No matter what Goten tried, he found his attacks unable to even be executed. Each time he used one, he found using a given technique a second time proved impossible.
All the while Sakhen smirked as Goten tried in vain to strike him. Sakhen simply stood like a tall statue, unmoved by Goten's assault.
Goku watched from nearby with the rest of the Z-Fighters.
"Doesn't Goten realize that each time he uses a Ki-based technique Sakhen seals it away with whatever those scrolls are? He does not have the power to defeat Sakhen on physical attacks alone." Goku said.
Goten yelled as he was forced to the very back of the chamber by a wave of Sakhen's magical power.
"You have shown me that your capable of great power. But your mortal body can only do so much. I have seen enough. It is time to demonstrate what a being such as myself, who has transcended mortality, is capable of." Sakhen said as he took a step forward.
All the eyes of all four statues in the crypt began to glow a sinister red.
Goten looked around in confusion just as he felt a sudden ancient..and evil power building in the room.
Sakhen looked upwards with a sinister grin on his mummified face as he raised his hands to the ceiling.
"Malevolent powers of old..change this decrepit form into Sakhen Pharoah of the Sixth Demon World!" Sakhen yelled as dark sorcery and power flowed into him from every corner of the room.
"What is happening?" Gohan asked.
"Sakhen is getting serious thats whats happening." Vegeta said
Sakhen's thin body grew muscular and well-built. His grey skin grew full of life and changed color to a deep tan. The old sorcoror's face became young and handsome.
Sakhen had his now muscular arms crossed over his chest. He now wore a yellow pharoah's crown on his head. Behind him a white cape fluttered in the wind generated by his dark energies.
Sakhen smiled as the scrolls he had used earlier to nullify Goten's energy techniques appeared in front of him. Sakhen grabbed both scrolls and surprisingly stuffed them both into his mouth, swallowing them.
"What the heck are you?" Super Saiyan Four Goten said, breathing heavily in midair nearby.
"I am Sakhen, king of kings. Look upon me mortals...and despair!" Sakhen said, then stretched out both his hands.
Suddenly the entire structure around them began to crumble.
Vegeta placed one arm in front of his face to protect himself from the duststorm that was sure to follow, the other Z-Fighters such as Gohan or Nouva had similar ideas.
Hovering in the center of the destroyed structure was Sakhen. A violet aura of power surrounded the sorcorer-king, who gestured towards Goten with his right hand.
"It is said that one of the great plagues of antiquity was a storm of giant hale stones. Today you face not hale, but a storm of debris from ruins old and forgotten by time." Sakhen said as hundreds of bricks, tiles and other material that had made up the pyramid floated into the air and flew quickly at Goten.
Goten managed to defend himself by punching over a dozen of the incoming objects into dust in quick succession, but the steady and relentless assault from Sakhen was slowly taking its toll on Goten. Eventually one object managed to smash Goten in the face, causing the young warrior to cry out in surprise and pain.
The distraction was all Sakhen needed, as dozens more objects struck Goten at various points of his body, one by one.
Goten fell to the sandy desert ground below. Despite the pain, Goten forced himself to a standing position and struck a combat stance.
"You cannot defeat me Goten. Give up and I will spare your life." Sakhen said.
"Never!" Goten yelled, then flew towards Sakhen at high speed with a punch aimed for the king's face.
"Such insolence." Sakhen said as he made a quick gesture with his right hand.
Goten found himself suddenly unable to advance further. It was as if an invisible barrier had been erected in between him and his opponent.
Sakhen made a quick gesture with his left hand, and Goten found himself flung with great force away from Sakhen. Goten found himself slammed violently into a large tan sand dune.
Goten dusted himself off and stood up.
"Alright that is really starting to get annoying." Goten said right before taking to the air, this time with all the speed his Super Saiyan Four body was capable of.
Goten approached the ruins of the pyramid in less than a second. Just as quickly he once again struck the barrier Sakhen had erected moments earlier. The force and speed Goten had amassed allowed him to advance much closer to Sakhen than before.
Despite this, Sakhen made a gesture with his left hand, and Goten was send soaring high into the sky above.
"Goten can't beat this guy. A Super Saiyan Four isn't enough." Goku said with a serious tone. It was a tone that combined both Goku's excitement from the fight with the concern he had for his youngest son.
"Perhaps..but let us not rule him out yet." Vegeta responded, arms crossed over his chest.
