This was really our first truly defined plot so I started it here. If you have anything else that you think I should add just tell me and I will add it and there are parts I am a wee bit fuzzy about so just tell me. Dragon Ball Z does not belong to us [my character is based off Gohan from DBZ] I'm posting this for a friend and it is told mostly from her point of view i own Alex and Zara However.
We all watched, as it fell towards us not knowing what it was or what it would do to our group of survivors. If we had known it would put us through hell and back I don't think we would have waited so long to try to destroy it. Once we realized that it was indeed heading for us and that it was most likely from Lucious we snapped into action. Like normal we figured it to be a little present from our grand king Lucious who loved us so much that he wanted us dead especially me so, I, Zamp, the leader of our small clan jumped up with my saber ready and did my best to strike it but I missed as it disappeared. Gohan, also at ready, did his best to rid us of the danger that we were faced with, but of course he missed also when the black orb disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. Once it disappeared we ordered everyone to assemble quickly in the training fields so they could be accounted for. We looked around everywhere for Ser, another leader in our clan and an instructor for our armies, but he was nowhere to be found. It was then that we realized that the orb was not there in hopes of killing me as we had believed in the beginning, but to take Ser from us for some reason, a reason which we shall never know.
At about that time Tash showed up at our base camp, she told us that she needed a place to stay, she was one of us, and so we all decided that would be just fine.
When I met Tash I knew there was something quite familiar about her but I just couldn't put my finger on it. I would later on realize it.
She started training with us after we explained that our friend, and fellow survivor, was now missing and we didn't know what took him or why. We then moved on to trying to find out whom, where, what, and why. No one knew anyone who would do anything like this but Lucious, but we concluded that we needed to find Ser and get him back before we could make our final attack on Lucious. We needed him to lead out final onslaught in order to take back our world and the galaxy.
Now this was more of a personal loss on my level. No one knew it but I had always loved Ser and, well, I missed him more than anything.
So we determined that if we wanted to find Ser and get him back alive that we would have to move fast, so we started looking at each planet. We ruled out the ones on which no one could live, or where Lucious did not have control. Now we decided to go to the planet closest to Vamon thinking that this is where Lucious would move to first. So we moved to a small planet about 30 thousand light-years from our home planet. We took a portal there and searched around and here is where we ran into the trouble.
It had finally hit me once we arrived on the first planet that Tash was my old daggers instructor way back when. It angered me to see her again, seeing as how unfairly she treated me, when I was better than the others, but oh no she had to make me work the hardest to prove myself.
"Well now I had the chance,"
I thought to myself,
"The chance to make things right, to find out what the hell had happened and why she just didn't like me."
I tried to contain myself when I approached her but when I saw her in the morning after a goodnights sleep, I could no longer contain the 15 years of pain and anger boiling up in me. I lost it and I yelled at her pulling her around to face me but, before I could think of what I really wanted to say, there was the tip of a dagger poking me in the chest, not deep, only enough as a warning. Tash growled and told me never to do that again as she pulled it out and healed my wound, but no, I would not let it go, I pushed.
"Tash, I know who you are now, or should I say 'almighty' master?"
Tash shot a silent glare at me. Because of her silence I continued.
"My old Master of Daggers. Did you come back to test me? See if I am good enough yet? Well I have news for you, I was better than you ever were or ever could be."
That was the final straw for Tash. I just stood there and stared. She took a couple of steps back and I was proudly thinking that she had just backed off but I was sadly mistaken, she took out a handful of daggers and nailed me to a tree with them. I moved swiftly and sent the handful back to her, which she managed to catch and pocket. She finally decided to yell back at me.
"Zamp, you always were the top in my class, yes, that is why I pushed you so hard. Don't you get it? I pushed you harder than everyone so I didn't show favoritism to any student. So you could succeed. I knew you had talent when you hit the targets on the first day with no trouble, while all the others were trying to decided if they should switched classes or not, or even trying to figure out how to hold and throw the damn daggers okay? If I had shown you any amount of favoritism then the parents would have said it was because of your talent with your mind also, which would have gotten me in a large amount of trouble. Don't you see I did all of that to help you out in the end? Can't you see how far you have come? None of the others in your graduating class could ever do what you just did in a million years. Okay I admit it, I was too hard on you sometimes, but can you get over that and move onto the situation at hand? And if not can this at least wait until we have found your friend, then you can get your much needed revenge, alright? He is not here, I do not feel his presence, but I have an idea where he might be."
I, of course being the love struck puppy I was, forgot about 15 years before hand and the whole mornings events when I heard Tash mention saving Ser and having an idea where he might be. I was barely able nod to her left alone then I decided to say what had to be said,
"I am sorry Master."
