Chapter 3: Lets get down to business
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Young Goten: [whining] Father I don't want to do this anymore (Fighting).
Goku: Look Goten. This world is dangerous and this is why I train you…One day this empire will belong to you.
Goten: But father…I don't want to be like you.
Goku: [Kneels] I know you get tired of hearing me say this all the time. However, there will be a day when you'll learn to trust no one.
Goten: I trust you Papa.
Goku: [Sighs] This world will belong to you one day. Remember you are Son Goten heir to the Son fortune. It's in your blood.
~The Next Day: Tea Ceremony Class
"Very good…just the right degree of informal formality. Very well done Son Goten"
It took a split second for me to open my eyes, trying to find comfort in my teacher's kind words. However, her words never made me feel any form of comfort because this class was full of women judging my lady etiquettes. Although—I must admit- this class did serve to give me an insight on how women acted on a day-to-day basis. It did nothing however, to soothe my very manly pride.
"Is it okay if I stretch my legs a bit?" I questioned.
"Ah…muscle tension. Is that why your knees have been jittering?" My teacher questions narrowing her eyes in the process,
"Yes, go ahead. You're excused…also yesterdays fight…that was not very lady-like,"
Immediately I blushed,
"Ah, yes. I'm sorry?" I questioned. Not particularly interested in her views or opinions on how "beautiful" and "noble" young ladies should act properly because Elite men want submissive women. Not wanting to correct her particular views, I decided to leave just like a "proper" young lady. Of-course being a man (a cross-dressing one at that) meant one thing: I had no clue what being a young lady meant. But, I had taken enough clues from my fellow classmates to know that girls walked with a certain sway of the hip, something that was oddly connected with sex appeal. I will inform all of you out there that I, Son Goten have no such thing. The obvious proof lies in the girls who were now giggling behind my back
Breathe in through the nose and exhale through the mouth, I chanted over and over trying to suppress the sudden urge to scream. Once I find myself outside the classroom-and breathing fresh air from one of the open windows-I am flooded with one question,
"WHY AM I IN A THE FUCKING TEA CEREMONY CLASS!?"
Girls who fight don't get rich husbands; my mother's words rang.
How do you expect to find a rich husband-blah, blah, blah rich husband yeah right!
Oddly, I find myself reflecting on yesterday's battle and what it had meant to fight in a male dominated field.
"BACK TO BASICS, GANG! ALL STYLE AND NO SUBSTANCE! BASICS, GODDAMITT!
A bald man yelled. I peaked out my window fantasizing about joining a fighting club and beating every available fighter their. However those ideals were instantly ruined by something so stupid: like yesterday's fight.
Shenron: [In mini form] Finally, you're done. That tea class is boring!
Goten: [Jumps from being startled] Ahhhh! Shenron don't scare me like that! What are you doing out?
Shenron: Just checking on you? After yesterdays fight, you've been a bit paranoid.
Goten: I'll be fine, it's just…when I think about that battle my hands begin to shake uncontrollably. He made me afraid of something that I loved unconditionally something that I breathed in since the moment I was born… and now that innocent feeling is gone. He made me feel like it was my fault-
~(Flashback)
Enemy: [Walking towards Goten] So pathetic. Look at you cowering like a whore… Ever hear about the Legend of the Dragon Balls?
Bang
In my confused state, my enemy had taken the opportunity to grab my neck, slamming me against the nearest wall. Immediately, he took my shock as an opportunity to incase my body against his. And as his eyes glowed with a sadistic happiness I began to wonder why his actions had paralyzed my body from moving. My instincts screamed at me to move, to fight and create the space needed to plan an escape but the more the voice screamed the more I realized how helpless I had become.
Enemy: [Tightening the choke hold and whispering in Goten's ear]It is said that seven magical spheres once existed in our world and they would grant any wish.
Suddenly his hands began to wonder inching closer to places I didn't want him to touch and in that desperation I began to bully myself, to muster some kind of strength to throw him off. I understood my situation clearly but I didn't want to admit that I had now become a victim in his sadistic schemes.
Enemy: Ask me how I know all of this?
Of course it was a hypothetical question because his hold against my throat prohibited me from answering him. Objectified and humiliated I wondered why this man had decided to take this particular course of action. But most of all I hated that his hands and his words had made me feel this way.
Enemy: Cat got your tongue? It's okay. I know because I had a partner who had caused my demise. He destroyed my legacy, an army-the Red Ribbon Army and took with him years of searching. But it didn't matter since I found my own immortality by fusing machine and flesh…why tell you all this?
