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"Frieza, you coward! Get out here and face me!" Bardock was struggling with all his strength to try to reach the bastard that was Frieza. Eventually Bardock managed to reach the ship. The gate to the ship slowly opened and there they were, the most terrifying tyrant in the known universe-Frieza, yet the brave warrior refused to back down.

"I won't allow you to kill us-to destroy us... I will ... I will change the future!" Blue fire flickered to life around his clenched fist. A crazed grin spread across his face as he raised his arm to throw it at the evil tyrant. "We finish this here!" He screamed as the blue ball of energy streaked away from his hand. Much to his shock, the energy attack never reached Frieza for the tyrant had quickly countered it. They used one finger to make his own attack, which caused Bardock's to fizzle out of existence. The attack resembled a miniature star on the tip of the ice tyrant's finger.

With a small flick, the massive attack began to make its way towards him and, consequently, the planet below. The energy sphere quickly close the distance between Frieza and Bardock. Just being in the presence of the attack felt like the attack looked-intensely hot. The power from the attack was pushing him back towards the planet as it slowly engulfed him. His armor began to come apart, breaking into little pieces before turning to ash as they drifted away from the warrior. He had failed, his entire revolution, his attempts to warn his people and in his attempt to stop Frieza and now... now the saiyen race was doomed...

A flash of white blinded him before something jumped to the forefront of his mind. On his way to confront Frieza, before all of this, he had passed by a pod carrying a saiyen baby into the depths of space. The baby was no ordinary baby though-it was in fact his son. The image of the infant soon morphed into one of a full grown man-greatly resembling him but with lighter skin and some form of orange outfit on. He stood across from what he could only guess was Frieza on some planet he didn't recognize.

Just like that the vision ended and he was back in the middle of the burning super nova that was Frieza's attack. His armor had been completely stripped away and now he was bare skinned in just his black underwear. A cough escaped his lips before he allowed a smile to grace his features. He... he had failed but his son would do what he could not. His son was the one meant to face Frieza and avenge their people... not him...

"Son... grow strong... avenge us, you're people... K-Kakarot..." The heat intensified triple fold and he could feel it eating away at his skin. "K-Kakarooooooot!" He screamed his final words before he was completely incinerated by the attack. The same attack that would continue down to the planet were it would do the same to all those inhabiting it. In but an instance the saiyen race and their home was gone...

A boy soon awoke from his peaceful slumber. He need not open his eyes to know something was very wrong. He didn't feel like he had when he had gone to sleep-like he was at home and safe. He slowly blinked his eyes and found himself sitting in a stone room of sorts. It wasn't made of bricks or concrete but rather it looked like it was carved out of a mountain. His eyes then landed on the only one he could call family, his grand father-who was currently talking to other children in the cell.

"Grandpa Rob, where we are? What is this place?" He asked him. They grandfather swiveled around at the sound of the young boy. His facial features were littered with concern but he quickly hid it before making his way over to his grand son. He frowned when he saw the confusion in the boys eyes-had he really not remembered what happened? He couldn't blame the small child though, for children had an uncanny ability to block out traumatic experiences. He sighed before deciding that the truth was the best answer-there was no need to lie about their situation.

"We were attacked by some bad people-dark wizards. The imprisoned us and sent us here to work for them." He could see the panic flare up in the boy's eyes. He reacted quickly and grabbed his shoulders before he could run off and try something. "Goku, I need you to listen very carefully when I tell you this." He waited for the boy to completely focus on him before continuing.

"These dark wizards and their friends are not nice people. You haven't met anyone like them before-so you can't run off and do what you'd normally do." The child's eyes filled with confusion once he said that. Clearly he was going to have to be blunt for the first time with the young saiyen. "If you try to escape, they will kill you and I'm not strong enough to stop them."

"What? How! You're the strongest person I know!" A look of disbelief had spread across the young boy's face.

"I know Goku, I know-which is why it's important that you listen to what they say and just follow their orders."

"But grandpa-"

"Please, Goku. I don't like it anymore than you but it's just something that has to happen. Just until we can leave." Goku looked down at his feet-a worried expression prominent on his features.

"Okay grandpa, I can do it." Goku didn't fully grasp the situation he was in-he was too innocent to do so. He did understand that it was serious and the way his grand father spoke worried him. He had never seen them so serious before-it was almost shocking to the young saiyen. The siayen came back to reality when he realize his grand father had walked off to sit against one of the walls. He would have joined him if the sound of talking hadn't caught his attention.

He remembered he wasn't the only kid in the room and decided to go talk to wasn't like he was isolated his entire child hood but most of his time was spent with his grand father. He rarely had time to stop and talk with other boys of his age. To add to this, one of the boys looked strange compared to the others. He had deep blue hair and some kind of tattoo on his face. Goku decided to talk to him first because he looked the most interesting but Goku didn't get the chance to talk to him. Two girls had intercepted him and struck up a conversation with him.