Sakhen made a gesture with his right hand, and purple lightning of some sort erupted from that hand and streaked towards Goten.
Goten narrowly managed to avoid the blast of unholy magical power. Despite his determination, Goten knew there was only so long he could keep this up until he was forced back to his normal form. If that happened he was as good as dead.
"Gohan...you were in situations like this. How is it you always managed to gain the power you needed to defeat your enemies? What makes me so different from you? We both share the same parents, the same father. The same blood that flows in your veins flows threw mine." Goten thought as he avoided another blast from Sahken.
"Hercule managed to do what father and Vegeta couldn't. Time and again the trust of Earth's people in him alone managed to save the universe. What do I have? It seems everyone in our group but me has some special quality, some power that gives them the strength they need." Goten said.
"Goten. I understand how you feel..but you need to have more confidence in yourself. There is something all warriors have which you also have. The one thing you need to embrace..the will to survive." Kohryu said with telepathy directly into Goten's mind.
Goten suddenly changed tactics. Rather than trying to assault Sakhen, Goten struck a combat pose and with great agility managed to avoid getting hit by the relentless onslaught of his enemy.
Lightning and debris soared towards him, but both were easily avoided. Goten had resorted to the most simple and basic of defensive tactics...he had embraced his instinct to survive.
"I see your desire to rejoin you beloved is weaker than I first thought." Sakhen said cruelly.
Goten paused briefly, but did not allow his feelings to control the outcome of this battle as he dodged yet another blast of lightning from the hands of Sakhen.
Goten remembered back to the innocent times of his childhood. A time before the fighting and women. He remembered how it had been his mother, not the father he had known little of, that had trained him and taught him how to fight.
He had looked up to Gohan then, to a certain extent he still did. Part of him would always be Gohan's younger brother..and that would never change.
Gohan had taught him to use his Super Saiyan powers to the fullest. He had learned how to use his energy, how to fly and fire blasts of power.
Trunks and him had been unstoppable as Gotenks. If it were not for Maijin Buu's regeneration power, Gotenks would surely have defeated the pink demon with his first Kamekaze Ghost attack.
Goten had come far since those humble times.
A smile formed on the tan face of the Demonic Pharoah Sakhen. The king stood motionless, his crown and white cape the only things moving from the sudden wind.
"Goten you are not the first noble warrior to challenge me. I have fought and beaten many others before you." Sakhen said as a cloud passed over the large yellow sun.
"I don't doubt it. I knew going into this I might not have won." Goten said with a smile as he landed a short distance on the ground from Sakhen. Goten's once pristine white outfit was now stained by blood and sand.
"Then why fight? Why challenge me if you don't think your one hundred percent certain of victory?" Sakhen asked.
"Because if I took no chances..If I ran from everything in my life I'd be a coward, a nobody. I've done plenty of that in the past, I'm not going to run anymore." Goten said with conviction in his voice.
Vegeta watched and although Goten was not his son...for some reason his words made him proud.
"So although you stare into the very jaws of death itself you refuse to relent?" Sakhen asked.
The desert sun shined across the bleak desert landscape for untold distances around the site of the battle. Only bones broke up the endless dunes of sand.
"If I die..than I do so knowing that I lived up to his expectations. I will die happy knowing that in the end I was my father's son." Goten said, striking a combat stance.
"Goten...I never knew all this time you felt like you needed to prove yourself." Goku said quietly, looking downward slightly.
"Some things are not said Kakorot. The deepest pains only reluctantly come to the surface. You know this." Vegeta said, briefly turning towards his oldest and most respected friend and rival.
The violet aura surrounding Sakhen seemed to grow yet more vibrant and intense.
"You believe honor and family bonds will carry you threw this fight? You are a fool." Sakhen said as he took a step forward.
"And why is that?" Goten said with a confident expression on his face.
"Because honor is meaningless. It is just a word used by the weak. And bonds are worthless..they don't always carry on to the next life. Isn't that right..Goku?" Sakhen said with a wicked smile on his face.
Goku visibly flinched from Sakhen's words, but said nothing in response.
"Your words are what means nothing Sakhen. You see no value in honor or love because you have neither." Goten said as his Saiyan aura flared out and grew to resemble a blazing sun.
"A new technique? Just try it." Sakhen said.
"Corona Crusher!" Goten yelled as he flew into the air, his aura creating the impression of a solar prominance.
