Dreams Deferred 2: Recurring Nightmares
Recap
I previously wrote the story Dreams Deferred as a birthday gift to a girl I love very much. The brief story of 12 chapters went un-read on , and due to popular demand (and hoping that lightning will strike twice) I decided to write a sequel. For all those too lazy to read the prequel, here's an overview of the romance of two ordinary humans in the DBZ Universe.
SPOILERS!
Thorn was a young teen, dark-skinned with scarlet eyes and curly brown hair, thin and lean. He found himself in a world totally ignorant to his existence, and brooded heavily over the matter. The cynical young man found himself alone, and not just emotionally, when his class at Orange Star High School took the day off to go to the World Martial Arts Tournament. Of course, he wasn't invited, for reasons beyond his comprehension.
Among the class was a popular young girl named Becky. Becky was a gorgeous blonde of 17, and madly in love with a young man named Bill. But her adoration wasn't returned by the lustful young man, as she learned in Satan City Stadium, overhearing his conversation about dumping the younger girl after he got what he wanted out of her. Bearing a newly broken heart, overcome by emotion, Becky raced to the bathroom to ease her pain, possibly permanently.
By now, Thorn had made his way to the Stadium, and Bill attributed Becky's depature with the boy, and started some trouble with him. Thorn won the resulting fight, but Bill's friends ganged up on the boy and dragged him to an alley to beat him senseless. After some pummeling, Thorn escaped to the bathroom, where he and Becky met, Becky having cut herself with a razor. The two talked for a while, much to Thorn's suprise. They had more in common then they ever imagined, ignoring their popularity difference. Their lips drew closer...but would never meet.
An explosion interrupted their moment, as Vegeta, possessed by Babidi, blew up a significant part of the Stadium. Thorn scouted the area and told Becky to go home, horrified by the death and destruction. With a sigh, he pulled Bill from the rubble.
The next day, Thorn and Becky met once more on a hill overlooking the memorial ceremony for everyone who had died at the Stadium at Vegeta's hands. Thorn walked Becky home, and marvelled at the new feelings in his heart, that maybe the world was better than he thought.
He was wrong. Majin Buu had surfaced, and began liberating millions of people of their lives. Becky herself was nearly turned into chocolate when she refused to kiss the pink abomination, but, fortunately for her, Thorn pounced on Buu at the last moment, and the beam harmlessly turned a rock into chocolate. Becky was buried in rubble. Majin Buu let Thorn live, thinking the boy was hugging the fat monster, laughing and flying away. Thorn, not being able to see Becky, thought he was too late and she was dead and did not return to his orphanage that night, his reason to live gone.
Days later, Becky had paid a visit to Thorn's orphanage to visit the boy. His room was coincidentally a bomb shelter, and when she left, nearly every human had been killed by Majin Buu's human genocide attack. She left the city, believing Thorn was dead.
The two met up once more in the middle of the vast wilderness, beaten and broken and illuminated by a giant sphere of energy in the sky upheld by the childish new form of Majin Buu. They exhanged their feelings and one final kiss before dying with the Earth in each other's arms.
Like all humans, Thorn and Becky had been resurrected by the Dragon Balls. However, also like the rest of their species, they had no memories of the events surrounding Majin Buu, and thus, Thorn and Becky did not know eachother anymore. The story ended with the two meeting in the bathroom at Satan Stadium again and exchanging familiar dialogue. But this time, they wouldn't be interrupted by Vegeta..
Recap
I previously wrote the story Dreams Deferred as a birthday gift to a girl I love very much. The brief story of 12 chapters went un-read on , and due to popular demand (and hoping that lightning will strike twice) I decided to write a sequel. For all those too lazy to read the prequel, here's an overview of the romance of two ordinary humans in the DBZ Universe.
SPOILERS!
Thorn was a young teen, dark-skinned with scarlet eyes and curly brown hair, thin and lean. He found himself in a world totally ignorant to his existence, and brooded heavily over the matter. The cynical young man found himself alone, and not just emotionally, when his class at Orange Star High School took the day off to go to the World Martial Arts Tournament. Of course, he wasn't invited, for reasons beyond his comprehension.
Among the class was a popular young girl named Becky. Becky was a gorgeous blonde of 17, and madly in love with a young man named Bill. But her adoration wasn't returned by the lustful young man, as she learned in Satan City Stadium, overhearing his conversation about dumping the younger girl after he got what he wanted out of her. Bearing a newly broken heart, overcome by emotion, Becky raced to the bathroom to ease her pain, possibly permanently.
By now, Thorn had made his way to the Stadium, and Bill attributed Becky's depature with the boy, and started some trouble with him. Thorn won the resulting fight, but Bill's friends ganged up on the boy and dragged him to an alley to beat him senseless. After some pummeling, Thorn escaped to the bathroom, where he and Becky met, Becky having cut herself with a razor. The two talked for a while, much to Thorn's suprise. They had more in common then they ever imagined, ignoring their popularity difference. Their lips drew closer...but would never meet.
An explosion interrupted their moment, as Vegeta, possessed by Babidi, blew up a significant part of the Stadium. Thorn scouted the area and told Becky to go home, horrified by the death and destruction. With a sigh, he pulled Bill from the rubble.
The next day, Thorn and Becky met once more on a hill overlooking the memorial ceremony for everyone who had died at the Stadium at Vegeta's hands. Thorn walked Becky home, and marvelled at the new feelings in his heart, that maybe the world was better than he thought.
He was wrong. Majin Buu had surfaced, and began liberating millions of people of their lives. Becky herself was nearly turned into chocolate when she refused to kiss the pink abomination, but, fortunately for her, Thorn pounced on Buu at the last moment, and the beam harmlessly turned a rock into chocolate. Becky was buried in rubble. Majin Buu let Thorn live, thinking the boy was hugging the fat monster, laughing and flying away. Thorn, not being able to see Becky, thought he was too late and she was dead and did not return to his orphanage that night, his reason to live gone.
Days later, Becky had paid a visit to Thorn's orphanage to visit the boy. His room was coincidentally a bomb shelter, and when she left, nearly every human had been killed by Majin Buu's human genocide attack. She left the city, believing Thorn was dead.
The two met up once more in the middle of the vast wilderness, beaten and broken and illuminated by a giant sphere of energy in the sky upheld by the childish new form of Majin Buu. They exhanged their feelings and one final kiss before dying with the Earth in each other's arms.
Like all humans, Thorn and Becky had been resurrected by the Dragon Balls. However, also like the rest of their species, they had no memories of the events surrounding Majin Buu, and thus, Thorn and Becky did not know eachother anymore. The story ended with the two meeting in the bathroom at Satan Stadium again and exchanging familiar dialogue. But this time, they wouldn't be interrupted by Vegeta..