Ok after yet another long absence (boy do i miss spell check) im back!!! yeah so much stuff went down and i find myself again with word pad instead of microsoft word. so youll have to bear with me with the thousands of typos that are bound to come ^.^" anyway i thought i should update cuz i can almost guarantee that i wont be updating for a long time so.. yeah here you go. tried to not be lazy with the fighting i swear lol.
Chapter 26: To the Victor Goes No Spoils
ChiChi reacts quickly to the blasts and charges Kakarot with out showing the least bit of fear. She meets him throwing punches left and right, which he of course easily blocks. Getting annoyed, ChiChi tries with one of her more powerful kicks but it does nothing as he merely grabs it and throws her. The crowd cheers but goes quiet as she stands unharmed and dusts herself off like it's nothing. "Do you honestly think you'll win this way?" Kakarot shrugs as if it's nothing.
"I think I can." ChiChi gets in her stance again.
"Good luck with that." She runs at Kakarot again and throws two punches, but he grabs her fists in a tight grip and smiles. "Let go." ChiChi spits as she desperately tries to free her fists, and the crowd laughs. Kakarot feeds off the crowd's growing excitement and smiles.
"Make me." As the crowd laughs a bit more he can't help but smirk. This annoys ChiChieven more as she compares him to Vegeta and she struggles even more to get free.
"Let me go ape!" The crowd goes silent as they watch for Kakarot's reaction, expecting him to knock her out now for what she just said. Staying true to his nature, disappointing the crowd, he keeps his cool and looks ChiChi square in the eyes.
"I'm not about to let go. Just give up." ChiChi stops struggling only to look at Kakarot in complete shock.
"That's your master plan? To get me to give up?" Kakarot shrugs.
"Don't worry about my master plan." ChiChi busts out laughing then stops and stares him in the eye.
"It'll never work." Kakarot sighs refusing to give up hope.
"Then don't worry about it about it, you keep thinking that." ChiChi gives her own smirk and slams her right foot into his gut. He releases her fists and dubs over slightly, just enough for her to leap up and do a spinning kick, hitting poor Kakarot square in the face. He falls over from the force and touches the spot where he was kicked. Then ChiChi grabs her foot and bounces on the other getting a pain full reminder of what she completely forgot, how rock hard a Saiyan tends to be. The crowd goes wild not expecting ChiChi to dish out hits so good but happy she's getting hurt from contact. This was proving to be a good start for a great fight. Their eyes widen when Kakarot stands and ChiChi charges him again as if she wans'nt hurt the least. This time when ChiChi throws punches and kicks Kakarot dodges them, not wanting to hurt his mate. Bulma watches from her booth as her heart punds with every passing second. Kakarot was yet to land a hit, ChiChi was winning with flying colors and Kakarot did'nt look the least bit concerned about landing a hit of his own.
"Something has to happen so Goku will fight back.. damnit" Bulma sighs and starts to pace all the while watching the fight. Dr. Briefs glances at his daughter and sighs at her worry.
"Bulma dear everything will be fine. You must calm down." Bulma looks at her father and slowly shakes her head, then goes back to watching the fight.
"I can't afford to try and guess the out come Dad. I need to watch this with a clear mind." Back in the arena, ChiChi yells in frustration and kicks Kakarot harder than before, sending him flying and causing her again to grab her foot in pain. Kakarot gets up and watches ChiChi. It was different with his Dad a few hours ago, the thought of doing a spar with ChiChi made him believe he would actually land a hit and win this fight. But being out here in the field, with just about every Saiyan watching, there was no way he was about to land a single hit. It went against everything he was about, attacking the strong and defending the weak. He glances at ChiChi and thinks back to when he first met her, about the ride here, about how far they've come.. then it hits him, something she said to him all those weeks ago on the ride here.
