Genetically Mutated
Chapter Ten
Krillin arrived at the Kame House where his wife, 18, and his daughter, Marron, could be found. He looked over at Master Roshi who was sitting in a beach chair doing his 'daily reading.' Krillin grinned waving at him.
"Hey there Master Roshi." Krillin greeted. Master Roshi looked over his magazine and looked at Krillin.
"Hello." He greeted back. "Any luck?"
"With finding Areiko…? No. Yamcha said he saw her but she didn't do anything to him."
"Huh…. Weird." Master Roshi said going back to his reading. Krillin shrugged his shoulders. His eyes widened when he sensed a powerful ki. He turned his head and spotted something in the sky in the distance. Master Roshi looked at Krillin seeing that he looked distraught about something. "Something wrong Krillin?"
Krillin's eyes widened when he saw something glitter in the sky. "Master Roshi! We gotta get out of here!" Krillin shouted looking at the old man.
"What?"
"18! Marron!" Krillin rushed into the house. Master Roshi looked into the sky to spot a gigantic ki ballcoming his way towards his island. His eyes widened as he jumped off of his chair and into the house.
It was too late. The attack hit the house and exploded on impact. The man hovered closer looking at the burning island. He smirked at his work then turned his head in another direction.
"Hm," the man said. "There are two ki signals over there. Once coming from above me. and a couple more in the city." The man began to ponder, and then smirked. "I'll save those saiyans for last and Lekira's best friend for last as well… I'll go visit those two ki's over there."
He turned his body and took off.
Tien and Chiaotzu were training, and training hard. Tien knocked Chiaotzu back into the mountain side. He shook his head looking up at him. His eyes widened once he spotted a man wearing a tunic standing behind his friend.
"Tien! Look out!" Chiaotzu called out pointing behind the three eyed human. Tien turned around and instantly his face met with a fist. Tien was thrown into the ground near Chiaotzu. But Chiaotzu leapt out of the way before he could get hit with either Tien or rubble from the ground.
"Tien!" Chiaotzu ran towards Tien standing by his side as he sat upright. Tien placed his hand onto his head shaking it a little bit.
"I'm fine Chiaotzu, don't worry." Tien said to him turning his head to look at his small little friend. He then looked forward at the man in the tunic. Tien glared standing up onto his feet wiping his bare arms off of dirt. "Who are you!"
"Exactly who you think I am." The man answered with a smirk on his face. "Your enemy." he folded his arms across his chest. "And your worse nightmare…"
Tien smirked knowing where this was going. "It'll take more then a weakling like you to kill me," Tien said. "I can tell by the ki I'm sensing from you that you're a weakling! And that shot you got on me was lucky! Because I had my guard down!"
"Oh really?" the man tilted his head a little smirking wider as his fangs showed to the human. "Do you always keep your guard down in a training session? If you do, that's rather idiotic of you."
Tien clenched his fists glaring up at him. "What do you want!"
"What any other bad guy wouldn't want." The man said to him. "I want my creation back."
"Your… creation?" Tien repeated looking confused. Suddenly,the manlunged down at the human throwing his fist into his stomach.
Tien went flying into a mountain side. The mountain collapsed on top of him, but that didn't stop Tien's attacker. He then lunged into the rubble grabbing onto Tien's face and flying out of the rubble. Tien clenched the man's wrist struggling within his grip.
"What's the matter?" the man asked tightening his grip slightly. "Can't get out of my hold? Maybe it's because I'm not as weak as you think I am!" His energy suddenly bursted around him throwing Tien back and out of his grip.
Tien's eyes widened realizing that his power boosted so high. He was now higher then Goku. And it didn't stop there. It just kept on going. Tien quickly turned around looking down at Chiaotzu.
"Chiaotzu! Run! No—" Tien's sentence was cut short as his eyes widened and he felt a sudden pain rushing through his chest.
"TIEN!" Chiaotzu shouted looking at the scene above him.
Tien turned his head looking down at his chest. The man's arm was lunged through his chest and exited out his back. Tien began to feel a warm liquid rushing up into his throat. He gagged then opened his mouth allowing the blood to drip out of him. The man smirked pulling his arm back into his chest. He then gripped Tien's heart. Tien's body jerked as he hung his head low with a trail of blood just pouring out of his mouth.
