A/N: Espeon804 with another great chapter!
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Um.. I have nothing to say this time.
-Espeon804
-Chapter 4: Bardock and Gine are our parents?! Summon your power Raditz!-
"Can you tell me about our parents?" The question Kakarot asked earlier is repeated differently and more desperately. He stares at his brother, waiting for his reply.
Raditz stays silent for a while. He hasn't thought much about his parents as after he found out that they died along with his planet's explosion. He thought about them heavily after he reunited with his brother because he looks almost exactly like...
"Raditz? Are you okay?" Kakarot asks with concern.
Raditz realizes that he was shaking hard. He sees the worry all over his brother's face. "You remind me of our mother Kakarot." He tries to hide the emotions he hasn't felt in years. It is believed that the only emotions Saiyans show is anger, hatred, and cruelty. It is very rare to actually see a Saiyan care for another. His entire family is like that, all except him. He doesn't mind but, it bothers him that he's starting to show it. "Don't you worry about me. Worry about yourself."
"I can't help but worry. You look shaken up." Kakarot throws some twigs and grass in the middle of the crater. He fires a small blast and it burst into flames.
Raditz sighs heavily. "Do you really want to know about them?" Well, that's a stupid question he must admit. His brother doesn't remember anything about his infant past. He wanted to ask, hoping to avoid the conversation.
"I know that I once knew them. I want to know them again. Are they like the other Saiyans?" Kakarot asks while throwing the fishes over the huge flames.
"Fine. I'll tell you since you joined me anyway. You must know." He almost growls when Kakarot sits down on the ground as if he's getting a class lesson. "Our parents were very different when it comes to personality... very much like you and I are. Our father - Bardock - he was just like any other Saiyan; living for the thrill of battle and defeating his foe's without mercy. He holds on strongly to the pride of the Saiyans."
"What does he look like?"
"Didn't I mention back on the beach that you look like our father? You look almost like him. You have his hair, that smirk... he just has a scar on his face." He traces his finger as a x on his cheek to point that out. "He is a bit different. He cared for us even though it didn't seem like it."
Kakarot looks at the window of the broken door from the pod. He sees his reflection replaced with what could be the face of his father. He can see him in his mind, fighting strongly and not holding back. "What about our mother?"
Raditz finds himself chuckling a bit. "Saiyans thought she was an odd one."
"Huh? Odd? What's wrong with her?" Kakarot's attention back on his brother.
"There was nothing wrong. She was just... different. Our mother - Gine - she was a warrior too, but she's not all that strong. She used to be a part of our father's crew. She wasn't a excellent warrior in the battlefield, so you can imagine how many times our father had to save her. That's how they grew found to each other. Eventually, she stopped fighting and joined some meat company to make up for her years of not battling. She is rather... soft. She still has her pride in there, but she was not into fighting like our father. Even still..."
Raditz takes a deep breath.
"She had... quite the temper if you made her lose it."
He said those words with a hint of a shudder. He must be getting chills by just remembering it. It's hard to see how...
"Then, I was born."
Kakarot leans closer, trying to get as much information as he can. The act is so childish, it makes Raditz roll his eyes.
"Mother... She decided to train me when I was little."
"What? She did?"
Raditz chuckles. "Hard to believe, I know. Sure, father could do that, but he was far too busy to bother. It was either mother or the Saibamen, and I wanted nothing to do with them."
"So... What did she teach you... If she doesn't like to fight much?"
"The basics. A trick or two." Raditz spreads out his hand, allowing static-like energy to build at the palm. "I had a little trouble controlling my ki when I was small. Turns out she was just the teacher I needed, believe it or not."
"Wow..." Kakarot is amazed. Maybe his mother wasn't so tough, but to hear that she helped Raditz is unexpected.
"After a few years came you." Raditz pauses and stares at his brother for a moment. He flicks his hand, making the static disappear. "Hm, you almost have her eyes."
"What does she look like?"
"Hm. It's always hard for me to describe females. I think I might still have something I've been holding on to for years now." He crouches down and searches through the wreck of the ship. He comes across what looks like a small square of paper. He picks it up and takes a look at it. For a moment his face frowns, then he puts it in Kakarot's hand. "It's wrinkled, but you should still see it."
