A/N: Espeon804 here with another great chapter. I am sooooo very sorry for not updating forever. I started hand writing this when I started 10th grade. I am now just starting 11th grade. I was mainly focused on "Pokemon: the Reunion of 8: Platinum" Then an idea hit me to make a fanfic about Goku joining his brother Raditz so I made; "The wrath of the Earthling Saiyan" That fanfic became my most popular so I had to make a sequel: "The retaliation of the Earthling Saiyan" Then another idea hit me to make a Sword Art Online fanfic;"Sealed away from Reality"
So yeah, I've been busy. To be honest, I forgot about this story because I was so into the others. I stop handwriting it due to writer's block for two months now. I have a lot of catching up to do. Five composition books, four of them are completed. Its a total of two sagas with a total of 40 chapters. Chapter 31 & 32 will be very interesting as soon as I get to that. Since it is handwritten I won't have to think but copy instead so updates should occur more often.
DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN DB, DBZ, DBGT, DBZKAI, OR DBS. All rights go to Akira Toriyama, Funimation, Toei Animation and whoever else is involved.
If I do own it then Dragon Ball Super wouldn't be so badly animated. Watch episode 5 and you will see what I mean... Come one Toei...
- Chapter 4: Beyond Saiyan Pride! -
Hikari finds herself flying for a while now. Hopefully, whatever danger Varity's facing doesn't involve dinosaurs. It took forever to clean that Sword after skating two Raptors and, that made her feel guilty. She is not found to killing at all. She only does so when necessary. She would've spared those two Raptors but, then she got hungry... Curse those Saiyan instincts! But then again, Varity was the one who rung the dinner bell.
"Danger down below!" Giru's voice interrupts the young warrior's thoughts. "Danger down below! Danger down below! Giru, Giru."
Hikari looks below her. They are hovering over a extremely small island. A white bageish house with a red roof and letters that spells out "Kame" sits right in the middle. The island has several pom trees. She slowly floats down towards the ground. The house looks awfully worn out. It's not her fault that she was born 150 years after her ancestor Goku.
Giru starts to shake horribly as he hides behind the young Saiyan hybrid who finally reaches the ground.
Hikari can feel it too. Four different kinds of power in the atmosphere. Her father taught her the basics in sensing energy. However, the ones she is sensing is giving her a chill to the spine. It reminds her if the overwhelming power that emanates from her father when he gets really angry. But four? Varity's gotta be dead!
But wait. Hikari still senses her friend's energy at that same area. They must be inside that house. Hold on... She feels another energy level but, it is pitifully weaker than the others. What is going on here?
Suddenly, a man appears out of thin air right in front of her. Hikari falls off her feet in surprise, almost giving her an heart attack. The man before her has his arms crossed looking unimpressed with her. He looks awfully like Vegeta. But... That can't be him! The prince died a long time ago! He lifts his chin, sizing her up. "Who are you brat?" Okay, at least his voice sounds different but similar. It's less rough.
Hikari feels threatened. There's no way she's going to let this guy scare her! She positioned her hands above in front of her shouting; "MASENKO...!" A huge yellow blast is launched from her hands. "HAAAA!"
It hits him directly and the young girl chuckles. Hikari feels accomplished that she showed him her power.
But a laugh breaks from the flying sand. It settles down revealing the man once more. To her surprise, the attack seems to have done nothing to him. He didn't flinch and he is laughing at her as if what she did is a joke. "You call that an attack? It didn't even sting!" He stops his laughter and walks towards her. The young girl backs away from him slowly as he draws back his hand. He slaps her off her feet and watches her fall in the sea water with a smirk.
"Giru! Giru! Giru! Giru!" Giru starts to panic as he flies around in circles.
The man seems to recognize it. "Giru? How did you get here?"
"Hey!" Another voice shouts over the commotion. "what's going on?"
"Nothing of your concern." The man huffs, annoyed as the other man approaches him. "I just took care of an intruder."
