Dragon Ball Z Uncensored

[Ryoko's Biatch]

Foreword by Dr. Marcus Vaun, Professor of Archeology

When Dr. Peter Jones, the editor of this volume, asked me to write an introduction, I initially turned him down. I could not for the life of me think of what I had to offer that Peter Jones couldn't. He's a brilliant, brilliant man and the foremost expert in the field of D'Lo studies. What could anyone say? It was an astounding honor, so how could I turn it down?

So here I am.

For those of you who have little background in the mythology that surrounds the nightmare called D'Lo, he has been recorded in the legends of nearly every civilization on the planet and yet still little is known about him. We may never truly know what he is or why he exists. If he exists. Many years ago, my partner and friend, Alexander Dangerseeker, tried to find the answers to these questions, but he hasn't been heard from in decades. We tried so hard and came up with little. Perhaps this book will allow the next generation to come farther. I hope so.

Dr. Peter Jones needs no introduction. He has been in countless interviews and documentaries and this is just his latest book on the subject. He has collected all of the most important essays and documents that have been written about D'Lo. Many of them are by him, but it does include the only scholarly paper by Lex Dangerseeker on our findings. The first is from a distant cousin of Darren Drozdov, who tragically died in a car accent a few days after its publication. Some have suspected foul play, that the Cult of D'Lo was behind it, but no proof one way or the other has ever come to contradict the official story. A broken neck in a car accident isn't exactly uncommon.

Still, it is coincidences like these that have led to a great amount of speculation and debate in the academic community. There are few facts agreed upon and you may come to your own new interpretation by the time you finish this book. It's almost as likely to be correct as the ones presented here, as scientific proof is sparse and hard to come by. It's a fascinating topic to be sure, one that sparks the imagination.

Ultimately, that's what this is left to. Imagination is what drove many great scientists to discovery. In the absence of hard facts, it takes a creative mind to find the truth. These new ideas, inspiration, epiphany, whatever you want to call it, lead to new methods to measure and examine the world around us. We still need evidence, but sometimes the truth simply comes to us by some unconscious thought. It's difficult to explain, but everyone experiences it. My friend Lex Dangerseeker was inspired by it so many times, it's what made him one of the premier archaeologists of his time.

Well, that said, here are the essays by those so inspired. They may be wild supposition, they may be derived from precise scientific scrutiny, they could be a combination of both. But all of them are both enlightening and horrifying. D'Lo Brown is not a subject to take lightly. I get chills thinking about him. It. But we need this knowledge. It may be our only hope.

Dr. Marcus James Vaun

[Ryoko's Biatch]

In the 8th century AD, there was an Arab scholar by the name of Ali Drozdov who had dedicated his life to the study of the holy prophets of Islam. He began with the fairly recent history of the Prophet Mohammad (peace be upon him) and became a recognized expert on the life of the Prophet. The caliph even called him the most learned man of Islam. But then he began studying the life of Jesus of Nazareth (peace be upon him).

It was in his study of Jesus that he found a set of papers, over 600 years old, that seemed to be written by one of the apostles. Ali Drozdov discovered the first written account of a man known to history only as D'Lo Brown. D'Lo Brown could not even be described as a man, for he was far more horrible and fearsome than any man could be. None of the documents went into detail on the wretch, but Ali Drozdov was frightened by what little he did learn.

At the age of 30 years, Jesus was informed by God Himself of the evil that walked the Earth. Jesus was given the mission to travel, healing the sick, in order to collect information on the doings of D'Lo so that eventually his monsterous actions would be known to the world and hopefully some day a man would rise up with the strength to bring the unspeakable beast down. But things began to turn against Jesus. The Jewish elders felt threatened by Jesus and conspired against him. This did not concern Jesus at first until he learned of the reason for their hate.

