decided it was not time for it, so he stopped in the middle of the explanation.
"Look at that crowd." Laughing nervously, Asparus pointed to the extreme sides of the place, were all the other people awaits. "Are you still not regretting your decision?" He poked fun at Cabba again, who now is a lot more nervous.
"Nothing I can do now." He cracked his fists. "Wish me luck on this."
"Come on, you don't need luck to beat him." The idea of the big mouthed and stupid energetic Henkanegi, be able to beat Cabba was enough to make Asparus chuckle. "I will find my way to one of those seats up there." He pointed up, to one of the stands. "I will find you outside, when you are finished with this."
"Right, right." After turning his back, Cabba wave his right hand to his leaving companion.
He made his way up the stairs, a common route that he is used to take from his early days in the Defense Force, for training and fighting in the arena is one of the many duties of an aspirant soldier.
"Yes! You're finally here." With an enthusiastic shout, Negi called to Cabba who entered the arena from the left stair side.
Cabba almost feels bad for disliking this guy, he is like a kid, jumping and yelling when he is happy and annoyingly persistent when he wants something. But, maybe that day in the market square just left a too bad of an impression on him about Negi.
"Can we start this?" With a swift motion, Cabba lifted his left arm and hold his right one to the side, assuming his battle stance.
"Wait, Wait!" Negi jumped holding his hands forward. "I just need to do one thing first." He grabbed the chain hanging on his belt and pulled a dark blue orb that was hiding in his back. Holding the orb in one of his hands, he turned his attention to the crowd, gathering a lot of air in his lungs, he raised both of his arms upwards. "I thank everyone that made here in such short notice." He shouted loud enough to echoed through the whole arena. "Since my opponent has arrived, is time to settle this and decide, who is the real ace of Sadala's Elite Defence Force."
An incredible ridiculous scene, that was Cabba's thought as he was holding his laugh to not upset Negi in his big speech. The energetic Saiyan turned his gaze to Cabba again, now, with a stern look in his eyes and small smile in his lips.
"Are you done with the spectacular opening?" Cabba resumed his previous position.
"Yes. Now, that the best saiyan… Wins!" Before finishing his line, Negi dashed to Cabba in a surprisingly fast speed, connecting his right fist with Cabba's left arm.
A gush of wind pushed forward with a quick succession of attacks, up, down and up again, Cabba blocked all of the three punches with ease, pushing Negi away only with the strength of his left arm. A metal cling sounded right behind Cabba, as the other Saiyan disappeared and showed up close to his back, he felt a blow coming for his right leg and lifted it in a diagonal direction, but was blocked by his opponent left arm before it landed on his face.
Before Cabba could put his foot down on the ground again, Negi ducked fast and kicked in a swept motion. Without looking down, Cabba jumped off the ground, doing a forward somersault and holding his left leg up, he came down with his foot in Negi's chest, crushing his body against the arena's floor. The ground cracked and parts of it flew off to the sides, the impact was strong enough to bury the Saiyan warrior's body a couple inches down in the stone.
Cabba took his right fist up high and almost instantly descend it upon his opponent, aiming at his face. Negi crossed both of his arms and blocked the incoming punch, he opened his hands and two glowing energy balls formed on it, he shot first the on his left hand, Cabba slapped it away, then Negi fired the other one aiming it lower than the first one, the ball flew through nothing, as Cabba jumped away to evade the attack.
Jumping out of the ground into his feet, Negi prepared to launch himself towards Cabba, but stopped his action after his eyes didn't find anyone in its sights. He turned his head the fasted he could, but, before realizing anything, his vision became blackened and his head jerked backwards with the impact of Cabba kick in his face. Temporarily blind, he gave a hectic response, firing multiples ki blasts to the direction that the kick came from, his fire barrage stopped when Cabba's fist connected with his back sending him flying to the other side of the arena.
With his body staggering, Negi stood up again, but having some difficult to keep his balance. "Well – Argh-, I have to admit. I didn't expect you to be so strong without even trying your best." Holding his chest with one hand, he coughs and swallowed a bit of blood in his mouth. "Let's see what happens when I try something new." Negi took two firm steps forward, keeping his legs apart and took a long and deep breath.
Cramped in the middle of a lot of spectators, Asparus was intensely watching the fight, being this the second time that he could watch Cabba from a safe distance, he observed each and every move his friend made. When Cabba's quick combo of kicks and punches, sent Henkanegi fliying, the prince assumed that the was fight over.
"That clown still wants to fight?" He snorted as he saw Negi stood up again. "How can he not realize that he has no way of wining?" He kept looking at the other Saiyan, who is now gathering his ki, then a blinding sparkle startled the prince, he focused his eyes in its source and noted that it was coming from the orb tied on Negi's back. "What is that thing doing?" He looked all around him, but no one else seemed to have noticed the glow coming from the orb, as they only stared at the shouting warrior.
