Beware of fleas is easier
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5th and last part
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Covered in sweat, Vegeta jumped out of bed. "Piccolo, damn it! What's going on up there?"
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Bulma, who was just about to bring breakfast in, almost dropped the tray in shock. A scream came from the next room. Bulma and Vegeta hurried into the next room, where Chichi had wrapped her arms around Gohan. The boy's hair flickered between black and gold.
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"Mom, leave me! Piccolo needs me now and Goten is up there too."
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"Yes, he is", Chichi sobbed half sick with fear, "it's my fault if something happens to him, I sent him up there, but", she clung even tighter to Gohan, "I don't want to lose you both "You're still too weak to fight."
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"She's right there, Gohan," said Vegeta, leaning against the door frame. "Somehow these damn measles sucked all the power out of my bones.We have no choice but to trust Piccolo. "
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"But ... but this power! Don't you feel it? He won't make it, it will kill him!"
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"Don't panic," said Bulma and put her arm around Vegeta, who was leaning on her with a grimace, as his knees were already soft as butter again and everything was beginning to blur before his eyes. "I still have the radar and if necessary we can send someone to Namek with our dragon balls to collect them and bring Piccolo back to us."
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"Well and good," said Gohan. He was dizzy too and so he slumped back on the bed, shoveling. "But you forget that Dende is up there too and if this power doesn't stop at Piccolo, do you think that it will spare Dende?"
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A concerned silence spread and the horror was written on everyone's pale faces ...
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The golden ball of energy hissed at Piccolo, who dared not evade for fear that the ball might fall over the edge to the earth.He hastily erected a shield, which was blown to pieces under the force of the attack. * Gohan, goodbye! *, was his last conscious thought that he sent on the journey with all his remaining strength, before the golden light engulfed him and the heat swallowed him ...
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"Piccolo, no!", Gohan's hands tightened around the bedspread and tears welled up in his eyes.
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"What is it, for God's sake," Chichi urged, dismayed.
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"His aura has died," said Vegeta. "Do you mean Piccolo is dead?" Asked Bulma, confused. "So quickly?"
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"You have no idea what's up there. Cell was a little light on the other hand. Damn it!" He pounded his fist weakly on the door frame behind his back. "Nothing will stop it now."
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Dende's thought was exactly there when he saw Piccolo being enveloped in the energy ball. The tortured screams of the Namek fell silent from one breath to the other and when the energy ball went out, a smoking figure slumped unconscious. "Piccolo!"Dende was anything but a hero, but this time he didn't care about the danger as he rushed past the stranger to his friend and mentor." Piccolo, say something! "He felt anxiously over the figure covered with burns to find out whether it was still alive." Otherwise you can regenerate so well, please do not lose it now! "
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Without giving a second thought to the danger behind him, he let his healing powers flow through his hands on Piccolo. Hopefully it wasn't too late.
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"I would advise you to move to the side, little one!", Ten'ariah said coldly, who was already beginning to collect energy again.
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"I won't!" He squeezed out between his teeth. "I won't let my friends down."
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"Den..de", barely noticeable, Piccolo breathed his name and the badly burned hand felt for the healing hands of the young god. "I have ... not enough reserves, the ... regeneration center hit ... let me go ..."<br />
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"But Piccolo ..." Dende withdrew his hands, distraught. "How so?"
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".. Get yourself to safety ... we need you ... the dragon balls ..." Then Piccolo's hand dropped and his head fell to one side. He had passed out again. Dende wanted to give him some of his strength again, but Piccolo's last sentence stood before his mind's eye as if in flaming letters and made him hesitate. Valuable seconds passed. Ten'ariah gathered more and more strength, and Dende sensed that it would soon be enough for the earth to shatter as if it were made of glass
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"You are the creator of the Dragonballs. As such, your life is of the utmost importance. To sacrifice yourself means to sacrifice the Dragonballs and with it the possibility to bring back those which are dear to you into life if it is necessary." Not only had once he heard these words from Piccolo.