He wanted to approach a boy with blue hair with a mark on the eye which caught his attention but two girls were anticipated. One with scarlet hair and the other, smaller, with brown hair.

"Hello, what's your name?" One of the girls, who had fiery red hair, asked him.

"My name? It's Goku." He told her, a smile having appeared on his face. "What's your name?"

"Erza, Erza Scarlet." She returned the smile to the young boy before turning to the other girl. "And this is my friend, Millianna." The girl, Millianna, had been wearing some sort of plain blue dress-with Carmel colored hair in a short bowl cut.

"Um, hi."

"Hi." Goku said in return before turning his attention back to Erza.

"She asked me to see you because she saw your tail." Erza had told him, which had caused him to worry slightly. They didn't think he was some sort of freak did they? Well, he technically was but freaks don't usually have a good standing with others. "Is it a cat tail? Because Millianna says she loves cats."

"Of course not, you don't see me walking around and going "meow" every few seconds now do you?" A grin appeared on his face, why would they ask such silly questions? He was clearly just as human as all of them-minus the tail of course.

"Not like thaaat." Erza complained childishly to the young boy. "Like a cat person!"

"A cat person? Like a person with cat features?" Goku wondered, hand under his chin in thought.

"Yeah!"

It wasn't uncommon for Goku to have to think on something. He wasn't the brightest cookie in the cookie jar. Unfortunately, the boy honestly didn't know the answer to it. He didn't remember anything about his parents-he had been taken in by his grand father who found him alone. He had had the tail for as long as he remembered too.

"Um, maybe? I don't really know. I had the tail for as long as I can remember but that's all I really know." Goku explained to the red head before him. "Maybe my grandpa knows more about it." A chuckle escaped Erza's lips after he said that. Confused, he looked to her only to find her holding back giggles. "What? What is it?"

"You look so funny." She choked out between laughs.

"What do you mean I look funny?" He asked, unconsciously touching his wild and crazy hair.

"The way you were standing when you were quiet." She made a mock imitation of his stance before letting out a few more chuckles.

"Huh, yeah-I guess I do stand kind of funny." Goku said once he saw what she had seen of him. The two shared a good laugh before Erza decided to head back over to Millianna and fill her in-leaving the boy there in his thoughts. They were an interesting group of kids, the lot of them. Little did any of them know that Goku and them would become good friends.

The children and Goku's grand father, Rob, would form a family of sorts over the following years of their arrival. They would grow together and laugh together, regardless of the hardships. As the children grew, so to did their power and resolve. Many would grow tired of their live in shackles, yearning for freedom. Eventually, like a fire, these feelings would spread amongst the others. They had grown protective of one another and for every lashing they received-their resentment of their home only grew. Things could not stay that way forever, it was a powder keg waiting to ignite and ignite it did. The Tower of Heaven was one place that didn't take disobedience lightly...

One day in the not so distant future of that moment, tensions finally boiled over. The scarlet haired girl, Erza, snapped and caused a commotion. An attempt at rebellion was what they called it and off she was taken. It need not be said where they took her for trouble makers knew all too well what awaited her. They had taken Erza to one of the many torture rooms inside the tower.

When they returned her-deeming she'd had enough-her pseudo family was horrified to find what they did. Erza wasn't exactly innocent after spending so long in the Tower of Heaven. Even so, the little innocence she had left was gone. An eye patch was strapped over her left eye and behind it was nothing but a socket-in which her left eye use to be. They had taken her left eye out, they had gone too far...

Jellal, the boy with blue hair and the tattoo around his eye, had slipped into a rage. He couldn't stand by idly and watch them commit the atrocities anymore. He wasn't going to let them get away with what they were doing. What they did to Erza was far enough and he would see them pay for it. Their father figure, Rob, had seen it coming an attempted to sway him-he wouldn't yield on the subject

"I'm sick of this-I can't stand it any more! I don't care if they kill me, I'm going to fight!" Jellal through himself into a pair of guards. The two of them toppled over from the sudden unexpected attack. Other guards were quick to notice the disturbance and rushed to aid the pair. Jellal may have been tough for his age but even he couldn't defeat four guards on his own. Fortunately, Jellal wouldn't have to defeat them on his own.

The two guards were blind sided by one of the children. The child had preformed a flying kick, nailing the first guard and catching the second guard with the first-who had been sent flying by the attack. Jellal stared at the other child that helped him, it was Goku. He offered the fellow boy a smile-which was returned with a grin from the boy with a tail. It was now or never for everyone, no turning back...

"Goku!" An older voice yelled out. Goku quickly spun around to the voice that had addressed him. It was his grand father, Rob!

"Grandpa we can't just do nothing! Do you really want Jellal to end up like Erza?!"

"Goku." The old man's eyes were harder than ever but so were Goku's. "When did I ever say not to interfere?"

"Wait, what?" A smirk had spread on his grand father's face.

"I never said to not interfere-we're all practically family Goku." The young boy's brows furrowed in confusion.

