6 Unique path
As the sun shone above him and noon was rolling in, Raditz was calmly sitting by the waterfall, his body towering over his temporary home.
Why? Because he was no longer an average saiyan warrior, no he had ascended, he was now the legendary! Super! Monkey!
Every Saiyan's most primal form, the Oozaru, a completely calm and peaceful Great ape, with no aura of malice on him, only an aura of tranquility and oneness with nature.
* Flutter *
A large group of pterosaur flew around the armored Oozaru. Seeming as tiny as the birds once did.
But neither of these massive beasts did anything more than to flutter around him, perch on him, or guard his body from any and all threats.
Nature was taking it's course, Raditz had been training his great ape for a whole month now, he was now a constant presence in the ecosystem, local animals had adapted to his presence.
* Squeeeke *
A shrill pterosaur cry echoed in the area, this was a signal, the signal that meant the king beast was about to awaken.
* Grrr *
A low nasal growl escaped the great ape's throat, as it's eyelids opened, completely red eyes were behind the eyelids, but it held no malice.
" Hmm, what is the matter? For you to gather around me? "
Gruffly spoke the great ape, but a booming more beastly aura was added to his original presence.
* Squeeeke *
A bunch of pterosaur began squeaking and making noises, moving around their limbs and wings, but Raditz looked on and nodded a few times for good measure.
" Oh, I see, it's been 5 suns? Thank you for waking me up, I don't feel hungry, but what's to be done should be done. "
* Squeeeke *
Raditz was conversing with the pterosaurs like it was an everyday occasion, and that was indeed the case.
He was in tune with nature, allowing him to connect with plants, animals and the environment, his current state as a beast had given him something only a beast could truly understand.
The title of king of the beasts, for the animals around this forest, he ruled over them, his presence meant both safety and leadership, it was only natural, he was the strongest and most gentle beast.
" Bring it to me, my body should be at it's peak now, and everyone, attack my tail with full force as usual, Vegeta and Nappa got rid of their tail's weakness, I can do it too. "
Raditz ordered the pterosaurs and they quickly sprung to action, when he took on his position as the king of the beasts, he himself wasn't completely sure what animals were trying to express.
But he had done a lot this month, he as a Saiyan had a very good grasp of ki related things, it was in his genetics.
After multiple weeks of observation, he managed to figure out the behaviour of animals and nature from their ki alone, that meant he could now do what the Goku could.
Put his hand on someone's head and read their memories, current thoughts, even malice was something he could now feel.
* Stab *
* Slash *
* Tear *
His tail was being ripped to shreds, at least that was the plan of the pterosaurs, but they couldn't hurt a single hair on his tail, all it did was train his resistance, but that's all he wanted to train.
* Shread *
In his currently form, he was constantly at full power, locking all his ki inside of him kept him at a hundred percent without tiring.
* Slash *
Conserving life energy like this, was the reason gods could sleep for centuries without food, Raditz didn't have their compressed ki, but he did manage to lock whatever he did have inside.
* Flutter *
The remaining pterosaurs were finally back, carrying a large herbivore, and deposited it before their king ape.
" Good job. "
* Zoooom *
Opening his mouth wide, a whitish blue energy was beginning to concentrate in his throat.
* Woooosh *
And he fired his patent Oozaru mouth canon, it was something each Oozaru Instinctually knew, even a baby turned Oozaru could do this.
Like Raditz always said, ki was in Saiyan's every fiber, learning to do this as a human would have taken him a lot longer he would presume.
* Sizzle *
The mouth canon was a special low power version and it's control was impeccable, Raditz managed to burn away non edible parts and cooked the edible ones at correct temperature.
" It's little things like this that build up ki control, even without this body's memories, it's possible to learn ki quickly, Saiyan's are too good with it. "
When Raditz had taken over, this body was dead and original Raditz was long gone, so whatever memory he had was purely biological.
When his soul revived the body, the previous memories stored in this body's brain were naturally inherited by him.
" Okay, it's done, time to eat! "
Picking up the sizzling meat, almost as big as half his body, Raditz began chowing down.
When a Saiyan turned Oozaru and subsequently transformed back, they lose a lot of strength, Raditz had also experienced this, but he also knew the root cause behind this.
" My body expends 10 times my maximum energy, grows big then shrinks back down, all the mass I gain is lost, so is the ki making up that mass, this is what leaves me dead tired. "
That's why Raditz decided to do something different this time around, he simply stayed as an Oozaru and didn't transform back.
This was an impossible feat for a regular Saiyan, as not only do they revert back without a moon, but not many can even keep their minds as Oozaru.
Anyone attempting this would be dead from overexerting themselves, but Raditz managed to avoid that pitfall using his ingenuity.
" Every Oozaru when freshly transformed aren't at their best, now that I have eaten and rested as an Oozaru, the 10 times energy I had to forcibly expel is restored. "
This is what Raditz was doing all this time, even if he reverted back right now, he would only lose the ten times boost, his base wouldn't be tired in the slightest.
His body had long since taken nutrients and got back into it's top shape again.
And this did something extraordinary to him, something which only Goku would have done when he lost the god energy boost against Berrus.
" Just like Goku's body had adapted to the new boost in power and made it his own, my body is doing the same. "
Raditz had done something no Saiyan could do before, stay as a concious Oozaru for a long time, fully mastering his current power.
He ate and slept as an Oozaru, he was the Oozaru, he was not a forceful transformation anymore, he was fully intune with his ki.
" This let my body adapt to it's current power level of 15000, now as long as I transform back, my weak base would find itself severely lacking. "
Smirked Raditz, he took pride in his first power up.
" Given enough time, my body would attempt to make up it's lacking ki by itself, trying to push me back to what I am used to, just like Goku's body did after it got used to his power jump as a god. "
And this is what would push Raditz all the way up to 15000 in base, after all, to his body, he had that power for a long time now, it was not a forceful boost, but his natural state.
This will put him just under Vegeta at 18000, and that was good enough for him, he had at least found a way forward, a unique path formed by the combination of Broly's Oozaru path and Goku's god path.
