Blown away
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Cui's legs trembled under him as he barely stood. His right hip showed a big gaping wound and his right forearm had been blown off. Blood dripped down his body. 'Why? I thought I had regained my complete strength! This shouldn't be happening! Wait a second.' Cui eyed the unconscious Dende lying on the ground. 'Maybe...the beans needed to be chewed up by that runt first for it's full effect to take place.'
"Alright!" exclaimed Yamcha. "Way to go, Gohan! "
Gohan smiled confidently at his handiwork. "Thanks. I got to admit, I didn't expect to damage him this much myself."
Krillin smirked as he looked at Cui. "Looks like your time's up, tough guy."
Cui growled as he ignited a ball of ki in his functioning hand before cauterizing his wounds with it. Veins bulged on his forehead. "Argh! I won't stand for this! I am sending you guys straight to hell for what you have done!"
Yamcha laughed out loud. "Oh come on. Don't flatter yourselves. Hahaha! "
Krillin joined in the laughter. "Yeah, right. Like you could do that in this state. I would be surprised if you even manage to go to the bathroom without help now! Hahaha! " Krillin sure liked that he wasn't on the receiving end of the jokes for once. Instead he had a genuine opportunity to ridicule his opponent today.
Cui's eyes turned pure white as his aura began to roar around him. With an ear-splitting scream he shot forwards a beam of energy from his entire form.
Immediately, our heroes' expressions had changed to one of alarm as they could see the humungous beam approaching them.
"Hyaaa!" Both Krillin and Yamcha roared as they shot forwards their own beams of energy against the attack.
Gohan too appeared beside them. "HAAA! " he yelled as he fired his masenko forwards.
TUTUTUTUUUUU
A loud sound erupted as the three beams of energy collided with Cui's oncoming beam. A bright white light filled the entire area.
Cui continued to scream as he poured whole of his energy and some more into the attack.
Yamcha had his teeth gritted and one eye shut as he poured all of it into his attack. "Guys!" he yelled. "Don't hold anything back! "
Veins bulged on Krillin's head as he poured his energy forwards.
Gohan growled as he pushed forwards with full force.
Frieza's ship...
Zarbon eyed his scouter with interest as he could sense some raging power-levels halfway around the planet. "Hmmm. I wonder who could they be.."
Appule a soldier who stood beside him also eyed his scouter with shock. "Yes. I too am puzzled. With Cui and Vegeta dead and you two on here in the ship, I wonder who could be there putting out so much power."
"Yes," said Zarbon. "It's interesting." Zarbon furrowed his brows as he remembered the two humans who had been trying to run away with Yajirobe. 'It couldn't be them, could it?'
Yajirobe stood suspended in the healing tank even as the monitors beeped around him. The EEG reading was going haywire.
"Yes," said Dodoria, grinning. 'I am there in his nightmares.. '
Bubbles rose from Yajirobe's facemask as his brows furrowed.
Krillin and Yamcha had broken into the room, looking furious.
"Hey!" Yamcha yelled. "You give Yajirobe to us or else.. "
"Or else, what?" Dodoria asked, grinning.
The duo just stood their without replying, fury dripping from their faces.
"Haaaa... " Krillin charged forwards with a punch but Dodoria caught it effortlessly. "Let go," Krillin wailed but Dodoria didn't budge. With a sickening crunch Dodoria proceeded to crush Krillin's fist in his hand.
"Owwww! " Krillin howled in agony as his hand was reduced to a gorey and bloody mess. Dodoria then pulled back his fist and buried it in Krillin's face, causing it to cave in. Krillin was dropped to the ground dead, his face unrecognizable.
"No!" yelled Yamcha. "You monster! " With a yell, Yamcha shot forwards with a kick but it was caught efortlessly by Dodoria. Dodoria then grabbed Yamcha's other leg as well and proceeded to zip open his two legs, tearing his body into two pieces in the process. The two parts of Yamcha's dead body were dropped to the ground.
