Episode 18 Power of the Dragon

Vegito was done going easy on Aku. He had hoped that the evil menace would agree to his proposition. Unfortunately Aku refused to power up. In most fights, revealing ones full power first was a sign of weakness, but Vegito wanted this fight to be over as quick as possible. "Fine! If you don't show me your full power I will annihilate you easier anyway!" - Vegito said and smirked. In the start of the fight, Vegito had been unsure whether he could beat Aku or not. But with Aku at only a fraction of his full strength, Vegito would win no problem.

Vegito landed on the surface of Caruna and placed his feet a few inches apart. He allowed his aura to flare out and closed his eyes for a moment of solitude. When he opened his eyes again they were azure blue. He clenched his fists and fixated his sight on point in space. His muscles tensed and his veins popped out. A roar started forming in his stomach as a deep growl, and moved its way up through his throat and emitted from his mouth in a great shout of power. His hair flashed light a few times, before settling in a sunflower shade of gold. His hair grew spikier and slowly began to snake its way down his back. His eyebrows faded away and his muscles became even more defined. The sand around him was whirled into the air in a violent fashion.

Aku watched on with a dead look on his face. It almost seemed as if he deliberately ignoring Vegito's massive increase in power. As his transformation came to an end, Aku had to suppress a giggle. "Really? That is all? Your full power?" - Aku asked surprised. "Laugh all you want. I can sense your fear" - Vegito said incredibly sure of himself. "You keep telling yourself that" - Aku said and smirked. Vegito flashed towards Aku and appeared right in front of him and smashed his fist straight towards Aku's face. Even if Vegito had warned him, Aku could not have dodged that punch. The sheer speed of the punch caused the air around it to ripple. When it collided with Aku's nose; the planet itself shook.

"Vegeta and Goku have too achieved this form. They always had a problem with its energy consumption. But once you truly master it, it is not difficult at all" - Vegito said and looked at his palms. As Aku removed his hands from his face, Vegito could see what kind of damage his punch had caused. "You broke my nose, you idiotic golden haired freak!" - Aku shouted, spitting as he spoke. Although Aku was complaining, Vegito was surprised at how little damage his punch had caused. If either Goku or Vegeta had taken that kind of punch, they would be dead for sure. Perhaps Aku's previous taunt had not been a bluff. "You think you can stand up to me? With your golden hair and your shiny eyes?" - Aku shouted and attempted to surprise Vegito by appearing behind him. But his efforts were in vain, as Vegito effortlessly dodged his assault and smashed his elbow in to his ribs.

"Argh!" - Aku erupted as a cracking sound erupted from his torso. Aku then released a volley of punches and kicks at Vegito. Each time one of Aku's hits connected with Vegito, Aku's own body was meet with a much stronger punch from Vegito. "You can't keep fighting me like this. You are no challenge to me!" - Vegito said with a satisfied smirk, that strongly resembled that of Vegeta. "Trust me! You don't want to see me at full power. Besides, I can easily defeat you at this power" - Aku said and launched himself at Vegito. As he neared Vegito infused his hand with some of his ki. Just as Aku was upon him, Vegito jumped out of the way and smashed his empowered hand straight onto Aku's shoulder.

Aku watched as his disconnected left arm fell to the ground. He felt his black blood pouring down his torso, across his broken ribs. "You were saying?" - Vegito asked teasingly. "Enough!" - Aku spat as he scorched his wound with a bit of ki to stop the bleeding. "You want to see my full power?" - Aku asked with a malicious look in his dark eyes.

On planet earth:

Gohan, Goten, Trunks, Uub and Tien had all landed on the lookout once again. Tien was a bit misplaced since he was the only completely human there. He didn't know what he was doing there either. When he had felt the incredible power that had emerged at the lookout, he had been astounded and had got here as quick as he could. But now, as to all of the Z-fighters regret, the source of the power was gone. "He has already taken off" - Piccolo said, as the only Z-fighter who had stayed at the lookout, although he had been resting inside the palace up until now. "Who?" - asked Tien and Uub at the same time. "Vegito" - Goten mumbled and looked at his feet. "The Potara fusion of my dad and Vegeta" - Gohan explained. The only person on the lookout who had ever seen Vegito was Dende. Gohan, Goten and Trunks had all been absorbed in Buu when Vegito fought him, Tien had been dead and Uub had not even been born yet at that time. "We didn't even get to see him. I had hoped father would have told me, before they fused" - Trunks said frowning. "Don't worry! He will be back as soon as he has beaten Aku. If he is as strong as I sensed, it shouldn't take more than a few minutes" - Goten said excited. "Don't be so sure. About 20 minutes ago, I sensed a change in the dragon balls" - Dende said. "You mean... Someone used them?" - Gohan asked frightened. All the people on the lookout suddenly looked a bit nervous. "Most likely. Although... Hogosha said that if the power was unleashed it would immediately start to wreck havoc upon the universe. I don't sense that" - Dende said.

"Guys... As fair as I can tell... Vegito and Aku are still fighting... Vegito is an absolute powerhouse! But Aku's power is constantly rising. He is already a hundred times stronger than what he was, when he and I fought" - Uub said. How could he have gotten that much stronger in that little time, Uub thought to himself.

"Dende! Do you think that there is any chance, that instead of taking place in a planet, the dragon energy could take place... In a person?" - Piccolo asked.

