Chapter Eleven

Chapter Eleven

He's so powerful… Both mentally and spiritually. In many ways his potential mirrors that of a Kai's. Yet he has all of the best traits from both his human and Saiyan heritage. So where does he get the Kai potential? This kind of potential doesn't evolve. I cannot believe the Design would weave that into Mortal hands, Shin thought. He was resting after the long expedition into Gohan's mind. Seeing all the times the young warrior had lost all control, becoming an unstoppable force of destruction if only for a few moments.

Rain began to fall on the World of the Kais. The dark, thick clouds now covered the many moons and stars that usually littered the sky of this world. Lightning flared at the greatest intensities. Shin could only think it appropriate. The World of the Kais was linked to him on a deep-seated level. Perhaps this storm was caused by his ill thoughts and feelings of late. He had no way to know and I mattered little besides. He let it sunder and rage, casting a barrier to cover both Gohan and Videl. They had to stay dry to stay healthy.

He then noticed the Z-Sword lying flat on the rocky earth. It called to him in a very otherworldly way. He resisted it. He knew very well what the legends said of those the Sword purposely enticed, purposely drawing in to a very certain and very unpleasurable death. Still he bent low and took hold of it. He could handle the object without its dark powers taken hold in him. That took a certain kind of surrender that the Kai was simply unwilling, perhaps unable, to perform.

He strained with the bulk of his strength to pick it up. He allowed his sharp senses to delve deeply into the weapon. It was made of no known metals or mix of metals he could recognize. The jewel that appeared to be an orb of emerald capped the hilt majestically. His senses told him that it was not an emerald at all. This was a rare type of gem that nature could never produce. Everything about the Z-Sword was pure artifice. If not pure genius in a way. He swung it around several times with great difficulty.

True. The bloody thing was heavy. But that was not entirely why it was so hard to handle. No the thing was resisting! Resisting everything! A sword! Yet there it was, letting it be known it does not like to be used. That or it doesn't currently care for its wielder. But he had noticed the same with Gohan. Why would it fight the very one destined to master it? It made no sense. This wasn't the first time since Buu's birth the Kai had to throw out the cold logic that had led the Supreme Kais of Otherworld for so long before him.

Which brought him to deeper, darker thoughts. How could any race stumble into the making of Buu? The Kai could now puzzle out how they would have had to do it. How they would have had to do to create such a monster. But where did they get the knowledge? Where had such a profound mastery of magic come from? Not even the greatest Kai in recorded History could channel the necessary powers needed. Yet Bibidi had. Shin certainly knew Babidi lacked that potential. If he could do what his father had, he'd have simply created a new Buu linked to himself as Buu must have been with Bibidi. A being like Buu that would obey him through a complex link of magic the monster couldn't resist.

Such a being would have been much more preferable to Babidi than risking the resurrection of Buu. Especially since Babidi's abilities with Compulsion were obviously lacking. Videl, Daynion, and Vegeta had all proven that. They had remained their former selves for the most part despite the Majin Taint. A being on Buu's level would have greater will power still. So Babidi would not have risked such with Buu unless he had no choice.

Which brought him back to where he had been before. How had Bibidi done it? He could puzzle out the method. That was easy now that he had learned what he had from Gohan, Videl, Daynion, and Buu as well. The wizard would have had to have started with an Akridin Matrix. It had to be such. No living or dead being could create a soul. Nothing short of the Power of Creation could do that. Not even the Dragonballs, he was certain.

And he knew for a fact that Buu did have a soul, if a completely corrupted one. So that soul had to have come from some where. Only an Akridin Matrix would have been strong enough. And that made Shin think other dark thoughts as well.

If I am correct and it was an Akridin soul…That means it was all apart of the Devine Design…But why? Buu has devastated so much! Has laid ruin to so many worlds…What could drive the Design to require such a force of evil to be created? Shin couldn't help but think. He ran his mind back over all that had happened since Buu was revived. It was impossible at best for most people to decipher the Design. But sometimes Kais could catch glimpses. Sometimes. The Design must require something for the future that one such as Buu must exist to bring it about.

But what? The fact that an Akridin was born and had a Matrix perfectly compatible to Majin magic… It could mean nothing else. The birth of Buu had been the Design's intention. It betrayed its most basic function! The need for such must be immense. Nothing he could imagine could drive the Design to do this. But he wondered. What could it need so badly that only something like Buu could help bring it about?

Shin looked down at Videl and Gohan once more and smiled.

They are why. They will be needed for an even greater threat later, I fear. One that even Buu pales in comparison against. Buu is merely a sharpening stone for them! A tool to shape them into what they'll need to be to face the true threat. Well that may be decades off. Buu is the here and now and he has an Akridin soul twisted by Majin magic! Shin thought. He stopped dead, fear gripping him nearly hard enough for his heart to stop. What could it mean? What would that make Buu? An Akridin was a rare individual who was centered in the Design. Whom the Design chose, or created in one way or another, for a specific purpose or list of purposes.

The Akridin Buu had been originally… His purpose was to become Buu. That had obviously been fulfilled. But the Akridin soul remained. And it was tainted. Instead of being something centered in the Design, Buu wasn't woven into it any longer! Nothing short of the Z-Sword could be more dangerous. A Random! Theory was one thing… But the real thing? Here and with such great power? The Design must be damaged or failing some how if it let such a force exist.

"What are you talking about?" Gohan asked groggily. Shin then realized he was speaking his thoughts aloud. He drove the blade of the Z-Sword into the rock and joined his two friends. He explained his train of thought to Gohan up to where he had left off before being interrupted.

