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A/N - New chapter, currently working on chapter 9 so I don't know when chapter 8 will be uploaded. Let me know know what you think so far? :)

Previously on Dragon Ball C...

"I'm telling you the truth, I really did see a weird spaceship heading away from where we're heading now" Goten assured them all.

"That doesn't mean they came from Namek".

Not paying much attention to the mysterious ship that Goten saw they finally made it to Namek to find most of the Namekians dead.

"Pan!" Goten shouted as he watched her being taken away.

"Let go of me!" Pan demanded while struggling to break free.

And to make matters worse, Pan, Goten and Trunks were captured by the hooded mans' soldiers. What's going to happen now? Find out today.

Chapter Seven - A Promise Is Made

Gohan continued making his way to the last village, so far he hadn't found one single survivor and he was beginning to worry there weren't any. He wondered if Piccolo and Vegeta were having any luck with the villages they were checking, he hoped there were a few survivors who were just in another village, children maybe.

He didn't want to think about the previous villages he'd checked earlier, where nothing but dead Namekians lay all over the place. It infuriated him to no end what someone had done here, killed innocent people, even children. What could possibly possess someone to do these things, it wasn't the dragon balls they were interested in because if it was then they wouldn't have killed the elder...unless they didn't know they had to keep the elder alive in order to use the dragon balls.

Taking a step into the next and last village he would come across, Gohan looked around. It was exactly like the others, dead Namekians in every direction and destroyed buildings. He felt his heart deflate as he came across a few child Nameks who were lying motionless on the ground, eyes unseeing. None of them deserved this.

There were scorch marks everywhere and blood painted the floor replacing the sand, it didn't look as though a single Namekian survived in this village.

"Hello?" he called out, desperate to hear someone reply, but, sadly there was no sound. He decided to try again.

"Is anyone alive, any survivors?"...still nothing.

He noticed a body all alone in the centre of the village, it looked familiar to him, like he'd seen this Namek before. It took him a while to realise that it was the elder that Dende had talked about at the lookout point.

"Elder Moori!" Gohan rushed over to the body of the elder Namek, he kneeled down carefully and reached for his body, turning it over slowly so it was facing up towards the sky. There was a huge gaping hole in his chest and dried - two day old - blood clung to his clothes and skin, 'Who would do this? Namekians are good people, why do they always get targeted and attacked?' he thought to himself sadly while supporting the elders weight as he held his lifeless body in his arms.

"Don't worry Elder Moori, I'll stop whoever did this and revive you and everyone else who was killed here on Namek" Gohan promised, now wanting to hurry up and get this mission over with so they could find the dragon balls and bring them all back to life.

Looking at the dead Namek in his arms he couldn't shake the feeling he had of being powerless, he figured even if he had been here when they were being attacked he wouldn't have been able to save them. He had become weak, just like Vegeta had said earlier.

He hated thinking that, doubting himself was never going to get him anywhere and neither was thinking about what could have happened, or regretting giving up fighting even though it was sort of his responsibility.

Gohan stayed crouched on the floor, hovering over the elder protectively, until a noise to his right caught his attention. Placing the elders body back down he stood up and glared in the direction the noise had come from, he got into a stance and waited. He hoped it was the monster who did this, that way he could avenge all the Nameks killed here, obviously he wouldn't kill him though, he wasn't cold-hearted.

"That's enough hiding, come out now before I come over to you, and trust me when I say you don't want that right now" he threatened angrily, readying himself for a fight.

It came as a surprise to him however, when a Namek stepped out from behind one of the damaged buildings looking a little worse for ware. He started limping towards Gohan who knew just from looking at him that he wasn't going to last long from the injuries he sustained.

"W-Wait!" The Namek pleaded, trying to get to him faster. Gohan could tell that he was going to collapse any minute now so he stepped forward to meet him and caught him just as his legs gave out.

"I-I don't have m-much time" the Namek croaked out while being lowered to the ground, his breathing had become shallow and he was struggling to keep his eyes open.

"What happened? Was it the same guy who killed these people? Why didn't you come out of hiding when I called out to see if there were any survivors?" Gohan asked quickly, knowing he didn't have long left to get any answers before the Namek died.

"I s-sensed a power level...heading this...this way, I-I didn't know whether...you were an enemy or not so I, I hid"

"What happened?" he repeated.