Goten then dived down towards Sakhen, his form resembling an incoming comet made of flame.
Goten crashed into Sakhen, a large explosion forming from the sheer impact of his attack.
The other Z-Fighters flew a safe distance away.
Slowly the explosion disapeared, revealing Goten, now in his normal form, lying on the ground.
"Did he get him?" Trunks asked from nearby Vegeta's new position at the top of a sand dune.
"Sadly no." Vegeta responded.
Sakhen floated out of the sand like a corpse returning from the grave.
"That was indeed an impressive technique, but it failed to destroy me. Sadly when you fight me, you don't get a second chance." Sakhen said as a scroll appeared to his right. Immediately writing appeared on the scroll, which immediately flew in front of Sakhen's face.
Right before Sakhen could eat the scroll, Goten grabbed the scroll himself.
"What? Give that back!" The Pharoah king said angrily.
"It isn't nice to take what doesn't belong to you. Did you really think I wouldn't figure out your technique? I may not be as smart as my older brother..but I'm not stupid. All this time you have been taking my attacks and techniques in the form of scrolls." Goten said before immediately plunging the papyrus into his mouth.
After making a weird face, Goten seemed like his strength had returned. He immediately powered up again to his Super Saiyan Four form.
"You even tried to take my transformations." Goten said to a stunned Sakhen.
"I already have you standard Super Saiyan Power as well as your Kamehameha. You may know the effects of my magic..but eventually your body will tire and you will not be able to prevent me from taking your power." Sakhen said.
"Then I guess everything depends on this next attack." Goten said, then flew towards Sakhen at the greatest speed his body was capable of.
Sakhen crossed both his arms over his chest and face in hopes of blocking the attack. Instead of some kind of beam or energy blast, Goten brought his right arm up from near the ground in the form of an uppercut, his fist blazing with a red flame. Goten's fist struck Sakhen's body and set his entire form on fire.
As Sakhen cried out in surprise, anger and pain, Goten yelled the name of his newest attack.
"Burning Dragon Punch...Shoryuken!" Goten yelled as he flew high into the air after striking Sakhen with his attack.
Nearby on a sand dune where Goku, Nouva, Gohan and Nouva stood.
"Nouva is that one of your techniques?" Goku asked the fire dragon standing behind him.
"It is a technique which Goten perfected after I taught him how to harness the element of fire, but it is not one of mine." Nouva said with a smile on his bronze face.
"He may have been inspired by your own Dragon Fist Dad." Gohan said.
"I can see the similarities." Goku said.
Goten flew back down towards Sakhen. Sure enough, a scroll had appeared near the pharoah. Goten flew by and snatched the scroll, promptly eating it before turning around.
In a rage Sakhen fired two more blasts of energy in Goten's direction, both of which were easily avoided. Goten flew past Sakhen, slamming the Pharoah with a hard punch to the chest and a second to the face. Goten landed a short distance behind Sakhen, promptly turned around and walked towards his adversary.
Sakhen attempted to strike Goten with a flying right swipe, but Goten ducked to avoid it. Sakhen then attempted to strike Goten with his left fist, but again Goten easily dodged the attack by blocking it with his left arm.
Goten then unloaded on Sakhen. Pummeling the Pharoah with thousands of split-second punches, Sakhen's face was a mix of pain, surprise, and perhaps even fear.
Goten ended his massive assault by firing a point-blank blast of energy which sent Sakhen high into the air.
Goten then promptly flew into the sky after his opponent.
Majuub looked up into the desert sky from a dune far from the other Z-Fighters.
"Had I fought you to the bitter end before we entered Demon World...there is no doubt now that it would have been you who would have won our battle. As long as I don't know who I really am...as long as I doubt myself. I would never tell you this to your face, but I will never be able to be your equal Goten. Not until I know who I am." Majuub thought.
Goten slammed both his fists hard into Sakhen when his body reached his position, an act which sent the pharoah slamming like a meteor back into the sandy ground below.
Goten then fired millions of energy blasts as fast as he could at Sakhen's position.
Sakhen looked up into the sky to see the rain of death descent upon him. The Demonic Pharoah smiled as a shimmering field of magical energy came into existence.
Goten felt his attacks slam into something, but he knew it wasn't Sakhen. Quickly, Goten flew down and landed nearby from Sakhen's last known position.
