Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon Ball XG ❯ A Brief History ( Chapter 5 )

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“A Brief History”


"The Dragon Balls...??" Bra stared down at the glowing orange orbs in the velvet box, "But... how is this possible??"
"These aren't the original set," Dende picked up one and held it out. It was slightly larger than what the Dragonballs usually were. "This is a new set. I created these a year after the Arlian's attacks. After hearing Kanata's story, I figured that it's probably a good idea to have the Dragonballs around incase we need them again. And I say now is a good time."
"But.. what happens if we end up making even more Shadow Dragons, like the last balls?"
"If we're lucky, that won't happen," Dende explained, "I've delayed activating these balls all these years so I could perfect them. Guru was the one who taught me everything I know. His Dragonballs are absolutely flawless, and Porunga is nearly 10 times stronger than Shenron, able to grant more wishes and most importantly, the balls are purified after every wish, so the Namekian Dragonballs never have to worry about Shadow Dragons."
"That's what turned out to be the problem with Kami's Dragonballs," Mr. Popo picked up, "He never finished the proper lessons needed in order to create Dragonballs when he was sent away from Namek by his father. Before he became the new God of Earth, he tried creating his very first set, the Blackstar Dragonballs. Unfortunately, they were heavily flawed, such as flying across the galaxy instead of just the world, so he stored them away deep inside the palace. After the separation of his 'evil self', the Blackstar Dragonballs became inactive, and he created a new set, using the same dragon Shenron. This new set was a highly improved version of the old set and so he sent them to the Earth below. However, as improved as they were, because of his lack of training, he overlooked the most crucial element in making Dragonballs.... Purification! That's how the wishes corrupted the dragon. The kais, always watching over their respective galaxies, were aware of this, but they are prohibited from directly interfering with our affairs. I do recall the Elder Kai trying to warn Goku of this future incident, but we didn't take it to heart, unfortunately..."
"Unlike Kami, however," Dende continued, "I was trained by Guru. But I'm nowhere near as experienced as he was. So I took my time making sure the new Dragonballs were free of flaws, and won't cause us any kind of trouble." He handed another ball to Zurosu, who desperately wanted to hold one of them. "I also made them to be powerful than the last as well. As you can see, they're slightly bigger in size, and they're able to grant two wishes. Better yet, anyone who's died and wished back before can be wished back again, as long as it isn't a natural death. But they can only be wished back once, but I'd prefer nobody died at all."
Bra clapped her hands together, "Dende, that's great!" she squealed, "You're the best! Now we can stop Baby Jr. once and for all!"
Dende frowned at this and looked to the floor. "There... there's just one problem though."
Bra's smile faded. "What is it?"
"The Dragonballs are ready to go, but... I still don't have a dragon!"
Bra nearly fell over. "No dragon??" she cried, "How can you have Dragonballs, but NOT have a dragon?? Just use Shenron!!!"
"We've tried..." Mr. Popo spoke, "We tried using the very figure Kami created, but when we pulled it out, it had vanished.... Shenron must have vanished along with the Dragonballs. We even tried contacting him in the Dragon World, but we can't seem to locate him... It's as if he disappeared!"
"Oh.... well, can't you create a dragon of your own?" said Bra.
Dende sighed and shook his head. "At this rate, we don't have time to give birth to a new dragon." He snapped his head back up, "We have to activate the Dragonballs NOW if we're going to save the world from Baby Jr.!"
"But how, if we don't even have a dragon for them??"
"We're just going to have to summon one from the Dragon World."
"Summon??" cried Popo, "But Dende, it's too dangerous! We don't know what dragon we could receive, or if it could handle the power of your Dragonballs! We're not completely sure if these balls are without error. If there's even the slightest mistake, we could wind up corrupting, or maybe even killing, this dragon! He may even reject our wishes! That's why it's better advised to create your own dragon!"
"I know all that, Popo!" shouted Dende, "But what other choice do we have??"
Bra looked uneasily over to Mr. Popo, who looked equally worried, then back to Dende, who looked determined. When it came to Dragonballs, he did know these things better than she did. It was best to put her trust in him. She gave the nod, "Okay, let's do this!"
Dende smiled and nodded. He knelt down and placed the balls in a circle on the ground. He then turned to Zurosu and asked kindly for her to place the ball she was holding with the rest while Bra placed her ball on the ground as well. Once they were all together, Dende stood back up, held his palms over the balls, and closed his eyes in deep concentration. "Hear me, dragons of the Dragon World," he spoke softly as his antennae wavered, "I ask for your help. Come forth and preside over as God of the Dragonballs! Please heed my call!"
The others watched closely, hoping for some sort of answer. It was silent, and the Dragonballs remained dull. Dende scrunched his face into a harder state of concentration. "PLEASE! ANSWER MY CALL!! WE NEED A DRAGON!!!"
The Dragonballs suddenly began glowing. "Wooahhh!" Zurosu beamed, "Coool!"
"That's it!" cried Dende, "A dragon's responded! We have a dragon! The Dragonballs are now activated!"
The balls then gave a blinding flash as they shot into the air, and then separated into seven lights and blasted into seven different directions.