"Then why did you-"

"Your kick was sloppy, I thought I taught you better than that." Goku's mouth hung open for a moment before it turned into a grin of glee. "Now come on, we don't have a moment to waist."

Everyone from the rushed out from the cell they were in, making their way towards the first of many exists. Unfortunately, the guards were pouring in from everywhere they went. Eventually, while fleeing, one of their group was caught by a pair of guards-it was Millianna. Goku stopped and turned back to help them but the group tried to stop too. He couldn't let them go back with him to save her-they'd get bogged down and trapped!

"I'll save Millianna-just go! We'll catch up!" They nodded before continuing. He turned back to face the two guards, four more had joined them-not that it would matter, for Goku was no push over. "Come on! Show me what you got!" He taunted them and they took the bait.

Four rushed forward while the original two remained behind to restrain the girl. The first to reach him jabbed his first forward but they were too slow-perhaps their armor was too heavy? Goku front flipped over the arm and used their head as a spring board. He shout his right leg out and kicked the fourth guard in the face. The second and third were to his sides and instantly tried to restrain him. An elbow buried into the face of one of them before the back of Goku's head smashed into the nose of the other. The first had finally turned around and thrown a kick at Goku.

Goku ducked beneath the kick before he sprung forward. He buried his fist into their face and sent to the ground. Goku landed just past them and they scrambled to get back up, uncomfortable with the powerful boy being so close to their face. The guard managed to get to his hands and knees before Goku spun around and kicked him across his face. The guard collapsed like a sack of potatoes.

The two remaining ones could only stare in awe of his fighting capabilities. Millianna stared with start struck eyes at the young cat boy and his awesomeness. He sent the two guards his fiercest glare and they seemed to snap out of their awe. The two looked two each other before nodding quickly and one rushed forward. It should be noted that their armor wasn't they same as the one's he'd just pummeled. Their armor was metal plate armor and weighed a significant amount less, making them lighter and faster but still be more durable.

Goku leaped back to avoid a strike before lunging forward. He had to abort his attack immediately as the guard followed up with an upper cut that would sent the boy into the air. Goku back peddled and the guard pressed their advantage, combining long chains of attacks to keep the boy on the defensive. Eventually, he got Goku with a leg sweep that left him air born. Before he could even touch the ground the guard had recovered and did a high kick, catching Goku in his stomach and propelling him higher into the air.

Spittle flew from his mouth and his eyes lost focus. He was allowed to fall for all but a moment before a metal gauntlet grabbed a handful of his hair and held him in the air by it. They stared at him for a moment before tossing him to the other guard, dressed in similar garb. The garb cocked his arm back, ready to hit the boy with all of their might... but they didn't. No, Millianna had struggled at the last minute to break free. The struggle distracted the guard enough to prevent the finishing blow on her friend.

The opportunity gave Goku enough time to recover mid-air. He flipped backwards and drove both his feet into the helmet of the guard holding Millianna, drop kicking him. The guard flew back and landed with a clatter, never getting back up. Goku's expression became grim as a realize that the guards he was fighting were a cut above the rest. Be it some sort of spider sense or divine intervention, Goku felt the other guard approach. He immediately side stepped and avoided a brutal axe kick.

He quickly retaliated with a punch to the abdomen of the guard. It stunned them but it stunned Goku more, he'd never tried punching chain mail armor. He shook his fist as the guard recovered and he barely managed to weaved around the punch sent to his head. A kick to the crotch followed the man's mistake but that proved effective at only making Goku's shin sore. He jumped back before the guard could trap him in a bear hug.

"Geeze what are you made of metal?" The guard did not respond, instead trying spartan kick the young boy into the wall behind him. Goku jerked to the right to avoid and turned to leap away. While in the air, the guard managed to catch the boy by his tail. Goku dropped like a boulder once they did that. The man waisted no time in dragging the boy towards him by the tail before twisting and dragging the boy in a circle.

Once the boy started to lift off the ground, the guard started swinging him faster. Eventually the guard stopped moving with the swings and just spun the boy by his tail above him. Then, in an instant, he let go and Goku went flying into a pile of boxes. The crash didn't go unnoticed and many guards were on there way towards their very location. He needed to escape and fast because, if he didn't then he'd be done for.

"Goku!" His head snapped towards the person who shouted his name, it was Millianna. Why had she not left!? Didn't she realize he was buying her time this whole time!?

"Millianna, run! Get out of here!" The guard noticed the girl that Goku was talking to. With the boy immobilized, he could easily capture her too. He began speed walking towards her-prepared to pounce if she attempted to flee. He would certainly be getting a promotion today-BANG! The guard was thrown into the wall and dropped to the floor, a small dent being present on his helmet. Standing where he once was, was none other than the kid-Goku. How he had mustered the strength to beat the guard was anyone's guess.