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Tears streamed down his pale green cheeks. "Piccolo, I'm sorry, but I could never look Gohan in the face again if I let you die now ..."<br />
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With that he pressed his hands again on Piccolo's chest and the healing power overran Piccolo again. This time the Namek didn't wake up until Dende had finished. At the same moment Ten'ariah had also finished her preparation and with an expression of finality she prepared to release the immense energy onto the earth ...
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“What is going on?” The new voice behind her made Ten'ariah hesitate for a moment.
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"That you be? Lady Ten'ariah?"
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Not only Ten'ariah, but also Dende and Piccolo stared in disbelief at Popo, who came striding out of the palace with Goths in his arms.
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"Why are you doing such a dangerous thing?"
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“Popo?” Ten'ariah's eyes widened. "How is it that you are still alive?"
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"I pop to be the eighteenth, but have retained all memories of my previous incarnations. Just so I can serve God well. I have been very sad when you disappeared so suddenly at that time."<br />
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"I didn't just disappear," she burst out bitterly. "Dajikaan got rid of me elegantly by locking me up in this dimension. Didn't he laugh at how easily he got rid of me? Me who was so stupid as to look for him all the years since he went missing? Me who still loved him and was ready to share the lonely life in this palace with him and to turn her back on my homeland forever? Me, who had already sent the ship home with the appropriate message, and my last answer to him , my yes, wanted to give? But this world, the earth, always came first. It was dear to him and dear to me and he deported me and probably hoped that lonely in there I would lose my mind in despair and go to the dogs ! "
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“But that's not true at all!” Popo shook his head. "Dajikaan be very concerned when he can no longer find Ten'ariah. He thinks that you have left because he did not give in immediately.He had no idea that you would still be in the palace. He want to travel to you and therefore look for a successor. Many weeks pass before he finds the right one and even longer before he has taught him everything. Then he can create a new ship and fly home again. I haven't heard from him since then. I do hope he arrived safely and found Lady Ten'ariah. "
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Ten'ariah swallowed. "Isn't that an invention either, Popo? Did Daijikaan really go home to find me? But then he must have seen my ship and the message I left there. He must have returned to find me. .. "
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"I can only imagine that he had an accident on the way. Otherwise he would have come back for sure. He loved you very much, even more like the whole world. He recognized that and therefore stepped back for the new God."
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Ten'ariah closed her eyes for a moment. When she opened it again, the hatred was gone.The pain and grief remained. But without her resentment, she couldn't muster enough energy to keep the deadly ball under control. The energy sank down on her, and with agonized screams, she was devoured and extinguished by her own weapon to everyone's horror. The energy, now in motion, floated inexorably, ever faster, towards Goten and Popo. The servant closed his eyes and tried to cover Goten with his back.
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“Goten, Popo!” Dendes and Piccolo's shout couldn't stop the inevitable.
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Vegeta wrapped his arms around Bulma and hugged her. Out of the corner of his eye he saw Gohan doing the same with his mother.
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The energy that radiated from the palace of God surpassed everything else and swallowed all the lesser values ​​around. So Gohan couldn't say whether Piccolo was really dead or whether Goten and Dende still existed.<br />
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"I'm sorry Mom, but this time no miracle will save us," he muttered brokenly. Chichi felt his whole body trembling. She closed her eyes in resignation. * My beloved Goku, you will not be alone much longer. *
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Vegeta lifted Bulma's chin a little and found her gaze. “At least Trunks won't feel a thing and we're together.” His lips found hers as a lonely tear stole from the corner of his eye and its salty taste mingled with the passionate desperation of his kiss.
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Unexpectedly, Goten kicked so hard that he came free from Pop's arms and fell to the ground, where he sat with his face to the energy ball. The ball in front of him was really super big and the ancient Saiyan instinct was awakened again. Goten waved his arms and without being aware of it, he asked the earth itself for strength. Due to his connection with nature and his marked path as a friend of animals, plants and all life, the wish was granted to him and blue-glowing power streamed to the little half-saiyan from everywhere, which he greedily absorbed while the doom approached and got closer.If the devastating energy sphere had only had a little more speed, everything would have been in vain.