tears from his face with the back of his hand. But she was still unhappy. You could have saved him, Kyoko, she thought bitterly. So cowardly, you are so cowardly.Why do others always have to take on the tasks that you could easily solve yourself? Why are you so damn cowardly?




Katra, Goten and Trunks attacked each other again. At first it looked like the two friends had a good chance of defeating the bounty hunter, but that impression was short-lived. After a few minutes Katra regained the upper hand over the Saiyajins.


With every blow they had to take, Kyoko involuntarily winced. And then, as if she had seen it coming, both boys were on the floor again. Drunk and bloodied, Trunks and Goths lay side by side. With a faint smile on his face, Trunks turned to his best friend. They shared almost everything. Now they would share death too.


"It's not that bad," Trunks said sincerely to Goten. "It doesn't actually hurt at all."


Goten smiled ruefully. "Maybe you know that better than I do by now, but I'm just thinking about what I've missed."

"Can't be much," joked Trunks.


"Do you have any idea," laughed Goten. "Anyway, I've never heard of two guys who are about to die and who are laughing at that."


In the meantime, Goku had to fight again with Vegeta, who wanted to rush to his son's aid.


"What kind of a father are you!", Vegeta yelled angrily at Goku. "You're letting your child die out there. I won't watch it!"


"I know what I'm doing. We can't help you, understand that. We can only buy them some time, then they will die of their injuries. But Dende is injured. As long as he is unconscious, we cannot do them heal."


"Then we can fight with Katra until Dende is conscious again. What's your problem, Kakarott?"


"My problem is that I have to hold you here. If you could calm down," Goku paused when he saw Vegeta's face turn red with anger, "then I could go up against Katra."

"Why only you?" Asked Vegeta.


"He came because of me. He's killing me anyway. But you can go on living. You don't have to risk your life for something that is unnecessary. It's enough for me to die. You see? You have to take care of my family. You have to live. You have to live." to save the earth when it is threatened again. "


Vegeta swallowed when he realized what Kakarott was saying. He equated them. He made him responsible for the continued existence of the people. He instructed him to take care of his family. He treated Vegeta like his best friend. He nodded anxiously. There were requests that couldn't be refused. And Vegeta was grateful for this chance his once worst enemy gave him. He wouldn't turn it down.


Vegeta stopped wanting to walk past Goku. He held out his hand to Goku. "See you soon, my friend," said Vegeta, surprised himself at his words.


Goku smiled warmly, took the outstretched hand and shook it.

"It was a good time. Please explain everything to ChiChi when she woke up. Tell her that I love her and, if it's not too hard for you, train Goten. He needs it badly."


Vegeta nodded. Goku let go of his hand and walked towards Katra. Trunks and Goten ended their conversation and prepared to die at Katra's hand. However, this took its time. He enjoyed seeing the pain on Kyoko's face as she became aware of her friends' imminent death. He could almost see the fight she was fighting with herself. And then she made her decision.


She would die one day anyway, she told herself with the courage of desperation. That could also be simplified a bit. With great quick steps she stepped past Goku to the only two she had ever liked. She knelt in front of Trunks and put her hands on his chest, which rose and fell irregularly. She muttered some hard-to-understand words in her ancestral language and waited for the familiar warm light to spread over his body and close his wounds.

Meanwhile, the fight between Goku and Katra began.


"I'm the one you're looking for," said Goku. "Here I am, now we can compete."


"The fight I've been waiting for a long time," Katra replied happily. "Actually, I planned to take care of the two children first, but we can postpone that too. This delay is no longer important."


Goku glanced quickly at the two boys who were still behind him. Kyoko knelt next to Trunks. What is she doing there? he thought angrily, but took care not to draw Katra's attention to her. Instead, he took up a position from which he could fight well. He transformed into a triple SuperSaiyajin with no difficulty.


Then Katra attacked. Goku blocked the blow with his forearm. Then he took the initiative himself. This was followed by a very quick exchange of blows, which not all members of the Z group could see (partly because they were passed out, partly because their eyes simply did not move fast enough).To Vegeta's and the other's infinite astonishment, a clear realization crystallized: The two seemed to be equally strong. It was probably only a matter of time before Goku would defeat the already battered Katra. But Goku had learned never to underestimate his opponent and accordingly he approached the fight carefully.


