Living Legend
The new chapter is here! I guess I didn't know how much influence this story would have on people. And it will have a lot more because I'm barely starting it!
Chapter 6: Harder Than Before
The harsh training had started as soon as possible. No setbacks were allowed to happen, no weakling was lead into false hope. You either fought to the end and died with honor of a warrior or lived in shame for your cowardice.
The Saiyan family of four weird-haired men walked inside an oval room inside Bulma's house. It was blue-colored with red marbles covering the floor. There was a central machine obviously the main control for the gravity. The four aliens looked around the place. It wasn't that big when it came to size but it was enough for sparring.
"Okay here it goes" The Martial Arts Champion stated pressing the gravity button of the machinery. Good thing that Bulma didn't make the artifact too complex. The ten times pressure increment hit the family in a second. But only Goku and Gohan were physically pushed down to the ground affected by both the gravity and the fact they had weighted clothes on. Raditz was still standing and even Bardock, and he also had weights on.
"How come you two aren't so pressured?" Goku asked his brother and father. Both of them were still on their feet unscathed.
"Kakarot, I already told you that our home planet had ten times gravity of this planet" The scar fighter replied. While using more weights could help him, he had other training to do aside from physical exercises.
"And I used to live on Planet Vegeta. This isn't exactly a warm up for me either" Raditz remarked arms folded over his brown-armored chest. He didn't have any Earthling clothes so his armor would have to suffice for the time being.
The female called Bulma had also asked for his ship. Not that he would use it anytime soon so he didn't care what happen to it.
Bardock clenched his fist and inhaled a gust of air, his powers skyrocketing in an instant. A second later the Super Saiyan form erupted around him. Amazingly restrained because non of the other Saiyans were blasted away. And yet the legendary ascension still looked mind-blowing.
"I still can't believe that as a Super Saiyan you will still train" The first-born child stated towards his now Super Saiyan father.
"I am, but not with you or your brother" Bardock commented, his golden aura banishing. But the transformation remained in a whiter shade of spiky hair.
"What? Why?!" Raditz asked out-loud, not exactly paying attention to the transformation side-effects of powering down.
"Because I don't need to" The now white-haired fighter responded coldly casually sitting in Buda stance. His power was going lower concealing inside his body so to not go to useless waste. The long-haired fighter scratched his head in confusion by how his father was acting. He didn't know his father that much even back on Planet Vegeta. In fact Raditz was sure they had never spoken during those days back on planet purging.
"Kakarot, has father always been this arrogant?" Raditz asked to his still-gravity-struggling brother. A second later, Goku was finally in full feet but attempting to hold on to that position.
"He is?" Goku asked a bit clueless looking at his meditating father, now as a Super Saiyan "He seems to be acting normal to me. Well I only know him for a year so I'm no expert" The second son of Bardock rubbed his chin in thought "But the Super Saiyan is confusing" Raditz didn't know what to say to that.
"Well, let's start sparring" The palm-haired Goku said happily, shooting into his brother without him aware of it. Even with gravity and weights of a hundred tons on, the Martial Arts Champion was still fast enough to tackle his blood brother into the ground with a thud. But Raditz wasn't affected by the pressure so he hastily folded his legs up to his chest and fired a double kick aimed for the Solar Plexus. Raditz's brother was sent to crash the ceiling above grunting at impact by the stun and painful sensation. The brown-armored Saiyan backflipped just a second before his brother came crashing down with a hard ground-breaking impact.
Amazingly, the tilling didn't give away. Bulma had really prepared the room for a full Saiyan training theme.
However, Raditz's inattention allowed for one of Gohan' sneak attack, which was a kick right in the back at the shoulder level. Raditz stepped forward unbalanced, the blow hurting more than he had expected from a child. But from the power levels he had first measured it was true that his nephew was a powerful kid.
The young half alien shot into his uncle, who answer back with a forward fist. Gohan, however, took his size advantage and jumped over the incoming punch, his boots tip-toeing over the knuckles and somersaulting with expertise even with gravity trying to bring him down. He landed right on his uncle's shoulder blades. That's when the youngster started to forcefully tuck Raditz's long locks of hair while laughing.
"Hey let me go, brat!" The elder Saiyan grunted and whirled his arms around but couldn't get free from his annoying nephew. Goku laughed on the sideline by the childish display. Bardock took a little glimpse and smiled before heading back into deep meditation.
After swinging his limbs like a drunken dancer, the former Frieza soldier saw through his side vision a brown thing hanging right beneath his shoulder. He knew perfectly what it was. Without expecting an attack the new alien forcefully grabbed the monkey limb.
"Got your tail, kid!" Raditz yelled cocky, knowing that the tail was the weak spot for many Saiyans.