Tash looked at me funny and cut me off mid-sentence,
"You no longer have to call me that, I prefer Tash anyways, now lets go get, ah, Ser is it?"
I nodded and she moved on back to the portal we came through. Once we had arrived back at base camp we started discussing where Ser could be and how we should get him back, then Tash told us what she knew.
"Zamp, Gohan, Goddra, I think that I know where Ser has been taken, to an old deserted planet called Eugina. Nothing much lives there, in fact nothing can besides some old crows, you don't have anything to worry about besides what ever is keeping Ser there. So lets get a move on."
She then pocketed a beautifully white feather when she finished, making me a bit suspicious, but I quickly threw my suspicion away. The rest of us agreed, and we took off to Eugina right away. Once again we took a portal, it being the only way to get to the deserted planet. When we arrived we saw what Tash meant by deserted, there wasn't even plant life. It was all dead and gone. We saw a few stumps here and there, as Tash order us to follow her. She acted as if she had grown up there, but I knew that there was no way for that to have happened. It was hard to imagine anything ever living on that God-forsaken planet, anything that was or ever did live on it I pitied.
We quickly moved through the desert and onto an area where there were a few standing structures. Well, what we thought were standing structures. They turned out to be the crows Tash had been talking about. Now when I realized what they were I decided to have a little chat with Tash about her "nothing to worry about speech."
"Now, Tash, how can 20 foot crows be NOTHING to worry about? What did you grow up here and this is normal for you? Well, we didn't and we have no idea what the hell these things are capable of. I sure as hell hope you do!"
Just as I was talking to Tash one of them came towards us squawking and trying to bite us. So of course we started to fight back. We went in a blazing. Sabers ignited and Ki balls ready. The bird decided that we were not worth making into lunch and walked away quietly and injured. I simply sighed and looked to Tash once more questioning her motives with my eyes. She simply motioned for us to continue on with her. We all did of course because no one had any better ideas other than to follow her, who knew how to save our friend and my secrete love. So we followed like lost puppy dogs, with out owners and with a lost cause. I sadly trudged on wondering if Ser was even still alive or if this was just some trap. Just as my thoughts were starting to discourage me Tash came to a stop and we halted right behind her.
"What is it now?"
I questioned. All I got was a cold glare of a response and a motion of her hand. I followed her motion and found myself staring at an old ghost town. I then thought to my self,
"So she could have lived here before."
Once again Tash interrupted my thoughts by moving. So once again we followed her to this town, we soon discovered that the town had been burnt beyond rebuilding it. I looked around in shock realizing that this town had not been burnt down but a month or so before. We move onto a small tower of a castle where Tash opened the doors and ordered us to move on in, that this is the building Ser has been put in, telling us that this was where he resided at the time. My heart skipped a beat, as she told me that she felt his presence in this building. I tried my best to telepath him, but there was no response back. It felt as if my heart had stopped, I did not know if he was okay or still alive, I just knew that he was in the building. I moved fast as we hurried down the halls until we came to a fork in the road.
We all decided that it would be best to split up, so some of us took a left and kept going down the hall to the room where there were now doors besides the one on the ceiling, and the others took went to the right which lead to the same area. We heard a rumbling above us; it was then that we noticed a trap door. Gohan looked at us and used telepath to tell us not to speak. We all nodded knowing that he was right. I stood there deep in thought, wondering if that thing up there was Ser, alive or dead, or even being tortured. I could no longer stand it when Gohan flew up and opened the latch. Soon a dog-like thing fell down to the floor howling an evil tune, like it was dieing or about to kill. We decided to name it Devil for its haunting howl. It was scared at first but it soon allowed Gohan to hold it and pet it. Once Devil was comfortable with us we moved on, now with him on our small team.
We moved through the opening and through a door to a hall. Once we got into the hall the door disappeared. We started walking and kept on walking and walking till we realized it was a never-ending hallway. We were in trouble if we did not find our way out. Then Gohan suddenly collapsed and fell into a vision. A vision of a tall strong Unicorn that needed help that it seemed that only he could provide and was trying to connect with him. It was stuck in some building far away. Gohan eventually came to and told us what he had seen. He decided that once we got Ser back that he would find a way to get to Uni, as he called her. I told him that it was his choice and offered him my blessings.
Tash then quietly got up and moved over to the left wall and mumbled something and then took out her dagger and stabbed the wall once and it opened a huge door for us to go into. She moved in threw the door without a word and the rest of us followed. Once inside I used a fire summon to light the candles we had with us and when it was bright enough we saw a wounded Ser hanging from a net near the ceiling. Tash tossed up a dagger to cut him down Gohan then moved to catch him and lay him gently on the floor. We all looked around expecting some sort of fight from something, but it never came so we sat with Ser awhile and stayed at his side and I kissed his head tell him that I loved him and always had, that everything would be okay, that I would find who did this to him and kill them with my bare hands. He barely moved and I looked up to Tash
"What happened to him?"
