Chapter 1: Down, Down, Down

The saiyans, a mythical folklore, though signs of their history and culture remained for generations. Long after humanity believed them to be fiction, they are not the works of fiction but by some accounts just lost civilizations. However, thanks to research teams and a large donation of money, there was going to be the largest excavation on a presumed saiyan ruins in history.

All of this stemming from her family history of having fought against the rumored saiyans generations upon generations ago. It was a harrowing folklore that the only reason the saiyans were defeated was due to strife within their people. Inner fighting and conflict had led to their inevitable defeat, as her people were almost overwhelmed within a matter of months.

But the attacks stopped almost seemingly overnight for no explainable reason which after thousands of years would lead many to question the validity of such a claim. But the head archaeologist and descendant of this proud family folktale would be the one who'd be willing to endure such an endeavor.

She'd spent her college years preparing her thesis, studying ancient records, museum histories, and private collections in order to build upon this possibility. It had been a dream of hers to prove all the nay-sayers wrong. To shove her finger in their face and say. "HAH, told you so!" So many didn't believe her and the tradition and legends that had been passed down through her region. But it was soon going to be her turn!

Picturing her expedition of hundreds of workers, people from all over, the largest archaeological exploration in its existence. The fame and recognition would be paramount to a lifetime of riches. Old temples, cave scrawlings, perhaps tools or even a rare skeletal remains could be located in the massive mountain of Mt. Paozu by current geographers, in her area's culture it was called Oozaru. The massive beast, for it was where the saiyans had come from.

All of her planning, all of her hard work. She was ready to become famous!

And then- everything fell apart. The money promised was never delivered, those who had interest pulled out. All of the news and hype she had tried to build had been brushed under the rug for advancements in new techonology. Who cared about ancient history anyway?

It had been her childhood dream to do this, and she wasn't going to stop!

So she had packed herself a backpack filled to the brim with everything she'd need and headed to the mountains. She wouldn't be proven wrong, she knew she there had to be something there, her family wouldn't perpetuate a lie for thousands of years without proof. She just had to find it and then she could show up everyone who doubted her.

Chi-Chi had believed it, with every fiber of her being that this would be the moment and documented it as a measure of keeping her sanity and documenting what she had done, a few logs remained from her journey….

Day 1: The beginning of my new journey, I know the world wants to laugh at me, tell me that I'm wrong. But I just have to start out, I'll work across the mountain, cutting through half of it in a month if I keep up a good pace. Just keep thinking positive, Chi-Chi, you know you're right. This is our moment! Go girl! Go girl go!

Those days slowly crept into weeks.

Day 14: Progress is much harder than initially expected, the mountain ranges of Paozu are less traversable then it appears in imagery. Stiff valleys and gorges have slowed my searches for signs of any civilization. I'll have to scratch off them living in the higher elevations or perhaps having cities cut into the mountains as was originally rumored because there's little to no vegetation. A little algae and moss, and most wildlife are birds, Barnacle Geese and Arctic ones have many nesting platforms that expose themselves to one side of the sea. But there's no signs of them being used as a food source because no paths exist. There's just sheer rock cliff faces that I can barely climb with modern equipment. A race thousands of years old would be impossible to imagine. So I'll make a change of pace and try several cave systems and avoid spelunking. I'm not going to risk dying in such an uncivilized manner.

Weeks turned into a month.

Day 34: I've not had any luck yet. Most of the caves are impassable and I won't risk climbing through narrow passages and get myself stuck. If there was some clue or possible inklings of life or signs of civilization I might but still nothing. But I've noticed that wildlife has gotten down to nothing as I move into the tunnel systems. I'm no fan of spiders and snakes but life seems to be all but barren, a few flies here and there. The odd lizard or bat, but considering the lack of water in this mountain aside from the huge ice peaks that melt and create the small reservoirs that flow into the mountain ranges I can't imagine there being such a lack of an ecosystem. I have to wonder since there is no stable environment that the saiyans did exist but some event, perhaps cataclysmic act of God or nature caused their end or maybe relocation? Yet I still don't see anything and it has me worried slightly.