"Sorry uncle, but daddy help me train my tail when I was three years old" Gohan replied smiling. The hybrid somersaulted and kicked his uncle in the face, sending him to frame the wall perfectly. Raditz let go of his indentation, more gobsmacked by the fact a four-year old kid had already trained a weak spot he still had than the blow itself.
Two weeks passed in the blink of an eye. Even after such a short period of time all the fighters had amazingly increased in power. The use of high gravity and some weights helped them a lot in their progress.
Goku and Gohan were sparing in the middle of Diablo desert, carrying more weights than before as they didn't have a way to increase gravity around them. But training in the wild gave them a lot more room for going all out with their continuously increasing energies. They were pushing each other to the limit and beyond as they had always done for years.
The young hybrid felt the same distant power he had once experienced surging again into the surface. Slowly but surely the well of energy was right there inside him. Gohan could almost touch it. But it just seemed blocked from his reach. For some reason he still couldn't find out.
However, the Saiyan father stopped the sparring checking around the sand-covered place.
"What's wrong dad?" Gohan asked in curiosity. But the Saiyan father didn't answer for a couple of seconds. His sight was still fixed in someone his son hadn't detected yet.
"Come out Piccolo" Goku stated knowing full good when his old rival was nearby. The next second a low-echoing thud echoed from behind Gohan, who instantly jumped to action. His small fist was aimed high for the chin but was swiftly dodged by a purple-cladded holographic after image.
The true Piccolo was behind the orange-dressed full-blooded rival.
"Guess you and your whelp aren't that big of morons I first thought you were" The green guy stated stoic towards his long-time enemy. The martial arts champion didn't fall for the taunting.
"I assume you know the trouble we are in" Goku stated towards the green man.
"You mean the fact aliens are trying to take over my rightful world? Yeah, I know that little detail" King Piccolo' spawn responded arms folded over his chest with a level-headed voice. Since Kami had found out he had gone into an even greater training drill, using more weights and creating more clones to spar against. But even two on one were not pushing him fast enough to catch up to Goku or his father. Maybe the young kid but Piccolo didn't know for sure.
"As stupid as you are, I have to begrudgingly agree you are stronger than me" The green man stated though without wanting to.
"I'm stronger than you too" Gohan stated towards Piccolo, who rose an eyebrow.
"I'm not talking to you, brat" The demon spawn responded towards the child.
"But I'm talking to you, slug" The hybrid shot back a bit angry but also joking. Goku's nemesis looked like slapped in the face by the comment. But the fact a thick vein was pulsating in his forehead meant shit just got real for them.
"Alright kid, you asked for it!" The demon destroyed his weighted gear with ki and shot forward with the speed of lightning. Gohan smiled ready for the challenge. The green demon was unleashing a relentless barrage of fists and kicks, his body a purple streak of motion. The long-haired hybrid flew backwards dodging or parrying the incoming fast-trading of strikes. And most amazingly was with how much ease he was doing it.
Gohan avoided a forward punch by arching his back down, his feet hitting Piccolo right in the face. Purple blood splattered away while the green man was flying into the blue sky. With ki Piccolo cushioned himself and returned to the struggle. He elongated his arm hoping to catch the brat with the guard down. But Gohan's trained senses stopped that from happening, the youngster gyrating his body hundred eighty degrees and eluding the attack middle air. Gohan ended his spinning, his hand already shooting forward with a barrage of spheres. Kami's other side was sent careening backwards by the downpour.
Goku watched the display just a tad amused. While Piccolo was dangerously strong, almost ten times stronger since the last Martial Arts Tournament, Gohan was barely ahead of him but keeping an obvious advantage. Training with both Bardock and Raditz helped the youngster to improve his fighting style, which was as much of a hybrid as himself. So getting involved wouldn't be needed.
Piccolo was unable to spar a swift punch to the nose, the knuckles embbing hard into his skull like an artillery shell. The green man backflipped and avoided being shot backwards like a living bullet. His feet ended the backflip and pushed the man upwards, his own punch uppercutting the hybrid. The youngster skidded back with blood trailing down from his lips.
The child could be a better fighter but the green demon had the true power. Piccolo yelled an invisible force tearing the soil apart. The ground rumbled and rocks floated up defying logics. Gohan was surprised by the ability. It had to be some form of telekinesis, the ability to move things with the mind as he had read in a book. The hybrid stopped being smart when the hundreds of rubble bigger than his head shot into him beyond cannonball speed. The demi alien surrounded himself in a yellow dome shield. The rocks cracked against the ki defense Gohan not faltering at all.
But that was exactly what Piccolo had wanted in the first place. To have the kid in one place. Even with his defence up, The green man was very confident in his powers.
One could say too much confident.
"Makosen!" Piccolo enchanted both hands forward, one palm in front of the other. A yellow sphere lighted up and fired a beam of concentrated ki into his short size enemy. When the dust settled, however, Gohan was still there smiling but bruised indeed.
