EPILOGUE: AN OLD THREAT EMERGES

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Salza's pod crash lands on a deserted planet with no sign of life anywhere. Only darkness and an endless storm rages on the surface and he crawls with whatever strength he has and manages to stand. Salza wanders for several minutes and finds himself near an old castle structure. Heavy on his breath, he clings to dear life after having been bested in his fight against Frieza and Gohan.

"One day they'll get what'll come to them" he swears to himself, "if I have to build my own army then so be it."

"A bold statement from a dying man, wouldn't you think?" a voice responds.

Salza quickly creates a ki blade, ready to strike and realizes there's nothing around him. He's on edge as he looms towards the castle where complete utter darkness shrouds the inside.

"Show your self!"

"Someone's angsty."

Salza extends his blade and uses as a light entering the castle. He wanders around to see skeletal remains of humanoids in fur garbs before passing one in armor similar to the Frieza Force. It's disturbing to see as it's noticed these remains have been collecting dust for decades. He examines one of them.

"This armor dates back even before King Cold."

"That's because we've been around long before we worked for him."

"When will you show your face!"

"My, someones eager. If you insist."

Footsteps are heard coming closer to Salza and he is in defense as a shadow appears from the darkness, revealing himself to be a bald male humanoid. Salza is left surprised.

"How's it possible? Another saiyan?"

Suddenly, another footstep can be heard and another saiyan covered in fur garbs appear and then another and another till Salza is surrounded by seven of them. They're all either covered in fur garbs or armor as they only grin in place.

"You see surprised. But, then again, the others who'd arrive had the same expression as you do now" the voice says.

"Others?" Salza asks.

"The ones who answer our distress signal. It's been so long since our last visit."

"I'm not here visiting."

"I know, but I who said you was leaving either."

Another pair of footsteps can be heard and the saiyans step aside allowing a person to join them from within the shadows and Salza is shocked to see the resemblance the person has to someone else.

"You?!"

"Hmmm?"

Salza prepares to attack and the saiyans hold him down on his knees.

"Sorry, if you're mistaking me for someone else. This isn't personal, it's just my friends here have been waiting for so long to feed."

The saiyans stare at Salza with hunger in their eyes and desire to feast and it's starting to scare Salza who has no idea what to do and he can't break free.

"Eat your fill. We have waited long enough. Use his pod to send another signal."

The saiyans been to sniff Salza as one of them, a female saiyan, breathes in close to Salza's face slowly draining ki from him. Then, another saiyan takes his fill and drains energy and soon all seven start draining energy from Salza slowly eating away at his life force, causing his body to wither away. The one saiyan stands watching as the others feed, bouncing a large prickly fruit in his handed takes a bite from it, causing a flow of energy into his muscle. His skin is dark in tone and he looks a lot like Goku. Meet Turles. 

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Writer's Fun Fact:

Well that's a wrap on Dragonball Super: Cooler's Wrath. I hope you enjoyed reading it and I appreciate everyone who took the time to. I know some choices may or may not work for some but I hope it was an enjoy read none the less. As you see here I wrapped up the loose end of where Salza ended up and it's not the I will be back kind of deal for him. I also introduce a new threat in the form of Turles. Since the development of this fan fiction I was always thinking of the next threat the Z-Fighters should face and why not another non-canon character that could become canon in this way. I'm still debating, but if I choose to write a sequel arc to this fan fiction the story's villain is set. It may take time for I'm still figuring out a worthy story to write with this but I do vision the story being smaller in scale compared to Cooler's Wrath and might include some horror elements as you can see here with Turles's followers are feasting on Salza's ki and life energy to survive (similar to Moro in a sense). Tarble in the previous chapter I wanted to hint at a new transformation that only he has been able to tap into himself, but maybe I'll explore it sometime. Not sure yet. Until next time, thank you for following my fan fiction and hey the more reads maybe Toriyama and Toyotaro can take this as an inspiration on how to bring Cooler canon. A writer can only dream. 

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