"Come on, there's going to be more coming and we need to find the others." Goku told Millianna. It was true, more guards were en route-it seemed the entire place had broken free and was rioting. The others had left long ago and were undoubtedly far ahead of them. If they wanted to catch up then they had to follow after them immediately. Millianna seemed to understand this as well, for she nodded and waited for him to lead the way.

They ran and ran, evading guards when they could and leaving the ones they couldn't in the dust. The riot was at its peak and most guards and wizards were too busy trying to put them down. It was a difficult fight for both sides but it was slowly starting to tilt in favor of the guards and dark wizards. Eventually the two children ran out of luck as ten guards stood guarding the only way out of the area they were in. It was the only way forward and they had no chance of sneaking around them. Goku frowned, he would have to distract them and let Millianna run ahead, unprotected.

"Grrrr, rats." He muttered to himself.

"What is it?" His companion asked.

"I'm going to distract the guards for a bit. While their attention is on me, I need you to run past them. Once you're through I'll follow." The girl nodded once he told her his plan. While she seemed to have confidence in the plan, he wasn't so sure. Ten was a little much, even for him but maybe he could get a miracle. "Hey! Dumbass! Look at me!" Goku shouted at them, he had dropped his pants and was spanking his butt in front of them. It seemed to do the trick as the guards didn't even question it-they just charged to attack him.

A front flip here, a duck there, and a backwards roll to boot. Goku ducked, dived, bobbed, and weaved between the attacks. He didn't have any time for openings as their numbers made the attacks seem endless. He caught the handle of a halberd aimed at him and ripped it out of a guards hands, disarming him. He swerved to the left to avoid another halberd from cleaving his head in two. He immediately elbowed the unarmed guard in the face-it sent the man stumbling away. Then he leaped clear away from the group, landing and rolling before popping back up into a fighting stance he'd been taught.

The guards didn't wait and chased after him. He lunged forward and landed a left hook on one's face-spit flying out of their mouth, before punching the man in the stomach and ending him with a high kick to his face. All of this occurred in under a second but it didn't intimidate the guards. They still had the odds of 9 to 1 and they liked those odds. Another swing, this time from a sword, and Goku dropped to his hands and knees.

He dived forward from his previous spot as a spear breaks from a guard attempting to stab him. He kicked the back of the spear holder's knees, causing the man to crumble, before swinging back with his forearm and knocking them out. He quickly reached up and caught another halberd trying to cleave in him in two again. This time he struggled to keep it away from him but an incoming sword swing had him rolling back away. The sword sliced the dangerous part of the halberd off-granting Goku some relief. It wouldn't last long though as a strong pair of arms wrapped around his chest and picked him up.

He panicked and threw his head back, nailing the guard in the face. Before he kicked his legs up and sent an approaching guard away and onto their back. Goku twisted his body so he was flipping over the man. Once his feet touched the ground he pulled with all of his might and sent him flying. He turned back around to focus on the rest of the guards but a strong punch hit him in his cheek. Everything blurred for a moment and he found himself off balance. It took a moment to adjust but he eventually refocused-only to be hit again.

A powerful kick had caught him in the chest. Whoever had did it had some serious strength. He soared through the air before colliding with a wall. He stuck to it for a moment before falling to the ground. He stayed there on his stomach and watched the approaching group of men. One of them stood at the forefront of the group-they didn't look like the others so they must have been a new arrival. Then again, he couldn't see much with the blurry vision that plagued his eyes.

"Secure him... We got more important matters to deal with..." The new arrival said before focusing back on Goku. They lifted their boot before stomping down and sending him into complete and utter darkness...

Elsewhere

Jellal took down another pair of guards, he was on a roll. He fought like a well oiled machine and was completely in the zone or at least he appeared to be. In truth, Jellal's mind was lingering on his friend, Goku. He had faith in his friend, he would never deny that but he was beginning to worry about him. It had been some time since they had left him and Millianna back there and they've had many fights since then, so it was concerning that the duo hadn't caught up yet. Never the less, they couldn't turn back now-not when they were so close to escaping. He just had to trust his friend to be able to handle himself. Erza on the other hand...

"Rah!" She screamed in fury as she smashed another guard. She had been acting more violently since they left Goku behind.

"Erza, are you okay?" He stopped and asked her.

"We were wrong to leave him behind, we shouldn't have..." She didn't finish he thoughts but she didn't need to-he knew what she was getting at. Goku was a dear friend to them all but he and Erza had a special relationship. While Jellal could say he was like a best friend to the boy, Erza was more like a blood sibling. The two were thick as thieves, so for her to just leave him back there...

Erza found herself yanked by her forearm, the sound of metal clanking on stone echoed from behind her. Rob had saved her from a guard by pulling her out of the way. They tagged teamed the lone enemy and he was unconscious on the ground in seconds. More guards were coming but she wasn't worried-she was more than prepared to tear through them, tooth and nail if it required. She spotted a duo rushing into the fray and nearly chased after them. She was stopped by a strong and unyielding grip on her arm again. She looked up and and noticed it was Rob, the man all of the kids had taken to calling Grandpa.