Dodoria then turned towards him. Blood dripped from his arms. He brought forth a red hot iron rod from nowhere and walked to him with a devious grin. "Nobody's saving you from me, no one. Hahahaha! "
Yajirobe's brows twitched as his form trembled in the healing pod.
Gohan growled as he put all of his strength into his beam attack.
"Come on guys," said Yamcha as he strained with his whole might. "Just a little bit longer. "
Krillin gritted his teeth as veins bulged on his forehead from the effort.
Cui's shriek grew louder by the second as his attack was slowly pushed back.
"HYAAAAA! " All three of our heroes screamed in unison. Their auras grew even more furious around them as they poured the last of their reserves into the attack.
Cui's shriek continued to grow louder as the beams inched closer to him. "HOUWWWW! " A howl of agony was let out by him as he was engulfed completely by his own attack along with the three attacks of his adversaries.
Yamcha, Krillin, and Gohan finally let go as they watched their three energy beams along with Cui's sail away in the distance.
Sure enough Cui had been vaporized. His energy signal had vanished completely, gone for good.
"Hah hah hah.. "
Slowly the three descended to the ground near to Dende.
"Dende," said Gohan, shaking him. "Say something. " Gohan observed the boy's chest carefully. "He's still breathing, you guys.. "
"That's ... that's...great news, " said Yamcha, panting. "Let's get him some first aid and arrange some fluids for him."
Krillin nodded, panting.
Nail stood waiting at Guru's place, worry evident on his face. "Master," he said. "It's been so many hours. Dende should have been back by now. "
"I know," said Guru. "I fear the worse for him, Nail."
"What? Oh no.. " Nail's eyes turned wide as he heard Guru's statement.
The group of Namekian kids gasped in shock as they all gathered around their catch.
One of them tried to move the alien awake but to no use.
"Let's get him healed," one of them said. "We ought to save him."
"Right," the others replied.
The boys lifted the alien up with his each limb resting on their shoulders and marched towards a nearby house.
Vegeta could feel somebody carry him but he couldn't resist, he didn't have the strength to speak or to open his eyes even. Slowly, he drifted out of consciousness again.
Nail yelled angrily, his fists clenched together. "No! This can't be happening!"
"Calm down, Nail," said Guru. "There's nothing we can do about it."
"NO!" Nail yelled again. Anger and frustration evident from his face.
Guru sighed. "I know what you want, Nail. Go ahead."
Nail looked at Guru. Was he really allowing this? Was he really allowing him to break his oath of being at his side always to protect him?
Guru just sat there silently, waiting for Nail's response.
Sure enough Nail stepped outside. He looked into the horizon. 'Somewhere out there strong foes are waiting for me...and hopefully Dende is out there too,' he thought before he grit his teeth. Nail shot a look back at Guru's place.
"Huh?" Guru seemed startled as he could see Nail coming back.
"Sorry, Guru. I can never leave your side," Nail said. "Frieza and his henchmen are on the planet, searching for us. I could never forgive myself if they managed to get to you."
"Are you sure about that?" Guru asked, apparently surprised. "Even if it means that your younger brother gets killed?"
"Yes," Nail replied with cold eyes. "Even if it means he dies, I can still never leave you."
Guru sighed. He was expecting this. There was no use persuading him, he won't budge on his commitment. Guru knew that.
A makeshift bed had been created for Dende by our heroes. Krillin dressed his burn wounds while Gohan had come up with a hollow tube from somewhere, most likely the stem of a small plant, eaten from inside.
Our heroes had prepared a stove and several wooden utensils as well.
Gohan boiled the tube to sterilize it of any microbes before putting it into Dende's mouth all the way to his stomach.
They were going to administer fluids to him through this.
Yamcha meanwhile was busy collecting and chopping logs, preparing to build a house between the wide crevices of the huge boulder they were near to.
Master Roshi and Korin were at Khami's again, together watching a soccer game.