"No Kakarot. If you wanna see what I can really do, put me in a life or death situation. Or at least somthin close to that." Kakarot's eyes widen as his curiosity grows and he thinks it over in his head. Then he shakes his head, this was no time to goof around, his future was at stake here! ChiChi picks up on his distraction and gets in her stance.
"Don't quit on me this battle's way too important for that." ChiChi's words on the ship echo in Kakarot's mind again, and again he shakes his head. ChiChi raises a brow at him. "Quit stalling, come and get me for once!" Kakarot ignores her taunt and smirks letting his curiosity get the better of him.
"Why not you? You're not scared of me already are you?" He starts to flex and pose in a teasing manner and the Saiyans laugh. ChiChi glares at the crowd and falls for it, she charges Kakarot again.
"You'll regret ever saying that!" She again meets him with punches and Kakarot dodges them trying to get her more angry. He was trying to give the crowd reason to laugh at her, the crowd laughs as you fall for taunts or miss hits. It's the perfect life or death situation, for a Saiyan anyway, and ChiChi was close enough to one in Kakarot's eyes. Ox-King watches the fight and smiles.
"Well, ChiChi sure did get stronger, which is no shocker." Dr. Briefs nods.
"No matter the out come, you should be very proud of her." Bunny says and she giggles, of course not taking the fight serious at all. Bulma, as sharp as ever, picks up on Kakarot's motives. It's not like him to taunt ChiChi like that, something wasn't adding up and it was starting to bother her. She watches Kakarot suddenly stop dodging and gasps when ChiChi's fist connects with his face. Kakarot smirks as ChiChi pulls her fist back and hugs it to her chest.
"Oh! Was that supposed to hurt? My bad." He places his right hand on his right cheek and sucks in a quick breath, pretending it hurt. "Ow! Oh manthat one hurt! Yeah right I can flick harder than that!" He starts to laugh and of course the crowd joins in. ChiChi shakes her hurt hand and charges Kakarot again. Bulma again picks up on how weird Kakarot is acting but she says nothing. It's not she could do anything if she knew about it anyway, it was King Vegeta's call to stop the fight if anyone broke a rule and so far Kakarot didn't break a single one. The next punch ChiChi throws Kakarot grabs.
"Wow.. that was surprisingly weak." ChiChi huffs and throws another, and again Kakarot had both her fists in his hands."What? Strike a nerve?" She grunts this time and again starts to struggle to get free. Kakarot chuckles at her struggles. "You know if you want your fists back just ask nicely." ChiChi ignores him and digs her feet into the dirt, and pulls back using the strength of her legs. Kakarot teases her by moving with her slightly, then he stops like a brick and doesn't move. "You still want them back? Fine be that way." He waits for her to pull harder and he lets go, ChiChi falling back in the process. Kakarot throws his head back and laughs, the crowd laughs harder than it did yet. "Oh man I'd be soembarrassed right if I were you!" Kakarot holds his gut as he laughs harder. ChiChi makes a face, but instead of arguing she looks down as if she was focusing on something. Bulma stares at her for a few moments and gasps as her mind works it's magic. Her father looks at her and she answers his question before he can ask.
"Don't worry about it Dad. Just hope for once I'm wrong.." Dr. Briefs glances at Ox-King but nods and lets it go.
"Hey ChiChi you're a princess right?" Kakarot asks. Bulma freezes as she watches ChiChi's face drop.
"I told you I don't want that title!" Kakarot smirks.
"So everyone of your people died and this is how you show them off?" ChiChi stands as her body shakes with anger.
"Shut up. Don't you evertalk about them like that again." Bulma steps back a few steps at ChiChi's rather calm voice. It was happening all over again and she coudln't stop it.
"I need to get to ChiChi! Right now!" Bulma yells as panic starts to set it. Kakarot can't hear this over the crowd and he smirks more as he continues the taunts.
"I can't believe you're bringing shame to your people like this. What a shame." The crowd howls with laughter, very much enjoying the taunts. ChiChi flinches and she gasps, then she covers her ears and shuts her eyes almost as if in fear.