"Erza, I understand how you feel but now isn't the time to get blinded by anger. It's all what ifs right now, for all we know he's already escaped and is waiting on us." He said wisely, trying to calm the girl. It worked but not as much as he had hoped. He had faith in Goku, he taught the boy everything they knew!

"Erza, do you remember that time Goku managed to get us extra food?" Jellal reminded her of a time so long ago. All it did was serve to enrage her-he was a good person and yet they just left him... "He never told you how he got it but he told me. He had taken it and managed to convince the two standing watch that one of themselves did it. He then slipped away while the were at each other's necks-he's smarter than he acts." He told her.

"You need to trust in him, he won't let us down-he never has before. For now we need to liberate some of the others, the guards are starting to gain the upper hand." Just as he said so, a inmate went flying over head-a fire ball carrying him through the air. Jellal's speech seemed to make Erza come back to her sense. The best thing they could do was increase his chances of escaping with them and that happened by weakening the guards.

They quickly went to work unlocking even more cells. Many of the prisoners they'd unlocked had gotten trapped in previous sections of the tower. They needed to bulk up their forces before taking down the security tower. The made sure to quickly dispatch the dark wizards and important guard commanders while the majority of their forces overwhelmed the normal guards. Unfortunately, during one of these attempts one of the guard commanders had gotten wise to them and caught Jellal while he was freeing more people. The boy didn't even stand a chance as the swift-strong-blow was dealt to him.

His absence went unnoticed by everyone else as their numbers had climbed to a chaotic level. The guards began to retreat, reporting of a full blown rebellion in the lower levels. The worn and frayed forces that were retreating only had time to set up meager defenses before being forced back into combat. The prisoners were devastating them and collecting more prisoners in their force the further they pushed. The closer they got to freedom, the more courageous little Erza became. Fortunately, the fighting tended to stay far away from her as the rest of the prisoners handled attacks.

While she lead their rebellion, she couldn't shake something off her mind. She still had yet to see Goku since the abandoned him and now she couldn't spot Jellal. Where were those two knuckle headed idiots? She couldn't dwell on it for long, she had to focus on getting everyone out. She thought she could even see sunlight! It was getting closer! Then, something eclipsed it?

explosion

Everything around her had been engulfed in a blinding light. She could hear nothing but a constant ringing. She her self felt like she had just been hit by a truck. It took some time for her aching body to start responding to her commands. Slowly everything cleared and she could finally see what had happened. There were bodies of prisoners scattered across the ground, weapons and pieces of armor left of some guards. Then... she froze... The body of one man laid before her on the ground, an iconic marking on his back that she'd grown to memorize.

"Grandpa Rob..." She said softly but it was no use. The body didn't even twitch in response to his name... he was gone... She scrambled over to his body and held on to it. "Grandpa please, please don't die. You were supposed to take us-everyone to Fairy Tail..." Tears started leaking out of her one good eye. "Grandpa... you promise us... don't leave..." She was sobbing freely now and couldn't resist the tears even if she wanted to.

"GRANDPAAA!" The cry of spread to everywhere in the area. Following it every single soldier and monster that had brandished weapons were disarmed. They floated in the air, high above everyone, before everything stilled. Another cry of rage and all of the weapons shot down like lighting-striking down every guard there, even some of the monsters. Erza had just used her magic for the first time... but-as it currently stood, that alone wouldn't be enough to turn the tide back in their favor...

Goku was forced out of a gate in the outside. He had expected them to put him in an open place, maybe make an example of him. What he didn't expect was to be literally outside the Tower of Heaven. Why on Earth would they have taken him from the tower? On some deeper level of Goku, there was hope that they were setting him free for causing more trouble than he was worth. This was quickly stamped out by a strong strike to his shoulders. The strike caused him to collapse to his hands and knees.

He tried to push himself off the ground but for some reason he couldn't muster up the strength to do so. As he strained and struggled he heard the soft chuckle of one the many guards accompanying-six to be exact. He found himself hoisted up by his arms and put on his feet before being shoved forward. He didn't fall that time but they made it clear he was to keep moving forward. He played their game, wondering what it was that they were doing. A cold breeze of air brushed across his face-he had forgotten what that felt like. In fact, it was just then that he was noticing it was night outside.

Had they really been fighting for that long? It honestly didn't feel that long but then again he had been knocked out and captured. Another shove and Goku was back walking at a semi-quick pace. The guards were starting to get annoying, Goku considered breaking out and taking them down. It would be easy-sort of-and then he'd be free. Another shove, this one really strong, forced him to his hands and knees. It was followed by a kick to his rib cage.

"Listen here brat, you're going to stay lay there and die." What? That didn't make any sense, why would he die from just lying there? "Those chains you're wearing are special. They're built to slowly suck the life force out of you-keeping you alive and awake as long as possible." Oh, well that certainly wasn't a good thing. Another kick had him rolling onto his back and clutching his stomach. That one in particular had really hurt when it hit.