"What intruder?" The other man sounds puzzled.
On cue, Hikari's head shoots out the water, answering the question. Gasping for air, she climbs to shore shivering from being both cold and terrified. She looks up at the two and takes notice on his the new face looks almost like Goku! What is going on here?! Her mind tries to wrap around things as it goes down memory lane.
The Goku-looking guy looks at Hikari and back at the Vegeta-looking guy. "Why did you do that Vegeta?"
Vegeta? Okay, none of this is making any sense.
Vegeta replies coolly; "That brat fied a Masenko at me. What should I have done? Stand there and do nothing?" He glares at the man. "You are just like Kakarot Goku! You have sympathy for everyone!"
"Wait... Isn't " Kakarot " Ancestor Goku's real name? But this guy is named Goku..." Her head begins to spin as she tries to puzzle it all together.
"Well!" Goku-guy shot back, "You are just like your great-great-grandfather Vegeta! He's always throwing people around!"
"Your great-great-grandfather was too soft!"
Now the two are bickering like children.
"Well Giru seems to know this girl, that was why I held back!" Vegeta-guy says, defending his ideals after Goku-guy pointed out that Hikari is still conscious.
The Goku-guy looks at the robot. "You know her?" When Giru nodded he looks back at the girl. "How did you know my great-grandfather Gohan's technique?"
Now this is making sense. The two must be juniors. But she thought juniors work when the father gives the Son the same exact name as him, not generations later. But did she just heard the name "Gohan"? She couldn't help but ask. " Are you a descendant of Goku? "
Before Goku Jr. could answer, two teens fly out the house window with the faces that mean a upcoming fight. They aren't pleased with Hikari's presence. They both attempt to attack her but she shoots up into the air leaving everyone surprised. "Heh! How is it that she is able to fly like us?!"
Well, Hikari is a hybrid. She herself isn't surprised.
"Hey dad!" The two teens yelled, obviously twins... Fraternal actually since they are brother and sister. "Who is that girl?"
Vegeta Jr. glares at Hikari. "That is what I am trying to figure out."
Now she gets it. It's no wonder why their energy is so high. They are descendants from Saiyan warriors like she is, which means they have the blood of a Saiyan in them.
Hikari lands several feet away. So she's a relative of Goku Jr. She might as well tell them who she is and expect surprised filled expressions. She opens her mouth to speak but a scream comes out of it instead of words as sharp pain shoots up her spine. Some idiot grabbed her tail. She turns around spotting a brown sea turtle with the limb in his mouth. "Hey! Let go! That hurts!" The turtle frees her immediately. She grabs the tail and begins stroking it to make the pain go away.
Vegeta Jr. stares with a clenched fist in disbelief mixed with anger. "That whiny little brat! That has to be her! She has a tail, a trait that was lost due to my family heritage long ago!"
Goku Jr.'s face twist in confusion and curiosity. He asks the pre teen; "Your father?"
"His name is Nrock." Hikari answers. "But my mother told me he is more known as "Zircon" or "Zirconium". She takes note in Goku Jr.'s shocked expression. " My mother Eclipsky, she-"
"CABBA?!" Goku Jr. eyes go wide as he takes a big step closer to her to have a good look at her face. "Oh my Kami it is you! Man! What happened?! You have grown since I last seen you and your hair is a wild mess!" He laughs while rubbing the back of his head. "It looks like mine but with a wild pony tail! Any wilder and it will look like your father!" Be clears his throat. "I guess I should have stopped by more often but I just came back from saving another planet. Sorry about that." Now he has a bright smile on his face. "So how's your mom doing nowadays?"
This guy must've been gone far long to not know. Hikari can't lie to him. After all, he is her grandfather. "Sh-she's d-dead..."
"WHAT?!" Everyone yelled in surprise. Where have they been all these years?!
Hikari will have to give them a full explanation. "She died seven years ago." She just hopes that they won't ask how it happened. She will hate to explain anyway.