Dende looked into the air with his mouth open. "I... I hope not. If so... That being would become immensely powerful. Stronger than anything else in the universe. And there would be no way to stop it! The longer the power stayed within that being, the more absorbed he would become by the power... And the harder it would be to separate the power from his body. Until the only way to separate his body and the power... Would be death" - Dende said horrified.

"And even then... The power would be free to destroy the universe once again" - Dende finished.

On planet Caruna:

Hogosha had never heard of such an event happening before. The power taking place within a person was absurd! In order to contain that kind of power, the being would have to be extremely evil. That would be only way to contain that kind of power, instead of being destroyed by it. Either that, or the being would have to be even stronger than the power of the dragon, that way the being could keep it under control. As Hogosha pondered, Vegito kept on pounding on Aku. When he saw the dragon energy being absorbed into Aku, he was sure that this Vegito, wouldn't stand a chance. Yet, Aku was the one losing.

"Vegito! Don't kill him!" - Hogosha shouted, when he saw the battle coming to a standstill. Vegito had just removed Aku's arm, and Hogosha was pretty sure, Vegito was about to finish him off.

"What? Why not?" - Vegito shouted surprised.

"If you do, the power will be free! It will destroy the universe!" - Hogosha shouted.

Vegito was about to respond, but he was cut off by a punch to his gut. Aku had finished his power up, and as Vegito recuperated, he wondered how he hadn't noticed it, while he had talked with Hogosha. The increase was incredible!

"So that is your full power?" - Vegito asked as he got back up.

"Almost. I still need one more thing" -Aku said and smiled. He formed a ball of ki with his right hand. It was harmless in terms of power, but Aku glided it down where his left arm had been. It slowly took shape of his arm and soon he was back to himself. Aku stretched and clenched his arm and tried to create a ki blast with it. When he had formed a small ball of ki, he looked up at Vegito and smiled. He then launched the ki ball straight at Vegito. Even though they were only a few yards apart, Vegito still managed to move out of the way. Vegito jumped back to make some distance between him and Aku. Before Vegito dared to go in a close quarter combat, he needed to know how strong Aku was at this point. "Final... KAMEHAMEHA!" - Vegito shouted and launched a giant beam of ki from his palms. With the united power of Vegeta's Final Flash and Goku's Kamehameha, the blast was one of enormous proportions. As the beam got closer to Aku prepared his own ki blast. He held in his right hand as a small dark ki ball, and just as Vegito's Final Kamehameha was about to his, he pushed his arm forward.

"DARKNESS DRAIN"

Despite its size Aku's blast actually managed to push the Final Kamehameha back. The closer it got to Vegito the larger it got, almost as if it was absorbing Vegito's blast. After sustaining the beam for a few seconds, Vegito had to let it go. By now, Aku's blast had grown to an enormous size. It stopped right in front of Vegito. Aku smirked.

"You might want to try and dodge this" - Aku advised with a smirk.

Suddenly the blast began to make its way towards Vegito. It started slow, but soon it was moving at a quick pace. Vegito was exhausted and seemed too tired to move. "And now it ends!" - Aku screamed.

The blast connected and it blew up the surface of planet Caruna. The blast exploded in a large mushroom cloud explosion. When the explosion had reached its peak, it imploded and cause sand to get sucked in to the middle.

Aku looked please with himself as he turned to look at Hogosha with a bone chilling smile on his face. Just as he was about to surge towards Hogosha, Vegito appeared behind him and elbow into his back, and followed it up with a kick that knocked him into the ground. "FINAL KAMEHAMEHA!" - Vegito shouted and launched a huge beam of energy at Aku, who was still on the ground.

"Ok. That hurt" - Aku said, as the smoke cleared. He was clearly weakened and the only part of him which wasn't bruised, was his artificial arm. "How did you dodge my Darkness Drain?" - Aku asked and dusted himself off.

Vegito smirked and the appeared right next to him, and smashed his knee into Aku's gut. "Instant Transmission" - Vegito said.

"So you can teleport? Quite a handy trick" - Aku said and the knocked Vegito down. Despite the massive blast he had just taken, Vegito was still unsure whether he could beat Aku. His power just seemed to keep rising. As Vegito took a punch to the face, blocked another kick and placed a foot into Aku's side, he tried to think of a strategy, that could help him. Each second he was getting weaker due to the strain of the battle, but Aku just seemed to become stronger constantly. He would have to trick him like he had before, but unfortunately he didn't have any more hidden techniques up his sleeve. Suddenly, a plan began to form inside his head.

He did a somersault and launched himself away from Aku, when he had put a fair distance between himself and Aku, he looked on teasingly at Aku. Naturally Aku charged towards him, and when they were just a few yards apart, a blinding light shone from Vegito's hands.

"SOLAR FLARE" - Shouted Vegito, as he temporarily blinded Aku.

When his vision came back he was staring right into Vegito's primed and powerful blast.

"BIG BANG ATTACK!" - Screamed Vegito.

Authors note:

I don't know how much longer I will draw this fight out. Normally I don't like writing fights, but this one I am surprisingly enjoying.
Next chapter might come out some time this week, or out next weekend.

I hope everyone gets the whole 'Power of the Dragon' thing, because that will also be a major plot point for Saga 2