Here it is. Day 3!!!!
Krad finally makes an appearance! I posted this as quickly as I finished it so that I won't loose my loyal fans who have threatened me to stop review my stories if I don't hurry. **sniff** Anyway.
Krad finally show up!!!!
I don't think I need to add anymore.
C-27
Day 3
Goten nursed his new black eye and swollen jaw, courtesy of Vegeta. He really showed no mercy in the ring and Goten had expected that, but he didn't really have to try to kill him.
It was Benot's fault again. If he hadn't over reacted and just kept his mouth shut, Vegeta wouldn't have humiliated him so quickly in the ring. He acted as if his life was over and that it was all going to end now by seeing him kissing Soyna.
Now he admits that it wasn't the most romantic kiss in the world. She had been walking away from him, saying that she needed to be alone but he was refusing to let her be alone. He could tell that his following her was annoying her but he didn't care. He grabbed her arm and pushed her against the wall and before she could protest, he kissed her.
It was turning out to be a nice kiss. The kiss was getting deeper and he could feel her body relaxing: that was until Benot screamed.
Vegeta stood there smug, he had one more fight to go. The new kid, Ligh, but he was sure to win that and then it was over.
He was hoping to test himself against Ligh, but the way the names were drawn, he was doomed to fight Vegeta. He was doomed to have faced Vegeta's wraith sooner or later. He guessed it was better sooner than the later.
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Pan sat next to Bra as they watched the last of the matches go. They watched as Soyna easily beat Marron who seemed disappointed at such an easy loss after the confidence booster of beating Pan.
Soyna had one more fight to go and she looked more focused that she had ever seen her. Her eyes were constantly going to the dark windows of the observation booth and to the cameras.
She knew Krad was there. She said that she didn't sense him, but she was sure that Soyna was hiding the fact that she knew he was here. She wanted him to show himself. She wanted him to be overconfident.
Pan sighed heavily.
"I can't believe that you lost to Marron," Bra said as she munched on her food and then that evil smile grew on her face. "Of course, it was even more of a shocker when you told me 'why' you lost." She laughed slightly.
"I haven't told dad yet Bra!" Pan said. "I don't need him angrier at Trunks than he already is."
Bra just laughed a bit more. "You won't be able to hide it for much longer," Bra said patting her own enlarged stomach.
Pan groaned. "I know," she said. "He's been watching me like a hawk. I am going to have to tell him sooner or later but I would like Trunks to be around when the baby is born."
Bra laughed again. "Don't you love our families. When we have to worry about our fathers getting to emotional over us all the time and if they are going to kill the ones we love. Well, at least Trunks has a chance of defending himself against Gohan. Raymond didn't have a chance in hell."
Pan groaned. "Oh, yeah. That's just great."
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Vegeta looked at the scrawny kid that he was about to fight. He had seen him fight earlier but he was hardly worth noticing. He had seen Goten and Junior talking to him from time to time, a fellow classmate. The kid didn't have a chance against his superior strength and speed.
He looked to the sidelines and saw Goten with an ice bag on the side of his face. That was good. Soyna stood beside him. That was bad. Benot was between them. That was good. That boy would keep them apart, that was for sure. Soyna was looking distracted. That was not good. He needed her to focus.
"You are in for a surprise," the kid said.
He looked to the kid. "Yeah, right," he said and allowed himself to power up slightly.
"This is going to be the fight of you life," the kid taunted again. "I am a lot stronger than I look."
Who the hell did this kid think he was? Threatening him? Trying to unnerve him? The only Saiyian left in the universe and he was trying to intimidate him? Didn't he know about his reputation? There were a few here that remembered him from past tournaments and were shocked to see him here. They were shocked that he was still around, since he had all but disappeared from the public eye.
He shook his head and waiting for the annoying referee to start the battle.
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He heard Soyna whisper; "I know where I saw him before now."
He turned to look at her and saw her shoulder bunching up and she was allowing her power to rise. Her eyes were glowing a little eerily and he was a little scared of seeing her like that. Her tail twitched underneath her shirt and then quickly hugged her waist again. He knew it would have to be something bad to bother her so much.
She looked at him briefly and then down at Benot and Legen who were sitting between them. "Watch them," she said simply. Not giving him a chance to ask her what was wrong and she was gone.
The match started.
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Ligh attacked first. Vegeta blocked but was amazed as the blow did push him back some. The kid had been holding back his strength from them in the past battles.
He would have to be more careful.
He powered up and attacked back. The speed of the fight increased and so did the power of the hits.
The scrawny kid was not that bad of an opponent. He had to up his energy further to counter the attacks that were coming his way. The kid did not show this potential in the other fights.
He was waiting for him.
He took a quick glance over to Soyna. She was gone from her spot. That was enough to distract him enough that the kid lay a good blow to his stomach. He almost forgot himself and went to Super Saiyian but he held back. He wasn't ready to show his full strength yet. He wanted that to be a surprise and he didn't want to waist it on this kid.
He forced himself to concentrate on the kid and try to determine where he got all this strength.