Unfortunately, the question came out of her grandfather's mouth. "How?!"
Her shoulders go limp. "A-a huge gorilla-ape monster killed her." She feels all eyes on her as she goes on. She explains how she looked at the full moon and heard the monster roar, it knocked her out by pulling out her tail, destroyed her house, chased away her father and killed her mother. She did not mention the part about waking up naked. She is a bit uncomfortable feeling Vegeta Jr.'s eyes burning in her and her grandfather Goku Jr. staring at her tail. Why does everyone hate her tail so much?!
Finally, Vegeta Jr. speaks. "You fool! As long as that tail of yours is present on your body, looking at a full moon is the worse mistake to make in your life! I will just remove it and make sure it will never grow back!"
"No!" Hikari jumps back into the air. "I like my tail! Plus, cutting it from my body makes me lose half of my power!" She reluctantly wraps it around her waist in a belt-like fashion.
"How could you not know that you were the one who killed your mother! You looked at the full moon and transformed into the Great Ape! The Almighty Oozaru! Whatever your father calls the beast!"
This only confuses the young Saiyan. Her? A Great Ape - that is what they call it? Impossible! She feel asleep or something! "But I feel asleep after looking! I heard the roar myself! The Great Ape monster knocked me out!"
Now Vegeta Jr. looks as if he is about to explode. "You know what?!" He starts to facepalm frequently. "ARRGH!"
Goku Jr. runs to his friend's side. "Just drop it Vegeta. I don't think it's a good idea for her to know this yet. It'll only break her heart." He pats the aggravated warrior's shoulder. "Besides, she couldn't have remembered. Her instincts took over, so it wasn't her doing." He made sure his granddaughter didn't pick that up.
But Vegeta Jr. won't give in. "She must know! What if the brat looks at the full moon again?! She should remember the beginning! From the stories I was told about the transformation a Saiyan shouldn't be able to move! All she must've heard was her heartbeat! She must had remembered getting buff or growing fangs! That road she heard was her own! Then she loses her awareness, not knowing that she was still turning into that brute!"
Hikari does remember that part. She couldn't take her eyes off the moon whenever she looked at it and it terrified her. Maybe her clothes ripped from her body as she grew into that monster which explains why she wakes up naked afterwards... with everything destroyed around her. She found her mother dead.
No... She refuses to believe it. She refuses to believe that she was the monster who did all this! Not until someone else sees at least. Then she will be convinced. But that someone else then was her father right? He has always been afraid of the full moon. Whenever there is one out her mother would give the warning and he would run inside dragging her along with him.
There was this one time Hikari heard commotion. She looked outside her window and saw a huge gorilla monster destroying everything. Her mother was outside crying and begging for the monster to stop. It was scary because its the only it's head somewhat resembled her father.
Maybe that time it was her father.
"Hikari! Snap out of it!" She remembered hearing her mother say to her on the night she died. "I am your mother!"
That feeling comes again. She remembers a strange feeling when she fell "asleep". She was fighting to " wake up."
Recently Diennay demanded for her tail to be removed just like Vegeta Jr. did earlier.
That night when Hikari saw that Great Ape monster and her crying mother... the next day her father's tail was missing.
Hikari woke up with no tail only to find her mother dead. After that - before her tail grew back - looking at the full moon had no effect! Her mom always looked and nothing happened. But when Hikari looked at a full moon with her tail, she falls "asleep".
Her father even once told her how a Saiyan's tail unlocks their true potential.
No! Hikari refuses to believe it! She couldn't have done it, but it makes sense!
But she still likes her tail…
Hikari couldn't take it. It's all too true. She killed her mother!
Wait a minute…
That lizard guy that night told her that looking at the full moon can make her fly. That lair! He tricked her! He set her up to have done that! How dare he! He ruined her life!
Hikari can feel her regret filling her. She breaks into tears. "That jerk!" She sobs. She repeats this several times.
"Uh... Vegeta? I think you took it too far." Goku Jr. mumbles.
