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Sixth Chapter

In a place out of time and space, some were starting to become very concerned.

A purple-skinned male with snow white hair and pointy ears was looking at the Galaxy Cauldron through a crystal ball, and narrowing his eyes. He shifted closer showing great confusion: it looked like the Lambda Power within the Primal Cup of Life was twirling around in a swirling rainbow of shinning stars and colours.

"But-but… How..? It can't be!"

The older and wiser one to his side commented. "I'm afraid it looks like it is"

Confused, Kibito-Shin stepped away to stare at his superior. "But Sir, it can't be quite correct. The last time we ever saw the Primal Energy react that way was when the Goddess of Light herself ascended from the mortal planes"

The Grand Supreme Kai seemed lost in his musings.

"Quite true, that is," he assented. "She was the very last of the Elders to leave the temporal worlds. Thenceforth, to witness such an event repeat it self once again can only indicate two possible causes"

His gaze was raised towards the other, who was listening expectantly.

"So, what do you believe those causes could be," Kibito-Shin asked without preamble.

"The only two things that could provoke this level of activity would be, for one, that one of them is coming back," the old man answered, without hesitation.

The younger Kai froze as his mouth opened in complete and utter shock.

"Do you mean…, one of them?" he gasped out loud.

To his dismay, the Higher One only answered with silence, his gaze immutably trained on him.

"Why would they come back just now, after all these millenniums; of all times, why does it have to be now?" he lamely tried to reason.

"That I must admit I do not know," was the ancient's response, as he turned towards the other person beside them, who had remained quiet and distant till that moment.

When the woman with the golden-red wavy hair felt both the Kais' attention on her, she lifted her chin to regard them both for a while with her arms still crossed, a look of deep concentration set within her twin sparkling ruby orbs.

"Unfortunately, I don't know much more either myself," she finally spoke in a soft and serene voice. "Such a chance development was never mentioned within my Circle; otherwise I would have been warned about it"

"Yet, you're one of them," Kibito-Shin questioned, raising a white eye-brow. "Aren't you?"

The golden fire-head fixed on him her penetrating stare, and the young fusion cleared his throat, uncomfortable. "I will not deny I am like them to some extent" she conceded, "but I'm also essentially different"

He looked doubtful, and expressed so, frowning. "Shall I ask in what sense?"

"That's enough, son" the Grand Supreme Kai intervened, crossing his arms behind his back. "She's already told us she doesn't know anything else. That should be enough for you also"

He turned apologetically towards the yellow clad woman. "Please excuse my disciple's intruding interrogations. It was not in his intentions to be rude. He just happens to suffer from an incurable curiosity"

The sparkling rubies regarded the other fusion once again, shinning with knowledge and comprehension. "He's a young one, still" she concurred, "Reminds me of myself, so long ago… when I was arrogant and wanted the entire universe cowering at my feet"

Kibito-Shin was immediately offended and sneered angrily when he discovered the Older Kai was actually trying to hide a smile; he even murmured in a very low voice what sounded a lot like 'I'm a responsible Supreme Kai, and only mean to keep things in order. Grrr… what do you know, Sir, being the lazy old fool you are and listening to this know- it-all siren-like gorgon from HFIL'.

From the spark of amusement that he'd seen cross her eyes, he knew that though the Grand Supreme Kai was deaf as a mule, she conversely had been quite able to hear him, which caused him to flush briefly.

'Damn… Wait, why do I care? What are you grinning about, you man-eating predatory monster?' he thought at her grudgingly. 'You may look like a siren, but we all know what they hid under all that beauty and looks and what they used to do with the males'

Out of the corner of his eye he saw in a flash how she gifted him with the most unnoticeable of winks, so quick that he almost, almost thought he had imagined it, and that's when he knew: even though he was able to block his thoughts considerably from the other Kai, he could not guard them from her much stronger intuitive skills.

Still seething, he directed another question to the old coot.

"And what's the second possibility?"

"The second hypothetical reason for the Primal Power to be acting this way, is another one being born" out of the blue, the archaic administer sounded ages older.

"Another?" Kibito-Shin was so perplexed he turned to the maiden for confirmation, "A new Elder?"

She nodded slowly. "That I was warned about. They said it could happen"

"Sir, how could a new-born become an Elder?" he asked most incredulously, "I thought only those present since the very Creation could ever be one?"

"This one, as a matter of fact, is going to be born as an Elder already" his senior simply stated.

He was lost for words now.

"I─ I thought that wasn't possible?"

"It wasn't," the yellow clad female said while adjusting one of her gloves, "until now".

Kibito-Shin once more turned promptly to the older fusion.