And on it went.

Day 57: I've made less than two thirds of the progress I had wanted by a month in. This mountain is pure hell. I'm becoming one hell of a rock climber but the gloves I bought to handle these sharp cliffs are being worn out, I don't know how much more they'll last until I have to start wrapping my hands. Scaling this mountain has just become an endurance round and by the time I get to a new location I find the area only becoming harsher and harsher. I'm just stuck with algae water and birds now.

It kept going.

Day 72: I've given up scaling these rocks, I have to go inside, that's all I can do. I don't have a scale to weigh myself but I've packed on at least twenty pounds of solid muscle. My arms and stomach have never looked better. My poor sports bras are being beat to hell and won't last another month, so much for tough enough for any woman, lying bastards.

With no end in sight.

Day 85: Who the hell made this stupid mountain? Why is there nothing here and why would anyone believe that some race would make this their home? Seriously how do we have records of battles that possibly coincided with saiyans and yet there's nothing here? We only know the name because it was a part of my culture not surely a mythos like the Norse pagan gods. They were warriors right, so how does a warrior society manage battles when getting up and down this terrain is nightmarish at best? Sure no one could invade them but who would want to? There's nothing here, a race needs agriculture and they only have stupid green water and that's it? How could the stories of ten thousand saiyans descending from this mountain and battling across our ancient lands be true at all? I can't sustain on this crap, so how did an entire society?! Was this trip just… a big mistake?

She was almost three months into her expedition… all by herself.

"This SUCKS!" She decried like a juvenile being denied her favorite toy. Throwing her empty canteen into the rocky wall outcropping with a metallic clink and thud. Crossing her arms over her chest Chi-Chi pouted much like the tantrum she was throwing. Her fingers were blistered and cut, palms were bruised, hair dirty, she was constantly either covered in sweat, dirt, or water. Her glorious savannah hat had been sacrificed to become a makeshift toilet since as a lady she wouldn't dare rest her ass on something while relieving herself.

Her once bulging backpack was now down to scant provisions, save her rolls of paper that she'd used to map out every single crevice of the mountain in hopes of marking her clues and locations that she would uncover. Now it was just a few tin cans of fish and dried fruit. Her water was running low and half of her mining tools were now worn down so badly they were all but useless. The rock here was incredibly dense that even with a proper steel pickaxe she couldn't do much more than scratch it. Her shovel had a bent lip to it and her pens and pencils were now replaced with hand chalk and led that was supposed to be used for etchings.

Wearing now naught but a brown explorer's jerkin and a brown tube top with brown cargo shorts that were half ripped away by the sharp rocks and coarse ground she had been scaling by herself. "Should've been a rock climber." She sulked dropping her head onto her forearms. Covered in white chalk to avoid scaring her hands for life, Chi-Chi just didn't know what else she could do. She'd covered a hundred and forty kilometers of terrain, explorded vast cave networks and found… nothing.

Her only real find was of some old hitchhikers leaving aluminum pans and food tins - empty of course - and that was it. She'd discovered three year old food utensils… yay me. Her mind sarcastically thought.

Chi-Chi was just, JUST, about ready to throw in the towel, she'd had put up with so much crap and tribulations that she was about to run out of patience. Her moment of triumph slowly passing into obscurity as was whatever would remain of her bank account after failing to deliver a single thing.

Unless Mt. Paozu turned into a tourist attraction and she could be one hell of a tour guide. But that wasn't going to happen. But with what remained of her pride still keeping the shreds of her sanity and determination intact Chi-Chi decided to just pull herself together for one final push.

It would be her do or die moment.

Pulling herself together Chi-Chi got up and putting on what remained of her backpack and its supplies she decided to set off. Scooping up the near empty canteen and dropping it in her backpack with some more fresh dents added to its exterior.