"Heh, not so tough now are you? You little brat." Another said whilst crouching down to his level. They continued to talk and drone on and on about something that Goku couldn't really hear. Come to think of it, he couldn't really focus on anything at the moment-almost anything. The moon seemed strangely intriguing... "Hey you little shit, are you even listening?" He growled before raising his fist in the air and bringing it down on the boy's chest, intent on knocking the air out of him.

Fump!

"Wow, easy there man. If you keep hitting him that hard then he'll die before the chains finish their job." One of the guards, who had been silent up until then, said.

"That... wasn't me..." The guard at the epicenter of attention admitted to his comrades. He hadn't even used a half strength punch. The sound couldn't have come from him but if not from him, then who?

Fump-Fump!

"What the?" He said when he realized the sound emanated from the boy's chest. The guards gathered around the still boy, his eyes drooped and staring blankly into the sky. The guard that'd hit him slowly reached down and put his ear to the boy's chest.

FUMP-FUMP!

"Jesus Christ!" The guard said when he jumped back, hand clutching his ear. The sound was steadily getting louder and quicker.

"Damn man, the hell'd you do?" One of the older guards, voice gruff from aging, said to him.

"I didn't do any... thing..." His voice trailed off as he watched the boy begin... changing...

The muscles on his body began to expand and contract rapidly. It made the boy look like he was having a seizure with how much his body was spasming. His mouth opened, spit flying out and his canines began to grow larger. The sound of drums beating was loud enough to be heard from the gate. The boy's outfit tore as his muscles were steadily getting larger and hair seemed to sprout all over his body.

"W-What the hell? I thought he was just a boy!"

"He looks like a damn werewolf!"

"Screw this! I'm leaving!" One of the guards separated form the group. He had an interest in living and wasn't about to fight some monster disguised as a child. That in its self was just creepy and set off warning bells in his mind. He raced back to the gates-intent on getting back inside before what ever that thing was had the chance to kill him. He was only half way to the gates from where he was when the Earth shook from a powerful rumble.

RAAAAAAGH!

The animalistic roar shook the very ground and caused the soldier to trip and fall. He looked over his shoulder at where the other guards should have been, only to find a massive ape like monster. The monster stomped down on the group he was with, silencing their terrified scream. He didn't wait and watch any further, for he was back up and running as fast as he could to the tower. He would be safe inside of there, no monster was powerful enough to destroy that thing-

"AIGH!" He screamed when he was plucked from the ground by a gigantic hand. He was quickly raised and forced to face some thing. Massive blood red glowing eyes that were larger than him himself stared him down. He could have sworn he saw the beast grin at the look of fear on his face. It started squeezing on him and he could feel his armor crushing him. "NO-" He managed to squeak out before he scattered into a pile of gore from the beast crushing him.

Over at the tower were plenty of guards that were on duty. All of them had come to see the commotion when the roar shook the land. None of them expected to see a gigantic monkey slaughter a group of guards. They saw the whole thing and they also saw the beast turn its attention towards them begin its approach. They scattered, some taking up defensive positions and others heading to raise the alarm. By the time the beast reached the gate, the alarm was blaring...

The entire tower shook from the fierce roar of a monster. Erza, who had been climbing it-still rebelling, had been knocked off her feet. Fortunately, there were no guards around to take advantage. Erza quickly shook her head got back to her feet and looked around herself. What ever that thing was, it was powerful-so powerful that even she realized she'd be a bug to the thing. Somehow, once it made its presence known, it gave off a feeling of fear within anyone that heard it. She quickly looked out a window and saw what the thing was.

"Damn it! More monsters?" She thought with tears in his eyes and her teeth grit tight from the frustration of it all. Everything had been going so well Until Rob had died, then it all went down hill from there. Now there was this massive beast with a terrifying amount of power. The building shook again but she had already braced her self. She could her screams pass by the window and even managed to catch a glimpse of a guard falling outside. The beast was attacking the tower, did that mean it was on their side?

The walls collapsed and when the dust settled she could see the beast clearly. It was a gigantic monkey with glowing red eyes. It stared at her and she stared back, frozen and unable to move. It went to reach into the tower and pluck her out but it was intercepted half way. A fire ball exploded against the side of its head-causing it to stumble. The beast turned away from her and began to attack wildly at the forces for the tower.

While it was distracted devastating their forces, she turned and continued to climb the tower. Partially because she had a goal to complete, the other reason being that her instincts were pushing her to flee from the monster. She still had some of the slaves turned rebels following her. If she could get them to safety than at least something came of this besides death. While running they came upon an area the beast had destroyed earlier. From there they caught a glimpse of the beast in action.