"Shut up!" She screams. It doesn't work, the crowd only laughs harder at her actions, and Bulma panics even more.
"Shit! She needs me!" Before anyone notices her, Bulma leaps on one of the massive Saiyan flags and slides down to the arena.
"Hey! You can't be down there!" Yamcha yells. He glances at Vegeta who rises from his seat and goes to get her. Bulma runs to ChiChi, who is now on the floor still desperately covering her ears.
"ChiChi!" The crowd goes silent allowing their princess to try and get ChiChi's attention. "ChiChi! Please stop it! You have to fight it!" ChiChi suddenly stands and she pushes Bulma so hard that she falls and rolls a few feet quickly flies down and grabs her before she can get hurt while the Kakarot and everyone else gasps. ChiChi's neverput her hands on Bulma since she was here, no one thought it possible for her to hurt Bulma none-the-less. ChiChi stares at Kakarot with pure white eyes, her pupils now gone. Bulma cries out when she sees this, while Dr. Briefs, Ox-King, and Bunny gasp as the horrible sight, and painful reminder. Bulma struggles to get out of Vegeta's grasp as she desperately reaches for ChiChi. "Vegeta let me go!"
"Stay put woman! This is a battle that doesn't include you." Bulma nearly screams but fights it back, not trying to hurt any Saiyan's ears.
"Vegeta if you don't let me go ChiChi will die!" Everyone gasps again while Kakarot stares at Bulma in disbelief.
"She will?"
"Yes! I have to get to her!" Yamcha snorts and turns to the king.
"It's one of ChiChi's fighting moves. Bulma is interfering with ChiChi's only way to way." Bulma hears this is the dead silence and she turns angrily glaring at Yamcha.
"I dareyou to risk ChiChi's life like this!" ChiChi suddenly yells and with a flex of her body white ki swirls around her like a gust of wind. Bulma quickly turns her attention back to her friend and her eyes water up. "ChiChi no! I'm begging you please calm down!" ChiChi, in a scary movie-freaky kind of way shakes her head slowly no and keeps her all white eyes glued on Kakarot. Kakarot gets chills and steps back. Yamcha smirks now that everyone can clearly see this is a fighting technique, he decides to remove Bulma from the ring.
"Bulma if you don't stop trying to make ChiChi loose, you'll disqualify Kakarot!" Bulma doesn't take her eyes off of ChiChi, only caring for her life at this moment. King Vegeta rubs his beard.
"Hmm. He has a point." Now Bulma looks at the king's booth.
"But ChiChi could die! You have to let me help her!" King Vegeta waves her off.
"Such an important fight calls for proof before I'll allow the end of a strong technique like this. Get me proof, until then the fight continues." Vegeta growls and flies back to the booth, Bulma reaches for ChiChi the whole way.
"You don't understand! ChiChi uses everyounce of energy in her body when she's like this!" Bulma tries again. King Vegeta simply ignores her waiting for the fight to start up again. Kakarot slowly looks from the booths, looking at everyone's face, then he looks to ChiChi. Bulma was speaking the truth, but so was Yamcha and Kakarot could hear it in their voices. He gets his fighter's face on and gets in his stance.
"Bulma! Try to get some kind of proof, I'll hold ChiChi off!" Bulma sighs and paces.
"But she's using her life force and her ki when she's like this.. We don't have enough time to go to Earth and get the paper work.." Bulma pinches her nose as it starts to sink in, ChiChi planned on killing herself rather than risk never seeing Bulma or Kakarot again. And Bulma didn't see the signs, what an idiot. Dr. Briefs places a hand on her shoulder and smiles.
"I'd say ChiChi has fifteen minutes. I'll go to the ship and see if I have the right files." Bulma looks to ChiChi and nods at her father, praying to anyone who will listen that ChiChi will hang in there. Kakarot nods at Dr. Briefs and looks back to ChiChi.