I questioned. She shook her head,
"We may never know, but lets get moving before we find out what did it to him."
As much as I wanted to kill the thing, I knew it was neither the place nor the time, so we all moved out threw the door Tash had created; I was carrying Ser at the time. We then moved a little farther down the endless hall, now to Gohan and I this seemed senseless but we figured that Tash must know something what we did not so we moved on with out a word. Devil then moved with us and sat down at a small segment of the wall and whined Tash stopped with him and used the same method to open another door, this time it was to the outdoors and we just simply looked down and watched Tash and Devil jumped and land gracefully 50 feet below. I sighed and looked down and used all my Jedi powers I had learned to keep myself from falling too hard while holding Ser, it was quite a challenge, so I landed a little rough. Gohan smiled while he landed perfectly then told us that it was his time to move on. He went his own way and the rest of us went ours. And this is where my group and I are now. Goddra shook his head once he flew down and watched Gohan leave,
"I have a bad feeling about this Hun,"
he said as he moved next to me. One thought is running threw my mind right then, how to tell my love that I am no longer in love with him, but in love with one of my officers. Tash, Goddra, Devil, Ser and I move on towards the east, moving on quickly towards home. We move on until we see someone approaching us, Devil tensed up and howled his haunting howl. Soon the figure notices us and moves to us. Once the figure was close enough I recognized who it was, my son. Zatko was there in the flesh and blood, my long lost son who attacked me several times over. I didn't know how to react. Tash looks to me silently then to Zat.
"Hello Mother," He mumbled on,
"How you doing? Still alive I see."
I simply looked at him and hang my head not knowing where his hatred comes from. He shot a glare at me,
"Oh, so you don't know why I have come?"
He laughed.
"Haven't you wondered where your beloved son has been Mother?"
I look to him in silence. He then smiles an evil cocky smile and continues,
"Well, I will tell you anyways. I have been with my father."
Goddra's head snaps up,
"No you haven't son, I have been with your mother the whole time."
Zat shakes his head,
"So naive you all are, Tash why don't you explain to my mother who my real father is and what she did that night and who with."
Confused as all hell Goddra and I turn to Tash for an explanation. She looks to me sad and not wanting to go on with what she has to say. She swallows hard then starts in on the shocking story.
"Well, Zamp, Goddra, I attended you celebration long ago, your engagement. I was there at the bar with all of you, concealing myself far in a corner not wanting to reveal myself to you quite yet. Well, Goddra I remember you had one too many and stumbled off drunk as can be, and well Zamp you weren't the sober cabby for the night so you had tucked away one too many too. Now you thought that you had stumbled into the same room as your new fiancé, well you didn't. You ended up in the same room with Lucious. I know I should have stopped you, but I did not expect anything of this magnitude to happen, I figured it was harmless. Zat's real father is Lucious."
I look away not knowing what to say. Goddra moves be behind me and wraps his arms around me as to comfort me. He whispers in my ear soft and sweet,
"Hun, you did not know, I do not blame you. At least now we know that it was not our blood that poisoned him."
I sigh and nod, and soon Zat was on his way, promising to return with his real father one day to de-throne me. All I can do is stare in disbelief. My son has the blood of a cold-blooded killer in him.
"I don't know what to do."
I thought.
"How long had he known?"
I wondered to myself,
"How drunk was I?"
I stumble on keeping my thoughts and emotions to myself. We move farther on to a clearing. While on our way there Gohan and his new friend Uni catch up with us. We decide to settle there for the night. Soon we realize our mistake, we aren't alone there. Something is in the woods in the shadows. Gohan, feeling only danger and evil in its presence, growls wanting to know what it is and orders it to come out and show itself. Of course it doesn't. We all move to catch it and kill it if need be, but at our every attempt at catching the thing we miss as it moves way too fast for even the Jedi's with our group. Soon an arrow comes out of the woods near Goddra and hits Uni in the chest. She falls hard to the ground with a small whine.
Now by this time Gohan is furious, he moves over to Uni and patches her up the best he can. Once he is confidant that Uni will be okay for a little while, he gathers all his energy together and creates a huge Ki ball and shoots it in Goddra's direction. Goddra, seeing this ducks. The Ki ball hits nothing but the woods. This angers Gohan even more and with a yell he releases 50 Ki balls in that general direction and ends up ruining the forest more than anything else. Goddra then turns to him in shock along with the rest of us and he explains to him,
"Gohan, buddy, I know I am the worst person in the world to be telling you this, but CHILL!"
Gohan glares at the rest of us and screams,
"Not until I find and kill what hurt Uni!"
