Well, here's the next chapter. Please read and review.
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(One Day Later – 365)
Cell heard the commotion from the house and assumed it was her 'party' going on, the music was dreadful, but luckily he didn't have his super-hearing just yet or he would've gone crazy.
She had come earlier to give him food and even though she seemed happy that it was her birthday she also seemed nervous, he assumed it was about the thing her mother organized.
As he was still in thought the barn door flew open and he was shocked to see two teenagers stumble in, they were attached to other like they were Siamese twins, but they were doing to each other what no brother or sister would do.
Cell was about to hiss to make his presence known when he stopped; this was the perfect opportunity to absorb them and accelerate his growth greatly. He crawled towards them slowly and silently, they didn't notice him as they were too focused on each other.
All he needed to do was bite the males shin so that he couldn't move and then attack the female first. Judging by how hard the music was it would be impossible for anyone to hear their screams and it would be over quickly. The only problem would be the clothes that were going to be left behind, but he'd dispose of that easily enough.
'Time to feast,' he thought and then he attacked.
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Cell was done absorbing them and he felt himself bulk up more, he was so close to transforming he could taste the power on his lips. He looked at the clothes of the humans and considered what to do with it.
Leaving it here would raise suspicion, he doubted that Hina would put two and two together since there would be no blood, but he was so close to hatching that he wasn't willing to risk it.
He picked up the clothes in his mouth and started to drag it towards a large haystack, he would bury in underneath that as he had never seen them touch the haystack. No one would look there.
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(Few hours later)
The barn door once more flew open and Cell was hoping to find another meal, but instead Hina stumbled in before sluggishly falling down on the ground and starting to laugh. Cell wondered what on earth was wrong with her, she seemed incredibly happy for someone who just fell down.
Hina looked towards Cell and then scooted over to him and put her arm over his exoskeleton and then she yawned. "I'm wasted," she muttered and Cell didn't understand the term until he got a whiff of her breath, she was drunk.
He assumed since she was here that the party was over and by the looks of things she enjoyed it. "I should never have trusted my mom's fruit-punch," she babbled sluggishly and Cell had the desire to lug her off him, but he didn't.
"It was nice though… the whole (hic)…snap, hiccups, I hate (hic) hiccups," she mumbled and Cell wanted to laugh as she continued to hic while trying to speak. "I'm so tired…" she mumbled and then hiccupped again and soon her babbling was barely audible and the next it was completely gone, instead replaced by her soft-breathing.
'Asleep,' he muttered in his mind as he kept still, lest he woke her up and she started to babble again.
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(One hour later)
Cell saw the mother come into the barn and when she saw Hina against Cell she paled, Cell knew the mother didn't like his presence much and she had perfectly good reason to fear him.
After a few seconds she sighed and walked out again, Cell was hoping she would take her daughter, but that was a hope in hell obviously.
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A few minutes later Jasmine entered the barn again, this time she was carrying a few blankets with her. She walked towards Hina as she looked at Cell. "She'll bring anything home it seems," Jasmine said to herself and Cell scowled, the mother didn't know he could understand her, but she better watch her mouth regardless.
Jasmine put the blankets over Hina gently and then sighed again. "Way too soft," she mumbled as she shifted the blankets correctly. "Don't hurt my daughter," Jasmine said as she pointed at Cell, obviously with no knowledge that he understood her, and then she left.
Cell rolled his eyes and then closed it, when he finally hunted them down the mother would have no idea what hit them, but she would be at peace knowing she was dying with her daughter.
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(Next Day – 1 Year and 1 Day)
Hina yawned as she opened her eyes and was instantly confused when she was staring at the body of Cell. "What the?" She asked herself as she sat upright, the blankets falling off her. "Oh right, damn, I was drunk," she said and then closed her eyes. "Hangover," she mumbled and Cell shifted away from her, she looked towards him. "Morning," she said and then stood up as she stretched out.
"Mom is right, I'll never get married, want to know why?" She asked and Cell just nodded. "Because when I'm drunk I wake up next to a bug instead of a man," she said. "No offense," she quickly added.
Cell wasn't offended; he actually wanted to laugh at her answer because it was correct and funny. She smiled at him and then picked up the blankets. "I'm starving, I'll go get us some food," she said and then left towards the house to get her food and then some for Cell.
It seemed odd, but she had known him for an entire year and he had grown so much; she was terribly excited to see into what he changed.
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(3 Weeks Later – 1 year, 22 days)
Cell was annoyed as Hell, he was but a few weeks away from transforming and the woman and her mother was gone. They had gone on a short vacation as she had said before stockpiling the barn with food for him. Now would've been the perfect time to absorb the both of them, but they were gone.
