" Dragonball R "
"The Blood Saga "

Written By: Gouki

Disclaimer: I don't own the DBZ cast.

Dragonball R
The Blood saga


Episode 4 - Raging body of fire! Vegita’s on guard now!

It was now dark. Probably around midnight. Vegita didn’t know. Neither did Goten. Time seemed to escape them while they were protecting the Dragonball. Not much had been said between the since they left Kami's tower to guard the three star Dragonball. The silence, although not awkward for Vegita, was awkward for Goten. He didn’t really know how to act around and Vegita, what to say, what to do, so he just did and said nothing.
Surprisingly Vegita was the one to break the silence. “What… do you do exactly?”
“Huh? What do you mean?”
“Well, how do you live? You don’t seem to be a businessman.”
Goten looked up at the night sky. Thunder clapped in the sky, a flash of lightning followed it shortly after. “Look’s like rain… anyway, I’m a fighter. That’s what I live for… I win most things I enter in, and make a pretty decent living… But of course, I could’ve gone into business. Trunks offered me twenty-five percent of Capsule Corp. I bet you didn’t know that, did you? He hate’s that job… he’d quit straight away if he could… But I didn’t think business was for me…”
“I figured as much… I thought Trunks hated it…” The silence slowly returned, as a few drops of rain pattered against the ground. A few more drops hit the ground, followed by some more. The rain wasn’t yet heavy enough to cause any real problems. So Vegita tried to start another conversation. “Anybody special in your life? A girlfriend? A wife?”
“Oh, I wish… You’d be surprised how many people don’t stick around after they find out you’re a fighter. But there’s this one girl… he name’s-No forget about it… it’s better if I don’t tell anyone…”
The rain was getting heavier now, and the lightning more frequent. Vegita stood up and faced the cave. A huge clap of thunder rumbled across the sky. The Dragonball glistened, even in the darkness it still had an orange glow.
Vegita sighed as he began to float. “Come on, the rain’s getting harder… we’ll get something to eat.” Goten jumped up hearing the chance to eat, he followed Vegita into the cave.
A holographic map flickered on a man’s palm. The rain was interfering with the frequency and clarity of the image.
“Damn it… I can still make it out though… thirty meters north-west… that’s close.” He turned off the map. I hope you’ve got one Azaelya… together we may be able to stop him… He pulled a com-link up to his mouth. “If I need help, you’ll pick up my signal… do not come until I request help!”
A reply came through the com-link. “Yes sir. We will be positioned in squadrons of three. Over commander Tetsujin.” Tetsujin turned the com-link off and returned to his storage area. The fool’s won t know what hit them… my abilities will overpower them, and even then I have back up… soon Azaelya and I will have the seven Dragonball’s… we will rule all… and she will learn the truth! Tetsujin heard an animal scurry along the ground looking for food. The animal stared up at him; its large black eyes shimmered in the moonlight. It’s moist nose twitched, and it began to climb Tetsujin’s leg. His eyes narrowed as he scowled. Lifting his hand he disintegrated the animal, after brushing himself off he began using Hikou and flew off.
Vegita was staring at the rain, which was still growing heavier, sipping some sake. “Goten? What, do you… think… of your… father?”
“What? What kind of a question is that? If you’re just going to use this conversation as a chance to find a weakness in him and get stronger than him then forget it!” Goten went back to eating his meso soup.
“No it isn’t, I just want… to know… if you’ll die I’ll be able to tell him you what you thought of him.”
Goten looked up at the roof of the cave. “I think… He’s a… I mean, I guess… Well he’s… a great guy… he really cares about us…” Goten’s hesitation to answer struck a chord in Vegita. But he decided not to press on. The truth is, Vegita, I don’t really know what I think of him…
Vegita walked to the opening of the cave, he looked at the Dragonball. It’s amazing how these things can cause so much trouble… He thought while looking into the rain. Why can’t anyone just come to Earth for a holiday? Why do they all want these things? We beat them everyone who wants them… But this time might be different… it’s not that we’re weaker… but… He looked at Goten for a moment, then flew out into the rain.
“What are you doing Vegita?” Goten asked, confused by his actions.
“I’m keeping watch. Go to sle-” An elbow flew into Vegita’s back. The impact threw him forward about one meter. The arm that was used to elbow Vegita, the right arm, ten grabbed his leg! He was tossed into the side of a mountain like he was nothing. Vegita blinked a few times while it all sank in. The pain in his back was immense, it took a lot of concentration to block even just half of it out, the more he blocked out the more intense it b became.
