The Saiyan Heritage and the Loneliness of the Warrior [Piccolo x OC]

Chapter 11

PICCOLO

I was standing on top of a large rock. My white cape fluttered in the warm evening breeze, and only the desert and stillness were my companions.

My blood then boiled in alert.

Someone was approaching from behind.

I turned around and... nothing.

A shadow covered me on the other side, emerging from behind the rock.

Gohan.

He jumped above my head, ready to strike me with a kick, but I grabbed his foot. However, he spun around and, with his other leg, hit me squarely under the chin.

I fell back with a thud. Gohan jumped again, ready to punch me in the face, but I rolled to the side and got to my feet. A tearing pain emerged from my stomach. He had given me a right hook punch, and I was left breathless.

I looked at him, and I got a cheeky little grin in response.

That nerdy...

I dashed forward to hit him in the side, but he disappeared, quickly, and reappeared behind me, ready to kick me head-on.

Not today!

I blocked his blow with my forearm and threw him to the ground. HA! Who was down now, boy?!

In the next second, I fell again due to the sweep kick he gave me.

Damn it!

Gohan flew above me, crossed his palms in front of his forehead, and shouted, "MASENKOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"

A yellow ray of light shot out from his hands.

I only had time to jump off the rock before it exploded into a thousand pieces. I landed awkwardly on the dry, stony ground, my chest rising and falling as I stared at Gohan still floating in the sky, now laughing in triumph.

Unintentionally, I smiled at him.

That was my biggest failure.

"TENKOCHI!" I heard someone else scream.

Lettie.

I turned around, and there she was, just a few meters away.

Lettie extended her arms in front of her body, opening her hands parallel to each other, and from her ten fingers, ten balls of energy shot out like homing missiles directly at me.

I tried to dodge, but Lettie was controlling the track of the energy balls. I managed to repel five of them, however, the other five hit me straight.

Silence.

There I was, fallen for the third time, my clothes ragged and the dust from the impact floating around me.

Then, I heard Lettie and Gohan celebrate, "WE DID IT!!!!!!!"