'I need to find more food, I'm so close," he thought as he started to eat the stockpiled food; if he ate all of this now and consumed everything else he could be hatched within a week and he could hardly wait.
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Hina was looking out of the window of her hotel room in Malibu, it was fun here but she missed the farm life and Cell, he was like the perfect thing to bounce ideas and feelings off.
She sighed as she watched the waves of the ocean.
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(1 Week Later – 1 year, 29 days)
Cell felt his exoskeleton crack and the transformation start to take place. He had devoured everything on the farm, the entire plantation and everything he could find and it had worked, he was changing!
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(Few hours later)
Cell climbed from his shell and finally, after more than a year, stood upright again, breathed the air through his own nose and felt his own power again. He was whole again. "Finally," he said as he looked around the place, there was no human activity here so he would go elsewhere. Hina had said the closest town to here was Nicky Town, so that would be his target.
With that thought in mind he took to the air and sped off.
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(1 day later – 1 year, 1 month)
The first thing Hina did when she got out of the car is run towards the barn to see both Blossom and Cell, but when she rounded the corner she was horrified. Every single fruit tree in the area was stripped of their fruit and all the vegetable plants were gone as well. "Cell," she muttered as she ran towards the barn, ignoring her mother's horrified scream when she saw the condition of her plants.
When Hina entered the barn her heart sank at what she saw, the empty shell of Cell, it was hollowed out as he finally hatched. "No…" She whispered as she walked towards it and ran her fingers around the brim of the shell. There was some form of icky purple liquid on it, but the bottom line was clear – Cell was gone.
"I didn't get to see it… he's just gone," she said as she started to look around the barn for any trace of him, any trace of the butterfly she assumed he had become; but there was nothing.
With a heavy heart she stepped out of the barn and went to help her mother sort out her farm and calm her down.
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(Few hours later)
Cell stood in the middle of an empty and destroyed Nicky Town, his tail whipping around him dangerously. "The humans here helped little," he said to himself as he took to the sky again, he would attack the outlying villages now. He needed to gather more energy for now.
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Hina was sitting in front of the television mortified when she saw the news headlines. "Mom!" She screamed and a second later her mother ran into the living room. "Nicky Town was attacked! All the people are gone!" She yelled and her mother's eyes widened as she ran towards the TV and when she saw the headlines she ran to the key-holder and grabbed her car-keys from it. "What are you doing?" Hina asked immediately and Jasmine turned back towards her.
"A friend of mine lives in Nicky Town," she almost screamed and Hina was to her feet in a second and by the side of her mothers. "I'll be back soon, I just need to go see if she was there when this happened," Jasmine said and then she was gone.
Hina tried to run after her and ask to go with, but her mother was out of the driveway quicker than she could speak. "Shit," Hina said as she ran towards her horse and quickly got on her, Nicky Town wasn't far and if her mother's friend was dead she wasn't going to be in any condition to drive back.
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Cell cleaned out another town and found the humans gave meager amounts of energy, it wasn't enough. He needed the androids as soon as possible and that meant he had to find Dr. Gero, luckily he knew where the lab was.
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Hina found her mother crying in the middle of the street and Hina didn't even need to ask, her friend was dead. "Mom, come with me," she said as she helped her crying mother to her feet.
Hina was shocked though, there wasn't a shred of blood anywhere in the town, but all the people were gone, the only thing left was their clothes; it was as if all of them just vanished into thin air, leaving their clothing behind.
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(Three Weeks Later – 1 year, 1 month and 21 days)
Hina was in West City and frightened, the mystery killings were continuing and already a few dozen towns were left without any residents. Everything close to her house had been exterminated somehow and she was worried the same thing would happen to her while she was here. The only part that would not be bad is that she'd finally know what was going on.
People had said a monster was attacking the towns and a few survivors claimed the monster had superhuman strength. It was a scary and unrealistic scenario, but nothing about this so far had been realistic.
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Cell hovered above West City and saw how the people bussed about, as if he hadn't killed any of them yet. "How careless," he murmured and then dropped down into the streets and started to feast.
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Well, I doubt it's hard to guess what is going to happen next, but anyway; hoped you enjoyed the chapter; will update as soon as I edit the next chapter and take it from the oneshot I wrote. (As I said, this was all just one big story, of over 177 pages and still not finished. I doubt anyone would've bothered to read it if I had just posted it like that.
Please note my story WILL get more interesting and a lot more humorous and sad.
Just READ further and you'll see.