"We...We were attacked, a man turned up with some...some of his s-soldiers and, and killed most of us. T-The rest he took...the ones who could f-fight..." the Namek started coughing and blood spewed out of his mouth, this wasn't looking good.

"Why would he take Namekians? Do you think he needs them for something, like an army or to use as a diversion?"

"I don't...don't know" he responded weakly. "I-I tried fighting him, me and...my brother, but he-he was too strong. He threw us b-both aside...as if w-we were nothing but paperweight"

"You fought against him and you're still alive?" Gohan asked, slightly impressed with the Namek.

"...Barely" the Namek pointed out, gesturing towards his wounds with his eyes.

"Oh, yeah. Right" Gohan scratched the back of his head nervously, feeling stupid that he'd forgotten about the fact that the Namek was dying.

"Sorry" he said sheepishly.

"Don't be, you...you weren't the o-one who did this to us. He-He let me, m-my brother and...the elder live because he knew...he knew w-we were going to die...from our injuries" the Namek continued, explaining why it wasn't such a good thing to have survived.

"That's terrible. So wait, where's your brother now, isn't he somewhere here with you?"

"N-No, he went after...the ones who-who attacked us. I h-haven't seen him in...in a few d-days now"

"Oh, well don't worry I'm sure he's fine. Maybe he's trying to rescue all the Nameks they took with them" Gohan said optimistically, though he doubted his brother would still be alive. If the enemy could wipe out all the villages on Namek in two days then one Namek going up against him wouldn't pose as a threat.

The Namek just nodded his head, not really wanting to talk about his brother because he had a feeling that his brother had been killed as well.

Sensing that this was a sore subject for the poor Namek, Gohan decided to continue with his questions, this Namekian had fought against the enemy and survived so chances are he had some knowledge of him, if not a name then at least a description of what he looked like. Maybe he could fill him in on his fighting abilities so Gohan and the others could be prepared for him.

"How m-many of you are...are there?" the Namek asked him, hoping the saiyan had brought an army with him.

"Er...well if you count my five year old daughter then that makes six of us altogether" Gohan replied while scratching the back of his head, he watched as the Namek stared at him as if he'd grown a second head. So much for an army.

"Y-You brought your d-daughter here?" he asked incredulously.

"I didn't bring her she brought herself...on our ship, but I was completely against it" Gohan added the last part as a defence for himself, not wanting the stranger Namek to get the wrong idea and think that he purposefully brought his daughter along to help fight.

"So, you w-were against her going...going with you b-but she intimidated you and, and you gave i-in?"

"No that's not what happened, and she didn't intimidate me. Look I think we're going sightly off topic here, the point is there's six of us here to help out"

"That...That won't b-be enough" the Namek stated sadly.

"You'd actually be surprised, we may not be much but we've handled a lot in our time, except my daughter Pan"

"D-Don't underestimate the enemy, that's what me and my brother d-did and now look at me. I know c-compared to you...and your group I'm weak, but amongst our people...there were some e-extremely powerful Namekians and even they knew they...they wouldn't be able to take on the e-enemy"

Gohan didn't know what to say to that, the fact is he'd never fought against a Namekian before, not properly fought, so he had no idea how strong they were. He knew Piccolo was incredibly strong but Gohan just figured that he was the strongest Namekian out there, it never occurred to him that there could be a stronger Namekian than him.

"Can you tell me anything about the guy you fought?" Gohan asked him gently, not wanting the Namek to stop answering his questions because of what he'd said to him before. He'd made it sound like the Namek was nothing compared to them, which isn't what he'd meant at all. "Any information you can give would be great help"

"T-There's not...not much I c-can say, we...we didn't f-fight long enough for m-me to find any...any of his weaknesses"

"I see..." Gohan was a little disappointed that the Namek didn't have much information about the enemy, knowing some of his weaknesses would have been very valuable to them.

The Namekian suddenly began coughing again, blood was filling up in his lungs and it wouldn't be long before he suffocated on it. Seeing him like this Gohan couldn't help but feel sorry for him, another innocent life that was about to be taken for selfish reasons.

"...I have a-a favour to ask of y-you" the Namek blurted out suddenly.

"What is it?" Gohan asked, having a slight idea as to what the favour could be.

