Wo ho! my first story, the first of many! i hope you like it and remember to review! this is only the first chapter to keep you in suspence, the second is coming soon! there is some humor in this, but not enough to be counted for so i listed it under romance, but hopefully there will be more humor so i can put it under that catagory. well, here it is.
It was a cold winter evening, a figure ran down the street like a wild man on fire. He had to get away from it, he just had to! His very existence depended on it! If he stood there any longer, he would be turned to stone for sure! He couldn't fight it, so the only other option was to run, run far away from what stood before him. This man was Krillin and the thing that frightened him so was none other than Android 18. He had accidentally stumbled upon her during one of his evening clear-your-head-or-die-of-worry episodes, sitting on the awning of a small building. Once they had eye contact he knew he had to get away or he would have to finally explain his feelings to her. No matter how strong or brave he could have ever been, she was the one thing that weakened him more than any other power he had ever faced. It was just the look in her eyes that stared deep within his soul like a perusing knife that was both warm and cold at the time. It was the expression on her face that was like a cross between a wounded puppy and a snarling wolf. There were just too many emotions on her face at the same time, to many feeling circling around his head of both fear and love, so much that just could not be explained, so the only option was to run. And the worse part was that she seemed to be able to read his soul and know exactly what he was going to do next. So for the fun of it, she decided to chase him, just to instill more fear in his heart, though little did she know, she will regret this later.
As Krillin ran down the street as fast as his legs could carry him, he begin to run faster when he realized that the very thing he was running from was not far behind. Getting bored of the chase and somewhat tried, 18 decided to end the game by flying ahead of him, stopping her prey dead in his tracks. It did not take long before she had caught up with Krillin and ending what was to her a game of cat and Krillin. If 18 was not as strong as she was, she would have fallen dead into the ground at the impact of the frightened Krillin. Instead, Krillin was the one to fall and all most brake his back and a lot of other parts of his body.
" Alright, get up, no need to morn your defeat, I won fair and square," said 18 half-heartedly.
"Defeat, but I…But you, But we….how was I…how did I… how did you?", said Krillin, cold, hurt, and defeated.
"Ok….. In order… yes, you are defeated, but NOTHING, I won, we were playing chase, you lost because I caught you, I flew and if you where smart, you would have flown as well", said 18, slightly annoyed.
Krillin tried to crawl away unnoticed, but if anyone has ever seen a game of cat vs. mouse, they know that the cat sees all, thus his plans were foiled again. She picked Krillin up by the back of his shirt and hung him up in the air as a mother cat would hold her kitten, only there was no love in this action.
"Ok, I'm not letting you go anywhere until you explain to me why you were running and don't you dare lie to me, because I can sense lies, and believe me, It will be the last thing you ever do in this life! And don't even think about running, because you know full well that I WILL catch you, and you don't want that, trust me, you will be sorry!", said 18, holding a fist to his chin ready to deck his lights out at any given moment.
Then something hit 18 that she though she never had, her conscious!
" Well it's certainly been all time,18", said the corrupted looking, angel version of Android 18.
" Hey, isn't there suppose to be some type of devil with you or something?", said a very confused 18.
" No, clueless, I'm not one of those dumb good and evil side things that pop up on your shoulders and try to tell you what to do, but only wind up confusing you, my name is Eight, and I'm your consensus, meaning if you don't do what I say, your going to wind up burring your self!", said the less than amused Eight.
"Ok…., so why are you here?", said 18 seeming to actually be paying attention for the first time in her life.
"Ok, listen up because I'm only going to say this ONCE. Do not, I repeat DO NOT beat the living day lights out of Krillin! He has done NOTHING to deserve the way you are treating him! I mean look at the poor guy, you frightened so bad he looks like his about to cry!", said Eight.
18 could not help but look down and feel guilty about what she had done. Krillin was just hanging there, frightened and more importantly heart broken. 18 looked down at Krillin almost directly in his face until he could almost feel her cheek against his. 18 slowly relaxed her fist and put Krillin on the ground gently.
"That's the spirit", said Eight, "Now, you may ask him why he ran, BUT DON'T YELL! Ask him softly as possible! Got it?".
"Ok, but if your wrong, I'm going to kill my self", said 18.
" Uh, um, who are you talking to?", said Krillin, still very frightened.
"Um, don't worry about it", said 18, softly, " Look, I'm sorry about earlier, but you still have to tell me why you ran, are you really that afraid of me?"
Krillin was absolutely speechless, but yet he responded with a small nod. 18 gently placed her hand on his shoulder and they walk over to the nearest bench. Krilin was still frightened, but began to calm down once he sat down.
For about ten minutes neither of them said anything, they just say there, staring at each other, wondering who will speech first, until Krillin finally spoke.
" It's been about 3 weeks since you flew away, I was worried if you were dead or something", said Krillin.
"Me?, Dead?, and exactly what would kill me?", said 18 in disbelief.
" We, you could have gotten sick or something, you know, it is -0 right now and is bound to get could colder, or you might get killed or be poisoned or rabid, or something…", said Krillin.
" Well, I don't think that Androids can get colds, and I think that I could take on an army of those pathetic humans in my sleep, and …", she was cut short by Krillin.
" By the way, where do you sleep and have you found 17 yet?", said Krillin.
