10 Extinction (2/2)

”Yes I'm fine, my lord. Was in a hurry to see the hyper moons and wasn't paying attention.” she said.

”The hyper what?” I was truly curious.

”Ah! I study astrology.” she began, ”While I was studying this new environment I learned that every two thousand years a secondary moon comes into view of the planet and the primary moon will appear to be huge. And tonight is one of those nights.” she was exited.

I walked out of the party quickly keeping my head down. Something was wrong I didn't feel right. My skin felt like it was on fire. My joints were aching and my muscles felt like they were swelling. I hadn't even looked up at the hyper moons and I felt the transformation happening. Except this was different it felt more sever. I could already tell if I transformed I would lose my mind and go on a rampage. This wasn't normal my Ki was rising at a hazardous pace.

I dropped to my knees right outside of the banquet area. Ki was flowing out of my body like stream. My skin was cracking apart.

”Raditz!” Bluma shouted an ran over. She saw me fall from were she was sitting. She put a Panacea bean in my mouth. My body completely healed after chewing the bean, but started breaking down again.

In a panic I did the only thing I could think of. I formed a blade of Ki and severed my own tail. The transformation ceased for a moment before my tail grew back. I thought about trying to destroy the moons next but they were too close to the planet.

”GET BACK!” I shouted. I could only clutch my head in pain and scream as balls of energy flew from my body.

”AHHH!” one of the energy balls happened to hit my ship reducing it to scrap. Fighting through the pain I flew off to an isolated location. My eyes began to turn red taking on the great ape appearance. My size had also started to painfully increase by the time I located a massive waterfall deep in a jungle.I ate another Panacea bean and sat under the waterfall to cool my burning skin.

As I meditated to suppress my power I knew instinctively if I transformed I was dead and if I couldn't get control of my Ki I was equally dead. I didn't know if it was even possible but I fought with everything I had to keep the transformation at bay.

I couldn't let those moons defeat me.

I wasn't the old Raditz.

I wasn't a through away character that would be forgotten.

I was going to be remembered.

An aura of the great ape appeared around me as I hovered cross legged under the current of the waterfall. As I meditated the aura slowly flowed into my body.

”Blegh!” I coughed out a mouthful of blood.

For two weeks day or night the hyper moons stayed visible in the sky of New Gren'dir. I opened my eyes once I could feel everything was over. I looked up and saw those cursed moons were no longer in the sky. I floated to the ground and immediately collapsed into the best sleep of my life. When I made it back to the city I was emaciated from the whole ordeal. I never wanted to go through anything like that ever again.

Once it was over I did realize that something had changed within me. Some fundamental part of my core was very different. It was going to take some time to really understand what happened, but at least there won't be another hyper moon event for another two thousand years.

I found Bulma near the center of the city in her personal workshop. When I walked in she ran up and gave me a tight hug.

”You had me worried, but I knew you'd pull through.” she said.

”I'm happy somebody knew.” I joked.

”What happened, Raditz?” she asked.

”Those hyper moons really messed me up.” I informed her. ”They were making my Ki completely unstable.”

”By the way we are going to be here for awhile. You blew up our ship.” she said puffing her cheeks.

”I hoped that was a hallucination.” I said rubbing my forehead.

”Don't worry Big Gete and I have already been working on building a replacement.” she crossed her arms in pride.

”Thank you. I'm going to be away from the city for awhile. I need to get a handle on what happened to me. I'll come back as often as I can, will you be alright?” I informed her of my plan.

”I'll be fine I have the new ship to keep me busy.” she smiled.

We ate a large meal later that afternoon before I left back to the wilderness to train. I could feel a primal, primitive rumble call from deep inside. My power had undoubtedly increase from surviving the hyper moons and once I fully mastered this internally rumbling feeling, I knew my power would increase again. Even though I almost died the hyper moon might have turned out to be on of the greatest gifts ever.

I didn't need to watch out for predators. All of the animals could sense they needed to keep their distance from me.