Dragon Ball Z: Paradise Found

God And Devil Alike

Both Frieza and Piccolo vanished at the same time. A chain of blast waves littered the environment. Dancing around one another, the two fighters only became apparent once they collided and slowed down at last. The sparks of lightning flying off of both combatants lit up and slashed through the gloomy evening sky while the bursting shock waves toppled down one ancient pillar after another. Overcome by the pressure, a temple building blew its roof off with a pressurized airwave that released all the pent-up tension in the atmosphere.

Piccolo and Frieza popped in and out of vision, one landing a blow over the other. However, whereas Frieza looked positively amused by the battle, Piccolo looked far more serious. Whenever Piccolo's elongated hand gained the distance advantage and slammed into Frieza's face, it barely registered a scratch, but every blow Piccolo skipped left the Super Namekian with a bloody scrape or a dirty tear.

The ceaseless collision turned more and more brutal as the warriors started smashing each other through environmental obstacles with Frieza driving Piccolo's face through stone pillars and slamming him through the temple sections still intact while Piccolo swung Frieza about caught by the tyrant's tail, slamming him about until Frieza wrestled away and the usual explosive standoff continued.

After an explosive nova of power split both combatants apart, both Frieza and Piccolo struggled against the forces of inertia to dash right back at their opponent with Frieza getting to it first. His dashing fist dug into Piccolo's jaw, knocking the sense of life out of him for a snap there and extending the Super Namekian's neck to unruly lengths. Emphasizing on his advantage, Frieza devastated Piccolo with a combination of wild strikes and kicks with little thought or planning behind them–just a pouty space baby throwing a tantrum and showing the nasty insect underneath his boot how gifted nature made him.

Frieza finished his combination of strikes, exploiting the opening with a power left. The tyrant cradled himself while rampant, pink aura flowed freely and sent the surrounding temple site into a cataclysm of earthquakes and shifting ground. Lightning crackled from stormy skies above while Frieza straightened his back out and raised his right arm with a psycho smile of his black lips. The devastating aura around Frieza concentrated all around the fist he had raised up, and thus the cruel emperor extended his clutched fist into an open palm and raised it over his head.

A booming explosive wave of purple and black oozed out from underneath the central temple wing, leaving nothing of note out of the building but a massive, abyssal crater from where the Death Storm came. Piccolo clutched himself, realizing that the impending attack was too massive and overwhelming to dodge at the late point he recovered from, and thus the wave of absolute power swallowed him whole. The grunts of the Super Namekian spread through the area, making Frieza lick his lips in amusement as he observed scraped and now cape-less Piccolo float over him, panting in pain while smoke lingered off of his heated and stressed body.

"What's the matter? You had all that spirit earlier. You even had the absolute arrogance to look down on me! I'll have you know that in this form my personality is a lot less elegant and negotiating than before. I fully intend on making you swallow every word that left your filthy, slug mouth!" Frieza lowered his guard and looked up to Piccolo, enjoying the moment of advantage that he had over his opponent while Piccolo finally mustered up the stamina to breathe out and calm the flow of his Ki.

"Humph..." Piccolo grumbled as he rolled his wrists around in training, taking off his tattered turban and tossing it aside. "You did power up. The way you are now, you'd probably cause Son and Chayote a heap of problems. I suppose I'll have to take this matter seriously."

"What's that? Are you saying you weren't fighting with full power until now? You're bluffing. Big fat good this lie will give you. It'll just make me more irritated and prolong your inevitable death, Namekian!" Frieza hunched over and threw his clenched fists to the side, unfurling his wild power as a booming aura of Ki.