"What is going on?" Cabba shielded his eyes from the waves of wind coming from Henkanegi's aura. "His ki is getting bigger? No, not just that, is changing. How can someone change their ki?"
"Let's fight like true warriors!" Negi shouted one more time, his white aura changing to a gold form, shining light at all sides, his long straight hair rose up, changing in to a fiery shape and gold color.
"You can transform too?" In shock Cabba took a step back. "Who teac-." Without finishing his sentence, Cabba's jaw clenched in pain as he felt a punch in his stomach.
"Hell yes, this is more like it." Sending both arms upwards, Negi broke Cabba's guard again, with this opening, he delivered an elbow in his guts. Cabba's body got launched off the ground with this strike, Negi flew after him kicking him back to the arena. "How it is like to be pressed on?" Taunting on his way down, he flew at full speed, holding one fist forward.
Cabba got up fast and grabbed Negi's fist as he attacked. "Don't try your luck too much." The air around him exploded in a golden energy, his eyes turned into greenish-blue color.
"Those eyes don't scare me at all." Negi tried to pull his arm free from Cabba's grasp, but his attempted failed, as he could not outmatch Cabba's strength in Super Saiyan form. Cabba pulled his opponent down, landing his fist in Neggi's face, which make the Saiyan be pushed back again. Cabba pulled him one more time, but now his attack got block with a knee.
Henkanegi created a giant ball of energy with his free hand and tossed at the ground, Cabba finally released his grasp and jumped away. Both landed close to each other and started to trade blows.
"It has to be like this." Negi smirked with confidence. "I have to beat you in your best." He grabbed the other soldier by his hair and in a rapid sequence planted two punches in his face. "Show me, your real power!"
Cabba fired a small ball of ki onto the hand that was holding him, after freeing himself, he twirled lifting one leg up, delivering an upside down kick on the other man's forehead. The loud noise that the hit made, echoed to the rest of the arena, Negi stumbled forward closing his eyes in pain. Cabba didn't waste a single moment and charged at his opponent, landing one, two, three… Ten strikes in a succession on Negi's body, to finish his attack he jumped, landing one last uppercut on the Saiyan's jaw, sending him flying up high, landing all the way on the other side of the arena.
"Ha… Hahahah." Negi knelled holding his head down. "Not enough… Still not enough." He grew silent all of a sudden and stood up with a scowl in his face. "I will throw at you everything that I got." Shouting like crazy, he involved himself into his golden aura, his hair twitched and changed shape, getting more aggressively looking, crackles of energy appeared around him as veins popped on his forehead.
"He even has that… Who is really this guy?" With his gaze completely focused on his opponent, Cabba placed both of his hand to the side, close to his left shoulder. "Here it comes."
"Take this!" Negi placed both of his hands forward firing a massive ki blast.
"Galick Ho!" In response Cabba fired his on attack, focusing a lot of power on it.
The two energy wave meet in the middle of the arena, destroying most of the ground around it. Stones, dust and energy all flying to the sides, as the mighty techniques struggled against each other. Bit by bit, Cabba's Gallick Ho was beginning to be pushed back, his feet digging at the ground with the recoil.
"Dammit, if I don't use Super Saiyan 2 as well…" Cabba looked behind him and saw the limit of the arena getting closer and closer.
"I am not going to lose!" Negi pushed his hands forward, putting even more power in this attack, making it grow twice the size it was.
The blue ki wave almost overwhelmed the purple one, pushing Cabba backwards at an even faster rate. "Screw this." Cabba stomped on the ground, his golden aura enlarged in a formidable way, he transformed into Super Saiyan 2. With a loud shout, he put all of his power in his attack, making it push the other one back, his Galick Ho grew in size in a ridiculous manner, now being almost four times bigger than Negi's attack.
"What the shit?" Henkanegi's eyes widened at the sight of Cabba's true strength, his ki blast was reduced to nothing in a matter of seconds, the purple one pushed all the way forward hitting the other Saiyan and carrying him to the walls below the grandstands outside of the arena floors. A giant explosion erupted, shaking everything and opening a huge hole on the stone wall, the spectators who were sitting right above screamed in terror, while the others from the opposite side were laughing and clapping in amusement.
A body fell from the hole, all the way to the ground floor from where Cabba and Asparus entered. Cabba flew off after the Saiyan who just fell, rushing down to see if he was still alive.
"Crap…" Covered in blood and bruised, Negi was laying down on the floor, with just one eye open, looking up to the sky. "It seems that I lost."
"Yeah, it looks like that." Cabba now standing close to him, felt a little pity on the condition of his fellow soldier.
"I fought with everything that I have… But you were stronger. You are stronger." He smiled, frustrated.
"Well, you made me use everything as well, so, I count as a good fight." Smiling back, Cabba kneeled down.