Following another winding path of tunnels that were carved into the mountain through erosion. Her hands holding up a battery operated flashlight with one hand as she walked through the tunnel. Her other hand having a small hammer to cut into the stone walls as a travel marker from where she had come. She'd dive into the depths for maybe two or three hours at a time before returning to her point of entry but this time she went deeper, it had been almost three days of going as far as she could. Having little in the way of supplies to force herself back out once her timer ran out.

Walking through the somewhat dangerous mountain passes Chi-Chi came upon a large expanse that opened up down into a small gorge cut into the very mountain itself. Spanning maybe seventy meters across, Chi-Chi forced to walk along the narrow gap of the wall that formed a near semi with her back shoved up against it.

Shimming her feet with delicate movements, her hands pressed against the rock face. Sliding along, taking her time and not wanting to fall into the large casm. Looking around slightly with her light still in her hand Chi-Chi cast a small beam down into the pit in front of her and was a little amazed by what she saw. "Is that? Pure obsidian? That's incredible!" Chi-Chi marveled at it slightly, but she was currently shimming herself across a large cavern, best not to have her eyes distracted by shiny things.

After another few minutes Chi-Chi came upon the other opening, it seemed like this area had been carved out by natural elements as the obsidian told her that this should be an old volcano but there hadn't been any history of eruptions ever. Strange.

"Well it's as good a bet as any." Chi-Chi decided this would be her or all or nothing play. Removing her backpack and pulling out the few tools she had, she hammered out a small pulley system so that she might do a little mountain exploring. Locking in several bolts into the wall, then anchoring them to her oversized backpack to the floor. Taking the best of care to make sure she didn't end up a large splat on the ground. Chi-Chi then fixed her jerkin with a harness, sliding a five hundred foot rope line with a two hundred foot emergency cord to it as well. She was going to have plenty of space and with her anchor if she couldn't scale back up, she could just pull herself up and out of the gorge.

Clipping on a flashlight to her hip, Chi-Chi then added large steel spikes to her boots to give her some measure of grip. With only determination and grit in her heart, Chi-Chi locked herself into the system and let herself slide back down. She was going to give it her all if this was perhaps the location where she might find any evidence of the saiyans she couldn't afford to close her eyes because of a little danger. Keeping her courage in her heart Chi-Chi began the downward descent into the obsidian gorge. The hard rock glistened in some places as if it had been previously melted glass.

But that was impossible. Rappelling down into the shaft she swung out and landed against the walls. With but a click of her fingers she locked the rope in place. Her eyes scanned around the outcroppings for some signs but there was nothing. It was only fifty feet down, so she went a little deeper. The gorge opened up.

The scraping of her metals boots along the rock wall seemed only to echo forever as she grabbed her light and aimed it down towards the bottom. The small LED flashlight was swallowed before she saw any signs of darkness. 'This has to be massive.' A hundred feet.

Rappelling a further hundred feet, Chi-Chi saw her emergency line used up. She had only about three hundred more feet to go down. Grabbing her light, Chi-Chi's eyes then spotted something. Grooves… and not anything that could be caused by nature. Her heart beat began to quicken, 'Something! There is something!' Coming closer she ran her hands across the surface. Making out almost fingers in the rock wall, her hand filling a little more than half of the large cut out as she used her own hand as a representation for fingers. Finding the thumb and fingers to line up where they should be if this was a hand of an ancient civilization. "Incredible!" she was feeling giddy, grabbing one of her pieces of paper and black chalk she did an etching of the sample. With almost juvenile glee she rubbed her fingers the chalk up and over the edges of the handprint. 'Yes a handprint! Gods, Chi-Chi, you are a freaking genius!'

Emboldened only further Chi-Chi then went down even more, walking along the wall, her boots finding even more prints. "This is remarkable! Finally! Freaking finally!" She was almost ready to blast off with elation as she could see rounded mounds with footprints and more hand markings, each one varying in size and becoming more distinct with claw marks in some of them. Others maintained a human type shape with large nails but others seemed to have been cut into the rock with similar force. It could be anything and Chi-Chi just couldn't imagine what awaited her below.

