Risen
Chapter 11: Reawakening Part 1
No one ha reviewed the last chapter, I don't mind much, I didn't like the way it turned out. Probably why this one took so long to write!
Anyway it's back on track now! So please review this one.
Also I just realised when writing this that I have neglected Chichi for four chapters! That was one long faint!
They all appeared back at CC, startling everyone there. Bra immediately fell to the floor and started to cry, Pan dropped down to comfort her friend. Piccolo looked at them, the grim looks on Gohan and Gotens faces, the crying Bra and the lost look on Kortus's. That was quite disturbing, as was the last thing he expected to see on Kortus's face. He looked back at Gohan.
"What happened?" He asked, he had an idea as Vegeta was not with them.
"Where's Vegeta?!" Bulma cried out. Gohan looked at Goten, who looked back at him, neither of them wanted to tell her, as Bulma could be as bad as their mother at times.
"Well..." Gohan paused. "He's not with us anymore."
"What the hell do you mean..." Bulma saw the looks on Gohans and Gotens faces. "Oh." She said weakly. Chichi held on to her friend who was shaking at the realisation that she lost both her husband and son in one day.
"They're coming." Piccolo said. Gohan glanced at him then felt with his mind. Indeed, he could feel Vegeta, Trunks, Kakarot and Tien heading their way.
"We need to find somewhere safe to figure out what to do next." He said.
"I know the perfect place." Videl said with a smile. "My dad's mansion." She said. They looked at her surprised. "Well." She said. "It's secure and that would be the last place they would think to look." Gohan smiled.
"That's prefect." He said to his wife. "We better go now. Everyone grab hold." They did and he teleported to where Hercules ki was.
They all appeared in Hercules living room. Hercule fell out of his chair, and hid behind it.
"Don't hurt me!" He said muffled by the chair.
"Dad, It's just us." Videl said, as everyone else's sweat dropped. Hercule suddenly stood up and put his hand on his hips.
"Haha!" He said. "I knew that, I was just testing you, that's all." No one noticed Kortus detach him self from the group.
"Yeah, right." Goten said rolling his eyes. Gohan shot him a look.
"I'm sorry, Mr Satan, but we..." Gohan started.
"Call me Hercule, my boy, your family!" Hercule said. Gohan suppressed a shudder, even after all these years that was still something he wasn't used to. He rubbed the back of his head.
"Yeah, right, Hercule." He said "We just need somewhere to stay for a bit." Hercule smiled.
"And you naturally thought of me." Hercule said. They all glanced at each other.
"Don't you know what's going on out there!" Piccolo said. Hercule looked serious.
"Sure do!" He said. "That's why I'm in here, I figured it was something for you people to deal with."
"Yeah, that's what you do, isn't it!" Chichi said. "Our husbands and sons do the work and you take the credit!" Hercule shrunk back from the angry woman.
"Chichi!" Bulma said, holding her back, with the help of Gohan and Goten. "This isn't the time."
"Er, what's wrong with Kortus?" Pan suddenly said. Everyone stopped, even Chichi, and looked over at Kortus. Who was sitting on the floor, his back against the wall and his knees drawn up. He was just staring at his hands.
How could Furceil say I'm not evil, Kortus thought. No, wait he'd said I wasn't pure evil. Kortus frowned, he'd always thought of himself as pure evil. After all he'd killed more people then he could remember and didn't give a damn about it. That was pure evil right? How could it not be?
Kortus stared down at his hands, hands which in the last hours of life had killed almost all the people h...no Gohan had cared about. Kortus frowned at the small mental slip that he'd just had, why had he almost thought about caring about someone? Also, why had he saved Bra twice today? In life he had hated Gohan and everyone connected to him, the anger and hatred had been boiling for as long as he could remember, but somehow it just wasn't as bad now as it had been when he was alive. Kortus glanced up the others, he didn't feel any hated towards Gohan and Piccolo. He didn't like them but that wasn't the same.
Kortus frowned again and tried to remember the last time he'd truly hated something and found with shock that it had been when he'd faced Cell in hell. But that had been years ago! Somehow since he'd defeated, in hell, all the enemies he'd been denied in life his hatred had diminished. He wasn't stupid, in fact he had all the knowledge that Gohan had by the age of sixteen, which most likely made him a genius, so he knew all about the power of therapy of achieving goals that had been denied. But he hadn't thought that it could be that powerful. It seems that by seeking revenge in hell he had somehow cleansed his own hatred! Suddenly something in him mind opened.