"You are indeed a worthy foe Goten. I have not fought someone on your level in a very long time." Sakhen said.
"If your such a great fighter yourself..you would have more than parlor tricks at your disposal." Goten said, striking a combat stance.
"Your right. Enough magic..I will use my power alone to defeat you." Sakhen said calmly, then suddenly swung his right fist at Goten. His entire arm was surrounded by purple flames.
Before Goten had time to regain his footing, Sakhen swung his left hand around, it also was surrounded by purple fire.
"Fists of Anubis!" Sakhen yelled.
Sakhen struck Goten's left shoulder. Goten cried out in pain as Sakhen struck, but promptly flew backwards and landed nearby on a piece of stone that once made up the pyramid.
Sakhen roared and leapt for Goten. Goten encased his own right arm in red fire.
"Shoryuken!" Goten yelled as he attempted to uppercut Sakhen. The demonic Pharaoh blocked Goten's attack with his own left arm. Sakhen then breathed a cone of violet fire in Goten's direction. Goten managed to leap backwards and land a safe distance away. The spot he was standing on wasn't so lucky, as it erupted in violet flame.
"A flame which burns even solid rock. That is the flame of the dead" Sakhen said, wave his right hand over his head in a half-circle pattern. Immediately five tiny balls of violet flame appeared.
"Fires of Setesh!" Sakhen yelled.
Goten barely had time to dodge the first two fireballs that were sent his way by flying into the sky. Goten swung his body around in midair to avoid a third, then flew downwards to avoid the fourth. When he landed he realized Sakhen had been setting him up too late.
Sakhen's last fireball struck Goten square in the chest, causing the supernatural flames to quickly begin consuming Goten's flesh even as Goten himself screamed out in agony.
Goten tried to roll on the ground, do anything to end his pain, but nothing seemed to work.
"You will burn forever. Just as Setesh and his ambition burn like an endless fire, so too shall your torment not end until your body is reduced to ash." Sakhen said.
Goten used the knowledge Nouva taught him during all those seemingly endless hours of training. He reached out his mind to the flames which even now consumed him.
"Give up now and I will allow you to become my student. Refuse and die knowing you refused my merciful offer." Sakhen said confidently.
"There is...nothing you can teach me...that I...would want to know." Goten said weakly.
"You speak out of ignorance." Sakhen said as he took a step towards Goten.
"No...even if I die...there is...nothing someone as evil as you could teach...that I possibly...would want to know." Goten said as he struggled against the pain.
Before Sakhen could respond Goten threw a violet ball of flame back towards Sakhen. The violet flames were surrounded by his own red ones.
Just as a look of horror and surprise started to appear on Sakhen's face, Goten got to his feet, his body only lightly burnt.
Sakhen's entire body erupted in flames.
"You rely so much on your magic that you lack the basic instinct that guide all true fighters." Goten said.
"And what would that be you insolent little.." Sakhen said with a voice filled with both rage and pain.
"Never let your guard down." Goten said with a smirk.
Sakhen breathed heavily, suddenly the flames that burned away at his flesh vanished.
"A most rare fighter indeed. But I cannot be defeated by my own attacks." Sakhen said, lifting himself into the sky.
"I was like you once Goten but unlike you, I came to my senses. You really have no idea of forces are at work do you?" Sakhen asked with a twisted smile on his tan face.
"It does not matter. Whatever force you pledge your loyalty to we will defeat just as we have defeated every other villain, sicko and psycho who threatens the universe." Goten said as he and his opponent became nearly eye-level with each other.
"Stuck in your narrow minded morals till the end." Sakhen said with a smirk as he crossed his arms over his chest.
"You may have been a great warrior once, but now all you are is a monster." Goten said with contempt.
"You disapprove of how we do things? You believe my master will fall because he does not lead justly? It isn't you who decides who leads. It is the strongest who will rule the weak." Sakhen said as an aura of yellow energy surrounded him. The entire desert for a great distance around was engulfed in very strong hurricane force winds which quickly formed a vast tornado, ripping the land to shreds for a great distance around and leaving a vast, dead looking dirt valley behind.
"What are you doing!" Goten yelled out in shock.
"Skipping the pageantry." Sakhen said in a deep, menacing voice that was utterly unlike the voice he had spoken in before.