"Let's do this." ChiChi squints her glowing white eyes and steps slowly toward Kakarot. Bulma gets chills knowing that pace, and she sighs when Kakarot fails to take it seriously.
"What? No more running?" ChiChi stops, she stares at him with no emotion, her anger and frustrationg completely gone from her face. "Come on, don't hold back 'cuz you're 'stronger' now. Show me what you're made of." Bulma hits her fore head at Kakarot as ChiChi smirks and vanishes. The crowd, along with Kakarot, gasps.
"Damnit Goku." Bulma mumbles. Kakarot can sense ChiChi's energy drain, which was about as fast as the Dominipz prince's attack, but it was everywhere, as if she was constantly moving. Was that possible though? Bulma watched anxiously, she knew exactly what ChiChi was doing but she couldn't say anything, she'd risk making Kakarot loose and loosing ChiChi. Again she paces, wondering how long her dad with take. Vegeta looks at his mate and wraps his tail around her thigh.
"Woman you need to relax. You say it drains her of life energy? She has plenty to spare." True to his nature, he shows no emotion while he says this, and Bulma only sighs in response.
"I know but I can't help but worry. Dad said if she ever did this again she wouldn't survive.." Bulma stops speaking as ChiChi appears behind Kakarot and kicks him hard. He flies a few feet and rolls a few more, the crowd is silent with surprise.
"Damn!" Vegeta comments. Bulma sighs again, but she can't take her gaze away from her friend.
"She just got worse.." Kakarot gets up in complete and obvious shock.
"What the hell just happened here?" He stands up and dusts himself off. "That actually hurt.. well sort of. Is there anymore of that?" He turns to where she was, but she's no longer there and he looks around for her. ChiChi appears in front of him this time, and before he can react, she grabs his hair and pulls him down to her left knee. After two hard bashes she she jumps up and spin kicks him again, sending him farther than the last spin kick she did. The crowd is dead silent, Kakarot gets up and wipes his nose as it pulses with pain but doesn't bleed. "I don't think I can win this.." He admits, staring at ChiChi as she stares back with a blank face.
"Do you give up?" Yamcha yells, and Kakarot turns to answer him. But he feels something on his cheek, he touches it and his finger glows white, he turns to ChiChi to see the same glowing white tear on her cheek in the same exact spot where he felt his. She makes a fist and the bracelet glows white and breaks.
"Don't.. quit.." She hardly says, and Bulma gasps as ChiChi confirms her fears, her suicide attempt.
"ChiChi you leave me no choice.. It's better if you go back to Earth than die." She let's more tears fall, but she doesn't accept Kakarot's words.
"Death is better than seperation from you and Bulma." Kakarot shakes his head and tries again.
"ChiChi please, don't-"
"-You don't have a say in this! I won't stop until I drop dead!" With a simple flex of her limbs, she vanishes again.
"Then I'll give up!" Kakarot yells as he searches for her. Yamcha smiles.
"That counts doesn't it?" Bulma grabs a drink and throws it at him, and huffs when he catches it.
"It was only a threat don't even try it!" She spits. Yamcha sucks his teeth and goes back to looking at Kakarot, who stands there like he has given up. "Goku please, just fight a little longer!" Kakarot looks at her, most, if not all, his hope gone. "We still have a chance to save her!" Kakarot sighs, nods, and gets back in his stance. Right about now all he wants is a miracle to happen. ChiChi appears next to him and throws a few punches, which he dodges as he adjusts to her new and improved speed. ChiChi makes no emotion, she some how lears his movements quickly and starts landing every punch. Like before, a swift kick sends him flying, but he gets up quickly and dusts himself off still not giving up.
"I'm not about to quit ChiChi, there's a chance to save you." ChiChi stares at him for a few moments almost as if she wasn't breathing, then says simply,
"As long as I'm alive I won't quit." And like that she's gone again. Kakarot sighs, he knew as well as everyone else that if help didn't come soon he would give up. Vegeta looks at Bulma and grunts.