Tetsujin stood in mid-air above Vegita, smirking, waiting for him to attack. Vegita gritted his teeth as an aura surrounded him. “You piece of shit! You may have caught me off guard before but I don’t even have to become a Super Saiya-jin to beat you. Watch.” A forced grin appeared on Vegita’s face, he was able to hold it convincingly, and was ready to attack. Tetsujin uncrossed his arms, allowing them to fall to his sides. Vegita rose from where he had been laying, and prepared to charge.
Vegita never even had a chance to get to Tetsujin as a yellow aura rammed into him from behind, stunning him. As soon as he turned around he was hit by a barrage of punches and kicks to the chest. Each of them a direct hit, but he didn’t even seem to be getting hurt! Goten was on fire, his aura was growing with each hit, and he wasn’t prepared to give up. He spun around in an attempt to give Tetsujin a kick to the head, but this was all Tetsujin needed. As soon as his leg came near Tetsujin he grabbed it, using this to his advantage, it was followed by a knee moving at 60mph into Goten’s groin. Goten’s eyes went wide with pain, his mouth shot open to scream but all that came out was blood.
“Stupid boy, why’d he have to go do that? Now I have to get my hands dirty for him…” Vegita muttered to himself, as he flew towards the two at a large speed.
Goten was trying to get his breath back, but kept on choking on his blood, Tetsujin was delighting in this and showed it by continually kneeing him in the gut.
“I’m ready to fight now. How about you?” Tetsujin let go of Goten’s leg, allowing him to spit out the blood and catch his breath, Goten smiled at Vegita as if to say ‘thank you’, Vegita merely scowled and set his sights on Tetsujin.
Tetsujin help up one finger at Vegita. “One minute. Then we will fight, I have to show you something hat might make you regret your eagerness…” Tetsujin’s chest began pulsate, slowly the individual flaps of armor separated, revealing six bright red section’s. They glowed, and shone brightly in the moonlight, they began to get brighter and brighter, energy enveloped his chest, his arms flew outwards, and a twisted smile grew on his face. “Orochi Shine!” Energy flew towards Goten, twisting and turning as if it were a serpent, as soon as it hit him it seemed to feed on him, as more and more energy seared into his body. Slowly less and less energy came off his chest before it stopped completely, allowing Goten’s severely wounded body. Vegita was shocked, he couldn’t even move. Blood dripped down Goten’s face and chest onto other parts of his body or off of him completely. Smoke was rising up from it, his chi was growing weaker and weaker, and without help he would die soon.
“Bastard… Amazing… God Dammit… I’ll have to be careful it only takes a minute to charge up… What does it matter? I’ll win anyway… Only Kakarotto can stand up to me and live to tell about it now!” Vegita instantly powered up to Super Saiya-jin level 2. Electricity streaked through his hair and around his body, as his hair became more rigid than ever.
The energy from Vegita’s aura grew still, it showed no sign of stopping. Vejita was not going to let this fight end so quickly. “You fool!” Vejita cried thrusting his hand outwards at a frightening speed. The mere force threw Tetsujin back, as several large gashes opened in his body. “So you bleed? Jinzoningen! You don’t yet bleed enough!”
“Only two people have ever been able to draw my blood before. Azaelya and Zarak… how? My blood flows in the center of my arm… the armoring of my arm is so thick… Hmm… So it’s the Saiya-jin…” Vejita’s leg flew into the side of Tetsujin’s head sending him spinning. Fumbling he withdrew a com-link.
“Attack! Now!” He screamed into it, within seconds twelve soldiers appeared from various directions. “Vejita, you have now begun the inevitable. I will get that Dragonball and I will get your skull!”
“Now what would you possibly want with my skull? Besides I’ve grown attached to it!” A fist flew into Tetsujin’s abdomen, but it didn’t come out, it stayed in there. Vejita raised his left hand up to Tetsujin’s face. “I don’t plan on killing you yet… I’ll deal with your puppets first!” A weak chi blast to the face knocked Tetsujin to the ground.
When he landed he writhed around on the ground; blood had stained his armor and his body. The twelve soldiers had begun to surround Vejita.
“Pathetic… I know where I’ve felt a chi your size before… Furiza… In his final form… Compared to me, that is pathetic…” Vejita began a Renzoku Kikou-ha. Chi ball’s flowed from his hand in a seemingly endless stream, all at one soldier. His charred body fell to the ground. An elbow found it’s way into another’s face, causing him to stumble back in pain. Vejita then delivered a kick to his chest and a strike to the neck.
The captain of the squadron was not enjoying this at all. “What are you waiting for?! Everyone attack!” He screamed throwing himself at Vejita.