"Masenko!" Gohan enchanted, forming a similar hand stand to Piccolo's and creating a similar attack. The demon's eyes widen in shock but the damage was already heading into him with deadly velocity. The blast hit him like a freaking meteor burning his gi and churning his green skin into black. Kami's other side ended up knocked out cold.
"Okay Gohan, that's enough" The father said to the son, who nodded. Goku took out a Senzu from his pocket and kneeled, making sure Piccolo ate it. Couple of seconds later the green man was back on his feet healed without a wound.
"Never expected that one, did you?" Goku asked amused towards his recovered enemy.
"How, how the hell did a mere child learn one of my techniques?" The green alien asked in utter stupor.
"Well, I learnt the Kamehameha just by looking at it so it's obvious Gohan can do it too" The palm-haired responded to his nemesis while his son dusted himself off from the fight.
"I...see" Piccolo responded with an uncertain tone. It was obvious he wasn't going to defeat Goku and his brat anytime soon. Not at least without first knowing how they trained and sparred.
"So you are going to train with us mister Piccolo?" Gohan asked hoping to fight against Piccolo again. The rival of his dad proved to be an amazing opponent. One from whom he could learn. The alien born on Earth materialized more white weights on his shoulders.
"Not that I have other things to do" The green man replied with a shrug.
"Didn't you want to rule the planet just minutes ago?" Goku asked eyebrow raised.
"Shut up" Piccolo exclaimed. Goku and Gohan laughed at Piccolo's antics while they flew back to Capsule Corp to train. Explaining the new situation was going to be a Hell of one.
Raditz was inside the gravity machine at full ten times alone. He carried weights of a few hundred tons in his arms and legs that were giving him a workout when mixed with the artificial high pressure. While he enjoyed a challenge with both his brother and nephew and occasionally his father, some alone time for training was sometimes needed.
"Hey tough guy!" The blonde warrioress Inuzama walked inside as always in blue splendor and showiness. The gravity almost pushed her down but the a bit deranged woman remained. She had already trained in ten times Gs so she wasn't going to fall anytime soon. She remained on her feet after the pressure change that dazzled her a tad "Oh, wow, that's a rush. Almost like that vicodin pill with beer" Not that she knew a lot about those kinds of things. No. Nothing at all.
Okay, just a little.
"You want something from me?" Raditz asked nonchalantly towards the female. He still remembered their last spar. Or weird struggle in the Lookout. And he wasn't going through that stupidity again.
"You know, that kind of comment can be easily taken the wrong way" The female fighter replied with an unsettling smile while displaying her perfect white teeth. Raditz floated down to meet her face to face. He was just two inches taller than her but Inuzama wasn't backing down. "Anyway, just a sparring, if you can get it up to the challenge" The Saiyan almost corked an eyebrow. Was she implying something hidden or was she just as crazy as the other humans told him she was? Not that he needed another opinion for that conclusion. He had experienced it first hand.
"Not that I'll lose anything" The man replied letting go of the weights. They fell with a thud over the tilling floor of the sparring room. Amazingly, Inuzama did so too by dropping her weighted wristbands. The Saiyan was just a little bit impressed.
The fight started with the blonde fighter rocketing into her opponent with dazzling speeds, jumping in range and buckling her knees up. Raditz rose his forearms to defend himself from the incoming knee blow, the clash creating a shock wave that sent air gusts around the enclosed space. She remained air-bound, her legs unfolding and his left one aiming a face roundhouse. The long-haired man quickly rose his right forearm to parry the blow, his gauntlet bouncing away the incoming momentum. He grinned while Inuzama didn't react in the microseconds before he had clutched her leg and whipped her to the other side of the room.
"Done already?" Raditz taunted a bit. But instead of gauding his opponent, the jeering seemed to be encouraging her. Like making her better. But even so, thanks to his new energy sensing Raditz could tell that victory was already his to claim. The female just wasn't powerful enough. But very crazy no doubt.
But Inuzama wasn't down so easily. She backflipped in the air just before her back connected with the concrete wall. With her flip her booted feet touched the wall' surface as she summoned her unnatural strength. Her legs shot her forward like a living rocket into her long-haired alien enemy. Raditz was ready to knock her out in a second.
Although the female was smiling having better plans herself.
"Lightning Charge!" The blue aura exploded around her nubile body and shortly increased her powers two times over. The sudden pump up took the Saiyan by surprise, when her blur of fist rained down on him with machine-gun speed, bruising the alien man. A yellow blast to the face completely point-blank sent Raditz spiraling to smash face first into the wall. He left a perfect indentation of his face. However, Raditz yelled in strength and unleashed his ki, a brief explosion releasing him from the wall framing.
"That was unexpected" The long-haired fighter stated whipping the blood from his mouth.