Kakarot looks at what turns out to be a picture. He can see himself as a baby, tail all over his brother's face. Raditz looks around 9? 10? 11? It's hard to guess, but it's clear that in the photo, he's annoyed about the tail and the fact that Kakarot as an baby is clinging on to his head. He can see a man. Raditz wasn't lying. He looks just like him! He frowns too, not the smiling type obviously. Then he sees the woman. She looks so gentle but the type to not mess with, just like ChiChi is. Gine is the only one smiling in this picture. They look so familiar suddenly. He just can't grasp it. His face twist in confusion as if he's a child trying to recognize his friend after not seeing him for years and that friend has grown.
"Do you remember them?" Raditz asks.
Kakarot sighs. "No. I don't. They somehow seem familiar in a way. I have no memories of them though." He rubs his scar on his head that remains from his head injury. Why did he fall? Maybe he was careless and fell off something or his adoptive Grandfather Gohan accidentally dropped him. Whatever it was, it bothers him a lot that he can't remember. Who are they exactly? He groans, now having a headache. The smell of the fully cooked fish took his mind off of the topic. "Dinner's ready!"
"About damn time. I thought that you were trying to starve me out here." Raditz effortlessly tears a chunk from his catch and wolves it down as if he hasn't ate in days.
Kakarot takes his own serving and dies the same. He feels better knowing that he is no longer the only one who eats 40 plates in one meal. Raditz did tell him that Saiyans have a huge appetite. He wonders how people in his birth world managed to handle so many hungry Saiyans at one time. How long was he in Planet Vegeta before he was sent off to Earth? The thought made him remember about his headache.
"Don't push yourself. You're thinking too hard." Raditz warns him. He glances at the fish who are now nothing but bones.
"I know." Kakarot rubs his head, hoping that the ache would go away.. "I just wish that I can remember things. I can't complain though. I'll just have to learn about my past more." 10 minutes pass and he gets to his feet. "Okay. Since we are finish eating, we can continue training now. It is getting really dark now though. Will you be able to see?"
"That's a stupid question." Raditz mutters, which roughly translates to a yes.
Kakarot looks up to the sky and takes note in the many starts in the sky. After a while he spots the moon, completely full, and huge. The moon has always caught his attention with or without a tail. He must be drawn to it by instinct because no matter how many times he looked around it in the past months, it is always fascinating to look at. "This is the biggest moon I've ever seen!"
His brother starts to laugh crudely. "A full moon has appeared so soon? How often do you have one here?"
"Well, we have one at least twice a month. The moon stays on the same phase for two days straight." Kakarot answers. He has a feeling that something big is going to happen.
It's great news for Raditz. "Well then, I'll ask you this; Do you want to see something cool? The extension of every Saiyan's power?"
He's curious, but the idea on what Raditz is talking about hits him. "You're talking about you and the moon. Sure! I want to see just how powerful you guys can get. I'm missing out on a lot am I?"
He nods once. "Naturally, a Saiyan is more powerful under a full moon even if they don't transform. I think it's time for lesson number 2. I'll show you why people fear us brother. But I must warn you, as soon as I transform, I'll go straight to a rampage... not unless you can calm me down. Then I can gain control of my own instincts."
A bad feeling sinks deep into Kakarot's stomach. "But how?! I killed my own adoptive grandfather when I transformed! How can I stop you?!"
"When we transform, we lose reasoning and rely on instinct. No matter how hard they try, anyone's pleas cannot reach our ears. Not unless, they understand our native tongue. Relatives are most likely to succeed with that process. I seen it happen many times before."
"I was raised here on Earth. What makes you think that I understand that language? I never heard it before!"
"Oh yes you have. You just don't remember."
Kakarot now feels dumbfounded. He just heard words that he never heard before come out of his brother's mouth. It's so new to him, but at the same time, it sounds so familiar. He just understood every word he said. Now his head hurts again. All that Saiyan past stuff is too much for him to take it in one day. He never learned so much at such a short period of time. But, Raditz is right. He heard it before. In fact, when he gets very agitated he would say a few words that his wife would be confused about. His former friends even told him once that when they got him drunk celebrating his marriage with ChiChi, he became very aggressive and if bothered, he would snap at anyone, speaking out sentences filled with unheard of words. It freaked them out. It was probably the most they ever saw him so angry. He was told that Master Roshi tried to hit on his wife and so he hurled the elder right through a wall.
"Do you understand me Kakarot? Or is your mind a bit slow in catching things?"
Kakarot stumbles a bit. He knows that this is one of the things he has to easily accomplish important he wants to please the other Saiyans. He had to think hard as the words try to formulate themselves out his mouth. "I do understand." He says. He switches rather quickly. "I actually do. I know that I had spoken it before."
