"We know about that town of people you murdered!"
"Oh, you're upset about them?" I laugh and look at Koran, "And here I thought we did a good job not harming anyone on this planet." I look back to Goku, "So far."
His face contorts in anger and the others crouch into fighting positions. My power starts to pulse through my veins in anticipation. Why not use my device against them? I clench my fists and slightly tilt my head back, starting a series of chain reactions. Chemicals advance from the device and I can feel the tingle spread down my spine and into my temples. My pupils and irises turn into a milky blue-grey from the reactions, but I can still see perfectly through them. The tingling sensations begin to subside. Now, it's safe to truly start to power up. I slightly crouch and let out a low growl. A white-blue aura surrounds me as I build up more and more power. I stop before I get too carried away and straighten myself to face the Earthlings.
I narrow my eyes at Goku and raise my right arm straight out to my side. I give him a smirk and let out a large beam, slicing through homes and the people within. The Earthlings grit and bare their teeth in anger, all but one, this Vegeta.
"You have yet to see what I am capable of Goku!" I announce.
"You want the Dragonball." He pulls the Dragonball practically out of thin air and holds it in front of him. I smirk in triumph and take a step forward. "Well, go get it!" Goku yells as he throws the Dragonball, too fast for me to catch. I growl at my stupidity and embarrassment, and hear Koran laughing. I give him a cold look, only he's not the one laughing. I turn back to the Earthlings and find Vegeta, arms crossed, laughing at me. How dare he! He'll pay for that. I give a humph and quickly take off in the direction of the Dragonball, Koran and the Earthlings in tow.
Ten minutes later, and in the middle of nowhere, I start to get a clear reading on my scouter. I turn to Koran in confirmation and he nods. The Earthlings still follow beside us. I start to pick up speed and advance far ahead of everyone, to be sure I'll reach the Dragonball first.
In a flash Goku is in front of me. I stop and almost skid into him, but quickly put space between us. "Hey." Koran says, back to me. I softly back up into him, our backs touching, and realize we are surrounded by the Earthlings. "Can you handle yourself?" I whisper to him. "What do you think I am" he laughs, "an Earthling."
I take off higher and Koran lowers himself to the ground. Five of the Earthlings follow after Koran and three follow after me. I'm left with Goku, Vegeta, and a green guy. Their power-levels read moderate, nothing for me to worry about.
"I wouldn't trust that thing." Goku spoke up.
"What would you know about it?" I snap.
"Frieza's men on Namek had them. With the fluctuation of our power, they just become useless." Frieza. Namek. I completely forgot about the Earthling that killed him. He must be one of these men, I must not let my guard down. "Now," Goku's face turned serious once again, "why are you after the Dragonballs?"
"As I said, confidential information." Liar, you don't even know why. I take a glance down at Koran, he's fighting two of them at once, but is holding out okay. I then shoot off in the direction of the Dragonball. The green man takes my right side and Goku and Vegeta take the left. I glance left to right, Goku and Green Man. I spin to my right, giving Green Man a kick in the neck. He grabs my ankle before I can pull away, and holds on tight. Come on Ceres, move faster. I give him a straight hard kick in the nose and he lets go. Punching ensues then ki based attacks. Our fight is pretty even, too even for my taste, I'll have to power up more soon.
I hear other voices, Koran and his fight must be moving closer to us. I move a distance away from my opponent and power up. I push both arms straight out to my side then, press my thumb and index fingers together over my head. I concentrate my ki to my palms while bringing them even with my chest. I then push my arms forward and release my energy as a massive yellow-white beam, heading straight toward Green Man. This should be enough to kill him. "Piccolo!", the kid yells from behind me. In a flash, Goku's in front of my attack, holding it back. So you want more do you? I push more power through my attack, greatly increasing the size of the already massive beam. It pushes him back but he still holds on. How can he do this? The rest of the fighting has stopped and everyone's eyes our locked on us. I begin to calculate my next move, if he can escape this. Right on cue, he abruptly deflects my attack to his side and it heads towards a craggy cliff. I make my move way before it reaches the cliff. I make to give Goku a knee in the stomach but he blocks it. I'm a little taken aback but quickly regain my composure and block an attack of his.
"Why are you holding back?" I ask.
"Why are you?" Goku replies. I humph and back away. I'm close to Koran and hear the beep from his scouter, he's getting an incoming transmission. I hear a raspy voice on the other end, Frost. "Have you collected all seven Dragonballs?" he asks. No. "Yes." Koran answers back, determination in his eyes. "Have you had any trouble?". "Not. At. All." Koran replies with a smirk on his face. "Very good, I'm already on my way. Keep them together and I will seek them out." One more beep signals the end of their transmission. Why did he message only Koran, and not the both of us? I turn to Koran giving him a let's-go-kick-some-ass look and start to pick out my next opponent. The Earthling's all stand next to one another again talking, probably doing the same.