"C-Could you...look for my-my brother, who k-knows, he...he might still be a-alive. Please"

"Of course, if your brothers alive I promise I'll do everything I can to make sure he's safe"

"T-Thank you" the Namek closed his eyes as another wave of pain washed over him, when he opened them again he stared straight at Gohan, ready for what he had to say next. "I h-hate to ask but I... I have another re-request to make"

"Tell me"

"Save N-Namek, I beg you"

Gohan nodded his head after a brief pause, this Namekian was going to die soon and he was asking him to save everyone else. Another reason why he didn't understand people attacking this planet, these people were noble. "You have my word, I promise you we're going to save this planet and once we've done that we'll wish everyone who died here back to life. So don't get comfy in the other world, you got that?"

Instead of answering the Namek simply nodded his head, feeling a little better about leaving this place. This planet was in good hands.

"I-If you...you have any m-more questions you'd better ask...ask them fast" the Namek told him, struggling to speak.

"Who's the one that did this? Is there anything you can tell me about him?"

One word escaped the Nameks lips that opened up a whole pathway of questions that were tripping over each other in Gohan's head, waiting for them to be asked.

"...S-Saiyans..."

Saiyans? Were they really the ones responsible for all this, but that couldn't be possible, there were only a handful of them left and they were on the good side, none of them would attack Namek.

"Are you sure it was Saiyans who attacked you?" Gohan questioned, feeling a little doubtful that this was true. When the Namek nodded his head to confirm what he said was true it confused Gohan more.

"But we're the only Saiyans left, it couldn't be them...unless, some others survived planet Vegetas' explosion-" he stopped talking when he noticed the Namekians eyes widen slightly, was it something he'd said. With Gohan too confused with everything that he'd been told he didn't notice that the Namek was staring behind him at something or someone in the distance.

"What's wrong?" he asked the Namek, hoping that he had something useful about the enemy to tell him.

"I-It's..."

Gohan never got to find out the answer to his question as the Namekians eyes started to slowly shut, the name of the enemy on the tip of his tongue became lost in the air forever. He held on to the Namek as his body slumped lifelessly in his arms. He was dead.

He stayed there for a few minutes in silence as he stared at the Namek, he realised that he hadn't even gotten his name before he died. But there was nothing he could do about that now, it was too late.

"I take it you didn't find any survivors either?" Gohan turned around as he recognised the sound of that voice, it was Vegeta.

"I did, but he was dying and by the time I found him it was too late to try and save him" he said sadly, gesturing to the Namekian in his arms.

"Did he have anything useful to say? Does he know where the leader of all this is?" Vegeta questioned him, suddenly interested in the half-Saiyan.

"I think right before he died he must've remembered something because when I mentioned something about Saiyans and planet Vegeta he suddenly got scared and his eyes widened, but he died before he could finish what he was trying to tell me".

"Wait Saiyans? Why were you talking to him about Saiyans? You were supposed to question him on who the enemy is" Vegeta scolded him, agitated that they still had no idea who the enemy was or where he's hiding.

"I did. He told me the ones who did all this were Saiyans"

"WHAT?!" Vegeta shouted, grabbing Gohan by the front of his Gi and hauling him up onto his feet, the Namekians body slumping softly onto the floor. He kept a tight grip on him while waiting for the saiyan brat to continue, he couldn't have heard him right.

"I said I did question him about the enemy, and he said that the ones who attacked planet Namek were Saiyans" Gohan answered through clenched teeth, it appeared Vegeta wasn't the only one who was agitated right this moment.

He placed his hands on Vegeta's wrists to hint at him to let go, but it seemed as though he hadn't been paying attention because his grip hadn't slackened at all.

"Vegeta will you let go already" Gohan asked, signalling with his eyes what he was referring to. After a few uncomfortable seconds Vegeta's grip loosened enough for Gohan to step back, he adjusted his Gi then waited to see if the Saiyan prince was quite finished with overreacting.

"Saiyans' were the ones who did this? And you're sure that's what he said?"

Before Gohan could answer his question they were interrupted as someone landed beside them, turning around they saw Piccolo standing there with a grim look on his face - which told them that he hadn't found any survivors either.

Piccolo noticed the dead Namekian lying a few feet away from them and made his way towards him, the last thing he wanted to see when he met up with Vegeta and Gohan was another dead Namek, but he guessed it couldn't be helped. He knelt down next to him and stayed in that position for a few minutes, glancing over his wounds, then with a heavy sigh he lifted himself back up and decided to join in on the two Saiyans' conversation.

"So we have no witnesses who saw what happened and we have no leads to go by, which means this was a waste of time and we're back at square one" Piccolo said, angry that they'd come up with nothing.