Sakhen's eyes became yellow, with almost hourglass shaped pupils. His crown flew off his head, and straight black hair was revealed beneath it. Sakhen's face grew out into a canine-like snoat, and all the skin on his body darkened until it was pitch black in coloration. Finally, Sakhen grew grotesquely in both height and muscle, becoming a hulking eight foot tall monster. There was no other way to describe it.
"So you think making yourself even uglier than before will help?" Goten said as he hovered in midair, trying to remain calm.
"It was so painful to watch your childish style of fighting all that time, I just could not take it anymore." The creature said in a deep, sinister voice.
"Childish? Be careful or I might just feel insulted." Goten said as he gathered himself into a fighting pose.
"In my true form I am known as the demon king of air, Sakhenotep. One of the four demonic lords of the elements. I believe you already defeated Zaragog, lord of fire." The creature said in tone that while it lacked emotion, sounded full of hate and malice.
"I don't care what you are or call yourself. Your going down. Lord of air huh? Well I'll just have to remove the wind from your sails then now won't I?" Goten said with a smirk, flying at the creature.
Goten landed punch after punch to the creature, but Sakhenotep did not even seem bothered by it in the slightest. Quickly the younger son of Goku flew back and cupped his hands in a very familiar manner.
"I learned this from Gohan when I was just a child. It may be a bit basic and old fashioned for someone like you, but combined with the power of a Super Saiyan Four, it will be your end. Kamehamaha!" Goten yelled, releasing a red version of the famous technique.
Sakhenotep simply swatted the attack away as if it were some kind of annoying insect with nothing but a swat from his massive left arm, sending it soaring into the desert sky.
"Your up against a being with powers you can't even possibly measure mortal. That attack was less than a fleabite to me. I assure you however, this counterattack will be more than enough to knock you out of this fight." Sakhenotep said with a snarl.
"No I won't lose." Goten said, sending thousands of energy missiles at the master of air in a furious attempt at harming the monster. It was for nothing though, as each collided with the monster's chest and disappeared on impact.
Sakhenotep's face twisted into a sadistic smile with far more cruelty in it than Goten had ever seen from anyone in the past.
"My turn." Sakhenotep said, quickly teleporting in front of Goten and striking him in the face with a vicious backhand.
Goten immediately landed painfully on the ground. Almost every bone in his body felt like it was broken.
Sakhenotep appeared nearby Goten's body via teleportation, and suddenly kicked him into the air with his massive right leg, causing Goten to scream out in pain as he fell to the ground again. He began to scream in fear.
Nearby Gohan could not watch anymore. His fists were clutched so tightly that blood was flowing down and smacking into the ground below. A white aura appeared around Gohan, just as silver fur covered his chest and his hair grew down to his waist, becoming silver as it did so.
"No Gohan..I know how you feel. But if we break the rules we don't know what will happen." Goku said.
"To HELL with the rules." Gohan said right before flying off.
"I would have done the same." Vegeta said as he walked over to his old friend.
"But Vegeta..we don't know what will happen if he interferes!" Goku said.
Vegeta suddenly slammed Goku in the stomach with a punch. Goku had a stunned look on his face as he looked back at Vegeta.
"What is the point of saving the universe if we have to watch our loved ones die to do it? Answer me that Kakorot? I don't know what has happened to you, but the being standing before me is not the man who spared my life, the one who defeated Frieza and calls himself the hope of the universe. The being standing before me is nothing more than a coward." Vegeta said with a stern expression on his face.
"Vegeta...if we allow this to happen it could well mean the end of everything. Are you willing to take that chance?" Goku asked
"Yes. You want to know why? Because if Azrael was so powerful that breaking his rules would end reality itself why drag us down threw Demon World in this little game of his?" Vegeta asked.
Goku said nothing, he only looked up into the blue sky.
"Thats right Azrael! We don't care about your stupid rules! If that pisses you off..than just come down here and kill us for all I care..but we will NOT be playing your sick game." Vegeta yelled so that his voice could be heard for great distances around.
Meanwhile Sakhenotep looked at Goten and smiled.
"Fear is a good thing for mortals to possess of a superior being. I don't know if I'm satisfied with your suffering as of yet however. You will long for death before I am done, but I won't give you that. You will beg for it. Instead, I will offer you a choice, either become my apprentice and eventual successor, or suffer endless torment. I know, I'm sadistic, how cruel of me." Sakhenotep said with a smile that betrayed the vilest of intentions.