Flashback.
Gohan watched as the grey monster opened a black portal which was pulling at himself, his daddy and the other two who seemed very nice to him. He was afraid, afraid of the monster, afraid that his daddy was going to be hurt, that he was going to be hurt. But he was only four, he didn't know what to do, he didn't like violence, had no experience of it. He wanted to help but didn't have the power, or the knowledge to do so. Then something answered his call, a side of him that he, or anyone else, had any idea existed came and violently shoved the weak Gohan out of it's way. It had one goal to protect everyone he loved, stop the evil in front of him in anyway it could.
It roared and instinctively raised it's ki, something he just knew how to do, and shoved the monster, with it's aura, back into the portal it had made. It saved everyone. Satisfied that it had helped it retreated to the back of Gohans mind, ready to strike whenever it was needed again. The saiyan warrior that Gohan could have been, had been born and his name was Kortus.
Flashback ends.
Kortus blinked at the memory. Where had that come from. Kortus remembered how he'd been born, but he didn't remember how strong his desire to protect and save his family had been. That was alien to him.
Flashback.
Gohan was trapped in a pod, he was scared and was crying. The bad man was out there, fighting his dad, he was going to hurt him and his father and there wasn't anything he could do. Kortus stirred, knowing he could be needed, the thrill of fight filling his mind. There was a scream from outside, it was his dad, he was in pain. Gohan screamed out to him. But his dad screamed in pain, and again. Gohan was getting more scared. But Kortus was getting angry, someone was hurting his dad! He wanted to save him, protect him, send who ever it was hurting him to the next dimension. One more scream came and Kortus shoved Gohan out the way. He raised his ki as far as it could and he burst out of the pod, completely destroying it. He landed in front of yet another monster.
"Gohan! Run away!" His dad shorted. Kortus ignored him, he wasn't Gohan and he had business to take care of.
"Get away from my daddy!" He yelled. Raditz just laughed and went to hit his dad again. Kortus exploded in anger, he launched himself at the Raditz and put all his ki behind the head strike to the mans chest. Unfortunately the impact sent Kortus back behind Gohan and it was Gohan who stood up.
Flashback ends.
Kortus frowned at this one. Again he remembered his attack on Raditz, but the emotions of love, anger and the desire to protect were not something he remembered. What about him saying that thing about his daddy, Kortus didn't remember that at all. Could it be that he'd forgotten in because of the impact, but that made little sense as he remembered the rest of it. Could it be that he'd repressed it? At that thought another memory came to mind.
Flashback.
Gohan saw Cell destroy the head of 16, and he willingly let go to Kortus. Kortus screamed and let his ki rise till he crashed though into super saiyan 2. He looked at Cell, he remembered everything Cell had done, he was impressed by it and respected his desire for perfection. But then again he'd threatened his family and that just will not do! Cell taunted him, Kortus just smirked and snatched the bag with the senzu beans, before Cell even saw him move. The look of shock was incredible, and Kortus loved it.
It moved forward in time. Kortus was standing staring at a Cell Juniors, it had Krillin by the throat. Kortus paused unwilling to do anything to endanger his friend.
"Don't worry about me, Gohan!" Krillin said as the creatures nail got closer to his throat. Kortus started to move forward, the Cell Junior panicked and ran away before Kortus destroyed him.
It jumped again, to a part Kortus didn't recognise at all. He gave the senzu beans to Trunks.
"Get these to everyone." He said.
Flashback ends.
What the fuck?! Kortus thought. He believed he had a good memory of that battle, but it seems he'd forgotten whole parts of it. Anything that showed that he cared, had been repressed. Kortus didn't understand, by that point he'd hated them enough to kill them. But it seemed that he'd saved their lives during the Cell Games. How could that have happened?
Vision.
Kortus found himself on Namek. What was he doing here? Nothing of importance happened to him on Namek.
"Oh, something very important happened here." Someone said, and Kortus turned to see a six year old version of himself watching him.
Hmm wonder what that is?
Of cause I know, but can you guess?
It was mentioned in Breaking Point.