Chapter 20- Painful reminders

As soon as Vegeta's body was gone I heard a raucous cheer from the fat man below me. I'd almost forgotten he was there I was so caught up in the moment. I looked downward, brushing a loose strand of long hair away so I could see. That was the disadvantage of having long hair. It always got in the way if you weren't looking dead ahead, and sometimes even then.

Fat man had decided it was all clear and was now scrambling his pork all over the loose rocks below in his hurry to get to Goku. Who was defiantly looking worse for wear even though the strain on his body was gone. He'd sunk to his knees and hands and his body was trembling. Not in fear, but because his muscles and nerves were fried.

Tilting his head up, he finally noticed the fat man.

"Yachrobi? What are you doing here?" So that was the fat mans name.

"I was watching you kick that saiyans butt. Man, you were awesome! Wait til I tell everyone I got to see it, there gonna be so jealous" Yachrobi scrabbled over the last rock to reach Goku and slapped a palm in the middle of his back.

"Congrats Goku" He said cheerfully, his look quickly turning worried as Goku let out a massive scream. His eyes creased as he seemed to comprehend the amount of physical stress Goku had just been under.

"Oh…sorry"

"That's..okay" Yachrobi smiled before pulling out another pack of tortilla chips from under his tunic. Jesus, how many did that guy have in there.

'Maybe it's not fat after all. Maybe he just has a shed-load of tortilla chips under there' I pondered it for a moment.

'Nope, that's defiantly fat. Anyone who eats two bumper bags of tortilla chips in a row defiantly has to be fat'

'Unless they have a freaky-ass metabolism'

'More like a black hole for a stomach'

'I'm gonna be honest here, who the hell cares?' Serquet cut in snidely.

'I do, if he's got tortilla chips under that tunic I want some' I had to stifle a chuckle at the thought of Melanie going and asking for a bag of tortilla chips of Yachrobi.

'Who said I would ask'

'He'd probably eat you instead'

'And can you imagine all the sweat that would be on the bag and maybe even inside it. It's not exactly a chilly day or anything'

'Um, Lessa. Your supposed to be doing something?' Oh right, Goku. Not that he'd moved. Yachrobi just stood in silence snaffling tortilla chips. He didn't even bother to offer one to Goku.

"You know, Vegeta will be back here any minute now right?"

"You what!?" Yachrobi gulped mid-chip and it stuck in his throat like a rather prominent adams apple. Ignoring that he immediately scooped up the tortilla chips he had dropped and scuttled back to the mountains I was on top of. Goku didn't look surprised.

'I wonder if he did that just to get back at Yachrobi for not offering him one'

'Maybe' But I wasn't so certain myself. The sky twinkled ominously as I surveyed it for signs of life. Vegeta had been blasted up, so by the laws of gravity he was due to come down.

'Logically' More to the point was, would he come down alive or dead. The wrong part of me hoped alive, but only because it was morally wrong to fuck a dead body. After all. No one wants to a necrophiliac. I wonder what Piccolo would say if he was here.

'Probably be trying to drag you behind a rock to celebrate'

'Serquet!'

'You don't deny it' I looked down at the ground in shame. Because honestly it was something Piccolo would have been likely to do.

On the other hand though, he had a really intuitive sense so nine times out of ten he wouldn't have rested til he saw Vegeta's body.

Strangely enough the air started whistling and then,

"CRACK!" My eyes instantly flew up to see the damage. Except there was no damage.

"You missed me Kakarot?" Vegeta goaded from the his new position halfway up the sky. So the cocky bastard was back. And apparently uninjured to boot. Wonderful. The cracking noise had been made by him smashing a boulder in midair to draw attention.

As his eyes turned from left to right, I almost thought he saw me. If he did, he said nothing and drifted back to the ground with crumbs of rock trickling out from between his fingers.

"You know Kakarot. You were defiantly more than I bargained for. But if you think I don't have a trick up my sleeve then you truly are the lower class scum of my race' He narrowed his eyes before jutting his chin upwards to the sky, his head turning in all directions. He seemed to be searching for something.

'In the sky?" Melanie said incredulously.

"Well that's where he's looking" He turned back to face Goku with a bemused expression.

"So you had the foresight to blow up the moon did you? It's too bad for you that it doesn't affect my plans in the slightest way" Goku struggled for a moment before rising up onto his feet. His eyes betrayed nothing. He had no idea what Vegeta was on about.

A sense of foreboding filled the air like it always did before something bad happened.

A saiyan, wanting the moon. What else could it mean?

Painful reminders for me that's what.

"I'm sorry Vegeta but I have no idea what your on about"

"Don't play fool with me Kakarot, we both know the secret to Ozaru's power" Goku's expression didn't change one iota.

"But I'm being serious" Doubt crossed Vegeta's mind. I had a sudden image of Piccolo destroying the moon. So many things had happened that night. Piccolo had agreed to train me. We'd held hands. And I had made myself a new friend.

Sorrow embedded itself deep in my heart, threatening to suck me in a black hole of despair. Oh how I wished I could go back to the good old days.

It felt like I was missing something as I sorted through the old memories. Something really important just kept slipping my mind.

"You really are just a human now aren't you Kakarot. As you so clearly fail to know, the moon contains a certain energy called bruit waves. Now to any normal human that means nothing, but for a saiyan, it means everything. Now as the moon passes through all of it's phases, its builds up these bruit waves. Once the moon becomes full, a saiyan can then look at it. A transaction occurs between our bodies and the moon, and some part of our DNA reacts to these bruit waves, causing a radical change within our bodies"

Suddenly, I didn't need to hear anymore. The missing piece had just announced it's arrival on my doorstep. The transformation happened to all saiyans, they all had the power to become great apes. Or not so great apes as it were.

Then again, Vegeta kept prattling on about the moon but he'd just said that Goku had destroyed the moon. Even though it had been Piccolo but at the end of the day it was the same result.

So by that logic Vegeta was unable to transform into a hideous ape. What a relief that was.

'Why, cause you wouldn't fancy him then would you' I scowled.

'It's not all about that you know'

'Maybe not but you sure do think about it enough' I rolled my eyes and glanced at Goku. He just stood there taking it all in.

"But there is no moon" He finally stated. Vegeta smiled widely.

"I know there isn't. But there will be" Wait, what?

Vegeta turned away from him in a flash and scooped a ball of energy in his palm.

"Take this Kakarot!" He exclaimed and hurled the ball of energy at the sky.

'I don't get what he means by that-" I started before I realized there was now a moon in the sky. This wasn't good. Not one bit.

"Now watch Kakarot, as I show you the true meaning of being a saiyan" He said proudly, puffing out his chest as thick dark hair began to spread over his face.

His armor bulged outwards as he steadily grew up and out. His features snarled and grew more stunted at the chin.

It was over in seconds and in his place stood a massive armor-clad ape.

'So..do you fancy him now?'

'No, no I do not'