With that said he launches another round of Ki balls, with the same result. This time the rest of us kept our mouths shut. We eventually get Gohan to settle down, and move on putting the injured Uni onto Zar's back to carry.
Later we run into our old friend Leo and she joins our clan, when she finds out what is going on she quickly volunteers to help our cause. After this we were on our way again, but we are stopped in our tracks by another cliff. I shake my head and look down,
"This wasn't like this before."
The rest agree. Goddra turns to me,
"You know what is going on here don't you Hun?"
I look at him and sigh to myself,
"I always have, and you see this is a huge game set up by Lucious, it always has been, we need to win this. I know the rules, but when the land changes it means that the rules have changed somehow."
Goddra looks to me with disappointment in his eyes,
"Well, what rules have been changed?"
I don't look at him when I reply this time.
"I don't know that's what makes this so difficult. I am sorry I never told anyone, but I thought it would be best to keep it to myself. You see we must win this game in order to get out world and our Galaxy back, I just don't know how we win, but I sure as hell know how we lose, we die."
Everyone sits back in shock. We start talking and decided that there will be no such thing as loosing this game; we have to win, for the galaxies sake. So we all pack up onto Zar's back and she flies us down with a simple jump and glide. She covers the injured Uni with a few scales of her own and makes sure that she is steady. Gohan is grateful for this and offers Zar money she just laughs at that and says,
"Uh, Gohan, buddy, I appreciate the thought, but I am a dragon what am I going to do with money? Buy some clippers or some breath mints? Naw, keep it for yourself, I enjoy being at your service."
Gohan looks a bit embarrassed but smiles at Zar's witty comments, and nods in agreement. He thanks her and does his best to forget the conversation, but notes never to offer dragons money again. We all smile and get a quick laugh out of the serious conversation. Once on Zar I shrink my secrete lover with a quick shrinking spell and slip him in one of the pockets on my robe. I receive and odd look for this so I decide to explain my action.
"He is much lighter this way, and I won't be able to forget him."
But I keep the true reason to myself, I want him to be close to me with out Goddra noticing or realizing what is going on. I still need to figure out how to explain this all to him. My heart is torn, not knowing what to do, go with the one I had fallen in love with so many years ago, or someone I have just met and seem interested in. I decide to quit thinking about it until I am able to talk to Ser about my feelings. So I quit worrying and move on.
Soon we move onto base camp. I quickly remove Ser from my pocket and place him in his room and un-shrink him. He moves gently and falls back into his deep sleep so I move out quietly.
Once I am back outside Goddra moves to me and hugs me. I move away after I realize what I feel for him, there is love there. I sigh and think for a while longer and then Goddra moves over to me once more with Amanda's ring in his hand and gives it to me. I sigh and take it and place it by my bed. I don't know how to react. Soon he comes to my room and hugs me trying to explain that there are no feelings for Amanda and that he is only fighting by her side. I simply tell him that I understand. He take the ring from our engagement and kisses it gently to show that he loves me I do the same to reassure him. He smiles at me and hugs me and gives me a quick kiss on the cheek, I just kind of stand there trying to decide what my next move will be and what our groups next move will be. I finally, at this point, had discovered how difficult it was to be a leader. There was only one other time in my life where I couldn't separate my feelings from the mission at hand, I couldn't think about what needed to be done. And that was right after Lucious had killed Amar right in front of my eyes. I know right now that I have to get over what Lucious had done and move on to what is at hand.
Seraph soon starts coughing and we all move to him. He soon wakes and everyone leaves us alone knowing that I need to talk to him.
"Ser?"
"Hm?"
"There is something I need to talk to you about."
"What is it?"
"Seraph, ever since I met you so long ago, I have had feelings for you. I think I love you Ser."
He is silent, but after a few seconds I get an,
"Oh..."
"Ser, I don't know how you feel, but I am about to be wed. And I need to know how you feel before I do so, so can you please tell me?"
"I don't know how I feel. It depends on what you mean by love? Do I care for you yes, as a friend, anything more? I'm not sure."
I nod and kiss his head and leave the room. I go out to where everyone is waiting to talk to me. Goddra gets to me first.
"So, Zampar, my love, what is going on in-between you two?"
I look him right in the eyes,
"Nothing my love."
He smiles and believes my every word. He leads me away to a spot where we can talk alone.
"So Hun, when shall we plan the wedding for?"
"Well, we have waited 19 years so some time soon?"
"Well of course some time soon, but when and where and who can perform the ceremony?"
"Nivia could."
"Well call her to us, lets get married tonight"
I smile and agree to that and go to my room to get ready as Goddra goes to his to do the same. I use telepath to ask him about what to wear. He responds. I smile to myself knowing that he was going to say that he never was one to dress up. I am soon ready dressed in my best black leather with my favorite cape and my hair up and out of the way. I walk out of my room to make sure some of our friends could be there. I see Ser and call him over; he looks up and comes over as he is asked.
