Chapter 44 - Will

"Broly, what are you doing, she is going to die!" Alea screamed as she saw Cana laying on the ground. Her whole body was covered in blood, there were numerous cuts and bruises all over her. Her arm was bent at odd angle. She was obviously heavily injured, there would not be needed much to kill her.

"What are you doing here? Why are you not at the defense line?" Broly furrowed his brows becoming displeased by the tone Alea used.

"They retreated after the thunderstorm began. What is going? Why does she look like that?"

"She just took responsibility for her actions." Broly smiled at them.

Taro gulped as he saw this. The pressure Broly unconsciously released was unreal. They all felt like they were thousands of meters underwater, they could hardly move their body, after he locked onto them.

Alea tried to walk past him towards Cana to give her a healing capsule but she was stopped by an outstretched arm.

"I think you should leave, this has nothing to do with you." Broly spoke as he squinted his eyes.

Alea could not help but picture herself being torn apart if she made another step. But she had to, although they distanced themselves a bit from each other, Cana and she were still friends.

"Don't you think it's enough already? Look at her she can barely move." Broly sensed that Taro was slowly inching forward. He could see that Taro was incredible nervous, his legs and arms were slightly shaking.

"Broly I think you should calm down first, you are clearly not yourself."

"Oh. That's what you think. No, I have not lost my mind. Hahahaha" He grinned as he looked at them, who were fearing to make a move.

"Ha!"

With a ki shockwave he sent them flying, suddenly a figure dashed towards the unconscious Cana and picked her up.

"Oh, you don't!" Broly shouted as he threw a ki sphere at Aize and Cana, but before it reached them it was blasted away. Alea shot it away, as Taro rushed towards Broly with a punch.

Broly just tanked it as he looked at him and slapped him out of his way.

He saw Aize flying away with Cana. Alea positioned herself between them.

"Broly stop! She is still our friend! She made a mistake, but she doesn't deserve to die!" She cried out.

"The way I see it, she tried to kill me, so I will kill her. And if you stand in my way, you will suffer the same fate!"

"Broly-" Before she could say anything further, she was punched in her gut. Salvia was dripping out of her mouth. She kneeled on the ground with her face supporting her body. She used her hand to raise her upper body, only to be hit at in her neck, instantly passing out.

Broly quickly shot through the air, it was only a matter of seconds before he caught up on them.

"Cana it is time for you to die!" He grabbed Aize at his shoulder and flicked him to the ground.

Cana turned around. With a quick scream her ki flared up in a golden light, her muscles increased a bit, she turned into a Super Saiyan. Aize had to have given her few healing capsules to recover so quickly.

With a mocking smile he looked at her.

"Any last words? Hehe."

Cana only bit her lips as she looked at Broly and then at Aize in a crater on the floor, not moving. She reminisced the last few years she has struggled. Even as a Super Saiyan, her struggle would be in vain. She knew she couldn't escape him, she would be dying at the hands of the one she envied.

She slowly lost her will to fight against Broly as she reminisced the last few years she has struggled.

She looked at him.

The one was born for greatness, his latent power and his battle awareness was constantly increasing, there was no way she could keep up with someone like this.

With someone like him around, she would never be able to take revenge.

After learning that she could become a Super Saiyan, she decided to put all her efforts into training. She only had one goal to become stronger and kill this bastard frieza before someone else could come ahead of her.

She was stuck on the thought of revenge. She had to keep her mind occupied, otherwise she would think about her parents, her brother, her sister. Every night she would think about how they lived together, shared their meals, trained together and quarreled about trivial things. She didn't know how lucky she was until she lost them.

She would never be able to fight over food with her siblings or spend time training with her father. She regretted not being able to say how much she loved them. She missed them so much, it teared apart her heart every night. She just couldn't handle it.

She distracted herself with revenge, so she wouldn't need to deal with this pain. This way she could completely block it out.

Not until now. Not until she saw how Aize, Taro and Alea were fighting for her sake, that she was so focused on her past that she didn't realize that she was slowly losing her friends around her, who cared for her.

"I'm sorry, I was stupid. It seems I didn't learn anything from my past. I didn't cherish the ones around me and endangered everyone with my foolishness." She clenched her fist as she said that.

"But this is why. This is why, I can't die here. Not until I redeem myself! Haaaa!"

Her weakened golden ki flared up again, radiating in the night. Her ki was still weak, as she was still burdened by her wounds from the previous battle. But Broly saw that her eyes had changed, instead of the arrogance or the fear, they were filled with determination.

"Should have this insight earlier." Broly grinned as he pulled his fist back. Ki enveloped his hand and thrusted it at her, while Cana was throwing both her arms forward, shooting out ki blasts at the approaching fist.

A huge explosion encompassed both of them. A figure with golden hair fell like a rock through the air to the ground. Hitting the ground without slowing down, creating a crater on impact. Her arms were bloody, her ears were ringing, and her sight was hazy.

"Uwargh"

Suddenly she was hit in the stomach, she could see Broly standing on top of her. His hand had a green hue to it, as he grabbed towards her.