Living Legend
I passed another exam so yeah, I'm the perfect mood for an update! Thanks for the support by the way. More than 10 reviews with one chapter alone! Keep it coming and you will get what you want!
So far I am only going with short chapters in between the main Sagas, which I think I didn't do on "Another Path". Not that I regret that. Some stories must go straight to the point and not beat around the bush. And I never beat around the bush unless it's needed.
*Sigh* Well, that was the usual ramble of the day that eases the tension in my neck.
Enjoy the chapter people!
Chapter 4: Scream in the Night
Nearly five months later, father and son Saiyan, more specifically Goku and Gohan, were moving at blurring speeds right towards the older grandfather Saiyan Bardock. He was as old as Goku, which one could say that it was creepy. But they were Saiyans. Weird things had to happen around them. If not then they weren't doing their job right.
The young Gohan alongside his father were throwing strikes at fast as they could muster. The two Earth-raised Saiyans had been increasing in power constantly for the last few months. More so than anything they had presumed. Sparring against someone who could kick your ass without breaking a sweat could do that to you if you had Saiyan DNA. But Bardock did increased his powers too. At a slower pace when compared to his other relatives but any improvement counted for him. Considering he was after Frieza's head, all the improvement counted a lot.
Rain or shine, the family of alien warriors sparred no matter what over Paotzu the bushy green mountain landscapes. Good thing that the place was mostly uninhabited. The entire area of thousands of miles square was the perfect battlefield when they needed to go all out.
The young hybrid panted in exertion, taking the sweat out of his brow. Even after months of continuous training with his dad and granddad, the old power he had amazingly summoned from nowhere seemed to be eluding him.
Next to him, his father also hit the ground after an overhead strike. And Goku was also tiring out.
"Come on, son. You have to unleash your powers again" Goku commented, panting a bit, both of them in front of Bardock, who floated inches above the ground with arms folded over his chest.
"I'm trying dad. But it doesn't work" The tired orange-dressed kid responded. His strength was going downhill, even now that he wasn't wearing his training weights.
The little distraction allowed Bardock to super speed from behind his grandson and land a short uppercut to the kidneys that caused Gohan's body to arc back in painful reflex. The new opening allowed for a devastating elbow to the cheekbone, plowing the hybrid into the ground knocked out with some blood in his face. Before Goku had thought a proper counter strategy, he was already in the receiving end of a booted foot with a sharply aimed roundhouse, which sent the Martial Arts Champion spiraling away crashing against trees. His brain rattled inside his hard skull when he shattered down the tree trunks into wooden splinters.
The scar warrior sighed and let his guard down. Not that it would matter when your enemies were already out for the count. At least they were doing better than the few last times. But yet even two on one weren't enough odds for the stronger Saiyan to unleash his secret transformation. While Bardock knew how to transform at will, using the golden form was rather useless so far without a worthy adversary.
And even when it provided with a hell of a buster increase, the seasoned fighter knew not to be overconfident unless you had the power to support it. That was why Frieza was the biggest asshole he could think off. So much insults must have certain force behind them to back them up. Bardock didn't know how long it would take him to avenge his race.
But he was going to be ready. Even if he had to break the limit into untapped new Super Saiyan forms never known before, the avenger would fulfill his mission.
Goku returned to the land of the conscious, rubbing the migraine from his bruised head.
"Wow dad, you really pack a wallop" The Earth champion stated with an innocent smile and rubbing his head. Bardock offered his hand and helped his second-born to get back on his feet. The orange-dressed fighter walked towards his out-cold descendant.
"Let's head home and give Gohan a Senzu bean and a very needed rest" The Saiyan of Earth said, lifting his injured son. It was amazing how far the youngster had progressed. But Goku noticed his father wasn't moving "You aren't coming?" Bardock shook his head.
"Not yet. I'd like to do some training on my own" The stronger fighter replied, removing his weighted wristbands. Goku didn't argue there and carried his knock-out son through the air back to Paotzu. Training with his father was proving to have great benefits. He was already flying like if it were natural to him and so did Gohan.