We all watched, as it fell towards us not knowing what it was or what it would do to our group of survivors. If we had known it would put us through hell and back I don't think we would have waited so long to try to destroy it. Once we realized that it was indeed heading for us and that it was most likely from Lucious we snapped into action. Like normal we figured it to be a little present from our grand king Lucious who loved us so much that he wanted us dead especially me so, I, Zamp, the leader of our small clan jumped up with my saber ready and did my best to strike it but I missed as it disappeared. Gohan, also at ready, did his best to rid us of the danger that we were faced with, but of course he missed also when the black orb disappeared as quickly as it had appeared. Once it disappeared we ordered everyone to assemble quickly in the training fields so they could be accounted for. We looked around everywhere for Ser, another leader in our clan and an instructor for our armies, but he was nowhere to be found. It was then that we realized that the orb was not there in hopes of killing me as we had believed in the beginning, but to take Ser from us for some reason, a reason which we shall never know.
At about that time Tash showed up at our base camp, she told us that she needed a place to stay, she was one of us, and so we all decided that would be just fine.
When I met Tash I knew there was something quite familiar about her but I just couldn't put my finger on it. I would later on realize it.
She started training with us after we explained that our friend, and fellow survivor, was now missing and we didn't know what took him or why. We then moved on to trying to find out whom, where, what, and why. No one knew anyone who would do anything like this but Lucious, but we concluded that we needed to find Ser and get him back before we could make our final attack on Lucious. We needed him to lead out final onslaught in order to take back our world and the galaxy.
Now this was more of a personal loss on my level. No one knew it but I had always loved Ser and, well, I missed him more than anything.
So we determined that if we wanted to find Ser and get him back alive that we would have to move fast, so we started looking at each planet. We ruled out the ones on which no one could live, or where Lucious did not have control. Now we decided to go to the planet closest to Vamon thinking that this is where Lucious would move to first. So we moved to a small planet about 30 thousand light-years from our home planet. We took a portal there and searched around and here is where we ran into the trouble.
It had finally hit me once we arrived on the first planet that Tash was my old daggers instructor way back when. It angered me to see her again, seeing as how unfairly she treated me, when I was better than the others, but oh no she had to make me work the hardest to prove myself.
"Well now I had the chance,"
I thought to myself,
"The chance to make things right, to find out what the hell had happened and why she just didn't like me."
I tried to contain myself when I approached her but when I saw her in the morning after a goodnights sleep, I could no longer contain the 15 years of pain and anger boiling up in me. I lost it and I yelled at her pulling her around to face me but, before I could think of what I really wanted to say, there was the tip of a dagger poking me in the chest, not deep, only enough as a warning. Tash growled and told me never to do that again as she pulled it out and healed my wound, but no, I would not let it go, I pushed.
"Tash, I know who you are now, or should I say 'almighty' master?"
Tash shot a silent glare at me. Because of her silence I continued.
"My old Master of Daggers. Did you come back to test me? See if I am good enough yet? Well I have news for you, I was better than you ever were or ever could be."
That was the final straw for Tash. I just stood there and stared. She took a couple of steps back and I was proudly thinking that she had just backed off but I was sadly mistaken, she took out a handful of daggers and nailed me to a tree with them. I moved swiftly and sent the handful back to her, which she managed to catch and pocket. She finally decided to yell back at me.
"Zamp, you always were the top in my class, yes, that is why I pushed you so hard. Don't you get it? I pushed you harder than everyone so I didn't show favoritism to any student. So you could succeed. I knew you had talent when you hit the targets on the first day with no trouble, while all the others were trying to decided if they should switched classes or not, or even trying to figure out how to hold and throw the damn daggers okay? If I had shown you any amount of favoritism then the parents would have said it was because of your talent with your mind also, which would have gotten me in a large amount of trouble. Don't you see I did all of that to help you out in the end? Can't you see how far you have come? None of the others in your graduating class could ever do what you just did in a million years. Okay I admit it, I was too hard on you sometimes, but can you get over that and move onto the situation at hand? And if not can this at least wait until we have found your friend, then you can get your much needed revenge, alright? He is not here, I do not feel his presence, but I have an idea where he might be."
I, of course being the love struck puppy I was, forgot about 15 years before hand and the whole mornings events when I heard Tash mention saving Ser and having an idea where he might be. I was barely able nod to her left alone then I decided to say what had to be said,
"I am sorry Master."
Tash looked at me funny and cut me off mid-sentence,
"You no longer have to call me that, I prefer Tash anyways, now lets go get, ah, Ser is it?"