"Now, now. I think that I have even more interest on you." Negi made an effort to look up. "Maybe is love?"
Cabba cringed his way back up. "Just no… About the thing you promised me?"
"I put it in your locker on the soldier's quarter, way before you came to the arena." He sat down, holding one arm.
"Need any help?" Cabba wanted to rush out of here the fasted he could, but if someone needed his help, he would not turn his back on them.
"I am fine." Negi waved his hands shooing Cabba away. "I can get back on my own."
Saying nothing more, Cabba ran to inside the tunnel exiting the arena.
"Heheheh… I see you later. Ace of Sadala, Cabba." Henkanegi smirked to himself, feeling the pain of his bruises, but his eyes are full of malice and contentment.
"That was quite the show." After stepping out of the building, Cabba heard Asparus voice coming from behind him. The prince was leaning with his back against the wall, looking at Cabba with a mixture of angry and dejected expression on his face.
"More troublesome than I expected." With a heavy sigh Cabba dropped his shoulders.
"Did you noticed something off with that Negi guy?" Asparus expression changed into a more focused one.
"Other than he being able to use Super Saiyan 2, no. Why?" The question made Cabba raise an eyebrow.
"When he was transforming the little orb on his back started to glow." The prince gesture with his hands. "It happened all the times he increased his ki."
"Difficult to notice a small orb glowing, when the guy himself was shining like crazy." Taking his left hand to his hair, Cabba tried to remember the recent fight, but failed to notice anything odd in his memories.
"Maybe the ball was reflecting the light from his aura, it's not important. Rather than that." Asparus turned his head to the side, taking his eyes away from his friend. "From what I know, there is you, Caulifla and now that guy…" He heisted for a bit. "Can Kale do that too?"
"Do that?" The way the prince said it, mumbling in his words, confused Cabba at first. "You mean turn into Super Saiyan?"
Asparus nodded quickly with his head.
"She can, but in her case is way more special." Cabba smiled remembering the first time he saw her go berserk. "You can say that Kale is the strongest Saiyan in our universe." He complemented.
Asparus stared at Cabba, speechless. The shy and quiet Kale that he knows, is the same that Cabba is claiming to be the strongest Saiyan. "Special how?" He finally spoke.
'She becomes really big and angry.' Cabba thought of explaining, but decided not to. "Why don't you ask her to show you?" He winked after giving the suggestion. "You two are a lot closer now, she will probably show to you, if you ask."
The prince nodded just once, smirking happily, then he walked away from the wall and tapped Cabba on his left arm. "Did you get you reward for that stupid fight?"
"Yes, right here." He took a small case from his pocket and hold in front of Asparus. "It's a small disk, I can open the files once we are inside my space ship." Cabba put the box back in his pocket, his gaze loosing itself towards the clean sky.
"But?" Asparus asked, it didn't took much to see the hesitation on Cabba's mind.
"I will get Caulifla first, and take her with me." He turned his eyes back to stare at his friend. "Want to come with me too?" He asked, not too sure of the answer he will receive.
"Yeah, I will go with you." The prince positive answer, brought a relieved sigh out of Cabba's mouth. "For the little I know your girlfriend, she will probably found a way of bringing Kale with her." Asparus shook his head after his statement.
"You know that Kale can take care of herself, right?" The way that Cabba asked sounded more like a joke than a real question.
"Well, now I know that." Asparus scratched the back of his head. "And yet I will keep worrying about her, like you will worry about that muscle woman of yours."
"Muscle woman, hm..." He is already used to hear Asparus talk about Caulifla like that, but, after their previous conversation about Kale's Super Saiyan, this comment sounded a lot funnier to him now.
"What is so funny?" The prince got suspicious when Cabba started to chuckle by himself.
"Nothing, nothing. We should hurry up, Caulifla may not be in her house." Forcing himself to not laugh, just made the situation worse, as Cabba is now laughing way to loud. 'You are in for a surprise, buddy.'
With Cabba still smiling and Asparus now with a frown, both took off, going at full speed towards Caulifla house, far away of the capital city, in the slums.
"You know, I actually missed this flying bathtub." Caulifla sat on one of the front seats, putting her feet on top of the control panel. "So tell me, where are we going?" She shoot a glare at Asparus, who just entered the ship after Kale.
"What now?" The prince glared back at her.
"If you try to fly off alone with the ship, I will kill you." She said while grinning, but her words sounded like she is really serious about this.
"Please don't start you two." Cabba has already noticed that Caulifla likes to argue with Asparus, almost as much she likes to tease him. Asparus looked at him with a face that clearly said, 'She is the one that is starting it.' And sat down at the back of the ship. "Let me put this on the console over here." Cabba placed his right hand on one of Caulifla's leg, gently pulling it off the panel.