Baby Jr.'s formed grew slightly as he absorbed the two women from earlier that he managed to track down. He had feasted well, having eaten many other civilians who had tried running away in vain. "Heheheh," he chuckled, as he kicked aside the red heeled shoe that belonged to the curly brunette, whom kicked her shoes off to try and run faster. "If you don't want to be apart of my reign, then you will become apart of me!"
He loomed over a pearl necklace that he had ripped off the aqua-haired old woman to get a better bite of her neck. "You and that daughter-in-law may not be much, but I still humbly appreciate the slight increase, my mother. Eeeeheheheehee!"
He turned to find some more victims, when something in the sky caught his eye. He glanced up to see a white light streak across the sky above him. "What's that..?" he wondered. For some reason, it looked familiar... apparently the memories of not one, but ALL the warriors he absorbed have seen this image many times. Whatever it was, he wanted to know. He wanted to get to it and stop whatever feeling of hope these others were feeling. He shot into the sky and gave chase to the white light.

"Well, that's it!" said Dende, smiling broadly, "They're ready to go! All you need to do is collect them and summon whatever dragon we've got."
Bra smiled and raised her fist. "You can just leave that to me!"
"Please be careful," said Mr. Popo, "Summoning a dragon was dangerous in itself. Imagine what would happen is Baby Jr. got to them first?"
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot!" said Dende, "I even created a password for the dragon to accept the wisher, so no one who shouldn't use them could misuse them." He leaned over and whispered something in Bra's ear. Bra responded by cocking an eyebrow.
"What..?"
Dende sweated and laughed nervously, "Well, it's something nobody could ever guess!"
"Okay, whatever..." Bra handed Mizu to Mr. Popo. "Please look after her and my niece, okay?"
Mr. Popo nodded. "I shall protect them as if they were my own."
"Aunt Bra, where ya goin'?" Zurosu asked, pouting.
Bra knelt down to her eye-level. "Aunt Bra's going to go find the Dragonballs and save everybody, okay?" she smiled assuringly, but it didn't stop the five-year old from spilling tears. She wrapped her arms tightly around the child. "Don't worry, I'll come back. And I'll bring back Daddy, Mommy, Grandma, Grandpa, everyone. I need you to be strong for me, Zurosu. Okay?" The little girl let go and nodded, though the thought of losing her aunt along with losing the rest of her family still showed in her frightened eyes. Bra gave her a small kiss on the forehead and stood back up to face Dende.
"You know how you're going to pull this off?" the kami asked, "It isn’t safe to fly around if Baby Jr. can feel your ki."
"Yeah, you're right," Bra turned her head and thought, "Looks like I'm going to need a little bit of help. Don't you worry, though. I'm going to save everything. I promise!"
Dende smiled and nodded. "Good luck then!"
Bra raced off to the edge of the palace and leaped off, freefalling to the ground below as she forced herself towards a certain direction.

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A/N: Sorry if this chapter seemed a little boring. But what did you think on my take of the Dragon balls, as well as try to fill in that annoying little plot hole that GT dug up?

I know it seems that my chapters appear to get smaller and smaller with every update, but I think this seems like an appropriate place to stop for now. Things get a little stickier come next chapter. I’ll try to push it past at least 4 pages. XD I’m not very good with super long thrillers… L