Chapter 2, Page 2

A New Life

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"AGGGGGH!" Viktor screamed out as he tried to climb his way out of bed for the morning, or afternoon, he wasn't really sure which one after his fight with Gallock last night, he tried to breathe after sitting up but it was shallow and quick, his ribs weren't allowing him to breathe properly and he was fairly certain he had internal bleeding of some kind. He raised his hand and a green energy ball appeared in it, he placed it over his chest and slowly some of the excruciating pain faded away.

"Who said Ki could only be used for offense?..." His work with using Ki as a healing measure was amateur at best, he wasn't fully capable of healing his own injuries and to do so would require more energy than he had even, he hadn't fully studied that portion of the manuals that Joseph had in the house but he did a small part of them just to have some measure of recovery on stand by if needed. He caught a glimpse of the clock and it only read 8 AM.

"Strange...I figured after last night I would've slept a lot longer than that..." Images of last night started flooding his brain again, the creature in his one dream, the reflection of Chara in the mirror, the part where he fought Gallock for the second time that evening alone.

"I guess it's hardwired into my brain or something..." He still struggled to stand to his feet as he started towards the door, he stopped for a moment expecting his mind to start playing tricks on him again and Chara appear at any moment, he felt like he was losing his mind already especially considering that he's hearing voices and seeing his ex girlfriend basically berate him. He walked out the door and headed down the steps towards the dining room where Kakarot and Gallock were, Gallock was serving breakfast for that morning and Kakarot was just sitting at the table thinking, Viktor pulled up a chair and sat at the table.

"Uh...Good morning guys..." He said, unaware of how Gallock was going to react to what he did last night, Kakarot just nodded at him and Gallock came back into the room grinning.

"Good morning Brother, Gallock hopes you slept well." Surprisingly he did, it was just a black dreamless sleep on his end.

"Uh...Yeah Gallock, I slept fine..." He was left feeling uneasy that Gallock didn't seem to show any anger towards him for last night.

"What about you guys?" He spoke up.

"Gallock sleep well, had to sleep on floor after Brother challenge to fight last night...Gallock proud of Brother though, fought hard even though outmatched." Viktor perked his head up, shocked and doubting what he just heard.

"Wait you're...Proud of me?" Gallock nodded at him enthusiastically, Viktor just looked at Kakarot from the corner of his eyes, then back at Gallock, shaking his head a bit to make sure he was hearing that right.

"Little Brother actually do damage to Gallock, stand up and keep trying to fight after getting hurt, you made Gallock very proud." Viktor was even more confused, especially considering this is the same Saiyan who tried to legitimately murder him last night and was now saying he was proud of him.

"See Rotka confused about Gallock's intentions...Gallock not want to kill little brother, Gallock want to make little brother strong so he can protect the shiny thing." He pointed towards the locket around Viktor's neck.

"Rotka love shiny thing like Gallock love Sharon's pelt, so I help make Rotka strong so he can protect it." Viktor was completely thrown off by this change in personality, when he fights Gallock shows an entirely different side of himself, the level of brutality he had last night was well beyond anything he'd seen but now he was just a seemingly innocent buffoon.

"Kakarot also explain that shiny thing belong to girl...Chara...Gallock help Rotka get Chara back! We go talk to Joseph today and work problems out." Viktor actually genuinely smiled at Gallock's suggestion.

"Heh...I don't think Joseph wants anything to do with me anymore Gallock...I doubt Chara does too even..." His smile faded away but he noticed Gallock's turn to a look of anger.

"Then we kill Joseph, we kill him and you prove dominance to Chara! She love you again once she see strength" Viktor immediately stood from the chair waving his hands at Gallock.

"No no no that's fine Gallock we just have to uh...Give them a little time okay? Just give them a few days...Or weeks maybe and we'll go talk to them..." The thought of being away from Chara for weeks already weighed heavily on Viktor's mind.

"And do we kill him then?"

