//------------------------------// // Chapter 1 the dragon's strength. // Story: In the dark of Nightmare Moon // by Tempest_Flare //------------------------------// The Dragon's Strength Son Goku awoke. His wife Chi-Chi the Ox princess lay at his side. He lived a good but dangerous life. He was a Z Fighter one of the great unknown protectors of his adopted home. As the strongest being on the planet, trouble seemed to find him at any time. The universal tournament had ended with Beerus making a wish that Whis told him was for Champa’s earth to be reborn. Now Xeno’s Omniversal tournament was in the works. With all that over he had decided to come home for a few weeks before returning to his training. What woke him was a powerful energy unlike any he had felt before. This energy was enormous but still less than him or Vegeta but like the first time he saw King Piccolo he knew that the new power could be trouble. The dream I was in found myself in a Saiyan pod hurtling towards earth but not as I knew it. I felt power the likes of which only a few worlds could emanate. As I looked I heard Moonie’s voice in my head. “So this is a humans dream…” she said quietly. “Wait something's wrong I can't manifest my physical form.” I felt her flare her magic and as she did that my own power temporarily spiked. “I've only had this problem when in other dimensions where I had inhabited a mind but not a body. You must have slipped through the barriers when you fell asleep. This is no dream! We're in another world!” Moonie you've got to be shitting me! I passed through the barriers of reality! I chuckled. You're kidding aren't you? Wait are you in my head. Why are you in my head? “To answer your questions one,no I'm not kidding and two,I entered your mind to see a human dream. Seeing as you were the safest human around I thought you were a good starting point for me.” Well if you had asked I would of let you. “You gave me no chance to. You just warned me and went to bed! How could I ask for your permission if you were asleep?” I thought you could knock on a dream like a door! After all, it's what I do. “Y-you can dream walk?” That I can. I can invade dreams too. But I tend to find it's safer to enter with the dreamer's permission so I knock on their dreams to enter. “But can't that damage the dreamers mind?” Not really human minds have had to adapt to harsher conditions and have built up stronger mentalities because of this. “Wow. So a human being has a stronger mind because of the world they live in?” Yep! Now stop talking! I think I recognize the planet we're heading to. It-it’s earth! But this earth…? “What is the matter Tempè?” It can't be! This is DBZ earth! That's the only thing that I can think of after seeing the Lookout! I think it's safe for me to assume that we have landed after Frieza went golden from the power I sense. The only thing I wonder is how I got here? As I fell past the Lookout I decided to bust out of the pod and find Goku. I focused on my Dragonoid power and felt the change start. My feathered wings melted the feathers fusing together and stretching out into leathery membranes. The wing bones lengthened and grew stronger to support my new weight. As that happened my whole body grew bulletproof and blastproof scales the color of a new moon. My arms grew spikes and my fingernails transformed into five-inch retractable scalpel sharp claws that also had a numbing touch. My whole body got denser as my tissues and organs compacted and grew more efficient. My muscles and bones increased by as much as 40x in strength and I grew my dragon's tail. My tail made it hard to stay in the pod and as it kept growing. I grew taller as well. I was never a very short girl but I could stand to gain a little height so when my 5’4” frame increased to 5’9” I loved it. That was the last change. I was now a 5’9” 240 lbs half dragon hybrid. The pod I was in was creaking under the pressure my new form was exerting and as I focused the thing seemed to quiver. I found the point where it seemed weakest and shot my clawed fist through the metal. I then extended my hidden scale blade and cut my way out. The blade was made of scales I could reform after shedding them. They lay just under my weighted forearm gauntlets and were just as sharp as my claws if not more so. Knowing The Z Fighters had to of sensed my energy I decided to go to the Lookout to wait for them there but as I landed I found that Future Trunks had shown up and boy was she pissed. She took one look at me and drew her new sword. She then went Super Saiyan 3 and rocketed forward swinging down as she moved. Goku had called his friends and confirmed that they felt what he had. He felt two of the same energy signatures both were Trunks but Bulma had told him her daughter was in the gravity room for training so she couldn't be at the Lookout. Knowing this Goku came to the obvious conclusion Future Trunks had returned to her timeline. As he could feel F Trunks’ energy battling with the new being he focused and using Instant Transmission he made it to the Lookout. When he looked for the two he saw something he couldn't explain. It looked like F Trunks was fighting a girl as a Super Saiyan 3 but the girl was matching her blows with easy counters. As he saw the girl (who he now saw was a humanoid dragon) landed a brutal kick to F Trunks’ stomach causing the super Saiyan to drop her blade but remain transformed. And as F Trunks was about to get back up the girl held out her hand and charged up a ball of energy Goku could feel from his spot 30 yards away. He then heard the strange girl speak. “Give