Chapter 19- Testing the limit

These saiyans sure knew how to work up a storm, that was for sure. Aside from the blue lightning that had taken to wrapping itself round Vegeta; giving his eyes a strange blue glow- dusty rocks and pebbles were taking to the sky and mountains were literally falling at this monstrosity.

The earth shook in apprehension and cracked multiple times. All goku did was watch with calm eyes as woodland creatures and flocks of blackbirds alike could not escape fast enough. If that wasn't bad enough, I'd already had to switch mountains three times because each one kept crumbling.

Things had defiantly got worse to. I almost wished Piccolo hadn't taught me to sense ki because Vegeta's was an all-encompassing ball of fire that seemed to have no end to growing.

Goku was still calm though, and it was un-nerving. His energy was a small liquid like ball that was steadily rising too, although there seemed to be no outward strain on his body.

Perhaps staying here to watch was a bad idea. With two massive energies like these, there was no telling if anything living within two hundred miles of this place would be safe.

I wasn't scared, maybe a little worried but that didn't stop my body from shaking. Vegeta's eyes seemed to find something other than Goku and with that they turned a pure white. Vegeta screamed as though invisible bugs were tearing his flesh apart and a huge mass of energy rippled through the air, washing over Goku who struggled to stay upright.

The white light grew outwards of Vegeta's eyes until suddenly there was a blinding flash over the whole wasteland, burning my retinas. I sensed instead of saw Vegeta use the opening to charge Goku.

I felt Goku try to run blindly and then something else chasing him. As the blinding light faded along with Vegeta's screams, I could see small-ish balls of literal fire being thrown towards Goku. He dodged two before sticking his boots firmly in the dust, his blue energy hitting red again as he no doubt attempted kaioken.

Within seconds he hit it, but to my confusion he didn't stop. It just kept growing and growing until it became more fine-tuned. I could just imagine in my head Goku calling it kaioken times two or something like that.

It was a real shame Vegeta's aim wasn't atrocious and managed to hit one in Goku's chest, canceling out Goku's power up. All that for nothing.

Vegeta stopped, panting as Goku tucked both hands under the waistband of his orange jumpsuit. For a moment I almost thought he was going to strip but instead of pulling the whole thing of he slid the top half of only. It hit the ground with a dull thud as the weights inside it reassembled themselves. His energy loosened up a little in response.

I heard a muffled gasp from a few metres below, alerting me to the fact I wasn't the only onlooker.

Down on the ground, snuffling a packet of tortilla chips behind a sturdy looking rock was a very round guy. He had long black hair that was untamed and wore a tunic with a sword slung over the back of it. I had never seen this one before. What an earth was he doing here.

Oddly he seemed very interested in the ensuing fight, peering out to look every two or three chips.

Ignoring him I turned my eyes back to the saiyans. Surely once things truly heated up the fat man would scarper. Goku was attempting to power up again after the slight increase taking his top of had gave him. He had already hit what I called kaioken times two and seemed to still be going, fine-tuning it even more so that it seemed to almost be ripping his muscles apart from the inside. His curled lips and rabid eyes gave proof to the fact it was putting a massive strain on his body.

Just how far would these saiyans go exactly?

Vegeta tapped his foot almost impatiently in the dust, for some reason letting him power up. As the ground started steaming he let out a sigh.

Marking that Goku had just stepped things up a notch a huge wave of red energy blazed around him. His energy stopped peaking and instead he flew like a rocket at Vegeta. Vegeta wasn't fazed and as soon as Goku was in range he smacked him down forcefully into the ground.

Goku stood back up instantaneously and backhanded Vegeta into the nearest mountain, causing a massive crater to the inside.

All was still for a moment.

Only a moment though.

Vegeta roared animalisticly before smashing his way out of the mountain with his bare fists. His chest inflated and deflated heavily with rage. Goku wasted no time as he flew to meet him, ramming his fist into the gut of the armor. The amour may have stopped his fist actually going into his stomach but by the way Vegeta staggered backwards like a drunk it had done nothing to stop the force of the blow.

Vegeta swiped uselessly at the air beside Goku twice before Goku grabbed his hand, crushing it in his muscled palm. Vegeta screamed and disappeared, reappearing above Goku. The sneak of it failed as Goku spotted him instantly and used both fists above his head to knock Vegeta down to the earth where he lay broken on a rock. The red fire around Goku then died as if it knew its threat was downed.

From the way Vegeta groaned at his awkward twisted angle on the rock, at least three of his ribs must have been broken. And not to forget his hand with Goku had crushed to an inch of its life.

I would have flew to Goku to congratulate him but it seemed he had suffered his own losses as well. All that strain on his body had done something to his arm because Goku still stood but held his arm out straight and as loose as he could get it.

My guess was the strain had ripped apart the muscles. I couldn't imagine the pain.

But it wasn't over.

Vegeta somehow forced himself up of the rock, as his arms and legs were not broken. Something Goku should have foresaw. I had never in my life seen someone so angry, as he lay there with his pride in tatters.

Obviously he had never been beaten in a fight before, especially not by someone I was sure he would consider lower class scum. After all, hadn't he called himself the prince of all saiyans.

"You Kakarot- you are nothing but lower-class scum. If I can't destroy you then I'll destroy your precious planet, and I'll be damned if I don't make sure you go along with it" He winced as he spoke, rising a little higher into the air with each forsaken word.

He was planning to destroy the planet, and that meant Gohan along with it. And me as well. If I didn't stop him..i would fail in my promise.

But surely Goku wasn't going to just stand there and let it happen. He was still standing, surely he could stop him.

It was dangerous, but I would watch a little longer and wait. Goku had claimed Vegeta, and there was no point in me jumping in if Goku could handle it.

'I sure hope your right about that Lessa' Funny how I almost heard Piccolo say that instead of Melanie.

Goku only watched as Vegeta was lifted higher and higher, seemingly at the same height as the wispy clouds. He stopped and glared at Goku, his energy beginning to rise once again.

This time he placed both hands out in front of him, almost like Goku did when he powered up a Kamehameha. Worry flashed on Goku's face and he instantly copied, except he criss-crossed one hand over the other.

"Oh no you don't Kakarot. This shot is going to destroy your precious planet and you along with it. Nothing you have could possibly stop me now" Goku said nothing in response to his goading, only spiking his own energy further. Both energies hit a peak and blue and red burst out to meet each other halfway. One flew up, the other down.

They hit exactly in the middle, both pushing to counteract the other.

Vegeta was right though, his was miles stronger and it wasted no time in forcing down Goku's kamehameha down inch by inch.

"You want to know what I call this move Kakarot? I call it galick gun" Goku strained to keep his kamehameha going. His body turned red again and I realized what he was going to do. His body strained with that red fire as it hit one, two, three and four? His body seemed to be under a massive weight as Goku gritted his teeth, forcing the red fire into his kamehameha with devastating effects.

The massive increase in power made the galick gun like a newborn in comparison and it slammed into Vegeta, taking him and his energy right up into the sky.

The red fire didn't stop, and Vegeta couldn't escape. They continued on and on until they could no longer be seen.

Finally, it was over.