Finding Hope

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By: Selenity Jade (Jadesama@aol.com)

Prologue
Rating: R

Gone. Everything she had ever known, gone. In only a few short days, her planet had been purged. She was only one of the few humans in existence now. Her friends, family, everyone was gone. Her sweet, ditzy mother, her neck snapped cruelly by a bulky bald monstrosity. Her genius father, her daddy, had been blasted through the heart by a ki blast.

A ki disk had decapitated Yamucha, her sweet boyfriend, as he fought to protect her and their planet. Kuririn, her short, humorous friend, had been ripped in half by one of those monsters' hands as he fought to protect us. Kame-sennin, the old pervert she had known forever, his head blown off by a ki blast from one of those beasts.

Oolong, the hentai pig, burned alive and eaten. Eaten like a worthless animal. Puar, sweet little Puar, had been mutilated and dissected all because of her shape changing abilities. Tenshinhan, his limbs ripped off and left to bleed to death after being beaten by an overly large ape. Chaotzu had been strangled, as he tried to protect his best friend's body.

Turtle, had been crushed underneath their boots. For fun. Lunch, raped and beaten to death by one of the bastards. Even Piccolo, evil Piccolo blasted into oblivion after attempting to fight the largest one of those beasts, and with him went Kami. Mr. Popo killed with a simple punch through his chest. And he hadn't even been fighting. Yajirobe had been shot in the back as he ran away. Korin had been ripped apart at his own tower.

The Ox King killed by a sword-wielding beast who decided it would be humorous to disembowel an older man. Poor, dear Chichi had been raped and beaten in front of their four-year-old son. She died from a swift kick to the head. Little Gohan, sweet and innocent as only a child could be, tortured and maimed, before they put the 'hybrid out of its misery'. And dear Son-kun, Goku had fought until the very end, to protect everything he loved, to protect his home. Until his own body gave up on him and he was executed. As a traitor to *them*.

She alone survived. And she didn't even know why.

Buruma sobbed helplessly against the stone wall. She had been locked in the same small stone room for the gods knew how long. She couldn't see or hear anything but her soft cries. She hadn't eaten since she was captured and her stomach hurt from lack of food. She was thirsty, hungry, dirty, cold and so very tired. She was alone and scared. Never before had she known such terror. What was to be done with her? Why her? She wished that she had been killed with her parents, her friends, with Son-kun. She prayed every minute for death to overtake her. She didn't want to survive any longer. She just wanted to die.

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AN: I chopped off this scene as the prologue. Could you imagine that the original prologue was over 11 pages long? O_O

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