Chapter 65 - Lessons on the Saiyans

Inside the ship, Lila and I sat on our respective beds as she asked me questions about the history I just explained to her.

"So you're a warrior race, who conquered and sold planets?" Lila asked.

"Correct." I nodded.

"And you were enslaved by someone called Frieza, who used your race to do the same stuff you did before, only this time it was for him?" She asked.

"Also correct." I nodded once more.

"Then you fought Frieza and made him so angry that he destroyed your planet?" She asked.

"Technically it was a joint effort with me and his brother, but I wasn't technically working under him yet, so you could probably just split the credit between us." I told her.

She nodded and then asked, "Okay, and his brother is Cooler, who is also a tyrant?"

"Yup." I replied.

"But he's a better tyrant... somehow?" She asks, wondering if there even is such thing as 'better' tyranny.

"You would rather work for him than for Frieza, yeah." I said.

"Okay, but how does Super Saiyan factor into all of this?" She asked.

"Frieza came because of the rumors about me being the Super Saiyan of Legend. Since Frieza was afraid of the possible existence of the Super Saiyan, he went to Planet Vegeta to try and kill me." I explained to her.

"But you weren't a Super Saiyan yet?" She asked.

"No, but it wouldn't have mattered. Frieza wouldn't have let me live anyway." I told her.

"Okay, and just so we're clear, the Legend of the Super Saiyan is completely different from the Legend of the Super Saiyan God, right?" She asks.

"Completely." I nod my head.

"Okay, tell me about this Super Saiyan Legend first." She said.

"I mean... you've seen it..." I say to her.

"Just tell me. I want all the facts." She says, waving her hand dismissively.

"Okay..." I muttered, not really seeing the point, but doing it anyway. "It's believed that once every one-thousand years that an exceptional Saiyan will be born on Planet Vegeta."

"The Super Saiyan." She says.

"Mhm." I responded with a hum. "And when that child is born, he will have power greater than all other Saiyans."

"And that child is you?" She asked.

"No, that would be my little brother, Broly." I replied.

"Alright then..." She nods, seemingly still following along, "And the Legend of the Super Saiyan God?"

"On Planet Vegeta, during a time of civil war, five Saiyans with righteous hearts came together and poured their energy into a sixth, creating the first Super Saiyan God." I said.

"And that one was Yamoshi, who was later killed by Cumber, who had both Super Saiyan and another transformation called Evil Saiyan?" She asked.

"You got it." I nodded.

"Okay, so did you undergo the same ritual as Yamoshi did all those years ago?" She asked.

"No, I didn't. I obtained the form another way." I replied, shaking my head.

"And then you changed the name from Super Saiyan God to just Saiyan God, because there's a transformation above that in which the Saiyan God goes Super Saiyan." She says, struggling a little bit to word the sentence correctly.

"Yeah. And that level above Saiyan God has blue hair instead of red." I tell her.

"And the one called Cumber, his Evil Saiyan transformation can be fused with all these other transformations?" She asks.

"Yeah, basically." I replied.

"And you also have this Evil Saiyan transformation, but even though you have it, it doesn't necessarily mean that you're evil?" She asks, wondering how that works given the name.

"Mhm." I nodded. "Evil Saiyan is just when a Saiyan forgoes all else and pursues power."

"But why call it Evil Saiyan?" She asked. "Couldn't you just call it... Wrathful Saiyan?"

"Nope, that's the name of another transformation." I tell her.

"Okay then..." She mutters. "Is there... anything else I'm missing?"

"Uh... I don't think so..." I responded, thinking of anything I might have missed. "Oh, Super Saiyan has multiple levels."

"How many?" She asks.

"Three or four, depending on how true some of the old folk stories are."

I still don't know if Super Saiyan 4 was possible, so I'll just keep that under wraps.

"And what are they?" She asks.

"Oh, they're just named Super Saiyan one through four, the only difference is how they look." I tell her, "You've seen how Super Saiyan looks like. Super Saiyan 2 has spikier hair and lightning sparking around them. Super Saiyan 3 has longer, spikier hair with alot more lighting sparking. And Super Saiyan 4 may or may not exist."

Lila looks at me, taking in all of this information before taking a deep breath, standing up and walking out of the ship.

Yeah, I probably should've expected that...

"Where are you going?" I asked as I stood up and rushed after her.

"I just... I just need some air..." She says, her hand motioning for me to stay back.

I watch her walk out of the cave and I wonder if I should've just lied to her instead. I guess it was too late for that now.

I walk back to the ship and lay down on my bed, waiting for her to return.

Minutes went by and I thought about going after her, but then I just decide to give her space. But then an hour went by... then two, and she still wasn't back.

"Screw it..." I said to myself as I got up and exited the cave.

Using my Ki sense to try and find her, I feel a feint power level coming from near the mountain range a few miles away.

I immediately fly upward into the sky and blitz towards her location.

Arriving there in only a few seconds, I land right behind her, seeing her sitting down on the edge and overlooking the land below.

"I said I needed some air..." She says, but her voice didn't sound angry.

"It's been two hours." I told her.

"It has...?" She muttered softly. "I'm sorry..."

"It's fine..." I replied in the same tone.

I walk up and sit down beside her, taking in the view from above.

"Breathtaking, isn't it...?" She asked.

"It is." I nodded.

"I used to love doing this before I... died... Going to distant planets and looking down on them from their highest peak..." She tells me.

"I can understand why." I said.

Before, the landscape looked nothing more than post apocalyptic. But after making my wish, it turned into something you can only dream of.

Lush green grass, streams and lakes filled with pinkish colored water, mountain ranges as far as the eye could see. It was a beautiful planet.

"I guess I'm gonna have to workshop the name a bit, huh?" I asked lightheartedly. "Apophis doesn't really fit with all this nice scenery."

"I guess not..." She mutters.

Her tone causes my smile to falter and I look at her with a worrying gaze.

"Hey... Zeni for your thoughts?" I asked.

"Hmm?" She looked up at me confused.

"It's a... Nevermind. What's wrong?" I ask her.

"It's fine. It's just a me problem. You don't want to hear about it." She says softly, hugging her legs into chest.

I look at her sympathetically and slide closer, nudging her with my elbow, which gets her to look back up at me.

"Try me."