Atop of the green and blue world, the green Guardian watched the events unfolding like if he was the one living them, his wrinkled hand holding up with his wooden crane. Goku had been and so far still proved to be his strongest disciple, not only in physical strength but also in mind and spirit. Now that same young kid he had grown fond off had a family of his own.
Family. The Guardian of the Planet pondered that concept in his mind. Ever since Bardock arrived, something in the back of Kami's head had been brought alive. Like a repressed memory of a long-forgotten time. Another live in another place. One that didn't look like Earth but it also felt like his home.
There were flashes of images displaying two sets of Dragon Balls. But these weren't the ones he had designed centuries ago after defeating Garlic for the tittle of Guardian of Earth. Seven of them were at least three times the one's on Earth and required some new language that Kami could barely recognise, yet at the same time it was familiar. Oddly familiar.
The other set of spheres were the same size but with Black Stars instead of the red ruby he had used on his own. There was a requiring thing in hsi mind. He knew Piccolo was having the same thoughts. The bond they shared meant their minds would always be linked until they both died or...
The three eyed Tien Shin Han moved towards Kami after doing some warming up exercises in the white tilling with his other fighter friends. He and the others had remained on the Lookout for sometime, hoping to finally get a proper training from the Guardian.
"So Kami, is this new student showing up soon?" Tien asked arms folded. The question brought Kami out of his depth of thoughts.
"Don't hasten. She's already on her way here" The green-skinned Guardian replied, still looking to the world outside. That brought the attention of the rest of the human team.
"Wait, she? Like in female?" The desert bandit asked, his Casanova sense in his brain suddenly spiking up ten notches. He dusted himself off in the attempt of looking more appealing. And failing quite a lot "Oh men, I'm so getting laid tonight!" The others sweat-dropped by the not-so-subtle plan of action. If it could be consider as such.
"Until she drops from the edge of Lookout" Krillin joked to the others.
"Here she is" The green man stated with a smile, a sudden blur shooting upwards from the edge of the Lookout and gracefully landing on her booted feet after an acrobatic backflip.
"Hey everyone, what's up?" She was a beautiful blonde vixen, dressed in an electric blue karate outfit that outline her nubile curves. Her simmering blonde hair reached her shoulder blades, her bright green eyes looking around the new place with mildly curiosity. The four humans widen their eyes. She was quite gorgeous, no doubt about that, but also amazingly powerful. Even more than Tien and he was the strongest of them four.
"Hello, I'm Tien" The tryclops greeted courteous. Not that he wanted another couple. Lunch and her bipolarity were tough enough.
"I'm Inuzama" The new member of the group replied with a bright but unsettling smile. Her eyes narrowed at Tien, who felt she was trying to say something out loud. Her eyes widen "You have a third eye!" She stated the obvious, which made the humans sweat-dropp. She could either be crazy or plain dumb. With her power it was very unlikely she could be dumb.
"Kidding I already knew that" The blonde replied with wink towards the tryclops. The humans looked at each other. Yeah, crazy.
"How could you already know?" Tien asked in confusion.
"Duh, I read the Manga" Inuzama replied like if it was the most common thing in the world. Now the humans were right. She wasn't crazy. She was crack-brained nutty.
That's pretty much what happens when you are tought martial arts by a crazy red-and-black dressed guy that can bring up weapons out of nowhere. But that wasn't here or there.
"I'm Krillin" The bald monk introduced himself with a hand shake.
"Chaotzu" The shortest fighter said now also hand shaking.
"Hey there, beauty. Name's Yamcha" The scar fighter stated trying to sound cozily and not minding her crazy comments. The others wanted to face-palm but kept their professionalism.
"Are you trying to hit on me?" The new fighter asked one eyebrow raised.
"Um, no" The bandit responded, hoping she hadn't figure out his tactics. Not that they had ever worked, but women existed of all types so a few blondes were someone who Yamcha always knew how to take the advantage.
"Cool, then can I hit on you?" The apparent crazy blonde female asked now, jumping in excitement. Now the males were at lost in what to say to such a comment.
"Sure?" The bandit replied-asked completely oblivious. Before he had known, he was doubling over by the lightning-fast kick to the guts. His eyes almost bulged out of his sockets by the staggering pain. He fell to his knees. Non of the others had seen her moving in the first place.