"Hey, easy there lover boy." She grabbed him by the waist, and rubbed her cheeks against his covered belly.
"Come on, can you guys do that later? Preferable alone in a room." Asparus rolled his eyes at the scene. Caulifla let go of Cabba, sticking her tongue out to the prince. While Cabba continued to arrange the disk in silence, Kale was burning red with embarrassment, sitting alone in a corner.
"This is odd." Cabba stared confused at the monitor.
"What is inside the disk?" Asparus walked to the front part of the ship.
"Coordinates, but this doesn't make sense." Typing at a really fast speed, Cabba put three new images on the big monitor. "You father said that the ship was lost in open space, but these coordinates points to a planet. See?" He pointed at one of the images.
"Maybe is a not mapped planet?" Caulifla said, tilting her head to the side to look at the images.
"It's not that either." Cabba started to type again. "Look, is a really important place on that part of the galaxy, it's a planet with a big trading flow."
"And how the hell a space ship vanish without trace in a place like that?" Asparus got closer to the monitor, reading the little text below the pictures. "Zirogane? That is this planet's name?" He looked at Cabba.
"You got it right. Zirogane, the shining silver planet. I have been there one time." The Saiyan soldier replied, with a nod of his head.
"Now that we got a destination, the time for little chat is over." Caulifla spun with her seat. "Let's go over there and beat up some bad guys."
"As much as I hate to say this, I agree with her." Asparus gave a quick and low sigh. "Zirogane it is." He walked again to the back of the ship, but this time he sat beside Kale, she gave a quick glance at him, he smiled cheerfully and in response she smiled back.
"I will fly us there the fastest I can." Cabba took his seat next to Caulifla, and started the ignition of the ship's thrusters. In a matter of seconds the vessel took off, disappearing between the clouds.
They departed from Sadala closer to midday, and now at the couple of minutes that are left to reach their destination, more than seven hours had passed. Caulifla is passed out in the seat next to Cabba, Kale is sleeping as well, resting her head on the shoulders of a much awake Asparus, the prince is looking at the lights passing by the side windows, his left arm is already sore with the weight of a sleeping Kale pressing against him, but he doesn't mind in the least. Cabba being the one piloting the ship, is awake, but his eyes are getting somewhat tired and both of his arms feel numb by this point, yet, he keeps his wield of the ships control, not stopping for nothing.
"There it is, I can see the planet over there." Cabba glanced to his side, and smiled at the sight of Caulifla still sleeping. "Caulifla… Wake up." He tapped her softly in the arm.
She blinked a couple of times before straightening up in her seat. "Damn, I slept way too much." Looking closer at the front window, she noticed the big planet getting closer and closer. "That is the first time I see a planet like that, it is really a planet?"
"Yes, it is." Cabba chuckled a little at her reaction. "Wait to see after we land, even the trees have a metallic color."
"Kale… you have to wake up too." Asparus placed his right hand on her head, she was drooling on his shoulder as she woke up in surprise.
"S-Sorry, I didn't mean to." With a face bright red, she started to wipe the wet spot on his shirt.
"Don't worry about it, you were sleeping so peaceful. I don't mind to be a pillow from time to time." As he said this, Kale smiled but turned her gaze to the side.
"Get ready everyone, I will start the descent right now." Cabba alerted them.
In a swift motion, the space ship entered the atmosphere of the planet, going at full speed in the sky. As the view started to clear up, they noticed that the famous trading planet is oddly quiet and feels rather empty. With a déjà vu felling, Cabba piloted the ship looking for the closest city, but as he started to approach one, his heart began to ache with a heavy sensation that something is not right here.
"I can feel his ki, he is here." Said a suspicious man, stepping on the edge of a building.
"You know that after teleporting you all the way from Sadala, I am almost out of energy, right?" Siting in a corner, a shorter man said, with a brown coat covering his entire body and hiding his face.
"Don't worry, we have a lot of our toys here." The first one grinned.
"Another thing that drained my energy…" Said the second one, he looked at his partner with a wary expression. "Is this really necessary?"
"I apologize for my obsession with this Saiyan." With an apologetic smiled, the other walked away from his spot. "But we need to get rid of those Saiyan if we want to take control of this place, like our master ordered to." He extended both of his arms and looked at his hands. "Imagine what we could do, when we get our prize."
"That would make everything easier." Taking a red orb from his robes, the smaller red skinned alien stood up. "Since I am the one in control of our pets, I will be the one to greet our guests."
"I will leave everything in your capable hands." The tall man, got his dark blue orb and pressed his fingers against it. With flash of light his size and skin color changed, turning him into a huge green alien.
With a smirk, the red one vanish instantly to somewhere else, leaving his partner alone on top of the building.
"This place stinks of bad news." Said Caulifla. "I can't see anyone anywhere."
"Most of the place is intact, but this silence, is just like…" Asparus frowned and crossed both of his arms.