I nodded and she moved on back to the portal we came through. Once we had arrived back at base camp we started discussing where Ser could be and how we should get him back, then Tash told us what she knew.
"Zamp, Gohan, Goddra, I think that I know where Ser has been taken, to an old deserted planet called Eugina. Nothing much lives there, in fact nothing can besides some old crows, you don't have anything to worry about besides what ever is keeping Ser there. So lets get a move on."
She then pocketed a beautifully white feather when she finished, making me a bit suspicious, but I quickly threw my suspicion away. The rest of us agreed, and we took off to Eugina right away. Once again we took a portal, it being the only way to get to the deserted planet. When we arrived we saw what Tash meant by deserted, there wasn't even plant life. It was all dead and gone. We saw a few stumps here and there, as Tash order us to follow her. She acted as if she had grown up there, but I knew that there was no way for that to have happened. It was hard to imagine anything ever living on that God-forsaken planet, anything that was or ever did live on it I pitied.
We quickly moved through the desert and onto an area where there were a few standing structures. Well, what we thought were standing structures. They turned out to be the crows Tash had been talking about. Now when I realized what they were I decided to have a little chat with Tash about her "nothing to worry about speech."
"Now, Tash, how can 20 foot crows be NOTHING to worry about? What did you grow up here and this is normal for you? Well, we didn't and we have no idea what the hell these things are capable of. I sure as hell hope you do!"
Just as I was talking to Tash one of them came towards us squawking and trying to bite us. So of course we started to fight back. We went in a blazing. Sabers ignited and Ki balls ready. The bird decided that we were not worth making into lunch and walked away quietly and injured. I simply sighed and looked to Tash once more questioning her motives with my eyes. She simply motioned for us to continue on with her. We all did of course because no one had any better ideas other than to follow her, who knew how to save our friend and my secrete love. So we followed like lost puppy dogs, with out owners and with a lost cause. I sadly trudged on wondering if Ser was even still alive or if this was just some trap. Just as my thoughts were starting to discourage me Tash came to a stop and we halted right behind her.
"What is it now?"
I questioned. All I got was a cold glare of a response and a motion of her hand. I followed her motion and found myself staring at an old ghost town. I then thought to my self,
"So she could have lived here before."
Once again Tash interrupted my thoughts by moving. So once again we followed her to this town, we soon discovered that the town had been burnt beyond rebuilding it. I looked around in shock realizing that this town had not been burnt down but a month or so before. We move onto a small tower of a castle where Tash opened the doors and ordered us to move on in, that this is the building Ser has been put in, telling us that this was where he resided at the time. My heart skipped a beat, as she told me that she felt his presence in this building. I tried my best to telepath him, but there was no response back. It felt as if my heart had stopped, I did not know if he was okay or still alive, I just knew that he was in the building. I moved fast as we hurried down the halls until we came to a fork in the road.
We all decided that it would be best to split up, so some of us took a left and kept going down the hall to the room where there were now doors besides the one on the ceiling, and the others took went to the right which lead to the same area. We heard a rumbling above us; it was then that we noticed a trap door. Gohan looked at us and used telepath to tell us not to speak. We all nodded knowing that he was right. I stood there deep in thought, wondering if that thing up there was Ser, alive or dead, or even being tortured. I could no longer stand it when Gohan flew up and opened the latch. Soon a dog-like thing fell down to the floor howling an evil tune, like it was dieing or about to kill. We decided to name it Devil for its haunting howl. It was scared at first but it soon allowed Gohan to hold it and pet it. Once Devil was comfortable with us we moved on, now with him on our small team.
We moved through the opening and through a door to a hall. Once we got into the hall the door disappeared. We started walking and kept on walking and walking till we realized it was a never-ending hallway. We were in trouble if we did not find our way out. Then Gohan suddenly collapsed and fell into a vision. A vision of a tall strong Unicorn that needed help that it seemed that only he could provide and was trying to connect with him. It was stuck in some building far away. Gohan eventually came to and told us what he had seen. He decided that once we got Ser back that he would find a way to get to Uni, as he called her. I told him that it was his choice and offered him my blessings.
Tash then quietly got up and moved over to the left wall and mumbled something and then took out her dagger and stabbed the wall once and it opened a huge door for us to go into. She moved in threw the door without a word and the rest of us followed. Once inside I used a fire summon to light the candles we had with us and when it was bright enough we saw a wounded Ser hanging from a net near the ceiling. Tash tossed up a dagger to cut him down Gohan then moved to catch him and lay him gently on the floor. We all looked around expecting some sort of fight from something, but it never came so we sat with Ser awhile and stayed at his side and I kissed his head tell him that I loved him and always had, that everything would be okay, that I would find who did this to him and kill them with my bare hands. He barely moved and I looked up to Tash
"What happened to him?"