I try to turn to Koran once again, but my body goes rigid. My head twitches to the side, once, twice. "Ceres?" I barely hear Koran call my name. I'm getting a "direct download" from Frost, he's changing my orders, and my body is ready to respond. Kill Koran. Almost immediately my arm lifts out to my side, aiming straight at him. I begin to power up more, to be sure I kill him with one blast. Kill him. Wait, no, I can't kill him, my mind contradicts. My ki starts to become concentrated in my palm. "What's happening?" one of the Earthling's questions. Kill him! No, I can't; it's Koran. We've been through too much together, ever since the beginning. I can't possibly hurt him. My mind swims with our memories. The horrible past we had together, we kept each other sane.
The ki blast shoots from my hand, but I slightly change it's course, narrowly missing Koran. "Ceres! What are you doing!?" he yells. I curl over myself and grab the back of my head. Kill him, kill him now! I start to power up again, completely against my will. I still hold fast to myself, not daring to let go. My mind tells my body one thing, and the device tells it another. I let out a series growls and screams of pain. My body feels like it will rip apart at any moment, every muscle taut and tense, ready to strike. I try to tell Koran to run but no words come out. Kill him! My limbs start to shake under the pressure. What if I try to take out my device? I slowly creep my hands to the base of my skull. I move my fingers to the chip and barely touch it. It sends a painful jolt through my body and makes me lose all concentration, all it needed to carry out it's orders. I stand straight and arm out to the side once more. I look at Koran, and he just hovers there, eyes wide in disbelief. Why doesn't he run? I try to hold back the ki forming in my hand, but it's too much. I. can't. hold. back.
It releases as a thin, highly concentrated, purple beam and pierces right through Koran's chest. My body sags in relief, the deed is done. Koran grunts and stumbles forward, clutching his chest. Blood pours out between his fingers. My fingers shoot up to my lips. What have I done? "Koran!?" I whisper. My eyes burn as I try to hold back tears. He let's out a wet cough and blood appears at the corner of his mouth. His body free falls to the ground and I follow after.
He lays face-up on the rocky ground. I stand a ways away, almost too scared to approach him. The light breeze blows strands of my hair into my face. He coughs. "Ceres?" he blindly calls out to me. Without hesitation I run and kneel at his side. Blood trickles out the sides of his mouth. He holds out his hand and I grasp it with mine. "Hey, don't cry." he weakly speaks out. I hadn't realized it, but silent tears stream down my cheeks. His wipes them away with his free hand and I let out a sniffle. "You know I wasn't meant for this life." He let's out another wet cough and I squeeze his had tighter. "It's better this way." He looks into my eyes and I into his. A few tears escape his eyes and trickle down his temples. "I'm sorry." I say. He simply smiles back, but I see the pain in his eyes. They slightly go out of focus and appear to be looking at everything and nothing all at once. He takes in a sharp breath and slowly lets it out. His grip loosens on my hand. I'm losing him. I let go of his hand and it falls to his side. I grab his armor and slightly shake him. "No, you can't leave me here! Koran? Koran!" I shake him a couple more times, but his glassy eyes tell me he's not coming back. I sit back for a moment relaxing out of my frantic mood and take one last good look at him. I swallow my pain and emotions, ending the tears. Leaning over him, I close his eyes and give him a last kiss on the forehead.
I stand and calmly brush the dirt from my knees and thighs. I begin to clench my teeth; grief turning into anger. I turn to my audience of Earthlings, now on the ground, and begin to power up. My normal blue-white aura is replaced by a crimson one. I've never felt this much power flowing through my veins at once. I truly am invincible. Still powering up, I stride up to my opponents. Small rocks rise into the air and the ground splits, opening beneath me. My scouter cracks and explodes, but I don't even flinch. Vegeta takes a step closer, arms rigid, and teeth bared. So he wants to fight me does he? In an instant, I flash behind him and kick him in the back. The others gasp at my strength and speed, as Vegeta is sent flying forward. I position my self in front of him, waiting. I clasp my hands together and when he is right below me I crush him into the ground. I fly up, waiting for him to recover. He stumbles up, grumbling, then shoots up to me. "Is that all you got?" he laughs. I stare back with a blank face, betraying no emotions. He bombards me with dozens of ki blasts and I deflect them all, one handed. Their explosions sound off behind me, and their light illuminates the darkening sky.
Vegeta grunts in frustration and rushes in fast. I easily block all of his attacks. I then punch him in the face and he flies backward. He stands his ground, starting to power up. I suddenly feel woozy and stumble backward, losing some ground. Black spots invade the corners of my sight. What is happening to me? I press the bottoms of my palms into my eyes, easing some of the pain. I find I'm panting. Then, the feeling of a million stabbing needles spreads throughout my body. I open my eyes, the black spots have grown larger and left me with a sort of tunnel vision. I look toward Vegeta and he's stopped powering up. He stares at me with a strange look on his face, as if I'm the carrier of some infectious disease. Am I losing control? It's never felt like this before. The black completely blinds me, and the last thing I see is Vegeta rushing toward me. My ears start to ring and the world seems to fall away from me. All my breath leaves me and I can't take anymore in. Vegeta, he must have hit me, and hard. My consciousness begins to slip away and all I'm left with is black.