"Just like Udim." Cabba said, continuing the prince thought process.
"Then Freeza is here?!" Caulifla smack her fists together. "This time we are going to destroy him, right Kale?"
"Y-yeah." Said Kale, her eyes looking to all the sides, trying to find anything suspicious.
"Look!" Asparus yelled, pointing his finger down at the street. "Someone is right over there."
Cabba and Caulifla flew together to the person kneeling on the street. They landed far enough to not startle their target. "Are you okay? Something happening here?" Cabba approached first, reaching forward with his hands.
A sharp claw slashed right in front of his face, the stranger turned his gaze to him, his eyes red like they are on fire. He stood up, making the double of Cabba's size, his clothes are all battered. Stucked in the middle of its chest a red orb glows with a faint light.
Caulifla jumped in, kicking the alien in the head, sending it flying to the ground. "What the hell is wrong with you, attacking someone without saying anything?" She gave two steps forward, but stopped as a ball of energy passed right in front of her eyes.
Two others aliens appeared from the side of a building, both with the glowing eyes and orb in their chest. The first one got up from the ground, reuniting with the newcomers.
"Who are those people?" Asparus joined his friends, with Kale by his side.
"I don't know, but, I don't remember seeing anything like them on my last time here." Cabba took his battle stance.
"Those are my little toys." An ominous voice spoke, it came from all the sides, making impossible to track its source. "I hope you enjoy a little play with them."
With an incoherent screech, the beasts ran towards them, holding their claws up high.
"Asparus, with me." Cabba shouted charging at the attackers, Asparus soon joined his side. Using his left arm, Cabba blocked the attack of two of them, Asparus jumped over him and kicked one in the chest, sending both backwards. The third one rushed pass them, making his way to the girls. Caulifla took its attack head on and grab hold of its arm, she lifted him using both arms, tossing him to the ground.
"This is pathetic." Holding one hand at it, she shot a big ki blast, evaporating the creature with ease. "Instead of throwing this trash at me, why don't come out and fight yourself?" Caulifla shouted at the top of her lungs.
Cabba and Asparus quickly dispatched the other two, but, an extremely loud noise, got their attention. The windows and wall of one building exploded, a big pink creature jumped out of it. Its size alone is amazing, but to make it worse, it is extremely strong as well, with enormous muscles with pulsating veins.
"Don't worry, I have quite large collection of toys." The strange voice spoke again.
After shouting like a rapid animal, the pink monster fixed his gaze upon Caulifla, he charged at full speed, tackling her with an absurd strength. Her body flew without control to a building far back.
"Caulifla!" Cabba made his way, charging without thinking.
"Wait!" Asparus charged after him, and with a jump he grabbed Cabba's arm pulling him to the side.
Another one of the pink monster, fell from the top of a building, landing right were Cabba was running to. The monster placed itself between the two and Kale who is standing alone against the first one.
"Use your head, remember?" Asparus said to Cabba. "You were the one that said this to me."
They stood up, glaring at their opponent, the monster did nothing, only stared back, while the other one was lashing out one attack after another trying to hit Kale. Asparus clicked his tongue, he wanted to run as fast as he could to help her, but he knew that that would not be possible with the second pink abomination standing in his way.
In an explosion of light, Caulifla exploded her way from the ground, destroying half of the build in her wake. In a flash, she jumped at the monster, punching him square on the face, the impact made him fall on his back, screaming in pain. She landed in front of him, glowing gold in her aura with flickers of light lashing out from her
"How does it taste to be attacked in a surprise, you ass." She grinned with satisfaction.
The monster contorted its way back up, with a devilish smirk in his monstrous face. He ran to her, almost tripping in his own legs, with an arc motion, he swung his left arm at her, Caulifla blocked using both hands, the monster jumped, kicking her back. She slid through the street, her feet leaving a deep trail line on the ground. Changing his focus, he charged towards Kale pushing his fist forward in her way.
Kale shouted loudly, and the air around her exploded in a green energy. She met the monster fist with her own, with the pressure coming from her strike, her opponent went sliding back in the same manner that Caulifla did, but going as far as reaching the other monster's back.
"What the hell…" Asparus's eyes glued themselves to the image of Kale, his mouth dropped so much that it almost fell off from his face. Her body is now much larger and her muscles way more defined, her hair is now golden with a slight tint of green. The golden aura around her is even more impressive than the one that Caulifla has.
"Any comments?" Cabba said with a slight irony in his voice.
"She looks so…" He stopped for a moment, his eyes admiring every aspect of her. "So cool."
Cabba raised an eyebrow, he was not expecthin this answer. "Seems like our friend over here wants to fight now." He started to walk forward, as one of the monster, who were impeding his way before, is now running towards them. "Let's do this." Cabba transformed into Super Saiyan, now dashing at his opponent. After the first impact, he locked himself in a trading of blows against the creature, but his pace was much slower, making him take more punches than he was delivering.