D'Lo had discovered the task that Jesus had hoped to undertake and was determined to foil any attempt against him. The secret of D'Lo must be maintained so that the man who would one day be born, the man who held the power to destroy D'Lo (As impossible as such a monumental undertaking may sound!), would never know of the existence of his nemesis, much less be capable of doing in the foul beast. To outright kill Jesus, a man who was gaining quite a prolific following, was out of the question; it may only further reveal the secret doings of D'Lo. So D'Lo whispered lies into the ears of Jesus' enemies.

Rather than reveal himself, Jesus submitted to the misguided whims of the people he had hoped so dearly to save from eternal damnation at the hands of D'Lo Brown. Jesus also feared the terrifying death that awaited him at D'Lo's hands if he resisted. He resigned himself to death on the cross, dying so that future generations might live even if eternally haunted by the dark powers of D'Lo.

With the death of Jesus, all of his work was scattered to the winds, but the apostles were aware of some of the knowledge that Jesus had gained on the wretch. These papers with the words of the apostles were lost in libraries across the Middle East, the Mediterranean and North Africa. Ali Drozdov was the only person to put the pieces together into a coherent history of terror. It was at this point that Ali Drozdov committed himself to picking up where the Prophet Jesus had left off. He must find and compile a comprehensive book containing all information on D'Lo Brown. But hoping to succeed where the divine failed is hubris of the worst kind, which Ali Drozdov was soon to learn.

From this point the story of Ali Drozdov is reduced to the stuff of rumors and legend. No living man knows for sure what the Mad Arab, as he was soon to become, learned in his insane quest for knowledge. It was soon after his discovery of the epistles concerning the life and death of Jesus of Nazareth that those who encountered him noticed his increasingly eccentric behavior. He was a man possessed and by what no one completely knew. He traveled the known world looking for the few in number and light in details accounts of D'Lo Brown. His eyes were wild, he beard unkempt. His manner of speech was frightening and difficult to follow. Those who once looked up to the man were repelled by his disgusting antics and it was not long before he was without companionship.

According to apocrypha, one day at a desert inn located in present day Yemen, Ali Drozdov was ranting to the young children who had come to be amused by his insanity. The adults tried their best to just ignore the Mad Arab. But it was during Ali Drozdov's tale of the death of Jesus that a man in a cloak laughed in a most evil manner. Ali Drozdov turned to look at the man who dared to laugh at him and his face turned the color of death. The cloaked man drove the children away with a ghastly howl and took a seat across from the Mad Arab.

No one knows what the cloaked man told Ali Drozdov, nor who he may have been. Some so-called experts in D'Lo lore insist that it was D'Lo himself. Others scoff at this suggestion, saying the story is either a complete fabrication or altered to fit the mythology that has surrounded the disappearance of Ali Drozdov and the appearance of the D'Lonomicon, the Book of the Law of D'Lo.

Shortly after the supposed events at the desert inn, Ali Drozdov retreated into hiding for the next ten years. What he did while sequestered remains unknown, but some believe that this was the origin of the D'Lonomicon. Perhaps realizing that D'Lo was aware of his actions, Ali Drozdov resolved to go where he believed no man could find him so that he could write the D'Lonomicon in peace. Others believe that he discovered a method of traveling to Hell and it was there he discovered truths that eternally elude the living. Ali Drozdov never wrote what he did nor was it recorded by anyone who spoke to him after his return to civilization. When questioned on his whereabouts, he only said, "If the daemon knew, we would all be dead." Likely, these ten years will forever remain a mystery.

But it is his return that modern scholars are most interested in. In the ten years he spent as a hermit, the once fit and robust Ali Drozdov had deteriorated to the point that he could no longer stand unassisted and frequently carried a cane. His skin was pale and sagged over his bones, his muscles in deep atrophy. He held a large tome with large metal clasps. He refused to let anyone read what was inside the book. Always paranoid, he often accused even his most dear friends of being agents of D'Lo and outright refused to speak with anyone he was not familiar with. Also upon his return, he began to write poetry that, while beautiful, did not seem to make any sense. Collections of these poems can be found in libraries and archives around the world, and experts on the D'Lo mythos will pay outrageous sums of money for the earliest, untranslated editions.