"I wouldn't be so sure" Gohan told his Namekian friend. Piccolo looked at him questioningly.

"Hmm? What do you mean, did you find something out?"

"Before he died this Namek said that the ones who attacked this planet were Saiyans', but that's the only lead we have to go on" Piccolo's eyes widened slightly.

"You mean there's more Saiyans?" he asked, Gohan nodded his head while Vegeta simply grunted a response.

"To think, more Saiyans' are right here on this planet. I wonder where they've been staying all these years, and why didn't they try contacting their prince?" Vegeta found it mind boggling and frustrating that they hadn't even tried contacting him after the destruction of planet Vegeta, unfortunately for him none of the others cared, much to his chagrin.

"We don't really have the time to discuss this right now, we've been lucky that we've gone completely undetected all this time but that won't last" Gohan told him.

"You say lucky I say unlucky" Vegeta stated sulkily, not happy with the lack of enemies. Gohan chose to ignore his comment and continued with what he was going to say.

"Ok, so we know that Saiyans' are behind this and since we've checked all the villages and there's been no one in any of them then that means whoever's behind this must be on the outskirts of the planet. So I guess our next move is to head back to the ship and plan out what we're going to do-" Gohan was cut off by the Saiyan prince who had other ideas for what they were going to do.

"What are you talking about brat, our next move is to attack! I'm not wasting my time sitting at a table having a tea party while you two gossip about 'what we're going to do', that's pathetic!"

"Vegeta we can't just go charging in; that's foolish. Besides we need to check on the others, we've been gone for hours and we can't leave them unprotected for much longer in case someone notices the parked ship"

"Gohan's right, whatever we choose to do next we need to bring the others with us" Piccolo said, agreeing with Gohan on this.

"Humph!" was all Vegeta said, folding his arms across his chest and scowling, annoyed that he was being out voted.

With that decided they took one final look at the Namek who'd given them this helpful information - except Vegeta who wouldn't participate in that - then blasted off in the direction of the ship, knowing it would take a few hours to get there they sped up, hoping everything was fine back at the ship.

Pan was coming out of her unconscious state slowly, her head pounding. She couldn't remember what had happened to her, did she injure herself during another training session? She doubted that was it, but then; what happened? For some reason it felt as though she was being carried somewhere, she felt strong arms wrapped around her abdomen and heavy footsteps were echoing around her.

She felt light headed but couldn't think why, opening her eyes - with a bit of difficulty - she waited for her eye sight to clear up and focus. After a few minutes her eye sight became crystal clear and she figured out the reason of why she was light headed. Someone was carrying her, but she was upside down with her head level with the persons' knees.

Panicking, she started trying to wriggle out of the persons' grip which only caused their hold on her to tighten, much to her dismay. She sent kick after kick onto their shoulder but that had little to no effect, in fact all it did was cause the person to chuckle and with how deep the laugh was it told Pan that it was a male.

"Calm down Missy I'll let go of you soon, don't you worry your pretty little head. We're almost there" the male voice told her. Pan wanted to say something but fear was stopping her, she was so scared.

A door opened up ahead and Pan noticed that it resembled that of a door from a ship, opening in the middle. That told Pan that they were indeed on a ship right now, but were they still on Namek? The man walked through and it shut behind him, he stopped walking after a few steps and just stood there. Like he was waiting for something.

"Well?" a deep voice in the shadows asked causing Pan to jump, if the man weren't still holding her she would have ran out of there right then. Pan looked around, trying to find the source of the voice, but it was impossible. The room was too dark to see anything except for a few paces in front of her.

"We have three of them sir, two are currently in their cell and as you can see I'm holding the other one -" the man holding Pan started, but was quickly cut off.

"Of course I can see that Larkin, I'm not blind!" growled the voice. Seconds later there was movement up ahead and next a figure appeared out of the shadows, wearing an identical cloak to the man holding Pan.

"Forgive me sir, I did not mean to imply that" the man now know as Larkin quickly replied, almost sounding worried. He bowed which made it uncomfortable for Pan, at a grunt from the figure before them Larkin straightened back up, finally letting Pan unfold.

"How many are left?"

"Three more, but it won't take long to capture them. Once they realise their friends have been captured they'll come looking for us"

"I see..." the man trailed off and an eerie silence settled around the room. Pan couldn't stop herself from shaking, she was terrified. Before she wanted nothing more than to be out on the front lines and to be fighting, but now that she was actually on the front lines she realised that she didn't want this, she wanted to go home where it was safe. 'Where are you daddy?' she thought to herself desperately.