Meanwhile, Kyoko's eyes welled up again. Because their magic failed! There was nothing she could do. She just couldn't find the right feeling to heal. Trunks and Goten had to remain injured while Kyoko tried to classify this feeling, which was getting stronger and stronger within her. She felt so helpless. She wasn't happy, she thought bitterly, that was easy to find out. She thought desperately, but she found the description for what she was feeling.


But then her gaze touched the fight between Goku and Katra. And suddenly, as if a flash of lightning had whispered the answer to her within a tenth of a second, she knew what the feeling was called: It was called hate.At that moment, no feeling in Kyoko was stronger than the hatred of the person who had inflicted these terrible wounds on Goten and Trunks, who had come to kill Goku and who had caused them to be tortured. On Katra, the man of the Tchazar people, who had killed so many for the sake of money. Kyoko felt how the fire of hatred slowly consumed her, how it tried to eradicate the good feelings in her, but she let it. At that moment all she wanted was to hurt Katra, to see him suffer, and to see him die.


Katra landed a hit. Goku hit the courtyard with great force, where he stayed for a few moments. When he got up to continue fighting, Kyoko yelled, "Stay where you are! Now it's my turn!"


Completely confused, the Saiyan looked around and saw the determined face of Kyoko, who had risen.


"No, don't do that," Trunks whispered softly, but Kyoko was overwhelmed with hatred.The words didn't get to her. As if in slow motion, she raised her right hand.


"Die!", She hurled into Katra's face, who just stared at her in amazement. His sneering look turned to horror when he saw lightning bolts forming around Kyoko's palm. The electrical charges that Kyoko concentrated in her hand beat higher and higher. Then, without warning, those blinding white flashes struck Katra. He cried out in pain as the lightning ripped through his body. And Kyoko laughed. But none of those present knew the laugh that came out of the girl's mouth. It was high, high-pitched, and most of all ... cruel. This cruelty in Kyoko's voice was much more terrifying than possible death, Trunks thought when he saw the girl he loved so much and who at that moment seemed not Kyoko, but a real goddess of revenge.


And this thought occurred to Kyoko too.


It's not me, she thought in panic, and tried to stop the flow of energy.But there was nothing she could do. The power of magic had overwhelmed her. She had lost control. Kyoko threw her head back in despair. She couldn't breathe. The hatred stole from her heart and she began to think clearly again. But even though she was herself again, she couldn't break the curse. Her face turned into a mask of pain and terror as more and more lightning flashed from her palm and hit Katra's body.


“Help me!” Her scream drowned out the roar of the energy she had released.


Trunks and Goten helped each other to get up. Both were still very unsteady on their feet, but what they did now would decide everything. They knew that. Both concentrated. Trunks gathered energy for one final final flash while Goten prepared a KameHameHa.


"Now!", Both shouted at the same time and let their energy balls run free.

Goku ducked quickly away.


Katra let out one last scream, then the force of the two energy balls hit him.


When the smoke subsided, Katra was nowhere to be seen. His aura could no longer be felt. Gotenks and Trunks sat down next to their friend to comfort Kyoko and to spare their last reserves of strength. Kyoko had hugged Trunks tightly and let her tears flow.


"I never want to do that again," she whispered in complete dismay. "It was so terrible to have no control over me. Never, never again do I want to feel so much hatred. I never would have thought that I was capable of such a thing."


Trunks put a reassuring hand on her hair.


Surrounded by the other members of the Z-Team, Dende, who had woken up in the meantime and was annoyed at having missed the most exciting part, healed the three friends and Goku.


Vegeta was annoyed that Goku was still alive because now, after the unnecessary farewell, he could no longer pretend that he didn't care at all about Kakarott.He was pissed off for reaching out to him. A little apart from the others, Goku had to swear not to tell anyone what they had been talking about.


Kyoko was still clinging to Trunks, who was inadvertently enjoying the situation. Goten stood up and unobtrusively pushed the others away from the