A steady onslaught of kicks came from the captain as the other’s slowly joined in the battle. Vejita managed to dodge most of them, but one to the face caught him off guard. His head fell backwards, as another soldier administered a punch to his face, and another a kick to his ribs. It’s now or never… The fool’s will have no idea… Vejita thought as he was getting beaten. An cry went up from Vejita as energy was shot off everywhere. All the soldiers were knocked backwards, some to the ground, as Vejita returned to an upright position. His right arm shot out perfectly straight, except for his hand which was raised at a 90-degree angel.
“Big Bang Attack!” A large ball of energy flew towards a group of five or six soldiers, they didn’t even attempt to stop it. They knew they couldn’t. The explosion engulfed all six of them, but thanks to the rain, and the wind which was now raging, the smoke didn’t take long to clear. Whether they were alive or not, Vejita didn’t care. Seven were down, five to go.
Vejita hadn’t noticed but Tetsujin had left the ground and now had in his possession the Dragonball. He was throwing it up catching it casually, a foolish thing to do, but he knew he had to flaunt that he had it.
Vejita was walking along the ground finishing the remaining five soldiers individually now. He snapped one neck, incinerated two of them, one with each hand, impaled the fourth one on his arm and left the final one to cower in fear.
“Why are you throwing your life away like a puppet?” He didn’t answer. Vejita’s eye’s narrowed. “Why?” The glare from Vejita was too much for the soldier to take.
“I’m fighting for what I believe in.”
“How so? You don’t even choose what to fight for…”
“I get rewarded when I do a good job…”
“So you’re in it for the money? Sad… What are you fighting for? Why are you on earth?”
“We’re here because we were ordered to be… We looking for the De-” He was cut off when a thin stream of energy pierced his heart. He slumped forward and fell silent. I thought they were looking for Dragonball’s… I clearly heard a ‘De’ sound before he was killed…
“Vejita, h was an idiot… ignore what he said… we are here for he Dragonball’s… nothing more…” Tetsujin’s face seemed uneasy, as if he was worried about something. What was that soldier talking about? I wonder if Vejita noticed the ‘de’… “Vejita, how did you know I was a Jinzoningen?”
“Your chi… you have none… and you were able to open parts of your chest…” Tetsujin was satisfied with this and threw the Dragonball up once more. He went to catch it, but a hand shot out before he could, ripping it out of his reach.
“Thanks… I need this…” Goten said. “Don’t look so shocked! Dad gave me two senzu! One for you one for me!”
Vejita was impressed by Goten’s actions. His smirk, though, slowly disappeared as a hand grabbed Goten’s face. Vejita could sense the chi that was readily able to blast a hole through his back.
“Tetsujin! Zarak has requested that you return to base! Now!” Tetsujin didn’t argue and left immediately. In an instant after he had left, the hand that had been in Goten’s back shot into his neck, rendering him unconscious. The Dragonball dropped to the ground, but Vejita dared not pick it up for she could still snap Goten’s neck without any trouble.
Slowly a hand came out of the shadows and grabbed the Dragonball, it was followed by the rest of his body. “Ojouhsib… will this thing do? He seems a poor specimen for a Saiya-jin…”
“Nenouhsib… He has great potential… Zarak can find something to genes… after all… he’s done it before…” She smiled at Vejita, before vanishing, along with her lover Nenouhsib.
“It’s gone… they have the Dragonball… They only need six more…” Vejita noticed the rain had begun to stop, and continued to stand where he was, deep in thought…
Meanwhile on Zarak’s ship, Azaelya was in her room, the Black Dragonball was laying on her bed, and she was slumped against the wall breathing heavily. She looked at her hands they were twitching involuntarily. She fell to her knees as the rest of her body began twitching and shuddering involuntarily. The pain was mind numbing, she forced herself to her feet, sweating and panting. The pain seemed to have subsided, as she walked over ton her bed. She picked up the Dragonball and it began again, she threw it against the wall, as she fell on her bed writhing around in pain. She clutched her right breast, it felt as if she’d been stabbed. A black aura began to surround her, as her eyes turned an ashen red. She threw her arms around wildly looking for something, anything, which could end this pain. She found a knife, one her father had given her, she grabbed it, sweat dripping down her palms, tears welling in her eyes, and raised it to her chest, ready to end her life.
Suddenly it stopped. She dropped the knife, it had stopped for good this time, but she continued to lay on her bed. “Is this because of my heritage…?”

Hiya! This is Gokou! Vejita has lost his Dragonball to Zarak’s men, but that’s not all! He’s also lost my son, Goten! Why do they need two sets of Dragonball’s?
Why don’t you ask them Kakarotto? Maybe they’ll give your son back if you ask really nice… What we need to find it is what is Azaelya’s heritage? And why did it cause her to have that fit.
Either way, Vejita, you’ll have to catch the next Dragonball R: The folly of the Z-soldiers! Return to Kami’s Palace!

 

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