"No Gallock...We're not killing anyone in that case..."

"Then we train! We train and get much stronger! Then we got to other planets and fight many many people!" Viktor didn't exactly share Gallock's sentiment with fighting people, he only fought when he needed to usually, not for enjoyment. Right now training wasn't even in his top 100 issues that were on his mind, it was barely in the top 200 even.

"Hey um...I'm gonna head out for another walk, I won't be gone as long as I was last night, I just want to get out for a little bit."

"But Brother, we're about to have breakfast, Gallock go out, kill many creatures so we may feast like kings!" Viktor was relatively silent as he got up from his chair.

"I won't be long Gallock, if you guys really get that concerned about me just come find me, those scouters of yours can do that anyway." He walked back into the main foyer and up the stairs to the bedrooms, he went into his room and picked out a new coat to wear as the other was rather damaged from the fights with Gallock. He stopped and looked in the mirror at himself, noticing that he looked in the worst shape of his life, his outfit was tattered and damaged and he himself looked like he hadn't slept in days even though he slept relatively well last night, he left the bedroom and headed towards Gallock's, he walked in and stood where the massive hole in the wall was, looking down on the crater in the yard.

"YoU'rE sTiLl WeAk!" His face shifted into anger once that nagging voice had returned.

"YoU dOn'T dEsErVe HeR!" He started to grit his teeth, a quiet growl coming from his throat.

"I am not weak...I'll show you..." He leaped through the hole towards one of the trees, landing on the branches as he took a look back towards the house. He jumped to another tree, then another, getting further and further away from the house. He was keeping his power suppressed so Kakarot and Gallock would be unable to sense where he was going.

"They would start an unnecessary issue and this is something I need to handle on my own..." Viktor mumbled to himself as he kept leaping through the trees, minutes passed as he was sure he was far enough away that he could take off without really being detected so he jumped above the trees and took off, still keeping a good chunk of his power down to avoid any unwanted guests before he touched down near a sign.

"You are now leaving Canada and entering the United States."

Viktor reached down towards the locket on his neck with a smile on his face.

"I'll be back soon Chara...I'll fix everything and we can go back to the life you wanted okay?...I love you..." He disappeared from in front of the sign, appearing in another set of trees looking down on a cottage, he could sense Asriel and Chara's power levels there. Even after he himself told Gallock and Kakarot to wait, even under the threats that Joseph wanted to kill him, Viktor couldn't find the strength to keep himself away from Chara for too long, he chuckled to himself at the irony of the situation, when they first met Chara needed him to keep herself sane, now he was the one who needed her more than ever. He did his usual kiss on the locket as it had become a ritual to him already and was prepared to take a stealthy approach to the house when he saw Joseph walk out, start down the steps off the porch and be a lot closer to the trees than he expected, another thought came to his mind as he saw Joseph.

"I'll make everything right Chara..." He pulled the hood of his coat down and mentally prepared himself for what he was about to do, and with that he leaped off the branch, falling not too far from where Joseph was standing.

"...Hello there." He said as he slowly stood to his full height after landing, he was expecting Joseph to attack him with a near relentless force but strangely...He didn't, he just looked in Viktor's direction with an angry glare on his face.

"What do you want Viktor? I thought I told you last night that I didn't want to see your face anymore. Haven't you done enough already?" Viktor immediately felt the pangs of guilt hitting him.

"I'm here to see Chara, nothing more, nothing less."

"Ohhh of course it's all about Chara right? Let's just keep ignoring the fact that you beat the living shit out of Asriel and emotionally scarred him, doing lord knows how much damage that I'M going to have to fix because once again it's ME who has to fix YOUR mistakes! He won't even speak to me outside of asking me why I wasn't there to protect him!" That seemed to really hit Viktor as he could imagine Chara in that same scenario, he didn't want to but he kept thinking of how he would've reacted if Joseph or anyone else did the same thing. The fact that Joseph didn't seem to kill him on the spot was still weighing on his mind, he was even more surprised that Joseph even spoke to him rather than attack him on sight like he was expecting.