Goten screamed again. But this time, his voice was heard. Nearby, Gohan stood with his eyes narrowed in anger at the unfathomably cruel being before him.
Gohan's clothing had changed somehow to match his new form. He was wearing white pants, with a flowing orange loincloth. Red boots covered his feet. And an unmistakably silver Saiyan tail was wrapped around his waist in the same manner the Saiyans of old once did.
"You leave him alone monster, your fight is now with me alone." Super Saiyan Five Gohan said with a tone that hinted he had deadly intentions for the monster before him.
Sakhenotep turned and looked at Gohan.
"You are but a gnat compared to me." Sakhenotep said dismissively
Gohan's anger had reached its limit. He had not felt like this in years, not completely.
Gohan yelled as he unleashed his full fury and powered up.
This time the entire planet shook with violent force as Gohan glowed yellow like a sun.
Gohan looked with hate at the abomination that was Sakhenotep and spoke in a voice that lacked any compassion and hinted at only rage.
"I've seen and battled demons all my life, and as far as I'm concerned, your not a true threat, your just practice." Gohan said.
The two combatants stared at each other and both narrowed their eyes.
"Now that is more like it, now Gohan was it? Show me your full power unrestrained!" Sakhenotep said with a cruel grin.
The grin now reminded Gohan of Cell's, or Super Buu's. It made Gohan very angry. Cell had killed countless innocents, including what was in a way his own brother, another Android, and had cost him his father because he had failed. Super Buu had taunted him with his failures of the past, and was responsible for just as much if not more suffering than Cell.
Both were evil creatures with no regrets for their actions. And this Sakhenotep was no different in that regard, but in a way, he was worse. Unlike Cell who was programmed to do what he did, or Buu, who was created for evil purposes, this being choose evil for the pleasure of it.
"Be careful what you wish for." Gohan said flatly, then yelled as a golden flame enveloped his silver form.
Everyone nearby was forced to shield their eyes from the sheer brightness of Gohan's power up.
"This isn't the full power I know your capable of." Sakhenotep said, eyeing Super Saiyan Five Gohan dismissingly.
"Well, if you know so much about me, then you'd know that I'm just getting started." Gohan said before he began to yell as he brought all the power he was capable of to the surface.
Gohan's glow was now so bright that even with eyes closed, one could feel the light and heat he was giving off. The very ground shook from Gohan's unrestrained power.
"Now is this what you wanted?" Gohan said in a slow menacing voice.
"Indeed, now let me even the playing field." Sakhenotep said as he took a combat pose.
Suddenly a yellow vortex of energy surrounded Sakhenotep, and the surrounding region was buffeted by nearly Hurricane force winds. Sakhenotep's long black hair stood up straight, spinning perpetually like a whirlwind.
Sakhenotep hovered over the ground, eyeing Gohan with an arrogant smirk on his face.
"Your pretty confident. I wonder if you still will feel that way after I hurt you the same way you hurt my brother?" Gohan chided.
"Haha, funny. Lets see if you fight better than you insult Gohan." Sakhenotep said with a smile.
Gohan smirked himself.
"Funny thing, you all have been using that name like you know me, but you really don't." Gohan said.
"Oh?" Sakhenotep asked, curious as to the meaning of that statement.
Gohan rushed forward faster than Sakhenotep could see, and landed a hard punch in the latter's gut, knocking the wind right out of him, no pun intended.
As Sakhenotep gasped in shock, Gohan answered the question for him.
"I am the son of Goku." Gohan said, following his attack up with a hard uppercut to Sakhenotep's jaw, sending the wind master staggering backwards.
"Ally to good. Nightmare to you." Gohan continued flying forward, his long silver hair shining like a beacon of light as he slammed his right fist hard into Sakhenotep's left side, sending him skidding along the ground.
"Its over Sakhenotep." Gohan finished as he flew forward mere inches off the ground towards his opponent. Sakhenotep managed to painfully block a punch from Gohan's left fist, but left himself open to a hard kick to the face from his opponent's right foot.
Sakhenotep then used his abilities to let the wind take him aloft, and unleashed a vortex formed of a mix of wind and yellow energy in Gohan's direction, which he easily dodged by flying to the side. There seemed to be more to Sakhenotep's attack however, as yellow spheres of energy left the vortex and flew in every direction in a chaotic attempt to hit Gohan. None of the attacks struck, however the spheres caused large explosions in the distance in nearly every direction, and Sakhenotep didn't really seem to care about the damage he caused.