Hikari's sobs turn into shouts and, those shouts become angry yells. Rocks around her start to rise in the air as if gravity has been lifted.
"Wish! Do you feel that?!" Goku Jr. shouts. He takes well notice of the rising rocks
Vegeta looks almost astonished by this. "H-her power! It's going off the charts!" He glares at his friend. With a hint of fear he adds. "She's not going to be set into Rage Mode like her father does is she?!"
They watch as the young Saiyan's Ki burst and flares. It surrounds her body and the power creates a gusty winds that prevents anyone from coming close to her.
"I think she did!" Goku Jr. points out. "At this rate, she may have the power to demolish the whole planet!" He rises he voice. "MASTER ROSHI!"
A very old man slams the door of the house open. "Where is this earthquake coming from?! It's shaking up my entire house!"
"You old buffoon! That Saiyan there is about to destroy herself with her anger! Do something old timer!" Vegeta Jr. shouts over Hikari's screams.
"I'm not that good!" Master Roshi protests. "What can I do against this Saiyan?! She's not even super yet dangerous!"
Hikari is in great pain, mentally and physically. She doesn't care. She wants to let it all out! She wants to prove to that selfish lizard that he's messing with the wrong girl! He may have destroyed her family bonds but never will he destroy her pride. What she doesn't know is that if she keeps this up she might kill everyone.
"Hikari!"
Was she hearing things or was that just Varity's voice she just heard now?
"Hikari! ENOUGH!"
The young Saiyan stops. Rage still burns in her eyes and her tail while behind her violently. She still floats in the air with her ki still activated. She spots Varity standing feet away from her with her hands together looking deep into her eyes.
"This is not like you Hikari." Varity says, almost whimpering. "You never let anger solve things! You don't like to hurt anyone! You are Hikari! A Human-Saiyan hybrid with a pure heart! Don't let your emotions control you! Do you think your parents would want that?!"
Hikari's eyes softens. "No." She thinks to herself as her Ki fades. She lands on the ground with guilt. "They wouldn't." She can tell that her parents must be disappointed with her for allowing this to happen. She suddenly feels weak. "I-I'm sorry mom and dad... I-I failed you..." She collapses to the ground and faints.
"Not good!" The boy teen helps, jumping to Hikari's side. "She's unconscious!"
Goku Jr. scoops his granddaughter into his arms. "She just lost most of her energy. A Senzu bean should do the trick." He heads for the house.
"On that note, I'll contact Dende." Varity announces following Goku Jr. and followed by everyone else except Vegeta Jr. who just stood there speechless.
"Impossible!" He thinks, still shaken up on what just happened."Th-that brat!" His teeth grinds together. "That little brat! Sh-she somehow surpassed my power as a Super Saiyan without transforming! She's dangerous! She somehow inherited her father's raging power!" He watches the others enter the house. "This shouldn't happen! She's a child! She's below me! I am a descendant of Prince Vegeta! I am the strongest around here!" His aura flares gold. His hair and eyebrows change into the same color as his eyes become a turquoise blue. His clothes become a lighter shade from the illuminating light.
He calms down still in his Super Saiyan form. A small smirk appears in his face. "I can promise you this child; if we ever see eye to eye again, I'll make sure that I don't go easy on you even if it kills you!"
The door opens and, Goku Jr.'s head popped out. "Jeez V.J, calm down. You don't have to be a sore loser about it."
"Shut up Goku! I never lost to her!" Vegeta Jr. snaps. "Why do you care?!"
"You lost in power." Goku Jr. points out.
"Shut the hell up."
Goku Jr. immediately went back inside with a slam. It's not good to mess with him in a mood like this.
A/N: Finally finish! Sorry for the long wait but I finally got this done. Like I said before I was busy working on other fanfics. This one has less detail than my other Dragon Ball fanfic because this one was handwritten a year ago. I get better over time so it will improve.
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To be continued to Chapter 5!