It's because you remind me of the man who destroyed everything I ever owned.
FUCK.
My mind was reeling moving at an alarming rate I wanted to move but my body still refused to respond to my pleas, almost as if it had disconnected itself from my mind. I wanted to think, to escape but my mind could only wrap itself over one thing, the same thing: Why treat me this way? Why not fight me like every man in this room? Suddenly, the shaking in my body completely stopped once his hand made its way underneath my shirt. His eyes told me he wouldn't fight me, his smell alerted me of his intentions and yet despite all of that I couldn't understand. Why this?
Why not beat me to a pulp?
Why not break my arm in three separate places?
Why this?
Why had this become his final resort?
I wanted to cry not understanding how someone of my power would be rendered to a crying mess of fuckery. I couldn't move, not even when his hands touched places my mother always said were sacred. The animal in me felt cornered repulsed and in my own desperation I had called upon something I had buried deep within me.
Shenron. A beast that glowed a bright golden color as his massive body encased my smaller frame nearly destroying the cage he currently found itself in. And in a desperate attempt to prove my strength I launched an attack.
My father called it Dragon Fist.
Once the commotion of my attack had subsided I looked around assessing the damages of the building (which were very minimal) I began to go through a mental checklist of injuries and as the list went on I realized that nothing particularly felt out of place, no head trauma, no memory loss everything was perfectly fine. Sure I was a bit winded, a little bit drained but for me, this was almost a perfect outcome.
That is until I realized that Dende was out to get me.
I swear he's out to get me because when I glanced at my body I realized that my uniform had been torn to shreds and that I was currently hunched over naked, I needed to keep my eyes away from Trunks (as he was getting closer) and I found myself watching my tail wrap itself around my waist, I needed any distraction, something, to prove that this moment was not happening...he was really close now, I could feel his eyes skimming over my body. I didn't want to be here.
"Shit! He's going to find out my secret!"
~End Flashback
Shenron: At least he didn't find out your secret.
Goten: That's because you decided to bite him.
_~Meeting: Unknown Location
Trunks: [Annoyed] Mother. Why do I have to be here? I just battled Brolly.
Brolly mother! Do you know who he is? A man, not any man, he's about 6 feet tall-puff-daddy-looking-guy and he commands an army…my father's army. Oh! You know who also was there Mr. Pervert, Dr. Gero!
Bulma: [Sighs] Look son you're almost 19, you have yet to find a suitable wife and these meetings-
Luel: [Chuckles] He's just mad! Ignore him.
Bulma: Yes. I get that but why?
Luel: Because your son has finally become a man! He's was trying to woo-
Trunks: Shut up!
Narrator- A couple of weeks ago an emergency meeting was scheduled between the biggest families of the world.
Xenos: [Current Monarch of the constellation Heracles] Let me humbly begin this conversation by thanking all of you for showing up on such a short notice. But this is not a time for formalities…gentleman we are at war! And from the damages we have seen they are targeting the top 5 families: The Briefs Family, the Son Family, the Gilliam family…Alexandria you're here too and of course my family.
Vegeta: [Laughs] This battle has nothing to do with Planet Vegeta.
Alexandria: [Slams hands on the table] You're more of a fool than I thought Vegeta! Look, at this map…Planets have disappeared we have lost a total of 5 planets! And you think this has nothing to do with VEGETA!
Vegeta: No. This has not affected my planet in any way. Until Planet Vegeta has come under attack I will not become a puppet to your "noble" cause.
Xenos: [Lowers a map of the Universe] You see this…this is Andromeda the closest galaxy to planet Earth in the past couple of days we have noticed that 9 planets have disappeared…Helium Prime, a planet close to my home has disappeared in the last 24 hours-
Kakarot: [Head of the Son Family] Wait! Are you saying that 15 planets have gone missing, possibly destroyed, without us knowing?
Alexandria: This is why we have scheduled this meeting. Our calculations say that Earth is the next possible target.
Kakarot: But why are they targeting all of us?
Xenos: Because our family are the only ones with any possible knowledge pertaining to the Dragon Balls
WARNING, WARNING, WARNING, WARNING, WARNING, WARNING
All conversations immediately seized as the emergency sirens blared filling the room with its loud screeches. Suddenly, giant white screens fill every space of the room surrounding every space available with gruesome images of death and war.
Vegeta [Shocked] What's going on?
Xenos: [Confused] Is that Capsule Corp?