"I want them taken care of soon, I can't risk them interfering with my plans. You have a few more days to handle this, if you don't they won't be the only ones I get my hands on" the hooded man threatened.

Larkin nodded an understanding and Pan thought she'd heard him gulp, 'Is this guy really that powerful that he's made this guy Larkin scared?' she thought to herself worriedly, wondering how strong the guy giving orders was.

The hooded man studied her for awhile, trying to get a read on her power level. She knew he wouldn't be interested in her, after all, she was weak, nothing about her screamed strong. Her point was proven when he snickered at her and pulled his hood down, wanting her to see that he wasn't the least bit impressed.

However the moment his hood was lowered and she got a good look at his face Pans' eyes widened in shock, not believing what she was seeing. This was all wrong, it couldn't be. She finally found her voice.

"B-But you're..." Pan started in a squeaky voice, full of confusion, not understanding what was happening.

"Take her to her cell" the hooded man ordered, turning his back on them after losing interest. Bowing slightly to their leader, the man named Larkin turned on his heel and headed back out of the room, making his way to a different part of the ship.

Pan was confused, what was happening? Why was he here and why was he ordering them to lock her up? It didn't make any sense.

After around ten minutes of walking through the ship Larkin turned a corner and Pan found herself in a hallway that had a number of brass iron cells on either side, stretching for what seemed like miles to her.

"Okay then, here we are" He carried Pan to the closest cell and unlocked the door. "Let me know if you need anything, I won't get you it but at least you'll have some company while you ask me" he laughed as he opened the heavy iron cell door and threw her in.

She landed painfully on the ground that was covered in thick red sand, before she could even finish standing up the cell door was slammed shut and locked. She was trapped.

"Have fun" Larkin said before walking away. Pan called out to him, begging him to let her go, but he ignored her and continued walking. She ran to the cell door and grabbed hold of the bars, she looked at Larkins' retreating back, tears spilling down her face.

"Daddy..." she whispered through her sobs.

Gohan, Vegeta and Piccolo landed on the ground right in front of the ship in record time, looking around them to see if they'd been followed. Once satisfied that they were in clear they made their way to the ships entrance and opened the door, it closed up behind them as they entered.

Gohan had a bad feeling, the same feeling he'd had as soon as they'd set off for Namek. Something wasn't right, it was too quiet on the ship and he knew that Goten, Trunks and Pan were anything but quiet. It seemed the others were noticing that something was off as well, they were on guard and were trying to sense for any ki's on the ship, but none were picked up.

"Pan?" Gohan called out loudly, when he didn't get a reply he glanced at the other two with a worried expression on his face. Why wasn't she answering?

"Let's check the control room, that's where we left them. Maybe they're getting some extra training in" Piccolo suggested, the others nodded and they all set off for the control room, hoping that he was right.

They finally made it to the room and were currently outside the door, Gohan was hesitating to open it, worried that he wouldn't like what he saw in there. He was troubled by the fact that he couldn't sense any of them and couldn't help thinking the worst. Piccolo put a reassuring hand on his shoulder and nodded, signalling for him to open the door and see what's in there first before jumping to conclusions.

Deciding to get it over with, Gohan held his breath and closed his eyes, a few seconds later he pushed the door open and they stepped inside the room. What they saw when they entered confirmed Gohan's bad feeling.

"W-What the..." Piccolo started but trailed off.

"Looks like the enemy found our ship" Vegeta commented, looking at all the damage in front of them.

The place was a complete wreck. The table was upturned with all the contents that were laying on it before scattered around the floor, there was a huge hole in one of the walls with debris spread out all over the surrounding area. Chairs were knocked over, some broken, there was drops of blood trailing along the room and...footprints.

While Vegeta went over to figure out who the footprints belonged to Gohan caught sight of something out of the corner of his eye, something shiny. He recognised it immediately and rushed over to it, there dangling from a chair leg was a tiny gold bracelet. Pans' bracelet. He carefully pulled it off the leg and held it in the palm of his hand, staring at it. Tears threatened to spill down his face as the reality of what had happened hit him...the enemy had Pan...

Next chapter is: Chapter 8 - Rescue Mission. Like I said before I don't know yet when that will be uploaded but it'll say on my profile soon. Hope you enjoyed reading this. :D