Coming down further, Chi-Chi finally hit solid gold, not real gold, but in archaeological terms it was striking it rich. There was no way this could be confused as some sort of scam or falsity. Nearly four hundred feet down with only her light Chi-Chi saw a mouth opening, one that had a glow to it. As her light reflected off the obsidian something else seemed to give off a low level of light. Coming down, her feet finding a perch on the ledge which seemed to open up into a cave. Chi-Chi, wearing her gloves while climbing the rope, touched one of the reflective surfaces and found it hard, but noting it wasn't just rock.

Her eyes went wide as she viewed the treasure she had been hunting for so long. It was ancient art, or at least that was her first inclination, what it really was she could never know. But along the wall that was no longer the black obsidian she saw cuts of red, as she looked with her light more closely it had a figure, human or shaped like one. "My god…" Chi-Chi marveled as she took in the primitive drawings.

Rising up from the ground, its foot which had some missing features standing overtop some kind of kill, what that was she couldn't directly tell. The markings had lost some of their clearer luster, but so far down into this mountain there wasn't enough eroding away what she saw. It was still a basic drawing of a man, an overly large figure with large teeth and wild hair that took up as much space as his torso. "Could be one of an old kill, like a mural documenting a past… but" Something was lightly prodding at the back of her mind. 'What purpose would it serve to have this all done within a mountain. I know this might be dozens if not more generations ago, but why is it here? What purpose does it serve?

Questions were being raised and although she was finally happy to be actually finding something! It only served to add to the mystery. The days she had been searching the mountain range, only to find it hundreds of feet inside the gorge of what looked like a dead volcano.

There weren't any eruptions that she knew of that would coincide with the disappearance of the saiyans, or if Mt. Paozu was even a volcano. None of it was making any real sense. Yet she drew out more paper to begin adding to her etching collection.

It was one of the few times she wished to bring along a camera, but there wasn't enough battery life or even a way to prove authenticity without hard evidence. Even still she could do some light rubbings and take it back. She had already stuffed several others into her backpack in a cylinder container.

Low heavy breaths escaped as it was drawn to the unnatural light. Slowly it pulled its way up along the way, the groves long cut into the obsidian allowing it to scale almost soundlessly. Slipping past so many, it had finally made its long journey but as it climbed up higher and higher. The smell of fresh meat filled its nose.

Its tongue slipped from its mouth, the sensitive nose being teased by the smell of warm blood. Claws linked over the lip edge of the cave opening. Spying its prey, running its hands along the wall. How long had it been since it had a good meal?

Freedom or a quick meal? Oh it couldn't handle the pressure!

Chi-Chi turned around and was beset upon by a beast. It's pale leathery like skin and erie pale eyes rapidly closed the distance. Her shriek was the first thing that came as out, the cry of the creature more like a crazed squawk.

Her tightened harness kept her footing as the maddened creature bit into the cable connected to her harness. Its long elongated snout much like that of an old bird of prey. Its small razor-like teeth just barely missed snapping at Chi-Chi's neck and torso as the long cord gagged in its throat as it kept biting.

Throwing her feet in a desperate kick her body lurched backwards attempting by instinct to keep herself away from the creature. Her kick did not pack any real power by the thick steel spikes, did catch its flesh and left several small gouges left in its body, trickles of dark blood escaped as she flailed her feet, each one landing as the creature just kept biting at her. Cutting more and more into the bestial hide.

Once bloodied it pulled back, Chi-Chi then slipped her frantic movements and its lack of tension on her cord had her falling backward. Her backpack fell off, and she barely noticed. Her eyes wide with terror as when she fell the cord pulled her towards the creature as she swung. The harness, designed to retract and not loosen.

Her weight pulled down on the emergency safety which began to retract and straight towards the pale beast. Not thinking about anything other than survival, Chi-Chi smacked the release, the rope popping free and snapping outwards, the tension cracking it like a whip and smacked across the large snout of the creature. The momentary pain allowed Chi-Chi to scramble to her feet.