Of course, the experts are also more interested in the fabled D'Lonomicon. No authentic volume has ever been proven to exist, and most reputable historians and archeologists refute any claims that it ever existed in any form. The idea that reading it, or any other book for that matter, will render a man insane for the rest of his days is too fantastic to believe. That such a book could not only be read, but copied and translated, as some say it has been, is even more ridiculous.

But there are unusual circumstances that point to it being true. Many scholars and wealthy collectors have bragged to colleagues that they own a copy of the D'Lonomicon and soon after are discovered mad, missing or dead. The cause of death for all known fatalities has been a broken neck. Some skeptics explain that it is only coincidence and that the D'Lonomicon has never been found in the possession of those so afflicted. Others, believers in the legend of Ali Drozdov, are quite convinced that D'Lo, or cultists devoted to his worship, steal or destroy them after doing their evil, fiendish work. In their favor is the long-standing rumor that within a month of Ali Drozdov ending his ten year long absence, Ali Drozdov was discovered in his cabin, blood drained from his corpse and his neck broken. However, the events of Ali Drozdov's death are hotly contested and no hard facts are known as the quality of record keeping in those times is notoriously bad. It is just as likely that he died of poor health or sickness.

The question remains; What is the D'Lonomicon? Is it instructions on how to destroy D'Lo Brown? Is it simply a telling of D'Lo's history? Or is it something far more sinister? The most prevalent theory is that Ali Drozdov, in the course of his research, discovered a method of killing D'Lo but knew that he was incapable of doing it himself so he had to record it so some future generation might. If that is the case, why did he try so hard to hide it? It's likely that he understood the risks of possessing such knowledge and if he did, he probably did not want to needlessly endanger innocent lives. Perhaps he was simply insane and there was no reason. Perhaps the D'Lonomicon, should it exist, is nothing but the ravings of a madman.

Those who support the theory that the D'Lonomicon is the history of D'Lo use the fact that D'Lo allowed the book to be written at all as proof. This faction also tends to believe that the cloaked man was D'Lo Brown. That night he told Ali Drozdov his story and sent him to write the D'Lonomicon as a warning, to show how powerful he is to those who may seek his death. A variation of this theory says that the cloaked man sold his soul to D'Lo for immense magical powers and that he telepathically imbued Ali Drozdov with the secrets of the supernatural, secrets that Ali Drozdov recorded in the D'Lonomicon. They say the Cult of D'Lo uses this book in their demonic rituals. The first half of the D'Lonomicon gives the history of the universe and D'Lo's role in it, while the second half explains how to call D'Lo and harness his power to further his cause. The foremost authority of the D'Lo mythos, Dr. Peter Jones, wholeheartedly rejects this theory, stating, "D'Lo Brown is the most powerful being ever and there is no way he needs or wants the help of humans. He just wants to drink their blood."

Regardless of the truth or falsity of any of these theories, nearly all agree that there is something strange about the occurrences, rumors and documented evidence. Most religions around the world make some mention of D'Lo Brown or a monster that fits his description. It is possible that it is only a legend that was somehow able to travel the planet and take hold in a majority of the lands it reached. But could a being described by both the Aztecs and Sub-Saharan African cultures, as well as everywhere in between, not have at least some grain of truth? Hopefully, we will never know for sure, for if the legends are, indeed, true, then we are all in a kind of mortal danger we could not begin to comprehend on any level. An evil that will not rest until its bloody hands deliver a running powerbomb to the spines of every man, woman and child on the planet and every other planet in the universe. An evil that won't rest until we all lie cold and dead.

[Seru]

The Idea of D'Lo was so much more powerful than the real thing.

And it's still around!