"Good." Raditz says with a slight amused look. He switches back to the local language of Japanese. "I believe that your son has went through his own metamorphosis on his own but, no need to worry. You should be more concerned about yourself."
He didn't quite get it? Worry about himself instead of his son? It seems all so wrong. He was about to protest but his ideas change when he sees his brother studying the glowing white round moon in the night sky. A second later Raditz's eyes changed from its natural onyx color to a bloody red. Kakarot takes a deep breath, ready to accept whatever will become of Raditz. He has to do this. It's probably another test for him, only this time it involves situations when your own allies could turn against you... at least, that's the idea.
"This... will get... disturbing for you..." Raditz forces his words out, already having difficulty speaking. In fact, he seems to have difficulty breathing. His tail lazily falls from around his waist and droops down, occasionally beating in some kind of rhythm. His body starts to jerk and throb along with his hard heartbeat that is headed loud and clear. It beats irregular as the pace quickens. He gasps as if he forgot how to breathe for a second.
"R-Raditz?" He wasn't kidding. This is definitely freaking Kakarot out.
Still hanging on to the what remains in his reasoning, Raditz growls while giving his brother a look that reads; "Stop worrying so much!" After that he looks back at the sky as his lungs release an enraged inhuman scream filled with nothing but anger.
That moment, Kakarot knew that Raditz is consciously gone.
He takes a step back in shock and horror as he hears the snarling and screams continue. He watches in disbelief as Raditz's body grows buffer than it already was. Then he grows. Black fur starts to cover his exposed skin, and what is hidden under the expanding armor. His tail whips around powerfully, enough to snap a tree in half. His ears grow large and pointed that can hear for miles. His nails grow into black claws that can tear flesh without any effort. His bearing teeth grow into powerful razor-sharp fangs, and Kakarot doesn't even want to think what the older Saiyan could do with those. His nose grows longer until it's a snout. His entire eyes is now glowing red, striking paralyzing fear into anyone who dares to look. He is unrecognizable. It's almost impossible to tell it's Raditz at this point now that he's in full fledged monster form! "No! This is unreal!" Not even words can support how he feels at the moment. It is real, no matter how he looks at it. He does add one thing he has to accept.
"So this is the gorilla monster my grandfather used to tell me about, only... I took this beast's place... It's hard to believe that I can do that..."
Now completely changed, Raditz roars loudly in the form of the Oozaru. Not even half a second passed and the first thing he does is slam his arm against a cliff, taking it down without even half trying. He opens his mouth and a lethal ki blast shoots powerfully from it, vaporizing anything that came into contact put and crumbling anything nearby. This is repeated several times.
Kakarot stays in his place, watching the destructive scene. Boulders are hurled here and there, more cliffs are taken down, craters are formed into the ground... He cannot imagine what would happen if he decided to betray his own race. They probably would've vaporized him! His ki is overwhelmingly strong. He never felt anything like it!
Raditz suddenly stops, now sniffing the air. A low growl is heard as he slowly turns around and spots the tiny figure watching him. Annoyed by this, he roars again and slams down his fist.
Kakarot jumps out the way in the nick of time. His monsterized brother tries again as he leaps into flight. He manages to dodge most of the attempted swats, but just barely. Just when things couldn't have gotten worse, Raditz unleashes another blast. He dives down, nearly facing death as the blast whizzes over his head, only taking off a centimeter of hair. It won't be noticeable thankfully, but still, for the young brother, he would've been done for! He flies away several feet to gain distress like he did when they spared before. Raditz is still in there somewhere. He knows it. "RADITZ! RADITZ!"
The only answer he gets is another blast.
"Woah!" He ducks and it whizzes over him again. He knows that it won't be long until he finally catches him. He tries to remember what he was told before this. Unfortunately at the moment, he can't!
He hears a distant roar from elsewhere. Unlike Raditz, it's not as deep but it's still frightening. Kakarot can feel it's energy too. It's Gohan- Karot actually. He too must've took the form of the Oozaru and, he's having his own tantrum problems down there. The situation is almost bleak. He doesn't know what to do-
Being raised on Earth has many disadvantages for him it seems.
"Dammit!" Kakarot curses at himself for panicking like a fool like this. It's clouding his judgment and thoughts. He'll have to put his fears aside if he wants to survive this rampage. After all, this is what a Human would do. "But the thing is... I'm not a helpless Human. I'm a Saiyan warrior!" He reminds himself. Thanks to that note, his fears are instantly wiped away and is replaced with the urge to fight Raditz head on! "Hey! Raditz!"