"I'm sorry...Okay? I don't know what else you want me to say or do but the most I can do right now is just apologize, I know that's not going to make up for what I did but it's all I can offer at the moment."

"Sorry isn't going to fix it Viktor, sorry isn't going to make Asriel speak to me anymore, I could've accepted you screaming at him, I actually understood and I still understand why you were angry in the first place but you had NO right to lay your hands on him the way you did! That was 15 years ago and Chara herself even said that she forgave him for it and that she spent more of her time blaming herself for not helping him sooner rather than what she chose to do, but no you just had to go and be Viktor and completely lose your mind AGAIN!" Viktor wasn't even attempting to defend himself in this case, after all it's not like Joseph was unjustified to be yelling at him like this, hell Viktor accepted it as an accomplishment because Joseph explicitly said he'd kill Viktor the next time they met and he didn't.

"What? Aren't you gonna yell back at me? Try and defend yourself and your "Saiyan pride" or are you gonna try and go back in the house and smack Asriel around some more?!" Viktor just shrugged his shoulder at him.

"I don't have any pride left to defend so why should I bother? You think it's bad for you? YOU're not the one who got smacked around by his brother like a ragdoll and made to look like a goddamn fool, YOU're not the one who lost the love of his life because he lost his temper, YOU're not the one slowly losing his sanity because you don't have them anymore!"

"Oh give me a break! See that's one of your problems, you can't listen to anyone's problems but your own, if it doesn't involve you or Chara, you couldn't give any less of a fuck about it but God forbid something happen to poor Viktor or something happen to poor little Chara, God if it was me that beat the hell out of Chara you would've leveled the forest in a fit of anger and probably burned a city to the ground THEN decide to come find me!"

"Oh I'm sorry I don't wear my heart on my sleeve and give a shit about everyone else's issues when I have my own problems to deal with, just I have a fuck ton on my plate just like you do! I have two aliens sitting at your mansion right now probably wondering where the hell I'm at, the largest of which is apparently related to me, did you forget that part? Where I found out that I'm actually from a race of intergalactic alien warriors that apparently exist for the sole reason of fucking people's day up?" Joseph just rolled his eyes at Viktor.

"Oh wow that seems like such a problem for you, you got to skip to the front of the line when it came to getting your own powers, no I totally wasn't kidnapped by a psychopathic Nazi doctor and experimented on until I became an undead creature after which I watched as my friends and family slowly whittled down over the years and all die but no I'm sure you basically getting a free ride is completely the worst thing in the world! You've gone through pain ONCE, Oh no, Chara left, sob sob cry cry, how about the fact my boyfriend won't even speak to me anymore because he thinks I let him down on something I promised him when we first met?! It's not all about you Viktor, yeah you're hurting right now but so are a lot of other people in a lot worse ways and you can't make it all about yourself!"

"You know I would think you of all people would at least fucking attempt to understand what I'm feeling here, I spent 7 years making sure Chara was okay, on 3 separate occasions that woman almost died in my arms and I had to save her, I've spent ALL my time on her making sure she would be okay you've spent what a year with someone who actually had friends and family to go to while Chara had NO ONE!" They both heard the door open as Chara and Asriel both came out to see what's going on, Viktor actually felt his heart skip a beat when he saw her, as if it'd been years since he last did.

"H-hi C-Chara..." The woman in question stepped off the porch towards the two, she had a slightly angry glare going towards Viktor.

"Why are you here?" She asked him bluntly, her eyes didn't show any joy towards him but they didn't show any anger either, rather they showed a hint of disappointment towards him.

"I...I came back to try and talk things out with you and-"

"Me? No no no if you even want to try and get my attention you need to talk things over with Joseph and Asriel otherwise, we're still done." She turned her back to him and started back towards the cottage.