"A Random? I'm not sure what you mean by that," Gohan said.

"You are Akridin, Gohan. Both you and Videl are. Daynion is too if he is alive. All equal, you three are the most powerful Akridin that have ever lived," Shin went on.

"I know that. What does that have to do with..." Gohan attempted before Shin cut him off.

"Buu is the opposite of that now. At least in a way. You are centered in the Design, it has for you a specific task only you can achieve; all three of you do. And it will weave in anything it can to ensure you succeed. Buu is no longer tied to the Devine Design. He is like nothing else alive. He can touch the Devine Design but it cannot touch him," Shin said darkly.

"What does that mean?" Gohan demanded a bit impatiently.

"It means he can affect how things turn out. The Design spins you, Videl, and Daynion all three toward its ultimate goal. And you three spin everyone else around you as it does so. All of it aimed at the Design's ending goal. Which might be something several Eras from now for all we know. There have been many before who have tried to fight the Design. But they were all like us, woven into it. It still affected those people. It doesn't touch Buu! Everything you or I do is planned in the Design. When we do something that is not, it restructures itself to a new path that will still lead to its goal and tug even harder at the one who brought about the change," Shin said and took breath. It was now dawning on Gohan what that meant so far. The Kai couldn't help but be amazed at Gohan's ability to accept and grasp concepts most mortals couldn't.

"He's even more dangerous than I thought," Gohan whispered.

"Yes, he is. The Design intended for him to exist though. Or it would not have allowed the Akridin, whose soul had been subverted to make Buu, be taken. But why? It had to know that Buu would become a Random. A force that could affect how things flowed in the Design yet couldn't be affected in return. Such a thing could unravel everything it has been laboring to bring forth for Ages," Shin said.

"I don't know but I think knowing this now might have changed things a bit," Gohan cut in.

"What do you mean?" Shin asked.

"The Z-Sword has the power to destroy anything its secret power touches. To erase it from the Design all the way back to the Moment of Creation, right? It sounds like whatever the Design is trying to do, it had to have taken unimaginable amounts of time to make the world into a place for it to be possible to happen. Those words don't fit the thought very well, but that's as close as I can describe it," Gohan began.

"I can read your mind, I understand," Shin said with a nod.

"Right. So if Buu was intentionally made by the Design itself, why would it give us access to a thing that can undo it? That seems like its contradicting itself," Gohan said. Shin's eyes opened wide in shock. This was something that hadn't occurred to him at all. Not even after puzzling these recent findings out.

"You're wondering what will happen to the Design if we erase Buu," Shin said. Gohan's expression darkened.

"Not now I'm not. Think about it. The Sword can erase anything from the Design, right? Well would that power work on something that is no longer apart of the Design?" Gohan told the Kai. Shin fell to his knees in despair.

"You're right! Gohan you're totally right! The Sword cannot destroy Buu!" Shin nearly cried.

"Then all the effort is drawing it out was a waste?" Gohan had to ask.

"I cannot believe that is so! I will not! We have it now for a reason. If not to beat Buu, then why?" Shin thundered.

"You're the Kai, why are you asking me? Maybe the Design has other plans for it. Something else that will need destroyed," Gohan replied, climbing slowly to his feet. "The question now –" Shin cut him off.

"You will resume you're training, Gohan. If anything, building the power to simply lug the thing around will be of great help. It's power may not help as I had hoped but…" Shin said.

"Wait a minute. Maybe there is still a way," Gohan laughed.

"Huh?" Shin wondered.

"You said anyone struck with the Sword's power is gone for good, right? All the way back to the Moment of Creation. Everything they had ever done or will do will be gone," Gohan recited.

"Yes, you are correct," Shin stated.

"Will it work on dead souls?" Gohan asked. Shin laughed, nodding.

"Then why not go to Hell and strike Bibidi with it. He would be gone. And everything he had ever done will be undone. It doesn't matter if Buu can be touched by the Design or not in that case," Gohan said, determined. Shin nodded, darkly.

"I don't like this power. With that weapon, Gohan, you are the most powerful force that exists. After you master it," Shin stated.

"I know that. And I don't like it. I'm not a god or even a Kai. Nothing should have this power. I used it before, you saw. It wiped that rock away and it kept going. It is even now, I can feel it punching a hole in Creation. Just a touch is all it'll take. Swipe the wizard with it and watch as Buu vanishes," Gohan laughed darkly.

"Right. Buu, Random or not, couldn't exist with his very roots in the Design unraveled. You have done it Gohan. Now you must master that weapon and become the god you do not want to be," Shin said.

Daynion trembled with the effort. Even on the edge, barely touching the Dark Prince's territory within his mind; he was resisted. The Dark Prince hated everything Daynion was and the same was true in reverse. But one needed the other to exist. There had to be a way to control it! There had to be!

"Still nothing?" Piccolo said.

"Obviously or Buu would be dead right now," Daynion fumed. Frieza only smirked.

"This will do the same for me. It brings out my dark side. My deepest potential comes out as well. But what does that matter if I'm worse than Buu," Piccolo snorted, holding a short staff high over his head. The Detharite. A two-foot long staff that reverberated a dark and evil magic. It looked as though it had been carved from charred wood, though its surface was smooth and appeared polished.

"We both have the power to stand up to Buu's might. But in doing so, we become no better than he is," Daynion laughed. It was the cruelest joke he had ever heard. They had fought, the Dark Namek Piccolo became when he invoked the staff's power and the Dark Prince himself. They were both nearly even in their powers. Daeva Daynion was stronger in body and in energy. But the Dark Namek had far greater magic and his mind was brilliant at the art of battle.