The Oozaru finds the annoying figure again. He only got a glimpse of him and he receives a painful punch on the forehead. He howls and tries to rub off the pain as Kakarot laughs. Now he's willing to kill this bug. He fires another blast but is surprised that the bug managed to pull off a blast of its own. The two attacks collide and explode. The dust blocks what he should see happening. He never saw the uppercut that he now receives. He falls down on his back and howls again. How dare he! He sees the bug floating down to him, looking into his eyes. He snarls.
So he doesn't recognize him. Not yet. Kakarot searches into his head to recall what he was told. It finally hits him. Now it's time to put that to the test. It took a moment to find it and, now he finds it natural to speak in the Saiyan language. "Hey! It's me! Kakarot!" It's a common thing for him to say to everyone but Kakarot replaces Goku in the sentence. "Raditz! Can you hear me?!"
Raditz narrows his eyes angrily.
"C'mon! Snap out of it! Do it for your little brother!"
The monster roars at his face, splattering spit everywhere, and on Kakarot.
"Well that's not nice! Sheesh! Whoever thought that you being this way would turn you into a wild brute! I can handle the pain but too much can do a number on me don't you think?! C'mon Raditz!"
Raditz growls while studying the Saiyan. It seems that he could be recognizing him. Things are going according to plan.
Then Kakarot gets a wet tongue, covering his body with saliva from head to toe.
"Ew! Gross!" Kakarot glares at him now. "Don't you even think about trying to eat me! You wouldn't want to eat your only brother would you?! Raditz!"
Oozaru Raditz's eyes seem to glow brighter for a short moment as he tilts his head to the side. He pushes himself up and scans his brother carefully.
"That's it! Fight it!" This might just work.
Raditz opens his mouth as if he is trying to speak. Suddenly, a blast slams on him, knocking him down. The angry Saiyan quickly gets to his feet and spots the one responsible.
Oozaru Karot!
Oozaru Raditz roars loudly and charges for the monsterized Saiyan kid. He tackles him down and pins him. Karot doesn't give up so easily. He sinks his fangs into Raditz's arm. He cries out in pain and picks him up and slams him hard against the ground, causing the earth to shake from the impact.
"No, no! This shouldn't be happening!" Kakarot didn't plan for his brother's transformation. He certainly never expected his own son to arrive and ambush Raditz like that either. This is too much for one day. He can't let his family kill each other! "Gohan! Enough!" He had to call him by his birth name. Karot doesn't know yet that his name has been changed to a more suitable Saiyan name.
No one complies. They toss each other around and bare their fangs. They roar at one another, challenging each other. They continue to fight but it's Karot who's already getting wounded. Raditz is unaffected thanks to his armor. It's fireworks. Not even 2 seconds would pass and another blast vaporizes something. If they keep this up, the Earth will be destroyed before the other Saiyans even get there! Kakarot doesn't want to do major harm on any of them. Watching the two fight is too much to bear. His body shakes, trying to fight off whatever emotion is taking over his body.
The ear piercing howl from his son makes the earth raised Saiyan snap.
Kakarot flew between the duo. "THAT'S ENOUGH!" He thrust one arm each for the Oozarus and a force knocks them down like bowling pins. He takes a deep breath, trying to calm down his boiling blood in his veins. His son wasn't happy about being knocked down so easily. He attempts to crush Kakarot with his own hands with a clap, but Kakarot kicks him on his lower jaw and he falls again. This time, he's unconscious. Kakarot had no intentions to resort to that, but it was all he could think of at the moment.
Oozaru Raditz tries to strike Kakarot down. Kakarot is smart this time. He ducks and avoids the attack and flies not too fast, but enough so that Raditz can chase him. He has to separate the two as far as possible so that they won't try to rip each other's heads off. When he felt that they were far enough, he picks up a giant boulder and drops it on his brother's tail. The Oozaru instantly collapses in the ground in agony. All he sees from his eyes is rage. "Man. When he finds out that I did this to him, he's gonna be pissed..." He runs his head, knowing that the next morning he'll expect some punches. He failed to bring his brother back to reason. That means more practice next month. He sits on top of the boulder and closes his eyes. He mediates instead of sleeping, just in case his brother somehow freed himself. The worst thing to happen is to die during sleep.