"You have to use Super Saiyan 2 for those guys." Caulifla yelled to him, as she and Kale were together fighting their opponent at the same time.
Following his girlfriend suggestion, he transformed in to the next level, getting the upper hand once again. His agility gaining more ground in the fight, as the monster was now unable to land a single strike back.
"I can't just stay here watching." Asparus gritted his teeth and jumped at the monster as well. He turned his body in a quick spin, launching his right leg into the monster's face. This proved futile, as he as grabbed by the leg, swung around and tossed on the ground in front of Cabba's feet. "Dammit, I am not done yet." He jumped back from the ground, latching himself on it's neck.
Releasing an angry growl, the pink alien, landed a punch on his back, but Asparus took hold of its arm, and pressed it against the monster's head, making a strange headlock.
"Shit, this thing is way too strong." Cracking noises started to come from the monster's muscle, especially in his locked arm. Asparus turned his head to the side, glaring at Cabba. "Finish this guy already."
The Saiyan soldier nodded and put his hands behind him, concentrating a large amount of ki on them. "Drop dead, abomination." He released a yellow wave of energy, aiming directly at the monster chest. After a little resistance, the energy wave blasted a big hole and passed though him.
As the monster fell backwards, already dead, Asparus let go of him and jumped back to Cabba's side. They turned back just in time to see Kale and Caulifla exploding the other one with a combined powerful ki blast.
"I dare say, that we make a good team, what do you think?" Lifting his left fist to Cabba, Asparus displayed a proud smile.
Cabba lifted his fist up, to meet his friend's hand. But, a deafening sound exploded behind them, a gigantic shadow emerged from the ground. Big and sharp white claws ripped at Asparus's back, his shirt tore in to shreds and gushes of blood spread into the air. The creature opened his enormous mouth, revealing dozens of sharp twisted fangs, as if it was just a normal breath, the monster fired an black energy beam at Asparus's already flying body.
The prince went flying with the ki blast, crashing at a higher floor of a distant building, an explosion soon followed, blowing that floor into bits.
"Asparus!" Kale yelled in a frantic way, sticking her hands up, in the direction that the prince went flying.
The emerging monster, came completely out of the ground. He is a giant lizard with grey scales covering his entire body, in his chest three red orbs glows with an unsettling light. In size he is ten times bigger than Asparus, who is the tallest of the Saiyans in the group. His eyes are pure evil, glowing red with thirst for even more blood.
"I… I will kill you!" Kale body exploded in size and power, her previous golden aura turned into a full green and unstable one. She flew like a flash of light towards the lizard monster, with a loud shout she delivered a powerful punch on the side of its head.
Unfazed by the attack, the monster swung its tail at her, she disappeared again, and appearing in front of the monster stomach, she threw three punches, but each one did nothing more than create a wave of impact on the scales. In an irrational rage, she created a glowing green orb on the palm of her hand, from this orb several others launched themselves to the monster. Each one that hit him, exploded in an astonishing green light, making the scales crack open on different parts of the lizard body.
With an enraged screech of pain, the lizard jumped and grabbed the sides of one building, after one more madly shout, it jumped down at Kale, after getting closer enough, it breathed another blast of black energy, this time entirely concentrated at her. In defense, Kale made a green energy field around her, shooting a continuous energy wave towards the blackened ki blast.
"We need to help her." Caulifla took off, and tried to fly closer to the clash of energy between Kale and the lizard monster, but she end up getting pushed back by the power of the two energy beams colliding.
With a swift swing of its tail, the lizard broke Kale's barrier, but the resulting explosion made most of the scales on its tail broke down, reveling a light green skin. After a longer and heavier breathe, the monster fired another dark energy beam, but this time twice as big, it hit Kale directly, pinning her down on the ground. Her hair returned to its natural color and her body began to shrink back too.
"KALE!" Caulifla in desperation flew at the monster, punching him in its head, on the same spot that Kale had punched before. She felt her fist getting numb, but the lizard paid her no mind, and lowered his head closer to Kale lying on the ground. "Look at me, stupid thing." She fired a big red ki blast on the monster's left eye, he yelled loudly in pain and shifted his attention to the other Saiyan girl.
Throwing its arms upwards, the lizard slashed the air, his claws almost hitting Caulifla every time, it then jumped once again in one of the building, but, this time only bounced of it, charging directly at her. She focused her sight on the incoming claws swinging at her, as the lizard passed by her, she felt her back be pushed forward. With a quick glance backwards, she saw Cabba pushing her away, as the lizard tail snatched him by the neck, pulling him down.