"Hahaha!" Roshi yelled in delight. "Kidneypool's won! "
Korin looked furious. "Shut up!" he said with tears in his eyes.
Khami shook his head. "It's a shame really, you guys. Wasting so much time, watching sports, it's terrible."
Korin looked at Khami with a grin. "You've been saying that to us for the last one hour, all the while watching it yourselves!"
"Hmm." Khami proceeded to fire eyelasers at the screen, destroying it.
"What?!" Roshi exclaimed.
Khami smirked. "I know you both. Football's just an excuse. All you guys want to see are the sleazy advertisements. Isn't it?"
Roshi's jaw dropped.
"Well I won't allow sinful activities like that on my place," said Khami.
Roshi grit his teeth. 'Damn. How would he know about that?' The old man let out a sigh. 'I really got to change my habits. It's too humiliating.'
Korin looked at Roshi with a smirk. "Well I know just the treatment this old-timer needs." Korin took out a sachet and gave it to Roshi. "Two tablets each in the morning and evening. "
"Hmm.. " Roshi eyed the sachet with interest. "Flutamide.. " He read out loud. "Well, let's see.. " Roshi proceeded to take out his cell-phone and began to Google it.
Immediately Korin had started to sweat.
Roshi raised an eye brow as he began to read out loud the information on his screen. "Anti-androgen.. Side effects: gyne...co..mastia...? " Roshi stared at Korin with looks that could kill. "Rah!" He exclaimed angrily throwing the sachet back at Korin with his full might.
Korin was hit flush on the face and fell over.
"Hahaha! " Khami laughed out loud.
Goku was shook awake by his wife but to no avail. When seeing he wasn't responding she went and used the water bottle to wet her hands and then sprinkled some water on his face.
"Come on. Wake up, Goku," she said. "It's time for the morning prayer."
Sure enough, Goku sat up, stretching his arms and with groggy eyes.
Goku walked out of the house lazily where he could see Tien and Ox-king waiting for him
"Don't forget to shut the door, Goku!" Chichi yelled from inside the house as she made preparations for prayer herself.
Goku complied, shutting the door behind him.
"Let's go," said, Tien.
The three walked for about two miles. As they neared the prayer building, they could hear the sound of prayer coming outside.
"Great," said Tien, exasperated. "We are late once again."
The three quickened their pace in a bid to join the prayer before it got over.
About half an hour later the three walked out. They were greeted by several people who had come to pray from different directions in the vicinity. They returned the greetings as well as they walked out.
One of them insisted them to come to his home for tea but Goku politely refused since he knew Chichi would be waiting for them.
"Ahh," said Ox king, breathing in fresh air. "Isn't having a walk after the morning prayer the best thing to start your day with?"
"It sure is," replied Goku, beaming.
Tien walked with them silently. His mind was preoccupied by the upcoming journey. And with each passing hour he was growing more and more uneasy about it. It wasn't that he was scared, it was just his personality. He always was a bit on edge. It made him all the more prepared and alert and so, he thought, it was a good thing to be like that.
Goku, meanwhile, quite the opposite, always looked so laid-back and relaxed about everything around him. It even irritated Tien at times, but on the other hand, it reflected the immense confidence Goku had on his abilities as a fighter as well as his faith in the Almighty which made him optimistic about everything.
Mr Popo finished another newspaper as he waited for his spaceship to reach its destination.
"Ah, man," he said. "This is so boring."
Dende's bed was shifted inside the newly made house now, hidden between the crevices of the huge boulder.
But despite our heroes' best efforts, he still lay there unconscious.
To be continued...
And so Cui has been defeated by our heroes but at what cost? Their only hope to get stronger is down for the count. Can Goku and Tien make it in time to help out? Or will Yajirobe succumb to his injuries before any help reaches him?
Find out, next time on DBZ: ONE!
Author's note: The review count has stagnated. And I want it to reach atleast fifty before the new chapter. It's a matter of give and take, isn't it? So I will be waiting for the reviews and will post a chapter only after that. Until then, see you, next time.