Dark wizards used powerful spells to try and subdue it. Guards used various weapons to hinder or injure it. None of it worked as the beast continued to relentlessly murder them all. One of the wizards leaped high into the air, intending to deliver a lightning attack at point blank range. The monster clapped its hands on the dark wizard, reducing them to a broken corpse and letting it fall through the air. Many of the non-magic wielding guards soon realized their fight was hopeless and attempted to abandon the effort. A blinding light shined from their helmets before they charged the beast in a suicidal attack-it was more than happy to give them what they wanted.

Erza snapped herself out of her daze. The beast was causing untold amounts of carnage and destruction to the tower. They needed to hurry if they wanted to escape. Steeling her resolve, she and the group pressed on and eliminated what remained of the security. They took the moment to cheer in success, for they had won!

BOOM!-RUMBLE!-RAAAAGH!

One of the wall collapsed and the entire tower shook more than before. They could see the beast pressed against the tower. Somehow they had conjured up enough force to push it back. The attack had hurt but it was no more than a bruise on it. In fact, it was more infuriated than anything else. It opened its mouth and everyone covered their ears-bracing for an ear piercing roar to come from the beast. It didn't do what they were expecting...

It held the same position for a few moments, as if it were roaring but no one could hear it. Then small dots of white light began to appear around its head. Slowly they hovered towards the mouth, hundred upon thousands of them all gathered there on the beast's tongue. Then the back of its throat begin to light up with the same color of light. It quickly swelled until the mouth was having trouble containing it. It was only then that everyone at the Tower of Heaven realized what it was doing. Like the hand of Zeus coming down from the heavens, everything was deafened and blinded by it.

A powerful beam cut through the encampment and up through the walls. It only stopped when it had reached the mountain range in the distance. The beam finished up its display of power by incinerating of the mountains in the mountain range. The power of the blast shook the ground even from the distance it went. Any resolve that was there to fight the beast had melted away.

Erza could only stare at the beast before, so immensely powerful that it could probably breath on them and crush them. The beast its self seemed to calm down after letting out the steam but it wasn't done. It quickly went to work crushing and mutilating any of the survivors. It did not discriminate between wizard, guard, or slave-it killed them in a horrific display of brutality. Erza couldn't stand by and watch it continue-it was a wild monster and a threat to everyone-she had to stop it!

"There is a mythical monster, Erza, and it looks like a enormous monkey. It only appears in times when it is needed to turn the tide of the battle but make no mistake. It sees neither friend nor foe in anyone. When it appears-its sole purpose is destruction and carnage... Do not try to fight it, for it is much too powerful to beat... but... there is one way to defeat it should you encounter it... Cut off its tail Erza, it's the only way..."

At the time, it seemed like nothing but a fairy tale. She had no idea why Rob even bothered to share that information. Now she was thankful that he'd told her when he did. She needed to find Goku and Jellal but she couldn't just let that thing run rampant. It stood just as much a chance of killing them before she could find them. She took a deep breath and exhaled-she was going to need to focus if she was going to use her magic to cut through the tail. It made trees look like twigs with how big it was.

"What are you doing? Are you going to attack that thing?" Erza turned around there was Simmon, another boy from their group of friends. He had the same generic outfit most kids got in the tower of heaven and had pitch black hair.

"Grandpa told me to do this, I trust him."

She threw her sword in the direction of the monster's tail with all of her strength. It flipped through the air until colliding with its tail, cleaving clean through it. The beast froze, seemingly unable to comprehend what happened. Then, much to her and all of the onlooker's shock, the massive monkey began shrinking. At first slowly but the speed quickly escalated until all the remained was a small figure laying the in the center of where the monkey was. She couldn't believe what she was seeing, it was a boy-but not any boy... it was Goku..

She rushed down to go and meet him. She needed to know he was alright. She needed to know what happened to him. She couldn't just leave him again like they did last time. It didn't take long to reach the boy but, much to her distress, the boy was unconscious.

"Goku!" There was huge smile on the her face. She noticed their friends approaching and quickly called them over. "He's okay! Guys! Come quick!" Everyone was glad to hear that the young boy was okay. One of the surviving adults noticed that the boy was completely nude and decided to give him his shirt to cover up. Everything was over, they had won, but at the same time there was still unfinished business.

"I'm going to find Jellal, I'm strong enough to rescue him, I'll be right back, prepare a way to get out of here!" Before any of them could protest, she hefted Goku onto her back and charged back into the Tower of Heaven. She wasn't going to leave him again, he was going to escape with her and Jellal at the same time...

Erza didn't have to look for too long before she found Jellal. He was alone but looked fine, which was a relief. They could finally get out of there once and for all. She approached him but he didn't approach. In fact, it seemed like he didn't even acknowledge her. Something was wrong with him, she could tell that much but what?

"Hello Erza, I see that you have won and that Goku is well." Something is wrong, her mind screamed to her but she ignored it.

"Yeah, we won and you're right-he's okay. Come on, there's a lot to fill you in on and everyone's waiting for us too." Jellal's eyes darted towards hers.