up young one We do not wish to destroy you or this world. We just ask can you explain why you are doing this?” Moony asked through me. “You killed her you killed my mother I'll never forgive you for that!” Future Trunks screamed at us. “We would never do something like that. Do you even know who we are?” Moony asked. “No, I don't. All she told me that was a dragon who killed the one that walked on two legs.” Future Trunks stated. “How do you even know that I thought the Dragonballs were gone,” I stated. “I thought so too but my mother had remembered the Namekian Dragon Balls she hoped that she could locate them by expanding the reach of the dragon radar. She then rebuilt the ship that brought Goku to the original Namekian planet and sent it to me when she found the new one. Realizing that I would be gone and not able to defend earth if anything showed up to threaten the planet she decide to use the training room that she built for my father the train along side me even in her old age she somehow became a very capable fighter and after training again in the hyperbolic time chamber of my timeline I was able to reach this level of power a Super Saiyan 3. My mother somehow was able to reach a power equal to a normal Super Saiyan I'm not sure how she was able to do this but that power was still not enough for you! You destroyed her! She was barely able to let me know after everyone was wished back before she died yet again I don't know how but you killed her and would not let her return. “Well did she tell you what I look like cuz I've never been to that world. I have never been to your Timeline, this the first time I ever even crossed the dimensional gap!” I asked knowing for sure that neither I or Moonie had been in her timeline and we sure as hell didn’t kill Bulma! “No, she just said with a dragon walking on two legs and that it called itself a nightmare, a shadow.” Future Trunks said. “I know a few beings like me but what you described sounds like a Shadow Dragon something that can be created by the negative energy of the Dragonballs. Should they be overpowered with it this power can deny a being reincarnation and rebirth through wishes. It seems that when Piccolo was killed the shadow dragons were released because the creator of there Dragonballs was destroyed. The Dragonballs themselves cracked or crumbled to dust releasing all the negative energy creating the seven shadow dragons. One of them calls itself the nightmare dragon. I do not know what its real name is but has Shenron as part of it. That is what killed your mother and that is what the denied her a rebirth. I'm not the one you seek, seek out the shadow Dragons! Destroy them and your mother will be reborn. Since you finally remembered in the Namekians and their Dragon Balls you can bring back everyone. Have you already?” “Well yes, I have. Even Goku came back! I don't know how I'm just glad that I'm able to live a more peaceful life and the rebuilding is better with everyone now that the androids are dead. Now that I know that these shadow dragons are responsible I'll hunt them down destroy them but, how did you know about them?” You know the multiverse seriously your timelines I live in an Oververse another part of a multiverse one that can observe lower multiverses in the universal systems. Your world is one of the few that I can see most often. I'm surprised that you even exist now for you have your own self in this world and you know it I'm just glad that Goku over there has not attacked. Shadow dragons exist in a parallel timeline to this one where there is another level of Super Saiyan power that Goku achieved called the Super Saiyan 4 a power that is great and almost equal to that of a Super Saiyan God Super Saiyan but is hard to control a Saiyan's destructive urges. It has yet to be mastered. The shadow dragons were defeated by Goku in this form up until the last 1 Omega Shenron a powerful dragon infused with the power of all of the other shadow dragons through absorbing their Dragonballs. Stronger than the strongest of all the shadow dragons when fused with the other six Dragonballs he became the most powerful evil force in the Universe. As Goku heard all this he wondered could he reach this level of power. This whole time the two of them were still fighting but instead of going all out they were now sparring and seeing as this girl could easily keep up with a Super Saiyan 3 Goku decided to pull out all the stops and turned into a Super Saiyan blue as it’s called now. Goku then fired off a ki blast just to see if she could deflect it while still fighting future Trunks. I sensed Goku's massive increase in power and his launching of the ki blast and as I reach me I instantly transported it all the way to the other side of the world using my magic. When trunks saw what I did her mouth fell open and I knocked a good one upside her head. I then decided to ask her why she came here in the first place when she did not even know that I existed until this point in time. She said that her mother had figured out a way to track dragons as well. Before she left again she gave her the password for the way to track them using the dragon radar and as she found out it spanned the multiverse instead of just her universe’s timeline. She found my power and thought that since I was so powerful that I had to be the one to kill her mother. She didn't even notice the other blips that were still in her universe and timeline. She apologized to me and asked me to come with her to her timeline to hunt down the shadow dragons. I said no because I knew that I was needed here