"What was that for?" The former bandit asked, rubbing his injured belly.
"I said I would hit on you" The blonde replied with a winner's grin. Everyone sweat-dropped for the third time of the day. That was the weirdest pun they have ever heard.
"She's going to fit in perfectly" Krillin stated with a joking smile, already liking her. Crazy or not, she was funny. The monk would make sure to get new pranks. If he was competing against her for the tittle of Joke Master then he had to improve the arsenal as quickly as possible.
After a few minutes of waiting for the Casanova fighter to return to his feet, the group gathered around Kami. The blonde stared at the green alien like she did with Tien.
"So you are the Kami guy who will teach me?" Inuzama asked towards the white-dressed green guardian. According to the talking cat, Kami was the strongest one on Earth. He nodded and she lazily shrugged her shoulders "Could be worse" The Guardian coughed, forgetting about the approving or demeaning comment.
"Now that we are all gather here, I will give you new training equipment" The Guardian of the planet explained towards his disciples. He casually materialized blue t-shirts, wristbands and boots from out of thin air "These are weighted clothes. I think you remember Goku wearing them during the last Martial Arts Tournament. It will help you all improve your strength and speed with them on, so once you remove them the results will be even greater" The five humans examined the new gear with appraising eyes. They really wanted to train and improve their powers.
That was when Inuzama raised her hand like a kid in school. The four male humans looked at her like if he had grown two heads. One could say she was crazy but the seasoned warriors knew that someone with her strength could prove helpful.
"Yes?" Kami asked disconcerted. He wasn't really expecting a question. But knowing how...unusal her personality was, it would be better to respond.
"Do you have them in red?"
Everyone fell on their backs anime style.
The scar Saiyan was outside in the wild, eyes closed and legs folded in a meditative stance. He was still new to the mind training concept Kakarot had been trying to teach him. But his son was the expert so it was better to follow the lead and catch up as quickly as possible.
With a deep inhale of air, the time traveler soothed his mind, letting everything flow around his closed eyes. He relaxed his body. Until he saw him. It was all over again. Bardock standing atop of planet Vegeta in space, his body soared and beaten from the beating Dodoria gave him. And then in front of him, the midget-sized lizard bastard inside his floating chair, like a crippled person yet far stronger than himself. His garnet eyes were fixed with mockery towards his struggling self. Towards his entire race.
On the outside, Bardock's eyebrows were frowning, his teeth clutching with pressure. How dare that freak mock the strongest warriors of the universe? Who did he think he was to enslave the race from whom untold legends were borned off?
And then he laughed. Frieza's maniac laughter, screeching like sharp nails on a blackboard was the most hateful thing Bardock had ever heard in his life. It was pissing him off.
Then the blast showed up from Frieza's ivory finger tip, a focused yellow star heading his way. And like that time, there was no way out. No matter how much the Saiyan struggled his body wasn't responding his commands.
The attack was engulfing the scarred Saiyan all over again. The blinding light that would vaporize him and everything he had known. The burning heat churning over his skin and flesh, splitting the atoms with the concentrated energies to destroy a planet down into stellar rubble.
The dying-over warrior of time screamed. His howl reached the Heavens themselves in a massive sound that cried out for revenge.
On the outside, Bardock's eyes snapped open and changed bright green.
The Earth-raised fighter Goku had leaved his home to look for his father. Gohan was already healed and sleeping. The kid had too many things going on for his age.
But as soon as the Saiyan detected the familiar energy, Goku found his father screaming like if he was in pain.
"Dad!" Goku yelled but was cut in the middle by a burst of golden light. The amazing ki waves stopped Goku's flight and started pushing him backwards.
All over the world, people who could sense energy detected a mind-numbing spike of unbridled power.
On the Lookout, the pack of warriors stared eyes-widen into the flash in the horizon.
"That energy...is from Goku's dad!" Yamcha stated aghast.
"But...we can sense him all the way up here!" Krillin stammered too in stunning shock.
So far, only the new female member wasn't overreacting by the new energies.
"Wow, that's badass!" Inuzama stated in happiness, arms folded over her chest.