"Erza you have not seen what I've seen. I finally understand everything and that this tower will lead us to true freedom."

"Jellal... are you okay? You're not making any sense, this is what we want. It's what we've been fighting for this whole time..."

"I see now... you don't understand it and I don't think I'd be able to convince you, not when you're like this-you always were the stubborn one. I'll let you have this false freedom and you can take Goku too. That idiot would never be able to understand what I speak of. "

"Jellal, what are you saying? You're scaring me-"

Without a word and without even letting her finish speaking he appeared in front of her quickly and grabbed her neck strongly. He glared at her before sighing and finally releasing her. Erza dropped to the ground and stared up at him with wide and frightened eyes. He didn't say anything to her while she was on the ground. He walked over to the window and waited for her to stand up before he continued.

"You see that boat here? Take Goku and get out of here and don't think of going to find the others. If you interfere, I will not hesitate to destroy you and the rest of them."

"Jellal please! Stop it! Let's go together to Fairy Tail like we plan-" He had enough of hearing he speak of such silly dreams. He quickly got behind her and hit her hard in the back of her neck. She dropped instantly like a sack of potatoes. He didn't waist time before picking her and Goku and carrying them to the boat he'd pointed out. With a simple spell, he set a destination for the boat to head towards. It's course was set to arrive in the town of Magnolia. He quickly left and sent the boat on its way with the only two passengers it had...

Eventually Erza stirred from the spot she was laying down in. The sun had been beating down on her for hours and her skin had begun to redden from being unprotected the whole time. Slowly the sound of seagulls cawing woke her form her slumber. There was a cool breeze blowing over them but the day was still warm. It took a moment for the memories to come crashing back.

"Where I am?" She said more to her self than anyone else.

"Erza, you're finally awake!" She could hear the distinct voice of her friend Goku talking to her. She turned around and found him with a a light brown sack over his shoulder. He was walking up from the beach behind him. She could make out the form of the boat-it had crashed on the rocks near the sandy shore. He sat down in front of her before engaging her in a conversation.

"You're probably wondering how we got here right?" She nodded dumbly to his question. "Well, you see-Jellal found and rescued me and you. We were both banged up pretty bad. He sent us on the boat to safety while he went back for the others. Don't worry though, he told the guards and their armies were still regrouping-so they had plenty of time to escape." Erza was shocked, those were all lies!

"Goku, you said Jellal told you all this?"

"Well, kind of. He left a note on the boat for me." She frowned, Jellal was covering something up. That was not what happened at all-so why lie to Goku? That idiot would never be able to understand what I speak of. His words played over in her head but none of it made sense. What did they do to Jellal to make him like that?

"I also lost my tail! Those darn guards must have cut it off while I was asleep!" Erza snapped out of her thoughts and looked at her friend. He was slightly stewing in negativity from the loss of his precious tail. She felt a pang of guilt, knowing what truly happened to it and why it happened. "The last time I lost it, it took forever to regrow... oh well-at least we still have each other!" He bounced back with a full blown grin.

The grin was infectious and spread to her too. It then exploded into full blown laughter. Even if they had all gotten separated, they had escaped and were free! The joy was enough to overwhelm her conflicting emotions about Jellal and the others. It honestly reminded her of when they'd hear the funny stories from Grandpa Rob. He expression quickly dropped back into self loathing... How was she going to tell Goku about his death?

"Erza? Erza what's wrong?" She could hear Goku ask.

"Goku..." The words caught in her throat, did she really have the heart to tell him. "I-I miss Grandpa Rob."

"Oh... yeah, I do to... but don't be sad! It's not like we'll never see him again!"

"No, Goku-"

"I bet he's already searching for us right now! Man, I can't wait to see him again-"

"Grandpa Rob is dead!"

Silence...

"W-What..."

"He... he died trying to save me from a sneak attack by some monster."

Silence...

"I guess there's only one thing left to do..." Erza looked back to the young boy. His normal happy mood had been washed away by the news. "We need to go to Fairy Tail."

"Goku, what's the point? We'd be the only ones-"

"That's not the point! Grandpa Rob may not be with us anymore but that doesn't mean we shouldn't still go! We need to get stronger! We can't let people like that do it every again!" She stared at him, some how his fire had been reignited and it was even fiercer than before.

"Goku..."

"... and the only way to do that is to go join Fairy Tail." He gave her his signature grin and held his hand out. Somehow the boy had gotten so worked up that he was standing without either noticing. "Come Erza, let's go!" She watched his hand for a moment before letting a smile grace her features.

"Alright, let's do it." She took his hand and stood up. They had there things from the boat and the only thing left to do was find out where they were and how to reach Fairy Tail. A loud rumble caught the attention of both children. Erza went into a defensive stance, looking around for any source of danger. She was puzzled when she heard chuckles coming from Goku. When she turned to look at him, she found him rubbing the back of his hand with a sheepish expression on his face.

"Sorry, do you think we kind find something to eat? I'm kind of hungry..."