"Doesn't she always listen to you? Tell her you want her to live." Bulma sighs sadly.
"When she's like this she's not right in the head.. she wouldn't listen to me. My last chance was when I was down there before.." In the arena ChiChi appears in front of Kakarot and he leaps back like he knew she was there. She shows emotion when her eyebrows rise, but she charges him unfazed. The crowd gasps, watching her speed with out her disappearing on them like usual. She throws a punch that Kakarot blocks, and surprised again she vanishes. Kakarot growls.
"Are you sure we can still save her?" Bulma runs a hand through her hair.
"I'm positive! Just a little more Goku!" Kakarot nods and blocks ChiChi as she attacks more. She was obviously weakening already, he was able to keep up with her punches again. Bulma watches as her hope comes back to her, ChiChi was almost slow enough that Kakarot could just hold her until her father came back with the paper work. Vegeta looks away from the fight and she follows his gaze, seeing her father touch down with his escort Saiyans.
"Bulma I found it! Here it is!" Bulma races to her father and squeezes him hard, then she lets him go to the king to talk things over. Dr. Briefs explains what's going on to King Vegeta between breaths, hardly surviving Bulma's death hug. "Humans split their enegery in two groups.. life force and ki.. ChiChi uses both but.. her sickness.. she can't.." Dr. Briefs then points to the key explaining his notes and King Vegeta nods.
"Alright. I'll allow you to assist Kakarot, but he still must land a hit to win." Bulma nods and the crowd remains silent so Kakarot can hear her.
"Goku, when she's like this she uses her ancestors powers to control the air!" Kakarot blocks another punch and ChiChi stops, she turns hearing her friend assist Kakarot. She stares at Bulma for a few moments before vanishing again.
"That's how she's so fast now?" Kakarot yells, and Bulma nods.
"Yeah! She's weak enough that you should be able to grab her, but she can slow the air around you and make it harder on you so be careful! Once you grab her you have to knock her out!" Kakarot looks at Bulma with wide eyes.
"But she's weak! I'd kill her!" Bulma angrily grabs the rail in front of her.
"Goku if you don't knock her out she'll use up her ki and die! You have to do it!" ChiChi appears in front of him, her face still blank.
"It's hit me or watch me die.. I choose death.." And she dissappears again. Kakarot looks down and sighs.
"Ok.. I know what to do now.. bring it." He gets down in his stance and readies himself knowing ChiChi was abou to go all out on him. He was right, ChiChi appears to his side, and when he raches for her she appears behind him and kees him in the back. The moment he lands on his hands and kness she appears next to him and kicks his gut, he flips over from the impact and lands on his back. She appears over him again and starts to pound on his face, her speed lacks strength and his face never breaks or bleeds. After her hands start to hurt she vanishes again, leaving a bruise on his cheek. He gets up with a smirk better understading how she works now. He stands in his stance and shuts his eyes so he can't be tricked. She appears infront of him, but he senses her to his side. So he turns and reachs out to his side as she appears there and he holds fast to her. Bulma smiles as Kakarot brings her close and gives her a bear hug, she wasn't going anywhere now.
"Goku hurry she's almost out of time!" Kakarot glances at the booth still seeing the panic in Bulma and Ox-King. He nods and, while shuting his eyes he grabs ChiChi differently and slams her down, earning a loud groan from her. He keeps his eyes closed so he can zone out how he just hurt her, he turns her to him and opens his eyes as he slams his fist into her stomach. ChiChi's eyes go wide, as does everyone's who's watching, and her pupils come back, her white ki flies off from the impact of the punch, and ChiChi falls into Kakarot's arms weakly. The crowd erupts into cheer as King Vegeta stands and announces Kakarot the winner.
"Vegeta quick let's go!" Vegeta rolls his eyes and flies Bulma down quickly to where Kakarot was siting with ChiChi in his arms, still knocked out. She runs to them and tackles Kakarot.