I questioned. She shook her head,
"We may never know, but lets get moving before we find out what did it to him."
As much as I wanted to kill the thing, I knew it was neither the place nor the time, so we all moved out threw the door Tash had created; I was carrying Ser at the time. We then moved a little farther down the endless hall, now to Gohan and I this seemed senseless but we figured that Tash must know something what we did not so we moved on with out a word. Devil then moved with us and sat down at a small segment of the wall and whined Tash stopped with him and used the same method to open another door, this time it was to the outdoors and we just simply looked down and watched Tash and Devil jumped and land gracefully 50 feet below. I sighed and looked down and used all my Jedi powers I had learned to keep myself from falling too hard while holding Ser, it was quite a challenge, so I landed a little rough. Gohan smiled while he landed perfectly then told us that it was his time to move on. He went his own way and the rest of us went ours. And this is where my group and I are now. Goddra shook his head once he flew down and watched Gohan leave,
"I have a bad feeling about this Hun,"
he said as he moved next to me. One thought is running threw my mind right then, how to tell my love that I am no longer in love with him, but in love with one of my officers. Tash, Goddra, Devil, Ser and I move on towards the east, moving on quickly towards home. We move on until we see someone approaching us, Devil tensed up and howled his haunting howl. Soon the figure notices us and moves to us. Once the figure was close enough I recognized who it was, my son. Zatko was there in the flesh and blood, my long lost son who attacked me several times over. I didn't know how to react. Tash looks to me silently then to Zat.
"Hello Mother," He mumbled on,
"How you doing? Still alive I see."
I simply looked at him and hang my head not knowing where his hatred comes from. He shot a glare at me,
"Oh, so you don't know why I have come?"
He laughed.
"Haven't you wondered where your beloved son has been Mother?"
I look to him in silence. He then smiles an evil cocky smile and continues,
"Well, I will tell you anyways. I have been with my father."
Goddra's head snaps up,
"No you haven't son, I have been with your mother the whole time."
Zat shakes his head,
"So naive you all are, Tash why don't you explain to my mother who my real father is and what she did that night and who with."
Confused as all hell Goddra and I turn to Tash for an explanation. She looks to me sad and not wanting to go on with what she has to say. She swallows hard then starts in on the shocking story.
"Well, Zamp, Goddra, I attended you celebration long ago, your engagement. I was there at the bar with all of you, concealing myself far in a corner not wanting to reveal myself to you quite yet. Well, Goddra I remember you had one too many and stumbled off drunk as can be, and well Zamp you weren't the sober cabby for the night so you had tucked away one too many too. Now you thought that you had stumbled into the same room as your new fiancé, well you didn't. You ended up in the same room with Lucious. I know I should have stopped you, but I did not expect anything of this magnitude to happen, I figured it was harmless. Zat's real father is Lucious."
I look away not knowing what to say. Goddra moves be behind me and wraps his arms around me as to comfort me. He whispers in my ear soft and sweet,
"Hun, you did not know, I do not blame you. At least now we know that it was not our blood that poisoned him."
I sigh and nod, and soon Zat was on his way, promising to return with his real father one day to de-throne me. All I can do is stare in disbelief. My son has the blood of a cold-blooded killer in him.
"I don't know what to do."
I thought.
"How long had he known?"
I wondered to myself,
"How drunk was I?"
I stumble on keeping my thoughts and emotions to myself. We move farther on to a clearing. While on our way there Gohan and his new friend Uni catch up with us. We decide to settle there for the night. Soon we realize our mistake, we aren't alone there. Something is in the woods in the shadows. Gohan, feeling only danger and evil in its presence, growls wanting to know what it is and orders it to come out and show itself. Of course it doesn't. We all move to catch it and kill it if need be, but at our every attempt at catching the thing we miss as it moves way too fast for even the Jedi's with our group. Soon an arrow comes out of the woods near Goddra and hits Uni in the chest. She falls hard to the ground with a small whine.
Now by this time Gohan is furious, he moves over to Uni and patches her up the best he can. Once he is confidant that Uni will be okay for a little while, he gathers all his energy together and creates a huge Ki ball and shoots it in Goddra's direction. Goddra, seeing this ducks. The Ki ball hits nothing but the woods. This angers Gohan even more and with a yell he releases 50 Ki balls in that general direction and ends up ruining the forest more than anything else. Goddra then turns to him in shock along with the rest of us and he explains to him,
"Gohan, buddy, I know I am the worst person in the world to be telling you this, but CHILL!"
Gohan glares at the rest of us and screams,
"Not until I find and kill what hurt Uni!"
With that said he launches another round of Ki balls, with the same result. This time the rest of us kept our mouths shut. We eventually get Gohan to settle down, and move on putting the injured Uni onto Zar's back to carry.