"Is it gonna be friend, or…─" he inwardly gulped before continuing "─…foe?"

"That, my boy" the Grand Supreme Kai looked at him and the woman intently, "is what we must find out"

His disciple was already sweating when he added ─in a somewhat ominous tone─,

"…As soon as we can"

Kibito-Shin only stared for the longest time. Then, he sighed and groaned darkly all at once.

"Why do I get the feeling our problems are just beginning all over again"

Back at the Son Home…

"Okay Diana, what did you want to talk me about?" asked the young princess as she took a seat on the lavatory, already having bolted the entrance door to the toilet.

The light-violet furred feline advisor glared grimly at her charge.

"You were supposed to pretend being a distant relation of Mau Chichi, and to perform the lunar mind meld both on her, and on her father, if necessary" the cat angrily began to chastise without bating around the bush, "What on earth are you doing playing the part of Satan Videl's cousin?"

Hikari sweat-dropped, looking a lot like a deer caught in headlights.

"Well, that is… You see, D-chan─" she started, putting a hand behind her head.

"─Oh, no" Diana said, cutting her off, "Don't you 'D-chan' me, Young Lady. Pray tell why you didn't do as you were told, exactly?"

The girl rubbed the back of her head while giggling nervously to cover up for her discomfort at having been caught in mid-disobedience.

There was no denying she was Goku-san and Usagi-sama's daughter, Diana thought.

"Oh, that, it was nothing Diana, nothing to worry about" she ranted on, waving her hands in dismissal "I just had to brainwash Videl instead 'cause Chichi-san was busy somewhere else at that moment"

Her tutor narrowed her eyes dangerously. "Hikari…" the cat hissed in a warning that she better not test her.

"It wasn't my fault! We came here to Gohan's house and Chichi was nowhere to be seen! What was I supposed to do? I had to tell them something!" the teen wailed loudly, defensively.

"Lower your voice!" Diana hastily shushed her. "Someone could hear you." The flustered girl immediately chilled.

"It's not fair" she mumbled resentfully, "It wasn't my fault she wasn't there"

"Still that doesn't justify it," the care-taker admonished. "You could have waited. Why didn't you ask Goku-san to take you to Mount Paotzu instead of here?"

The hime pouted, fidgeting, and a look at her torn face told Diana all she needed to know.

She sighed loudly.

"You told him you wanted to meet your brothers, and he proposed coming here, to Gohan's, and you couldn't refuse, could you?"

The saddened girl wordlessly nodded, staring at her feet.

Once again Diana sighed in resignation.

"Alright, I understand," she admitted in a soothing manner. "However, you should have obeyed your parents. Look at the mess you've gotten yourself into"

Hikari raised her head to look at her surprised. "What are you talking about?"

Diana glanced at her severely.

"I'm talking about that little scene out there with your brother Goten," she specified.

At being reminded of it, Hikari blushed blue out of sheer mortification.

"I didn't know he would be that way" she squeaked in a small voice.

"And you didn't have anything to do with it?" the cat seriously lacked any subtlety.

Silvery sky-blue eyes trained on the feline, unblinking, showing overwhelming trepidation. "That is so not funny!" she yelled scandalized.

Diana snorted. "Do you see me laughing?"

"How was I supposed to know that would happen?" Hikari all but squealed.

"Well, if you had told them you were their relative, he probably wouldn't be acting this way" the honorary lunarian cat insisted "Why did you think your parents wanted you to say that? It was precisely the kind of thing they didn't want to risk happening"

"Then why on Tsuki's name didn't they tell me?" the teen demanded, finally exasperated.

"If you thought things out instead of rushing in" the maurian reprimanded, "you would have figured it out for yourself, you would have anticipated it"

This time it was the impulsive princess who snorted.

"So now it's my fault, then" she huffed annoyed.

"You're not a child anymore, Hikari" answered Diana. "Have you realized if your mother ever takes the throne again, you'll be the next Queen of Earth?" she ignored the look of utter commotion in her charge's gaze and finished "You're supposed to think before acting"

"You don't know that, Dianna, you don't know if I'll get to be Queen or not. I don't have a drop of earthian royal blood in my veins and you know it. I would more easily rule Chikyuu before ever being able to take the Earth throne," Hikari said with the resolution of one who isn't sure of anything but one single thing: the one they're stating "Besides, hadn't we already agreed on the fact that Mum ever accepting the crown once more is not likely─"

Diana closed her eyes, shaking her head slowly, and Hikari made silence.

This was starting to become a thorny subject.

"You always say you want everyone to treat you like an adult," Diana said finally. "Hence, this is your chance to prove if you're truly one"

The dark haired youth didn't know what to answer. Therefore, she remained silent, staring at her older, wiser friend.