"Let me go, you dammed monster." He gasped for air as the tail tightened itself more and more on his neck. He tried to scream in pain, but he was only able to release low anguished sounds, he punched several times the bare skinned part of the tail, the monster reacted to the strikes that Cabba gave in his tail. As the previous times, at a single feel of pain the monster gets more and more angry, he lifted his tail up still holding Cabba and after reaching the peak, he brought it down on the ground, bashing Cabba's body down on the street.
He lifted Cabba once again, but the Saiyan is already passed out, his hair back to the black color and his arms dangling to the sides like a doll. The lizard opened his mouth full, baring his fangs out.
"Let him go." She kicked and punched the monster's back, while yelling and crying.
She heard the monster started to take a heavy breathe again, the startling noise of the energy ball forming in his mouth, made Caulifla jerk her head backwards. The only thing now in her mind is the fact that Cabba is going to get killed, his body being blasted away by that black energy beam. She clenched her fists and gritted her teeth, her lack of power to help Kale, to help Cabba is driving her crazy. Her body started to twitch, a ki aura exploded around her, growing and growing without end, her voluminous spiky hair getting longer to the point of that started to reach her feet. Her legs, her arms, her chest, all the muscles in her body started to enlarge and tremble with power.
"I said to let go of him." With all her strength she punched the lizard exactly in one of the spots were Kale tore off his scales. The impact of the blow, forced the monster to release Cabba, as he went rolling to the sides.
"Cabba!" She flew and catch him on air, landing with him slowly on the ground.
"Ca… Caulifla?!" He opened one of his eyes and stared at her.
"We are going to beat that thing, I will show you." She placed his head gently on the ground and stood up as the lizard got up from the ground as well.
'You made it… You achieved Super Saiyan 3.' He tried so hard to tell her this, but his mouth didn't want to open anymore, his consciousness soon gave out too
"For hurting my friends, for hurting my Cabba. I will explode you to bits, stupid gecko."
The lizard dig his way inside the ground, vanishing from sight. It didn't take long for him to appear behind Caulifla, slashing with his claws the same way he did with Asparus, she spun around grabbing his arm and throwing it to the side. She then jumped at him throwing a powerful punch at his face, her fist landed but did so on top of a scaled part, bouncing off without doing any real damage.
"This annoying scales, I will blow them away." She made a giant ki orb on her hand and threw forward. The lizard ducked inside the ground once again, dodging her attack.
He appeared again, but now in another spot trying another one of its slash attacks, she blocked and threw another ki blast. In an ongoing repetition, they kept their strange fight were the first one to be hit by their opponent dies.
"Dammit, why I always ended up getting blasted off by someone." Stepping on the wreckage of the building top floors, Asparus got a closer look on how the fight was going, Kale and Cabba were nowhere in sight, while Caulifla is fighting alone against the monster, but her hair is now way longer that it used to be, at least from what the prince could see from this far. "I hate this, I hate this." He placed both hands forward, aiming at the monster, concentrating on his ki, a glowing silver ball appeared in front of him, as it grew in size, it became unstable and almost exploded before disappearing into nothing. "Come on… If with both hands is so difficult, this might help." He now placed his arms to the side separated from each other. 'Focus, you can do it, just focus.' Two small balls appeared, one in each hand. Asparus started to breath heavily, focusing only gathering his energy, both balls enlarged to be bigger than his hands, he then turned his gaze to the fight happening below. He waited for the right moment, when the lizard ducked inside the ground and finally jumped out again to strike at Caulfia. "Now, eat this." He pushed the two balls together and send the energy forward. The silver light cannon erupted from building, flying down in a devastating way, erasing every bit of metal and building that it came across, it grew to a monstrous size. Lading right on top of the lizard's back, Asparus's attack, ripped apart its left arm, and completely destroyed all the scales on his body.
After hitting his target, the prince kneeled forward exhausted. "That was awesome." He looked at his hands, both trembling without control.
"Nice work, wimp." Caulifla jumped on top of the lizard, who is now completely out of scales and with his left arm missing. "Now it's time to blow up the rest of you." She placed both hands on top of the middle red orb and released all of her energy in a giant ki blast.
As the light consumed the lizard, it let out an unpleasant cry of pain. After the light died off, there was nothing left of the monster.
"Unbelievable…" The green alien was astonished with the development of the last fight.
"They killed them… All of my most precious pets, all dead." The small red alien appeared beside the other one.
"A small sacrifice, for the amazing discovery that we got today." The other one glanced at his partner while grinning.
"We failed to capture that Saiyan Cabba, what are you grinning about?"
"Forget about him, we found an even better prize." He laughed to himself. "With that kind of destructive power, we could challenge anyone in this universe."
"And what will happen if she threw that at us?" Stopping his foot at the ground, the red one protested against the idea.
"She?" The taller one asked. "We don't need the girl, our prize is even better than a common Saiyan." He patted the other's one on the head. "And I already know exactly how we will enlist him to our side."