Far into the northern lands of the continent, a place full of clear-waterfalls, a meditating green man shot his eyes open in sheer astonishment. The energy signal alone was overwhelming his senses. How could someone be so astoundingly powerful?
And Piccolo knew that it was the other Goku, not the original one. But how, was the real million-dollar question.
The palm-haired Saiyan could finally see through the golden light fog. His father now had spiky hair shinning in yellow hue, his body notoriously bulked up. The soil beneath their feet had caved a few inches. Something was telling Goku that the aftershock wasn't so devastating because his father had held back...well, whatever the golden thing was.
"Wow, father, your power has skyrocketed!" Goku exclaimed aghast. The power around his father was intoxicating. The strength was literally brimming all over his frame.
"I know" The now golden fighter commented turning around to face his son with his emerald eyes. It almost took the alien son by surprise "This is the Super Saiyan transformation" Bardock didn't except to transform. He knew how to summon the transformation at will but it was obvious powerful anger could still draw it out unwillingly.
"Awesome!" The fighter of Earth remarked, taking his weighted wristbands off. He backflipped into a fighting stance, his face smiling with the new unfathomable challenge "Now let's fight!" Bardock's eyebrows rose instantly. Maybe his son had finally gone insane by the bump in the head.
"Kakarot, my power dwarfs you in every possible way. I could kill you" The time traveler said, not bluffling. The power difference was like comparing a stone against a mountain.
"Do you expect Frieza to be as merciful as you are?" The Earth Saiyan replied back, knowing that his father still had a sore thumb for that particular topic "For what you've told us, he's a monster. Do you want him to take pity on you because you might be weaker?" The Saiyan of Earth saw his father's fists closing tightly by the truth.
The Super Saiyan sighed accepting the reality. Frieza was surely stronger than him and wouldn't show any kind of mercy. Not that Bardock would ever ask for it. He would die as a Saiyan rather than living as a coward. Bardock nodded his head towards his son, signaling he was going to fight. Or at the most, not deadly injure his son.
Goku's fist soared through the air like an invisible blur. But the Super Saiyan only bobbed his head to the right, avoiding it with neat precision. With two shinning hands on his son's arm, Bardock quickly spun around while using Goku's limb as a pole, whipping him over his body and letting the orange-cladded fighter bounce in the soil, spider webs of crack spreading and some dust kicking up by the painful bounces.
The Earth Saiyan rose again rubbing his now bruised arm after skidding to a halt. The strength applied on him had been beyond bone-breaking. It was planet-breaking at the least. By the time Goku had gone back to his feet to continue, his father was already in front of him. He hit Goku by snapping his index finger right in the forehead.
Instant out coldness.
The Super Saiyan sighed, his body diverting back to normal black hair. He took a Senzu from his pocket. Good thing he told his son about giving him one just in case.
"Wow, that was awesome!" The recovered fighter of Earth stated like a child on Christmas.
"Only a Saiyan would say that after fighting someone who kicked his ass" Bardock replied helping his son to stand up. The two went back home to now seriously get some rest. They had more training in the morning.
Notes from Chapter 4:
Kami is slowly realising that he may be an alien like Goku.
Bardock's mind scene weren't his foresight powers. Just an old nightmare flashback.
Goku's fight with Bardock was like Cannon Goku's fight against Bills in "Battle of Gods".
Inuzama is a OC. Her name is a pun for 'Inazum', which means lightning. That's because of her special super speed.
And my female OC has a few quirks that you might associate with famous characters.
Power Levels:
Bardock:
After training (weighted clothes on): 90,000
Without weights: 95,000
Super Saiyan: 4.5 millions
Goku:
Weighted clothes on: 3,500
Without clothes: 4,000
Injured after fighting his father: 1
Healed (Normal Zenkai): 5,200
Gohan:
Weighted clothes on: 1,000
Without weights: 1,500
Healed (Normal Zenkai): 2,100
Piccolo:
Weights on: 1,500
Without weights: 2,000
Yamcha: 400
Tien: 450
Krillin: 425
Chaoutzu: 400
Inuzama: 500
And the world only gets weirder for our fighters. Now though, the year is almost up and someone may show up unexpectedly.