_~At Capsule Corp
WARNING, WARNING, WARNING, WARNING, WARNING, WARNING
Orlin (PA): "All warriors, report to the tether."
Orlin (PA): "Students! Campus-wide evacuation."
Brolly: "To the tether! Now! This is not a drill! Let's go, let's go, let's go, come on!"
Goten: Shit. Shit. Shit! MAX! JACK! Move now! To the Pods!
Max: What about you- GOTEN LOOK OUT!
I wondered if I had awoken on the wrong side of the universe today. After my short discussion with Shenron these beasts had showed up dropping like flies from the skies. The once beautiful Sun that shone so brightly was instantly forgotten, disappearing behind the armor of the ships that had quickly taken control of the skies. In a split second hundreds of fellow alumni had died, taken down by the first wave of an unknown alien fleet. Of-course, our school took control of the situation quickly and without hesitation. Immediately, opening escape pods for those who were still alive and looking for survival.
What struck me as shocking was the invaders that looked humanistic, the ones who charged at me trying to add me to the pile of dead humans currently surrounding me. My father always said that we come from a long line of warriors, fighters, whose main purpose was to die in battle:
"Goten, you come from a lineage of strong worriers. We fight in hopes of finding a strong opponent, one who will give us (what we Saiyans call) a beautiful death"
And the more I fought, the more I realized I was a coward because I didn't want to die, that I wasn't fit to follow in my fathers footsteps. This moment was the exact one I had been breed for, the one I dreamed about as a child. But nothing could have ever prepared me for the realities of war.
Jack: [Pleads] PLEASE! Come with us!
Goten: I'll hold them back! Don't worry about me…I need you all to go now!
I can't say that the killings got any easier because it hadn't.
I can't say that I felt good because I didn't.
I can't say I was finally happy to fulfill my legacy (the one my father always spoke of) because in reality I felt like a monster. But all those thoughts were pushed to the side especially when my fellow alum bleed to death on the dirty floors of our campus never to return home,dream and love. It was the end for them.
BOOM
I didn't want to look.
No, that's not right, I couldn't look because seeing the destruction of the escape pods would prove one thing…the death of the people I had so desperately tried to save...correction, I couldn't save.
I didn't want to move,
"Wake-up!" I shouted
"Wake-up" because this was not real. I'm still asleep...that's right. I'm in my bed, sleeping of yesterdays battle.
"Please, let me wake-up!"
I couldn't see anymore because my eyes were clouded by the tears that had threatened to fall. Tell me, how was I going to explain to Max's and Jack's family that they would not be returning home? That I, a Saiyan, had failed to protect 2 people?
This was the life my father had tried to prepared me for.
"Look Son, this world is dangerous...this is why I train you"
Its glorification did nothing to soothe the reality of the situation and the slippage of my humanity.
"AHHHH" I found myself crying. Feeling as the warmth of my tears soaked and caressed the dryness of my cheeks. My throat was sore from the pain emanating from my crippled heart, a painful reminder of what I had failed to save today. Why? Out of all the possibilities and probabilities was I left alive?
"AHHHHHHHHH! Kami! Why?"
Everything burned, the blood that pumped through my veins soaked up the massive river of energy that was now coursing through my veins:
I was an angel before a third of the star's fell
cast with the sternam of satan into the pit of hell
Refuse, resist...war is my destiny
Disorder, unleashed...war is my destiny
Chaos, A.D...war is my destiny
Under a pale gray sky...war is my destiny
Yes, this was indeed my destiny!
~Meeting Unknown Location
Xenos: [Shocked] Kakarot? Is that your spawn?
ChiChi [Shocked] That's my baby!
Trunks: What is she doing?!
Kakarot and Vegeta: SHE'S ASCENDING!
References:
Outlaw Star( which this story is loosely based on)
DragonBall Z (which doesn't belong to me)
Special thanks and dedications:
AngeeMoon
XXXTITANIA SCARLETXXX
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VampireHuntress002
mjmusiclover
I do apologize for the long wait. Chapter 4 will soon be out(encouragement is welcomed)
Constructive criticism is welcomed!
I also apologize for any spelling and grammatical errors (no beta) and my weird writing style
And simple thanks for taking the time out of your busy schedules to read my story it is very humbling!
I love all of you and remember to spread the positivity and love (what the world needs now is love sweet love) you are all beautiful and never forget that!
If you can't love yourself how the hell you gonna love somebody else-can I get an AMEN!