somehow and I knew that she had the power to defeat even Omega Shenron. As Future Trunks left back to her own timeline she wished me good luck in the training with Goku. Goku was still in Super Saiyan blue state and asked why he couldn't sense the second ki that was within me until he was in that state. I explained that the second being within me was a goddess within her own world one that controlled shadows in the night. Moonie scoffed at the insinuation that she was merely a goddess. She's the queen of all goddesses but she knew the humility of losing to her sister and her sister’s student twice so she agreed that she was no longer going to pursue revenge. She also knew that she never even wanted revenge she just wanted to give her sister a break. Being the dark side of Luna wasn't what she was intended to be known for. But instead as somepony that could give Tia a break from her royal duties using the extra power that she gained from this form. But when she was separated from Luna and became her own entity she realized that she was now a sister herself, the youngest of the three or four that she now knew. Upon hearing that Goku could sense my ki without being in God state I realized I hadn't even reached my godly level of control and that's when something unexpected happened Beerus and Whis showed up asking why they both felt a strong Ki. This is something that shouldn’t have been possible since Majin Buu was destroyed. With that kind of power they felt a very weak ki next to it, somehow I had my goddess ki but with Goku's level of training he had not been able to truly notice I had it at all now. Seeing as I had my power but it was so low I could not even use it I knew I needed training. Beerus turned around when I mentioned who I was and just like that Moonie’s magic flared fusing with my power in somehow making me even stronger. I don't know what happened at that point but when Moonie saw his face a dark rage awoke her negative power. A god of Destruction vs a goddess of nightmares. Our greatest strength awoke fusing Moonie’s power with my own and somehow this awoke my full goddess powers. I didn't know at that point that we were emanating Dark energy and I was using a link to her and even at this point Luna since the nightmare power was awakening. I asked Moonie to calm down but it seems that Beerus reacted the same way too and Moonie took control of my body to protect me. Using her magic to teleport both me and the god of destruction far enough away from any galaxies that we would not destroy any living beings making him even madder when she using my innate magical ability and her control unleashed a massive blast at him. I never realized that they had met before and when Nightmare explained this to me later she said that she had lived longer than even Luna and Tia but as an ethereal being that had no real sense of self. She had met Beerus once and he locked away her memories and sent her to a place where peace was the only thing around, hoping that her power would be completely sealed. But when sensing Luna’s hate Moonie woke up with her power but not her memories transforming Luna into a dark mare but sensing a sympathetic soul instead of being evil she just wanted to be accepted. It seemed even then that Moonie’s full power had not been unleashed and only one she linked to me and met Beerus again the seal on her memories broke and showed that she’d been through multiverse Travel many times explaining why both me and her were confused and living in the one body while she was with me she also explained to me through unlocking memories of my own lifetime I would travel to different worlds in my dreams and live many lives and now I could understand why I was connected to so many worlds. All this was explained to me as Moonie and beerus fought. They basically used their most powerful attacks and for some reason, Beerus and nightmares rage calmed down showing that they both knew they were going to destroy themselves if they used any more power. I, on the other hand, had much power. More than I knew how to control so as I said earlier Moonie had to control my body to keep it in check until I could fully understand it. there is one problem though I didn't even know why I had this power! I thought that I was just a simple alicorn! But it turns out the element of destiny is not just one universe-centric but Omniverse centric meaning I was linked to everything but choose to be in Equestria for its peace. After both Deity’s rage dissipated Moonie gave me control of my newly upgraded powers. Beerus noticed the change and decided to take a few minutes to test me and my power. As he started to spar with me Moonie guided much of my actions at first helping me get acquainted with my new abilities. When Whis showed up with Goku and Vegeta they witnessed my new power firsthand as all three jumped in to fight against me not knowing that we were training at this point. I easily blocked the two blue haired Saiyans attacks and had a mental convo with Whis telling him what was happening. With the strongest of the four standing down and Beerus in on the prank( I’d planned it with him and Moonie earlier) I then went on the offensive. Using a ki blast I hit Goku temporarily stunning him and knocked him upside the head just like when I fought F Trunks earlier. Then moving at speeds faster than light I hit Vegeta in the back knocking him unconscious. I then proceeded to draw my cutie mark on their outfits next to Whis’own marking. Both still dazed I teleported the whole group back to earth to see the two Saiyan's reactions to Our idea.