"Care to tell me?"
"All in due time my friend." He laughed again, but now even louder as if he had heard the best joke in his life.
Kale slowly opened her eyes, staring at a dark roof far above her head, she rolled her head to the side and notice that she is in a bedroom of some house, lying on a bed. The room is dark, even with the open windows. A couple of small lamps are lit providing some lighting to the place. She felt her body ache and throbs, she felt so heavy that was almost impossible to lift up from the bed.
"Easy there, your body must be hurting a lot." A calming voice came from the left side, she looked around and saw Asparus sitting on an old chair close to the window.
"Are you okay?" She quickly sat down, intensely staring at him.
"I am fine, just got a few new scars, but nothing to serious." He is shirtless but with a lot of white bandages wrapped in his chest. "How are you feeling?"
"Sis, Cabba, where are they?" Kale asked biting her lips.
"Calm down, they are in the next room." Even after his answer Asparus noted that she was still wary. "We still are in Zirogane, since you and Cabba were out cold, we decided to spend some time here in this abandoned house."
"What happened?" Kale move to the side of the bed, putting her feet on the ground.
"Well, to put it simply, Caulifla beat that monster and saved you guys." He pressed his lips together and got up from his chair walking closer to Kale. "She was amazing."
"Sis…" Kale expression changed to a more relieved one.
"Later you can talk to her about it, now you should get rest."
"I-I am fine, really." She smiled at him.
Asparus let a defeated sigh and sat on the bed beside Kale. "I used to play one of these a lot when I as a kid." He looked at the metallic flute in his hand. "My mother used to sing a special song to me every night, so I learned how to play the flute to accompany her."
Kale glanced at the instrument on his hands and then at him. "What was it like?" She asked.
He turned his head to her, holding a peaceful smile on his face. The prince took the flute closer to his lips and started to play a few notes, after performing a solid melody with it he let it go and closed his eyes.
The cold breeze comes with haste
Night darkens the pallid sky
Soon my mind wanders alone
Alone in the darkest cold night
Stars shine with a beautiful light
A warm and comfort sight
I plea for help, staring far high
Staring at the dark and cold sky
Oh sky, with your thousand bright lights
Bring me her back, take me back to her side
My heart trembles and aches
For I remember her smile, her sweet and soft lips
But now she is so far, somewhere I can't reach
Oh sky, with your thousand bright lights
Give me a path, a way back to her life
Steps for steps, I walk in this road
My memories always on your words
They push me forward, straight without hold
With this I hope for the day, that I meet you again
The night grows further, bringing its queen
The queen of the night, rises at last
With glory and beauty, the moon guides my path
A path back to love, the path to our life
Oh sky, with your thousand bright lights
Bring me her back, take me back to her side
My heart trembles and aches
For I remember her smile, her sweet and soft lips
But now she is so far, somewhere I can't reach
Oh sky, with your thousand bright lights
Give me a path, a way back to her life
I embrace the cold, my body falls down
My gaze meet hers
Her face shines on the moon
The tears of grief, the tears of love
Don't cry my queen, for I fight and I live
For the day that we can finally, finally meet
Asparus opened his eyes after the last verse, he found Kale staring at him, with tears in her eyes and holding her fingers tight. "It sound more like a poem than a song, but, my mother always insisted that it was a song." He placed the flute on Kale's hands.
"But it is so sad." She said looking down at her hands. "He was alone waiting for his lover."
With a quiet chuckle Asparus placed his hands on top of hers. "The part of our lives were we find ourselves alone is always sad and rough." He looked directly at her eyes. "But I like to imagine that he found his love. What do you think?"
She stared at him in silence, her focus going from his eyes to his lips. Kale felt her heart beat so fast that she was afraid it would going to stop at any time. She leaned forward pressing her lips on his chin. Asparus smiled at her failed attempt to kiss him, and lifted her head a little with his right hand, he then kissed her lightly on the lips.
"At least, I am not alone anymore." He said before kissing her once again.
Kale placed both of her hands on his backs, embracing him tight as they kept locked in an innocent kiss. 'And I am happy that I found you.' She thought to herself, with tears flowing down on her face.
P.S: Well I am not a musician or a songwriter, but I tried to make the song the more enjoyable as possible, hope you guys like it.
Reviews: poetrymagic12 chapter 6 . May 18 - Lettu already likes Caulifla a lot, so anything that he can do to push her more to his brother he will do. :)
Guest chapter 6 . May 19 - Well, here it is the fight between Cabba and Negi, I hope is good enough. Don't worry a day will come where Vegeta will be face to face with King Sadala, just don't know if Asparus would like to be king.
mrCRACKZvid chapter 6 . May 19 - Always glad to read that you like the story.
Fulfilling His Legacy chapter 6 . May 22 - The king will get even more involved from now on, the parents of the other three as well.