"If that was the best you could do, I'm afraid its my turn to be disappointed." Gohan said as he appeared in front of Sakhenotep as the latter was preparing to unleash another volley from his vortex.
Sakhenotep's eyes widened in shock at Gohan's speed.
"This one is for my first teacher. I'm sure you'll meet him in the next dimension. Super Masenko!" Gohan yelled, unleashing a massively more powerful version of an attack he had not used in many years, which he had learned from his late mentor and friend.
Gohan unleashed a gigantic yellow-white beam at Sakhenotep, which engulfed the monster completely.
The wind in the region stopped as Sakhenotep's body fell to the ground and Gohan landed nearby, carefully watching his opponent.
Suddenly Sakhenotep's eyes opened. Sakhenotep flipped himself into the air then began to spin around until he became a tornado. The twister moved towards Gohan, but the first son of Goku easily managed to avoid the clumsy attack.
"You know that your going to lose. Not only that..but your master is going to lose." Gohan said as he landed nearby.
Sakhenotep responded by laughing as if that were the greatest joke he had ever heard.
"You think a dragon, a reincarnate demon and a bunch of overgrown monkeys can defeat my emperor? You must have lost your sanity." Sakhenotep said mockingly.
"You will find your quite mistaken." Gohan said confidently.
"You may be the strongest I have ever fought. But it's not like you can do anything to defeat me, if you had the power to destroy me I think you would have used it already." Sakhenotep said darkly, crossing his arms.
"Oh I have the power. So you want me to end this battle? Very well." Gohan said as he rose off the sandy earth and into the air.
"You think you can beat the lord of air? Your a fool saiyan!" Sakhenotep shouted.
As Sakhenotep saw Gohan prepping a familiar family technique, he brought all the wind power he could to bare to destroy his opponent.
"Thats right Gohan. Waste no energy. This will be the final assault from both of us!" Sakhenotep yelled.
Sakhenotep formed a yellow vortex around himself. The vortex grew larger and larger, consuming more and more of the desert surrounding it.
Nearby
"Lets get going Trunks it is not safe to be here anymore!" Vegeta yelled. The Saiyan Prince and his son then quickly took to the air and flew away from the sight of the battle.
"Will Goten be alright?" Trunks yelled.
"He will..if he is anything like his father." Vegeta said.
Goku, Bardock, Kohryu and Nouva flew into the distance.
"Goten survive..I know you will survive. I must not lose another person I care about..not now." Goku said.
"Have faith in your son...as I have faith in you." Bardock said as he flew by Goku and gave his son a thumbs-up and a smile.
Gohan stood, his long white hair blowing from the furious winds.
"This one is for you Goten! Kamehameha!" Gohan yelled, firing an enormous white beam at the incoming twister.
A yellow vortex fought against the white beam in a struggle of elemental fury and saiyan power briefly as Sakhenotep and Gohan clashed.
Goten awakened nearby just as the twister was about to consume him. Quickly he flew off in the direction he knew his father and friends would be. Silently he prayed his brother would be able to stop the monster he had failed to.
Gohan yelled as he pushed more and more of his Super Saiyan Five power into his attack. The tornado seemed like it would win the struggle. It took everything Gohan had to fight against a force of nature like this.
"Your honor..your righteousness..your love all means nothing. All you are is dust in the wind!" Sakhenotep yelled from inside his tornado.
"No...we..AREN'T!" Gohan yelled just as his Kamehameha overtook Sakhenotep's twister.
Gohan's white beam punched a hole in the winds protecting Sakhenotep. Immediately a tremendous explosion occured even as the wind began to weaken.
"You think he won?" Goten said as he landed next to his father.
"Of coarse he won. It takes love to make a family, and honor, no matter the distance, if you have those, no distance can take that away. Gohan did not care about anything other than saving his younger brother..about you. He had more courage than I did." Goku said, somewhat sadly as he looked to the sky.
"Just remember what we are fighting for." Nouva said.
Gohan watched as the others gathered around the door that had appeared. If the rules really did not matter..then why the game? Why put him and his family and friends threw this journey?
If it was all a game..and things were coming to the climax as Kohryu had told them earlier, than just how strong was Azrael, a being who had given only a small part of his power to Bardock to help them defeat Krysis?
Could they defeat Azrael or were they doomed to failure?