"Just a short-time power up. It duplicates all my attributes" The blonde warioress replied, adjusting her hair back into a ponytail. She also adjusted her Gi top, because one of her more-than-handful tits almost bursted out from the blue clothes "Except for my breast friends. To tell you a secret, they don't need a lot of increment"
"Yeah, I...kind of already noticed" The long-haired fighter replied rubbing his head. He almost blushed but he remained dignified.
"You were peeping at my rack?" Inuzama asked her tone either amused or angry. But one couldn't totally say which one. Raditz was mouth-aghast and wanting to facepalm. But he had to hold that instinct. It was sure she was prodding him to do so. Like a malevolent derision.
"I heard you were quite a crazy lady but you really just confirmed it" Raditz commented arms folded over his chest.
"Wow, really?" The blonde fighter asked just slightly startled. Yet the fact she was now smiling was even more unsettling for Raditz "Thanks!" Her smile was beaming.
"Wait, what?" The low-class warrior asked in shock. A lot of it. "People call you crazy and you are okay with it?"
"Normality is far too overrated, boy. Besides, being normal doesn't give you a lot of crazy fans on the Internet" Inuzama casually responded. She rose her hand and stopped Raditz from asking whatever question he had "Would you really like to live a normal life when you can already fight evil badshit aliens, train with weird friends and a green guy and some freak-haired people that can go blonde?" Raditz scratched his temple. He didn't know whether she was saying an insult or a compliment.
"Okay, when you put it that way" The long-haired Saiyan stated with a shrug of shoulders.
"No, because there's no other way to put things. You don't care what others say, you only care what you do, here and now. Others don't have a saying in your life" Each word she said was alongside her index finger poking Raditz right in the sternum.
Raditz was left pretty much speechless. He was told she was completely nuts and yet she talked even more sanier than a common person. It was both confusing and intriguing. The good way of intriguing.
"I hope you aren't tired yet" Raditz returned to a fighting stance but one could see something had changed already.
"Please, I'll make sure to blow up your mind" Inuzama replied with a confident smile in her own martial arts position.
"You can blow something else" The Saiyan remarked with an undertone.
"A teasing contest? Challenge accepted!" The blonde beauty replied with a haunting smile. It was worthy of a pervert. And Raditz seemed to like it.
The time kept ticking by and the fighters of the green and blue planet trained even harder. Now with the extra presence of Piccolo in the gravity room Goku was able to help both his old nemesis and his son to ascend into higher levels of strength. Training with his human friends also helped them get stronger. The human group was slowly developing new techniques. Tien said he could make a new Tri-Beam but that could be used for longer periods without him wasting life force. Even Krillin stated he had a new ability in case things went very south.
But for some reason Bardock barely trained. The others saw him doing sit ups sometimes sparring with his family and all those kinds of things but more like he was doing them out of fun to pass time and not as a serious training excercise. The others just hoped that whatever he was doing would help in the end.
While the Earth got ready to fight, three white attack pods passed over the blackness of space. They were heading into a dry-brown planet, which had been once a flushy green world.
The doors of the pods slidded open, revealing three human-like aliens. They stepped out with condescending eyes.
"So why are we in a decaying planet, Vegeta?" The tallest alien asked looking around the putrescence of the former sprightly world.
"Yeah, not a big of a challenge if we go against stinky skeletons" The new member replacing Raditz asked, casually kicking a dead corp of what looked to be a small cat-like animal.
"You idiots didn't listen to the channel we interfered, did you?" The clear leader, taller than the new member but shorter than the first one stated with a firm tone of order looking at his minion Saiyans. That's what they were after all. Just tools that he could use like Frieza had used him. The two lackeys didn't answer knowing their teeth would be blown off by any comment they said.
The leader shook his head and kept his stare forward, ignoring the rotten smell of the decaying organisms. His eyes looked beading towards the ultimate prize he wanted to claim for himself. Also for his minions. Maybe they could become useful after it. After all, the intercepted communication stated that the reward would increase their strength beyond their possible limits and beyond. It was a power that only gods were worth off.
A giant tree was protruding from the planet's withered surface reaching high into the black sky. And the Saiyan Prince was floating straight for its top.
And so the month was finally up...
Notes from Chapter 6:
Piccolo developed Telekinesis while training for the Saiyans. So to use it against Frieza would have been useful. I didn't remember that when I was writing "Another Path".
The Makosen is the original Masenko. I don't know when did Piccolo tought it to Gohan in cannon.
Gohan inherited Goku's ki-copy ability.
Raditz trained in the gravity chamber like Goku from Buu Saga trained in the Other World.
A giant tree? What could possibly be?... Oh wait a second!
Power Levels: (Check on Next chapter to see some results that will be different from Cannon. But the displayed powers of the Saiyans are their natural ones and not because of a power up)
And so the month is almost up. Will the fighters be ready?