"Chara please, just hear me-"

"No I told you, you either talk to Joseph and Asriel and fix things with them before you even CONSIDER trying to patch things over with me. Until things are better with them, you don't even speak to me, and before you even try to say that "you're trying to change" just remember that you and Joseph were yelling at each other which is why I even came out in the first place." Viktor was surprised by Chara's personality towards him, they rarely argued before but now she was speaking to him as if he was an entirely different person. She walked past Asriel and went back into the house, he followed behind her and shut the door, Joseph turned to look at Viktor but he had completely vanished.

"AGGGH!" Viktor yelled as his fist slammed into the tree, he made sure to get far enough away from Joseph's home that they wouldn't be able to track him but his mind was preoccupied with the way Chara seemed to act around him.

"She's...She's never been like that around me before...She's always been kind and loving to me and that...That wasn't it..." He wasn't sure what he saw, whether it was hate, whether she truly didn't love him anymore, any of the potential outcomes didn't sit well in his stomach.

"That... That wasn't her, that couldn't have been her...She wouldn't hate me would she?..." Viktor sat down against one of the trees, resting his face against one of his hands while he still twirled her locket with the other, he was trying to hold back the sadness that started building in his stomach, he was already hurting not having her around, her speaking to him with anything but love was another crippling blow to him.

"I guess I had that coming though...She has all rights to hate me if she does...As much as it might hurt me..."

"And of course you still continue to show your weakness..." That same voice rang out once again, the hollow one from his dream as he could hear the sound of branches snapping and breaking as he saw the man in his robe standing in the distance, his purple eyes piercing into Viktor, he took a few steps forward towards him and the feeling of dread started to crawl up Viktor's spine.

"So you weren't just some nightmare I had...I guess you came to try and finish the job right? Well I should inform you that I've gotten a lot stronger since the last time we met."

"Oh have you now? I couldn't tell with how WEAK you've been acting lately...The way you let that moron toss you around like used garbage, the way you refuse to stand up and fight for the woman you love, you haven't gotten any stronger you just think you have..." Viktor just grew angry at the man's accusations.

"I am not weak...If Chara could beat you back then I can easily squash you like an insect..."

"Oh but Rotka...I am not here to fight, no I am here to offer you the power you seek, the strength that will allow to to defeat your brother and claim what is yours...I can bring your Chara back to you, you just have to trust me." Viktor scoffed at the man as he slowly closed the distance between the two.

"You try to kill me last year, now this year you say you want to help me, what was your resolution to be less of a dick to me?' The man merely chuckled at Viktor, then the small slits on his mask opened up as he exhaled.

"Ah Rotka, I had intentions of helping you prior to this...Our first meeting was nothing more than a mere test of your abilities but as you were...Not at full strength I wasn't able to properly gauge your power based on my research...So I've spent the last year watching you, studying your different moves and watching you progress...Now I think in your most dire times that you could use my assistance..." The man was only a few steps away from Viktor, he brought one of his arms out of his robe, he was holding what looked like a small almost transparent red rock in his hand, the rock glowed with a dark energy around it and he held it out towards Viktor.

"Take this...This will give you power the likes of which your brother could only dream of." Viktor held his hand out and the man dropped it in his palm, immediately Viktor felt a massive flow of energy flood his body, but at the same time he felt something else growing along with it, he dropped the rock on the ground and the energy stopped but he still felt the power it had given him.

"Don't worry...Once your body adjusts to that power eventually you'll never want to put it down...And once you've gotten used to it, come find me and I'll give you all the power you could dream of, power to defeat your brother and bring your Chara back to you..." The man then vanished into black smoke, leaving Viktor alone with the mysterious gemstone.

"That...That power...That was...Incredible..." He looked down at his fingers, they were twitching from the energy the stone had given him but at the same time he could feel his body almost wanting to burst from the flood of power.

"I have to figure out what this thing is capable of..."

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