Later we run into our old friend Leo and she joins our clan, when she finds out what is going on she quickly volunteers to help our cause. After this we were on our way again, but we are stopped in our tracks by another cliff. I shake my head and look down,
"This wasn't like this before."
The rest agree. Goddra turns to me,
"You know what is going on here don't you Hun?"
I look at him and sigh to myself,
"I always have, and you see this is a huge game set up by Lucious, it always has been, we need to win this. I know the rules, but when the land changes it means that the rules have changed somehow."
Goddra looks to me with disappointment in his eyes,
"Well, what rules have been changed?"
I don't look at him when I reply this time.
"I don't know that's what makes this so difficult. I am sorry I never told anyone, but I thought it would be best to keep it to myself. You see we must win this game in order to get out world and our Galaxy back, I just don't know how we win, but I sure as hell know how we lose, we die."
Everyone sits back in shock. We start talking and decided that there will be no such thing as loosing this game; we have to win, for the galaxies sake. So we all pack up onto Zar's back and she flies us down with a simple jump and glide. She covers the injured Uni with a few scales of her own and makes sure that she is steady. Gohan is grateful for this and offers Zar money she just laughs at that and says,
"Uh, Gohan, buddy, I appreciate the thought, but I am a dragon what am I going to do with money? Buy some clippers or some breath mints? Naw, keep it for yourself, I enjoy being at your service."
Gohan looks a bit embarrassed but smiles at Zar's witty comments, and nods in agreement. He thanks her and does his best to forget the conversation, but notes never to offer dragons money again. We all smile and get a quick laugh out of the serious conversation. Once on Zar I shrink my secrete lover with a quick shrinking spell and slip him in one of the pockets on my robe. I receive and odd look for this so I decide to explain my action.
"He is much lighter this way, and I won't be able to forget him."
But I keep the true reason to myself, I want him to be close to me with out Goddra noticing or realizing what is going on. I still need to figure out how to explain this all to him. My heart is torn, not knowing what to do, go with the one I had fallen in love with so many years ago, or someone I have just met and seem interested in. I decide to quit thinking about it until I am able to talk to Ser about my feelings. So I quit worrying and move on.
Soon we move onto base camp. I quickly remove Ser from my pocket and place him in his room and un-shrink him. He moves gently and falls back into his deep sleep so I move out quietly.
Once I am back outside Goddra moves to me and hugs me. I move away after I realize what I feel for him, there is love there. I sigh and think for a while longer and then Goddra moves over to me once more with Amanda's ring in his hand and gives it to me. I sigh and take it and place it by my bed. I don't know how to react. Soon he comes to my room and hugs me trying to explain that there are no feelings for Amanda and that he is only fighting by her side. I simply tell him that I understand. He take the ring from our engagement and kisses it gently to show that he loves me I do the same to reassure him. He smiles at me and hugs me and gives me a quick kiss on the cheek, I just kind of stand there trying to decide what my next move will be and what our groups next move will be. I finally, at this point, had discovered how difficult it was to be a leader. There was only one other time in my life where I couldn't separate my feelings from the mission at hand, I couldn't think about what needed to be done. And that was right after Lucious had killed Amar right in front of my eyes. I know right now that I have to get over what Lucious had done and move on to what is at hand.
Seraph soon starts coughing and we all move to him. He soon wakes and everyone leaves us alone knowing that I need to talk to him.
"Ser?"
"Hm?"
"There is something I need to talk to you about."
"What is it?"
"Seraph, ever since I met you so long ago, I have had feelings for you. I think I love you Ser."
He is silent, but after a few seconds I get an,
"Oh..."
"Ser, I don't know how you feel, but I am about to be wed. And I need to know how you feel before I do so, so can you please tell me?"
"I don't know how I feel. It depends on what you mean by love? Do I care for you yes, as a friend, anything more? I'm not sure."
I nod and kiss his head and leave the room. I go out to where everyone is waiting to talk to me. Goddra gets to me first.
"So, Zampar, my love, what is going on in-between you two?"
I look him right in the eyes,
"Nothing my love."
He smiles and believes my every word. He leads me away to a spot where we can talk alone.
"So Hun, when shall we plan the wedding for?"
"Well, we have waited 19 years so some time soon?"
"Well of course some time soon, but when and where and who can perform the ceremony?"
"Nivia could."
"Well call her to us, lets get married tonight"
I smile and agree to that and go to my room to get ready as Goddra goes to his to do the same. I use telepath to ask him about what to wear. He responds. I smile to myself knowing that he was going to say that he never was one to dress up. I am soon ready dressed in my best black leather with my favorite cape and my hair up and out of the way. I walk out of my room to make sure some of our friends could be there. I see Ser and call him over; he looks up and comes over as he is asked.