The flashlight on her hip smacked free in the mad scramble clattering on the ground creating a beam of light between monster and prey. The creature hissed and it allowed Chi-Chi to have more than a second to look at it.

Reptilian with an elongated nose coming together like a beak. It had webbing between its joints, and its limbs were long with bony protrusions sticking out from its back, and joints. It was five feet long with a stub for a tail, there was little Chi-Chi could say about what she was looking at, though she didn't care to know as all she wanted to do was get out.

Sliding along the wall her body being mirrored in the opposite by the creature. Keeping low to the ground it hissed again. A long red tongue escaping from its lips as she saw the extensions of its teeth begin to stick out from both its top and bottom jaw. She swallowed the lump in her throat as her heart continued to hammer inside of her chest. She didn't want to try fighting it, she didn't even have a clue as to what in the holy hell it was.

Her fingers scraped along the wall as she got more than halfway towards the mouth, her eyes flicked towards the entrance barely making out the climbing rope but it was there. Her only chance to escape whatever the hell this thing was Chi-Chi had to run. When the creature's pawed foot hit her flashlight blanketing them both in darkness Chi-Chi made a break for it.

It screeched in anger as Chi-Chi ran forward, her body surging with adrenaline and she took several large steps before leaping. Her hands sought out the rope which once she touched had her fingers lock around it with a death grip.

Hauling herself up with her hands, Chi-Chi's chalk covered fingers finding a grip as she pulled herself up at a decent pace. Her eyes only able to see the faint glow of the entrance that seemed so far away now.

Throwing her hands upwards she managed four large pulls before she heard the cry of the creature below her. It wasn't happy that she had fled and as Chi-Chi made her ascent it began its own, climbing along the walls. She could hear its crunch and scratches along the wall as it pursued her still.

In that moment she panicked attempting to grab the cord and throw it back into her harness so she could rapidly pull herself back up, but as she did she stopped and she heard the flap of its leathery webbed wings. Tucking her body up, Chi-Chi soon felt the creature bite around her boot, she didn't feel pain, but its long razor sharp teeth cut into her ankle. She felt the blood pour from her wounds but ignored it. Survival was pumping in her veins as she took her free leg and bashed it into the creature's skull, once, twice, but as she pulled back her leg for a third kick it flopped and its entire weight still clenched onto her boot and leg broke her grip.

Chi-Chi shrieked as her fingers lost any hold on her rope, the sudden drop caused the beast to let go, but in its haste it tried to slow down and let go of her.

Chi-Chi spiraled and tumbled down into the pure darkness. Her screams bounced off the walls, and as she fell she realized that this was it for her as she rolled end over end which felt like an eternity.

'I'm gonna die! I am going to die!' Her mind repeated over and over, tears streamed down her face as she didn't want to accept her demise which she couldn't even see. "Please not like this!" She screamed as loud as she could to whatever god could reach out and help her.

But her voice echoed and was her answer back. Crying, Chi-Chi just closed her eyes and hoped it wouldn't hurt too much. The seconds seeming to pass by like an eternity

Yet as she fell she hard a guttural roar, "Deehz kah ich mahl!" and then she hit something. But it wasn't the solid ground or the cold black obsidian. Chi-Chi was wrapped up, an arm or what felt like one cradling her back as her movement downward was not only slowed but stopped.

In fact she felt herself rising upwards, and then she felt a crash into the wall, a low harsh grunt as whatever caught her had stopped both its and her fall. Chi-Chi dared to open her eyes and with only a faint glow which was rising up from below she saw the outlook of some man? His face angled with hard edges, his hair wild and untamed that seemed to defy logic and gravity. Two large canines shined in the light as they were exposed from his mouth as a vicious snarl came from his lips.

As she looked up at him she pictured the etching on the wall. Of what she believed to be… to be… 'A- A- A- S-S-SAIYAIN!?- I- H-h-' Chi-Chi fainted, her adrenaline pumping and the blood loss from her leg taking a greater toll than she could afford.