Chiaotzu watched in horror as he watched this mysterious man rip Tien's heart right out of his chest. Chiaotzu's eyes widened even further when he saw his best friend's attacker turn his eyes onto him. "Oh no…" Chiaotzu then went to run away when he heard a ping noise.
He turned his head looking over his shoulder to see this man forming a ki beam. Chiaotzu knew that this wasn't to good. He turned his head forward and continued to run till he felt an extreme pain in his back. He let out a scream as he felt a ki beam enter his back and exit his chest instantly killing him. The man landed by Chiaotzu's body. He rolled it over with his foot looking into the small boy's eyes seeing that he was dead.
"Two more down… two more to go." The man looked up looking in the direction of West City. "I think I'll go pay this 'Yamcha' a visit." He then took off in the direction of West City.
Yamcha arrived home. He looked around his apartment looking for his flying cat friend Puar. Yamcha placed his bags onto the floor by the door looking around. "Puar? Hey, you around?"
Yamcha continued to look around. He then entered his kitchen glancing at his answering machine to see the red light blinking. "This must be Bulma's message that Krillin said she left." Yamcha pressed play buttonon the machine.
"Hey there Yamcha, it's Bulma. I just called to tell you a—"
Suddenly a ki beam came out of nowhere blasting the machine to bits. Yamcha leapt back turning to face where the beam came from. He stared spotting a man standing in the hallway. His eyes widened when he spotted a bloody Puar in his grip. Yamcha stared in horror as blood from the talking cat dripped onto the floor.
"W-What did… you—"
"Do to Puar?" the man smirked as he tossed Puar into Yamcha's hands. Yamcha caught his buddy looking at his face searching for some kind of life in his eyes, but didn't find any. "I killed him."
"You bastard!" Yamcha shouted looking at him. The man smirked.
"And you're next…" Suddenly his body began to glow and Yamcha's apartment exploded bursting into flames killing the human within the room.
The man teleported himself out of the apartment just in time. He smirked watching the flames burst out of the windows. He then grinned madly baring his fangs. "One down… one more to go…"
He turned around blasting off into the air.
Piccolo stepped out of the lookout walking forward to the edge. He looked down in the direction of West City. "Yamcha…" he then turned his head in another direction. "Tien. Chiaotzu…" then turn his head in another. "Krillin. Master Roshi. 18 and Marron."
Piccolo lifted his head up looking forward. He then suddenly turned around smacking a ki beam away knocking it off into the air. There was a rather loud and insane laughter coming from the top of the lookout tower. Piccolo looked up spotting the man in the tunic.
"Nicely done Namekian." The man said to him, "I think you'll be my best entertainment yet. All the other ones were such a bore!"
"You killed them all!" Piccolo shouted clenching his fists. The man nodded his head walking forward into the air. He then levitated himself onto the platform of the lookout glaring at Piccolo.
"That wasme." he said to him. He smirked tilting his head back making him look creepy. "You know what… I think you might be able to help me get me what I want."
"And what's that? Earth?" Piccolo said stepping back a little getting ready to charge at this sudden appearance of a murderer.
"No. No. I don't want this dust ball of a planet." He said. He then turned his head in a random direction. "I want Lekira."
"Lekira?" Piccolo repeated softly. He then growled narrowing his eyes. "There is NO Lekira here!"
"Oh but there is." The man said looking at Piccolo. "You know her as Areiko."
Piccolo's eyes widened.
"Or Reiko."
Piccolo growled.
"Or Reiko-chan." The man's smirk widened. "Do you think you can help me get her?"
"What do you want with Son Areiko?" Piccolo growled getting intohis stance.
"From what I understand," The man crossed his arms and moved across the platform. "You don't see her as an ally anymore." He turned his head looking at him. "Is that true?"
"What's it to you?" Piccolo asked.
"Well," he lowered his arms. "If you hand her over to me, I won't have to kill you."
"What makes you think that I'll hand her over that easily?" Piccolo asked. "You killed MY allies. I wouldn't even hand Reiko over if I knew where she was."