" Well, as for the sleeping thing, wherever I can, like on a roof or in a tree, and as for 17, well," 18 soon begin to have tears in her eyes, but she would be darned if she was going to let anyone see her crying, so to keep from any explanation, she stood up and turned the other way, but it was almost to obvious to Krillin that she was crying.
" I haven't found him yet, and I most likely never will. I'm beginning to wonder if he was even wished back with the rest of the people killed by Cell. Maybe he was too evil, or just plain too stubborn and decided to stay in HFIL, after all knowing 17 he probably liked the endless challenge of fighting people who just won't and can't die", said the heart broken 18, " leaving me alone on this horror able earth, but its not like it matters any way, even if he came back today I would still be alone for one reason….I'm good and he's still evil and I don't know If I would be able to change him."
"Wait a minute, your GOOD!?", said the now standing Krillin, " But I thought that you were still evil by the way you acted early…", he quickly covered his mouth.
" Earlier? Well if you haven't forgiven me already I will ask you again, I haven't quite gotten the hang of this "good" thing yet, but I know I definitely do not want to be evil anymore, but mark my words, at any give point I could rip this world limb from limb and rule it with an iron fist if I wanted to, but I just have not decided to yet," said a slightly more serious 18.
"Well, in case you decide to, be sure to kill me first, I don't want to be tortured, I would rather die quickly and never have to face the end of your anger, after all, I wouldn't make a good servant anyway, so I'm pretty much useless to you," said Krillin.
Even though it sounded like a joke, he was very serious.
"You can't be serious", said 18, " You mean that you would just let me kill you, no struggle, no fight, no crying, no sorrow, just let me get it over with!?"
"Well, yeah, you obviously stronger than me," said Krillin, " at any given point in time you could just rip my head of, or punch a hole right though me, or anything else you please."
18 was disgusted at the fact of even imagining such thing. She could never hurt Krillin, of all people, It would be down right Blasphemy! It would like running a knife, slowly and painfully, through a sick, wounded puppy's heart.
"How could you even think like that!", snarled 18 in disgust, "I mean who do you think I am, I cold blooded killer? I would never fight someone who I think won't be able to fight back or defend them self, I at lease want a challenge!"
That was not what she was really thinking, what she wanted to say was: I would never hurt you, of all people, because I know you would never hurt me, but she could not find it within her self to do so. She was afraid, afraid that if she would allow herself to fall in love, to tell Krillin how she really felt about him, how much she loved him deep inside, she would lose him forever by some terrible twist of fate, that he would die by the hands of Dr.Gero's one assassin creations for the sake of her, and she could not allow that to happen, knowing that is how she lost everything that she ever loved, by the hands of Satan himself, Dr.Gero. No matter how much she loved him, It was because she loved him that she would never be able to tell him so, In fear that he would die like everything else she ever loved. She would rather never allow herself to love him and keep him alive, than have him die because she loved him. It just had to be this way, that was the only way, or so she thought.
Then Krillin did something he thought he never had the guts to do.
" Would you never kill someone that could not defend themselves, or someone you love?", said Krillin ready for the beating of his life.
Krillin knew that even if what 18 said was true about not killing him, he knew that he was most likely about to be beaten to a bloody pulp by her for saying such a bold statement, but he no longer cared, for he just couldn't keep it in any longer! The images and thoughts that ran though his mind of her day and night was driving him insane! Something had to give or he would die of insanity for sure! He had to tell her now or he most likely would never get another chance.
18 just stood there, never turning around to see the look on Krillin's face, trying to handle what had just come out of Krillin's mouth. She never thought that the scared little mouse that hid in the corner when he even so much tried to talk to her, uttered the very words that she was thinking. She wanted to smack him clean upside his face, but she just couldn't seem to do it .
"Why hide the truth, 18?", said the corrupted-looking angel, Eight, "You know as well as I do that he just read your mind, admit it, your head over heals for the guy!"
" SHUT UP! JUST SHUT UP! GET OUT OF MY HEAD,YOU POOR EXCUSE FOR A BANSHEE! JUST GET OUT AND NEVER SHOW YOUR FREAKY LOOKING FACE TO ME AGAIN!", yelled 18 to her conscious.
Unfortunately, she had yelled this out loud. In fact, so loud that the wind stopped blowing and it seemed as though time stood still. Birds stopped singing, and people stopped whatever they were doing to question her sanity.
" Well, if that's what you really feel about me (sniffles as a tear runs down his cheek ), then I will respect your wishes and leave", said Krillin now completely and utterly heart broken, " Well, I guess this is good bye,18".
" Wait, no, Krillin! I wasn't talking to you!", said 18 as she tried to chase after him, but it was already to late, for Krillin had already diapered into the night, heart-broken and alone.
" No, Krillin, please, don't go", said 18 in a soft voice, now heart-broken and alone as well. Soon, she swallowed her pride and allowed her self to cry, not worrying about who saw her in her moment of weakness. She didn't care anymore, because the only thing that was left for her in the world had now gone away, the one thing that keep her alive, Krillin.
" I've got to find him", and with that, she to flew off into the night, trying to feel for Krillin's ki signal, she that she could set things right. " I won't lose you, too!", and with that, she diapered.
Second Chapter on it's way!