Darkness swallowed her up, and a part of her imagined this would be her death as nothing but blackness encompassed her sleep.

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Floating within the inbetween for an untold amount of time, Chi-Chi stirred as something wet was filling her mouth. While her senses and control were still sorted amongst the void and stirring later, Chi-Chi knew she was swallowing something. A liquid of some kind, as she tried to close her lips.

But something was covering hers blocking any chance of shutting out the intrusive liquid. Her eyes opened, but the blurry vision of black and tan rocks was all she could see. As her lips parted once again, she tried to suck in air. But as she did a pressure forced her lips open once again, another deluge of liquid was forced down her throat as she tried to breath causing her to sputter.

Coughing, into whatever was holding her lips open. She rolled her head to the side and hacked as if she was being drowned. Releasing heavy gasps, Chi-Chi realized.

She wasn't dead. Blinking as the realization came true she viewed a glowing orange substance was on her side illuminating the area with a low light. Her body curled into a fetal position as she continued to hack and cough until gasping replaced her breathing.

'Where? Where am I?' She only remembered the creature attacking her and then she fell… after that she was only remembering that eternal darkness that seemed to go on forever. 'How? Who?' A long wet tongue touched her cheek.

"AHHHH-!" screaming madly, Chi-Chi tried to claw herself away, thinking that the creature was tasting her. Rolling towards the wall her sanity and mental focus had taken quite a toll as she looked back expecting rows of sharp teeth to come for her next and end her.

But that was not the case, in fact she saw what looked like a human. But it couldn't be, no man looked like that. One hand covering his ear, his eyes narrowed as he looked irritated at her. Far more muscular than a human, his body massively bulky, his arms the size of her thighs, and his legs the size of her torso. But that wasn't the crazy thing about the man, which he clearly wasn't.

His hair draped down over his shoulders, long thick spikes came upwards forming a small ring of thick dark gravity defying hair. Two large almost sabertooth like teeth protruded out from his mouth, about an inch in length showing from his top lip over his bottom as his lips sneered at her.

A pair of twin golden eyes looked at her and she knew they were his eyes as the twin black orbs showed within the light. Her panic abated, but only a bit as the man, or quite possibly… "S-Saiyan?" her weak and meger voice spoke a word that he understood.

With a grunt, using his huge hands like a primate he came over to her, and even though she slightly craned away from his hand, she didn't really have any choice. His fingers touched her long hair, then he looked at her. "Del, hash no ich corta?"

Chi-Chi didn't understand a word, there was no dialect or language she'd heard before. But with a race of people that was supposedly dead now standing in front of her what was she really supposed to think that he'd speak the same language as her?

His thumb brushed back her hair and then he looked at her intently. The silence went on for over several minutes. He frowned and repeated the words, but she still did not have a clue what he was asking.

"I-" She started, "I don't understand." But what good did it do for her to say, I don't understand. Wouldn't that be obvious? But logic was illogical right now.

The man leaned his head closer to hers, showing the same confused look. Drawing down his hand he then cupped her face, his nails poking into her skin but it was only uncomfortable not painful. He then looked her face over before releasing a snort. Releasing her from his large palm Chi-Chi felt unsure as the saiyan came a little closer, his nose pressing up against the side of her neck and began to sniff her like a dog.

He then did that tongue thing again and licked her. While not unpleasant it wasn't wanted by her, yet she was scarcely in a position to say or do anything really about it.

Drawing himself back he then promptly sat on his haunches and looked at her. But him doing so let Chi-Chi realize one glowing detail, this saiyan was completely and utterly. Nude. Though that thought faded as she looked down at her own leg and noticed that her foot. The one that had been bitten by the creature. It was wrapped up in some type of green foliage, almost like it had been bandaged. Her eyes flicked up towards the primitive man before pointing down towards her leg.