"Well… then you're no use to me. I guess I'll just kill you." the man lunged at Piccolo.
The two of them were suddenly locked in a furious fight with series of punches, kicks, and energy beams. Piccolo leapt back dodging the man's attack. Piccolo then wiped his purple blood off of his mouth huffing and puffing slightly staring at his attacker.
"You're more of a challenge then I thought you were going to be." The man smirked. "I think I'll do you a favor and tell you my name before I kill you."
"Really? So kind of you." Piccolo said coldly.
"The name's Orx." He suddenly disappeared and reappeared in front of Piccolo's face scaring him a little. He then grabbed onto Piccolo's wrist stopping him from going anywhere. "And I know you're little technique," Orx began. "You can regenerate." A smirk appeared on his face. "Just as long…" Orx suddenly slashed at Piccolo's neck. A gash appeared on the Namekian's flesh as Orx let him go.
"As your head is attached to your body!" Orx then fired a ki blast at Piccolo's face knocking Piccolo's head right off of his shoulders. Piccolo's body dropped to the ground as his head rolled to Orx's feet. Orx looked down smirking. "So much for this being so much fun." Orx placed his foot onto Piccolo's head.
He then pressed down stomping on the lifeless head. The head shattered into pieces. Orx lifted up his head. He turned his head looking over his shoulder spotting something in the dark.
Dende's eyes widened as he suddenly came out of his hiding place running away. Orx smirked as he turned around approaching the young Namekian. Dende ran out of sight of Orx. He then glanced over his shoulder seeing that he had gotten away from this Orx. But he could hear his footsteps. Dende glanced around in horror.
"Something wrong Master Dende?" Came Mr. Popo's voice. Dende jumped.
"Shh!" Dende placed a finger over his mouth. He then grabbed onto his hand pulling him into the Time Chamber. Dende shut the door pressing his back up against it with hope that Orx wouldn't find them.
From the Time Chamber it felt like it took hours for Orx to walk by and completely miss them. Dende sighed placing his hand onto his forehead sliding down the door. Mr. Popo looked at the young Namekian with a confused look on his face.
"What is it Master Dende?" Mr. Popo asked. Dende looked up at him with a worried and scared look on his face.
"I don't know who that guy is… but I KNOW he's going to cause A LOT of trouble…"
Aya raced to Britnay's house in high hopes that she would find Areiko there. 'Please Reiko-chan… be there… I need to know what's going on!'
Aya ran up the front porch steps of Britnay's house. She pounded on the door being careful that she didn't knock it over or something Britnay then answered the door.
"Is Reiko here?" Aya asked. She didn't even give Britnay a chance to answer. She pushed her out of the way and walked into the house. "REIKO!" she called searching throughout the house. She then felt someone grab onto her wrist. Aya looked over to see Britnay.
"Aya-chan…" Britnay started. "What's going on?"
Aya shook her head. "I don't have time to explain!"
"Yes you do!" Britnay shouted keeping a grip on Aya that she could easily pull herself out of. "Areiko's my friend too!"
"I can't… I gotta find Areiko!" Aya then ran out of the house blasting off into the air. Britnay ran out of her house looking up into the air watching as Aya flew off into the distance sky in a hurry.
"What's going on…?"
Chichi sighed holding onto Goku's hand. She listened as the heart monitor that her husband was strapped too beeped. She then looked at hisbandaged chest. She watched as the blood covered bandages raised and fell showing Chichi that he was breathing. She sighed once more standing up. She wasn't to sure if she wanted to leave Goku alone. But she left to get some rest from sitting up all night worrying about Goku.
Areiko was watching from the window the whole time. She hovered there looking into the window at Goku. Her eyes began to water. She opened the window a crack. She winced at the creaking noise it made. She looked down below her to make sure that no one was watching her. She then looked back into the room watching for anyone to appear. She then opened the window all the way placing her feet onto the tile floor. She stepped towards Goku placing her hand onto his forehead feeling how cold his flesh was.
Suddenly she heard the swishing ofthe automatic doors. Areiko snapped her head up looking at Vegeta coming face to face with the saiyan prince. He glared at her.
"What the fuck are you doing here?"