"Being a grown up signifies thinking of the consequences of your actions" the cat went on in a contemplative whisper "It means taking responsibility for what you do and how it affects yourself and others. Only when you learn to take the blame for it and find a ways to mend it, then you'll be a girl no longer, but a true woman"

Diana lifted her gaze towards the quieted young princess.

"Do you understand that?"

Hikari realized this was a very serious question, she could know by intuition and the older one's tone that her answer now would be very important to Diana. She had the gut feeling that it had somehow to do with ChibiUsa.

And it did. The cat advisor was wistfully remembering a time of old when her princess and friend Small Lady, wishing fervently to be like her mother the Neo Queen, had innocently taken the Silver Crystal, without knowing that with that she was leaving her home open for attack, and putting herself also in danger, and leaving her beloved mother she admired so much lost in helplessness.

Unlike Hikari, ChibiUsa (or Reenie, like they had started to call her as a short name for Serena, once she'd reached her "teens" in Crystal Tokyo) hadn't been bestowed with the joy of older siblings that guided her, protected and comforted her, attempting to give an advice in the times of grief. Her younger hime had found those caring figures somehow in Vegeta and Goku Jr, and to boot the four Asteroids had always been there to pamper her to their hearts' content whenever she was on their planet.

This had not been, however, Reenie's luck.

Though a rightful princess by birth, the blue-eyed second child of Neo Queen Serenity had never had to prove herself to others, until now. No one on Chikyuu had ever found out of her royal origins, and Hikari herself didn't really see herself as one. Henceforth, she didn't feel the need to uphold her roots or her family name, a pressure ChibiUsa had, without a doubt, always unconsciously felt, both before and after the war with Nemessis had ended.

The maurian let out the breath she didn't know she had been holding in, and vowed that this princess, the sister of her deceased dear best friend, would always count with her guidance and support, no matter how difficult the situation.

"Yes, Diana. I understand it" the raven-heaired teenager responded after some time. She slumped her shoulders as she finally started feeling ashamed. "So what do you suggest we do? Try the lunar mind meld on Goten?"

Diana seemed sceptical. "I don't believe it would work. He is a half saiyan, just like you, and the saiyajin are a lot less vulnerable to mind manipulations than humans"

Hikari whimpered, filled with disappointment and frustration.

"Then, what can I do?" she questioned slumping her shoulders even more, contrite.

The cat smiled up at her tenderly, being more indulgent now that her point had gotten across. "Don't worry," she reassured. "We'll think of something. Now, we better get back there, they must already be wondering what's taking you so long"

And then the two exited the bathroom.

Somwhere else...

A silhouette bathed in shadows approached the tall and built figure surrounded by obscure fog.

"Master" it said in greeting as it bowed down and kneeled.

The figure, that had been standing staring intently at something, with their back towards the newcomer, turned around to the servant.

"What news do you bring me about the Supreme Kai-oh-samas?"

The spy immediately rose from the floor. "It was just as you thought, Master" he confirmed, "They say it can be due to the birth of a new deity"

"Is that so" at the servant's nod he continued "Mm, interesting. You've done a good job, you may go"

So it was the servant bowed again and departed.

The male figure standing within the fog looked at the spiritual window in front of him, that showed the Galaxy Cauldron scattering light and heat everywhere once again in a furious whirlpool.

"The birth of a new deity," it repeated. "An Elder from birth. If I manage to get a hold of him, I can drain it from its power and be finally away from this prison"

It shifted closer, giving a long stride towards the image suspended in the air.

"It is about time I leave this shit-hole" it resolved, "and teach all my dear brothers a lesson. With that kind of power, I may finally have the chance I've been waiting for all this millenniums… I can't let it pass, so much dark energy wasted on forming Chaos, only to have it be completely wiped out by Cosmos and that cursed saiyajin… It didn't have time to become powerful enough to free me, before those two worthless insolent bugs destroyed it"

That was when the figure gave a cruel feral smirk.

"Ahhh, but they don't know what's coming their way, they don't have the most remote idea… I'll get my hands on that new born god and sacrifice it to get me out of here, just wait. I'll have my revenge…"

The man lifted a hand as if to touch the restless flood of energy.

"A new god" he murmured, wistfully "…but who?"

END TO THE SIXTH CHAPTER

A/N: Who ever guesses who the mystery woman is, gets a cookie.

I worked extra hard this time to make as few errors as possible… Once I'm finished with this fic, I'll have it spell checked, corrected and revamped. Hopefully you guys will stick with me till that time.

Well, I'll be looking forward to hearing your comments now.