"Did, did you do this?" 'Why am I even talking, would he really understand me? Come on Chi-Chi, think girl, think!' She put on her thinking face before trying something back to basics; She then pointed at the saiyan before taking that finger and then pointing down at her leg. The man's head cocked to the side, it would've been cute but she was not quite in the presence of mind to think more about that. "You, help my leg." Repeating the point to him and then down to her leg. The green wrapping had clearly been done by a seasoned hand as Chi-Chi noted it had been wetted and then formed around where she had been bitten. It meant there was something rolling around in this creature's head or was it man? 'Does it even matter Chi-Chi, focus!'

Bringing his nose down he smelled her finger and her leg, all but ignoring her. "Koiter?" That foreign dialect coming out again. His yellow eyes flipping back up towards her.

"Fix my leg, did you fix it?" She repeated a slight but justifiable - to her - amount of irritation at the situation she was pushed into. As whatever the hell it is once again just stopped and looked at her. "Why is this happening, all I wanted to do was find proof of the saiyans, score a few archeology points, you know get my face on some magazines, make some money and prove that my family history was not a lie. "So why am I here? What did I do to deserve this?"

Her tantrum was mildly juvenile, but her mind was just struggling to fully grasp the current situation that was around her now. With the saiyan's still lack of any object reaction she just fell backwards - bad move.

She thumped on the ground and before she realized it, the man was back on her again, his mouth hurriedly full of something as she saw his bloated lips, "Wha-mmmphh-" Her wail becoming a gurgle as her lips were covered and she was filled with some sort of liquid, water probably but she swallowed some of it before most of it went into her lungs.

Coughing as her lungs did their best to hack up every drop of liquid that was poured down her poor gullet. The tormenter trying to drown her stopped and held her back as if he was trying to take care of her. Spending almost a minute rasping and coughing, Chi-Chi rolled over and glared at the bastard. "What the hell?! Were you trying to kill me?" Understanding or not, there was a loose translation of I am really pissed off.

She bitched at him, though as he remained behind her just blinking as she berated him with colorful and thought provoking curse words they didn't seem to have any effect on his demeanour.

But there was a loud barking or snarling sound coming from another direction as Chi-Chi and the saiyan inside of the place with her turned and saw another being one that the archaeologist recognized as another saiyan.

The one beside her dropped into a kneeling position or bow. Chi-Chi looked and saw a shorter saiyan with dark upswept flame hair. Those same golden eyes as the saiyan beside her now stared down at her, a look of anger showing. His teeth bared but made no overt action. "Veloku sah mi chu quo ner tah Kakarot!"

"Jer vecht to das nich mehr, no ouji."

"No Ouji?" Chi-Chi remained quiet as the two saiyans bickered back and forth. Their indiginous language becoming more growls and snarls from one to the other. Yet Chi-Chi caught that little hint, and considering one saiyan was kneeling out of some measure of respect, or perhaps position?

She looked towards the new arrival, "No Ouji? Prince?" Could it be? There was some Japanese lingering in the language? Her mind had to know, and considering the circumstances she needed some less crazy in her life, and partially curiosity had her.

The 'prince' looked at her, confusion on his face before looking towards the other saiyan. "Vehl nel duea kain, Kakarot."

Beside her the saiyan raised up and placed his fist over his chest. "Va fel No Ouji." The prince then just left with a snort, Chi-Chi then watched him leave from the entrance. His face turned to her and gave her a crooked smile almost, "Bish chu der khorta. Veh del No Ouji."

Chi-Chi opened her mouth before just dropping her head. "Why am I even going to bother talking to you, you don't understand a word I'm saying aside from me calling him your prince." Groaning Chi-Chi then made her way towards where the prince had come. Wanting to see just was beyond this little stone prison, her head turned back to the name No Ouji had been yelling at him. Kakarot, it sounded like a name or at least something that had the context of one. He slowly followed her walking on his palms as Chi-Chi stopped and looked out and her jaw dropped. 'This… This is a SAIYAN CITY?!' As she took in the full structure of the place, an entire mountain carved out with strange glowing beacons which functioned like street lights and pathways illuminated the obsidian and stone world around her. Dozens upon dozens of carved out patches were lining the walls and that… that was just the beginning.

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