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Junior followed his sister. He was worried about her. He could feel that she was hiding something from them. Something she just figured out. It had to involve Krad. Had too.
She stopped by a door, her hand reaching to the handle. Her hand was shaking a bit. He could see it. After all of her preparation and all the pain that she went through, looking forward to this day, was she was nervous?
She closed her eyes for a second and then opened them again. The glow had left them, but the tension remained. She chewed her lip and reached for the handle again and this time turned it. It didn't budge right away, but she gave it another tug and the door hinges gave way.
He had run up to her, but didn't stop her. She became aware of him, but she didn't say anything. She started to go up the stairs.
He wanted to see his death as much as the next person, a little bit of revenge for destroying what was starting out to be a peaceful life and leaving him nearly blind. He wouldn't mind seeing Krad suffer at all.
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"Where did she go?"
Goten looked up at Trunks? "Who? Pan? She's over with Bra." He pointed to a spot in the stand where the two women were talking.
"No, Soyna?" Trunks said. He had an uneasy feeling that he didn't much care for. It was deep in his gut and it made him uncomfortable. He could feel his muscles getting tense all over his body. The energy in the air was increasing and it wasn't a good feeling. He couldn't believe that Goten didn't feel it. The confrontation that they knew was coming, and he didn't seem to notice!
Goten looked around and seemed alarmed that he couldn't see her. He dropped the ice pack from his eye and stood. He didn't know where the hell she was.
Great.
He felt that familiar energy. His father was getting angry at the kid in the ring. The boy with the white hair and skin was putting him through the paces and he could feel his father struggling not to go gold.
How could that kid be so strong?
"Do you think she saw Krad?" Goten said.
Trunks nodded. He was sure of it. She must have. His gut told him that she went looking for him. "We got to find her!"
He forgot about the boys that were sitting there looking at them. "Mom will be okay. She can kick anyone's butt," Benot said.
Legen looked more worried than Benot.
He shook his head. He should have said those things in front of them. He didn't want them to be worried about their mother. They didn't need to worry. Legen especially worried to much about her.
"We'll go find her. You go over to Pan and Bra," Trunks said.
"But..." Benot started to protest.
"No. Go. This is no time for such things." Trunks said swiftly at his little version of himself.
Benot and Legen both gave him a pouty look but they started to go, grumbling as they went. He looked back to Goten who was staring at the fight now.
Everyone was in awe as they were going at it rather vigorously. Vegeta was starting to loose his cool. The energy in the ring was starting to crackle and blew out a few lights.
"He's going to do it," Goten said.
Trunks knew what he meant. Vegeta's hair went from black to gold in an instant and the boy was thrown back by the gust of power. The stunned referee stammered that he was the winner but the fight was no where near over.
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Goten saw him first walking through the crowd toward them as the other people were running.
He felt his heart start to race and the scar on his neck start to throb at the sight of Krad.
He looked the same as he remembered him last.
A tall man with dark hair that he had tied loosely back in a ponytail at the nape of his neck. He was a big looking man, opposing looking figure. His clear pale green eyes were ice cold as his jaw was clenched as he walked forward, his cape whipping about him as he did so.
He had not felt threatened last time that he saw Krad. Hell, he never felt threatened by anyone but Vegeta really and then, Vegeta threats were usually worse than his actual bite. Well, he never really planned on killing him anyway but he knew he was going to end up hurting.
He was almost scared of Krad.
Of course, he would never admit it.
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He looked at her sister as she raided the room. Looking through the computers with ease. He had no idea how she knew so much about them. He couldn't understand any of the symbols that she was pressing to call up information and he had no idea if she could read the language that was there.
Pictures popped up, of them and their family and of the Son family. They had been watching them for quite a while. Soyna angrily looked at the screens and papers.
"He had been watching us for months! He had been here that long and I couldn't detect him!" She hissed.
He put a hand on her shoulder. "Are you sure it wasn't just his men setting this up for him?"
"No. It was him! He was orchestrating this all! He wanted to make sure everything went his way!" She said as she smashed the computer screen with the image of Goten and Junior on it. "He knew. He sent his son to do a lot of the scouting and once he found out that Goten was alive, it looked like he stepped things up. He was only looking for Trunks. He knows that the poison did not work on Goten! He may have made a worse one."
Junior never thought of that.
"This is the worse case," she whispered.
"We are stronger now," Junior said. "You are able to fight this time. Things will be different this time. We know how deceiving he can be."
She looked at yet another screen that had a picture of her and Vegeta on it from the tournament. She let out a low growl and shot out the monitor with a much too powerful blast.
She was loosing her cool. Her teeth were clenched tightly. Her eyes were scanning the room and he watched as she stopped at one monitor and her anger seemed to increase. Her eyes threatened to water but she allowed all her anger to come forward.
On that screen, was a picture of her two children.
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"I thought you were dead," Krad said. He was speaking to Goten.
"Well, I just about was," Goten said and protectively covered his throat as if the whip were to wrap around it again.
