Curse

He scanned the purpled crystal and could see something trapped inside. The crystal was rhythmically pulsating like a heart.

Alea, Cana and Zangya landed beside him shortly after. They looked at each other and quietly asked if this was the Origin Crystal.

Broly furrowed his eyebrows.

"No, I don't think so. It is something else." He suddenly outstretched his arm and shining green ki blade formed around his hand.

He approached the crystal and chopped down on top of it. It went in for a few centimeters before stopping. It not only stopped but slowly pushed the ki blade outside.

"Oh?" Broly grinned. His muscles instantly expanded a bit, his hair rose, and his eye color changed into yellow. Without waiting for a second further he applied more strength into his arm and cut right through the crystal.

Crack!

The crystal instantly broke into two halves falling to one side respectively. A body dropped to the ground. It was slightly trembling, and its breath was shallow.

The two Saiyans waited for Broly to help, attack, to just do something but he only looked at it with interest in his eyes. The girls didn't know what race this creature was, only Zangya knew, since she had killed few of them in the past.

"It is a Frost Demon."

"Frost Demon?!" Alea and Cana were shocked. Especially Cana, as she had already seen Frieza and Cold, but they didn't look like this.

"Yes, a Frost Demon in his final form. This one seems from another family than Frieza's, as he has bluish skin and these crystal-like things on his head and in the middle of his chest are blue as well"

'He looks like Frost from Universe 6.' Of course, Broly didn't say that out loud. He looked at Cana and was astonished that she didn't show any reaction to the revelation other than being surprised.

Cana noticed Broly staring at her and smiled at him. He approached her and embraced her.

"Don't, it's embarrassing…" Cana mumbled as she buried her head in Broly's chest.

"You? Embarrassed? That's new… You don't want to kill it?" Broly asked her.

"I don't care about it. I may have been obsessed with revenge in the past, but now I have found someone to love. I don't need revenge to be happy." She looked up into Broly's eyes. His heart skipped a beat as he returned the gaze. He couldn't help but tighten his hug and lean in for a kiss.

They made out for a few minutes, completely forgetting their surrounding until a cough pushed away the pink atmosphere in the air.

"Cough. He is waking up!" Zangya's ears had a red hue as she pointed at the Frost Demon. Alea only giggled from the side.

Cana unlike her usual boldness became quiet and shy as she blushed and stole glances at Broly. Broly approached the Frost Demon and picked it up before leaning it against the wall. The Frost Demon had opened half his eyes and looked dozily on the ground. He suddenly widened his eyes in shock and tried to back away, but since he was leaning against the wall he couldn't move further back.

Broly distanced himself for a few meters. The Frost Demon looked at them in shock.

"How? How did you damn Saiyans find me??" He shouted at them and wanted to point at them, but he lost strength and sunk to the ground.

The others were of course confused and didn't know what to say until Broly spoke out.

"Hmph. What a joke. You have nowhere to escape, just tell us the location!" Broly looked down on him with a fierce expression. The others looked at him with an expression that said, 'What the fuck are you talking about?'

"No, I will never tell you where we hid the curse breaker!" The Frost Demon suddenly spotted Zangya and shouted at her "What are you doing, Hera? How could you betray us? All of existence will be doomed if they can break it!"

'Curse? What curse is he talking about?'

Broly picked up the Frost Demon. "Tell me everything you know about the curse and I will let you live."

"Never! AHHHHHH!" The Frost Demon suddenly released a terrifying amount of ki as it swept outwards, destroying everything in its path. Broly jumped back and directly went Legendary and created a barrier between the Frost Demon and his group.

After a few seconds the light faded, and the dust slowly settled down. A huge crater was revealed at the spot where the Frost Demon exploded.

A suicide technique that went beyond one's bodies limit. He couldn't believe how strong this last attack was, it was even able to threaten him, if he didn't have paid attention.

"Maybe I should have used another approach. If I acted like a goody two shoes, I could have gained more information. Sigh."

Someone held his hand. He looked at Cana who smiled faintly at him.

"He wouldn't have listened to us anyway. He only saw us as Saiyans and that was reason enough for him."

"Yeah, if he knew that we were clueless about the curse, he wouldn't have told us anything anyway." Alea said as she grasped his other hand, while shrugging her shoulders.

"Yeah, whatever. He was decisive enough to kill himself instead of spilling anything. He would have probably tried to kill you guys at any given chance. It is just a Frost Demon anyway. The universe wouldn't miss him." Zangya spoke out as well.

Broly looked at her with a smile. He will just have to make a wish to Shenlong to get some information. He didn't think he would never find out about it anyway. The only thing that bothered him, was that the Frost Demon seemed to be trapped inside the crystal for eons, which would mean that the curse goes way back…

Broly unconsciously stared at Zangya as he pondered about it.

"What? Don't expect a hug from me! ..." Zangya snorted before turning her head away while a slight blush lingered on her face.

"…and thanks for saving me."

"Us. Saving us." Alea squinted her eyes at Zangya, who avoided her gaze.

Broly petted Alea and Cana's head for a bit before taking a few steps forward. He pushed the things what the Frost Demon said into the back of his mind. He wouldn't have known anything about it, if he didn't come here. He had only gained from it and now it was time to get what he was actually here for.

He started circulating his energy like it was depicted on the wall under the temple and just looked down afterwards. He raised his hand and slashed downwards, creating a ki wave which tore through the ground.

The ground split open for a few kilometers in length and a few meters in width. He headed straight downwards.

It was only a guess, but it seems like he was right. The technique depicted on the wall was not only able to absorb the energy, but it created a faint connecting to the energy inside. Since it is a technique catered towards absorbing a specific energy, it was able to sense the energy the technique attracted.

He flew deeper into the planet as he felt the connection grow stronger. Since he knew that the only living creature on this planet just died, he could only rely on the connection to make out the location. But it was only noticeable in close approximation to the said energy, which would take weeks to find the crystal. He just started to circulate his energy according to the technique and was surprised to find out that he could feel it below him, that was why he headed down now. They shouldn't be far away.

Confirming his guess, he had found another cave with an 8x8x8 big blue crystal hovering in the middle of the room. Inside was energy rotating.

"That was easier than I thought." Zangya said as they landed behind Broly. He didn't bother with her and approached the crystal. He looked around with his vision and tried to sense for something or someone else in the room before he said,

"Cover me, while I am absorbing it." He cut his palm open, pressed it on the crystal and started circulating the technique. He felt the energy inside it being attracted towards his hand and slowly entered his body. It headed towards his center where his ki and lifeforce were being generated, but it didn't enter it but seemed to enforce and expand it with something for a while. Only after half an hour it started entering the empty place where his center was expanding and gathered there. It wasn't some kind of ki or lifeforce, but it was still something he was familiar with.

He endlessly gathered inside the center while a wisp of energy was used to change his center. He guessed that it needed place inside and it had to change the center to accommodate this new energy.

After hours he finally finished absorbing it and he could feel that he gained the same ability or rather affinity to generate this new energy and then he finally remembered where he had felt this energy before.