-The next day-
"KAKAROOOOT!"
The angry shout startles Kakarot out of his meditation. He forgot that he was sitting on a giant rock and fell 5 feet face first into the ground. He pulls his head out, gasping for air and spitting out dirt in disgust. Now who did that?
"KAKAROOOOT!"
"Oh no..." Now he remembers. He pinned Raditz down by the tail. He knew that he'll wake up like this. It's not like he had any other option.
"KAKAROT! YOU BETTER SHOW YOUR FACE OR YOUR DEAD! YOU HEAR ME?!"
Surprisingly, Kakarot finds his confidence to walk to his brother and speak to him in a calm tone. "You didn't have to shout you know. I knew that I had to do what you told me but I almost had it. Then came Karot and you two went crazy...ier. I almost had it, then I was left with no choice but to pin you down since you tried to kill me so many times. I'll try again next time! The first time isn't always the best!"
"...Humph. I'll give you credit for trying, but you still failed. I always wake up in the oddest places but THIS is ridiculous!" Raditz spits.
"Sorry..."
"Don't ask for my pity on you! Thanks to you, my tail is probably broken! Get me out of this!"
Kakarot quickly runs to his disabled-at-the-moment brother and lifts the rock high enough so that Raditz can escape. As soon as Raditz is free, he lets the boulder fall. He turns to face his brother but receives a hard punch on the head as usual. "Ow!" It'll take a while for him to get use to that.
"You should be grateful that my tail is fine. If it wasn't, things would've been worse for you." The Saiyan crosses his arms as he walks a few paces away from the area he suffered on. His tail drags on the ground. It then lifts and tries to go back to its belt-like fashion, but Raditz cringes from pain. The tail drops again. "Scratch that! It's not broken but it hurts like hell!"
"I said that I'm sorry! You and Karot double teamed on me!" Kakarot protests.
"Sorry is no excuse! I can't wait until your tail grows back so that you can feel the pain that I went through!"
Kakarot almost panics on the thought. He covers his tailbone with both hands. He knows that he has no tail at the moment but he's still not looking forward to the tail pulling. That is if he does somehow grows one back.
Raditz growls while glaring at his tail. It's out in the open now. Anyone could easily grab it and kill him if he were to be in battle. "But I won't do that until you get to experience your power under a full moon first. Consider yourself lucky. Your moon's phases are ridiculously fast to me."
"Really? You're telling me that the moon in Planet Vegeta takes a long time to become full?"
"Every 8 years."
"8 years?! What a bummer!" Kakarot now understand why his brother seemed to pleased when he told them about Earth's moon. Raditz hardly ever gets the chance to see a full moon.
"Alright. Talk time is over. We resume training now." He takes out a small container from his uniform with 10 green seeds inside.
"Cool! You brought a small snack with you?!"
"It's not edible you idiot!" Raditz snaps. "Look! These seed can grow into what we call Saibamen. We use these to train Saiyan children and to fight our foes. Prince Vegeta handed these to me to test you to see if you are Saiyan enough to kill these in hand-to-hand combat. I should reserve two for your son." With that note, he only takes out 8 from the container and tucks the container back in. "This plant's soil Is perfect for this." He pokes holes into the ground and plants the seed in. He then water them with a thick green liquid.
"Meant for children? Raditz, I'm in my 20's!" Kakarot says offended.
"I'm aware of that. But your time here on this miserable planet turned you soft. I want to see if you can do this without hesitation nor regret." The soil were the seeds were planet grows and bursts. 8 green plant-like creatures chuckle and snicker with mischief as they climb from their places. At the same time, Raditz checks his Scouter and his surprised with the readings. "Well, well. This soil really is perfect. These Saibamen are not meant for children here it seems. Their power levels are as high as mine!"
"What?!" Kakarot doesn't like the sound to that.
"Alright you 8. Your target is the Saiyan in front of you. Don't hold nothing back!" Raditz orders them. He smirks as they spring at him.
"Hey! You're not being fair! Are you trying to kill me?!"
"If you die then you're nothing close to a true Saiyan! Ignore whatever thoughts you have and let your blood boil! I know that you can do this brother, so show me your Saiyan side!"
That's easier said than done. Kakarot backs away slowly as the green things get closer to him.
A/N: Finally finish! Another end to an awesome chapter guys! It's a little short too, but I still need more ideas! This time, I need ones for Goku's and Gohan's training! Help me out and keep the comments going!
To be continued to Chapter 5!