Krad's cool eyes scanned them and then they landed on the golden haired Vegeta who was standing over the white haired boy who was struggling to get to his feet. The rest of the people where starting to scatter as they saw the signs of a real fight coming.
"That is new. You didn't show us that you were that strong. Can all you halflings do such a thing?" Krad said.
"I am no halfling," Vegeta growled but there was no way that he was powering down.
"I am well aware of that," Krad said simply and then turned his attention back to Goten. "I was asking you if you could increase your power to such levels as well. You gave us no indication that you were that strong when you made your visit."
Trunks grit his teeth. He was prying. He was trying to get them to tell them something that he didn't understand but just couldn't directly ask them.
"What is the reason for your visit here then?" Trunks asked. "We still have no desire to enter your fold of men. We do not want to rule the universe as you so put it."
Krad gave a laugh. "I know that he once did," Krad pointed an accusing finger at Vegeta.
"Things change," was all that Vegeta said with a deep grumble.
Krad seemed a bit shocked at the revelation that Vegeta was not longer looking to rule the universe. That part of his life was long gone. He would still protest that he was not the strongest in the universe, with Goku gone, but was no longer the tyrant that he once was.
Krad turned back to looking at them. Trunk's was very aware of the boys standing behind them looking on with curiosity, Legen with a face full of worry and Benot trying to hide his. They had to get the boys out of here so they wouldn't get hurt and he had to get Pan out of here too. And where the hell was Soyna? She wanted this fight more than anyone else did and she wasn't even here to see him!
"Come now. Do you think I would come all this way for some petty revenge?" Krad said.
Goten nodded. "Well, yeah. Why else would you want too?"
Krad laughed. The few of his henchmen chuckled behind him, four big brutes of men wearing the gray uniforms. They were not the same ones that he remembered seeing before, of course, they had easily beat them, before that poisonous whip wrapped around Goten's throat.
Trunk's was very aware that the whip was hiding within easy reach of his hands on his waist. He was sure that there would be other poisoned things as well. He did not want that poison touching him. After all, it did kill his OTHER self and he didn't want to follow in those footsteps.
"Now, now. I would hate to have to destroy you all because you will get in the way of my future plans." Krad smiled. He looked around again. "Where is the pretty red head that is always with you?" Pretty red head? Soyna? "I certainly would like to talk to that pretty woman," Krad said. "She seems to be particularly focused. I like that in a woman." He flashed a harsh wide smile.
The men behind him laughed.
Ligh was now on his feet and looking at Krad with a look of disgust. "Must you talk like that?"
Goten looked shocked over at the boy.
"Come come now," Krad said. "I don't think we have all properly been introduced. This is my son, he was away when you last visited and he never got a chance to met you."
Goten stood their stunned.
They looked nothing alike. There wasn't even a clue that they could be related, but then, Soyna didn't look a thing like him and she was supposed to be his OTHER selves' daughter.
"I have been watching you for a long while now," Krad said simply.
"We have been waited for you," Trunks said. "We knew that you would come, it was just a matter of time." He seemed shocked at that revelation. "We knew you were going to be at this tournament. We knew that you were setting everything up. We knew that you would want to make sure that Goten was dead. It must have been a shock to see him quite alive when you arrived." Trunks said.
Goten stood silently, rubbing his throat. Was it hurting him again?
Krad lowered his head slightly and gave out a chuckle. "It was quite a shock indeed. It should have killed you," Krad said taking a step forward. "It has always proved effective against Saiyians in the past, I didn't understand at first why you lived but then, I found out that your mother was just a human. These humans are quite resilient against my poison. It makes them ill, but it doesn't kill them unless it is huge dose unfortunately."
"I would have never thought that 'you'," Krad pointing to Trunks, "were a half Saiyian as well. With your odd coloring, I didn't think it was possible! And then the son of Vegeta!" He gave out a loud laugh. "You would have been the laughing stock of all the Saiyians. If there were any left that is."
Trunks looked at his father to see him gritting his teeth tightly. Krad was going after his pride. One of his fathers weaker points. He didn't move though. He had his eyes focused elsewhere also, but he sure was listening.
"But your father doesn't seem to be the same as his. That I don't understand. I didn't think there were any more Saiyians around and I didn't spot any other full fledged ones on this planet, unlsess of course, Vegeta killed off your father." Krad said.
He was trying to entice them. He was testing their nerve. What the hell was Krad up too? Trunks didn't like this game.
Goten looked like he was about to yell at Krad about something, but Trunks cut him off.
"Get to the point Krad. What do you want?"
"Oh, I didn't want to come here to fight you," Krad said. "Mr. President. I think we have a lot to offer each other."
"You are not going to have much of a choice!" Trunks said.
"Oh. We can talk, can't we?" Krad said with a smile.
Trunks didn't have to answer. He knew that there would be very little talk between them, once Soyna arrived. She had been waiting to long for this moment.
An explosion from above was the answer that was received.
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Wellllll wasn't that interesting...
Bet you can't wait to see what happens next.
Soyna