"Thank you Goku!! Thank you so much!!" She let's go of Kakarot and wipes ChiChi's cheek clean of the dirt. "Come on Chi.. wake up.." ChiChi suddenly takes a deep breath and jerks up, her eyes snap open and she locks eyes with Bulma.
"B?" She says, and she sounds horribly weak. Bulma gives her a sad smile, she could hear how close death was in her friend's voice, but she was still alive. She let's a tear fall and gently hugs her.
"Don't you ever scare me like that again Chi. Neveragain." ChiChi shuts her eyes and nods twice slowly. Dr. Briefs sighs and sits next to ChiChi across from Bulma.
"Will she be ok?" Kakarot asks worry apparent in his voice. Dr. Briefs sighs heavier and checks ChiChi's pulse. He uncapsules something much like a thermometer and sticks it in her mouth while pulling out another ki shot that pulses white. Kakarot gulps but holds one of ChiChi's hands, fighting his fear for her. Bunny removes the thermometer from her mouth and sighs sadly.
"She's just about gone honey, her life force is so low and her ki is slightly better." Dr. Briefs nods and gives her the shot, which makes her jerk away from it and groan in pain. Kakarot holds her hand and rubs it, her reaction making his fear worse. Then Dr. Briefs removes it and ChiChi looks around, her eyes shine with a bit more life now.
"How do you feel?" Ox-King asks. ChiChi sighs and shuts her eyes.
"Like shit.." Everyone chuckles at her, at least she was back to the old her. Bunny gets a Senzu Bean and hands it to Dr. Briefs, the fear in her face now gone.
"ChiChi I warned you, the next time you unlock your potential you'd die! What the hell were you thinking?" ChiChi slightly chuckles and looks at Bulma and Kakarot.
"I knew he wouldn't hit me.. unless it was life or death.. and he reminded me of something that happened before.. about seeing what I'm really made of.. I knew life or death would make him hit me.." Kakarot sighs while shaking his head and smiling.
"ChiChi.. that's crazy of you." She smiles and shuts her eyes.
"Yeah well I need Bulma in my life.. hey am I supposed to want you this bad?" The group laughs at her.
"Yes Harpy it's part of being his mate." Dr. Briefs holds up a hand.
"Well she's not strong enough to do anything right now." ChiChi's mouth drops.
"Excuse you? Who's not strong enough? Give me the Senzu Bean and I'll be on my way." The Saiyans laugh at her but Dr. Briefs keeps a serious face.
"ChiChi you have roughly forty-two seconds until you pass out and the real fight begins, the one to keep you alive. You know your body heals your ki better than your life force and you're in no condition to hold so much ki." ChiChi sighs, but she smiles when Bulma reaches down to hug her.
"You better make it through this Chi. I mean it." ChiChi nods and hugs her dad as he takes his turn.
"You have to live." ChiChi sighs and rolls her eyes.
"Grandkids I know Dad." Kakarot blushes and leans over to hug her. He tries to pull back but she doesn't let go.
"I'm not that weak, get over here and kiss me damnit." The group chuckles and Kakarot happily kisses her until she passes out. A messenger touches down and says something to King Vegeta and he claps his hands once to silence everyone.
"Get her to the Emergency Wing and let's celebrate!" Kakarot smiles as the Saiyans cheer at his victory and is taken to the Recovery Wing while ChiChi is taken to the Emergency Wing. Mean while every other Saiyan went to a place for gathering and celebrated the night away with play fights, drinking and eating, while Vegeta and Bulma celebrated in their own way through out the night. Before Kakarot sleeps he looks at the sky and prays to Suaza for ChiChi to heal, then drifts alseep...
oks i be done!!! xD did you like? i took 2 chpts and put em together for this one!!! so you BETTER like!!! =D i know that ChiChiis strong but i found the book i wrote this in.. i think from freshman year? MY GOSH!! so yeah i didnt wanna ruin my image of ChiChi when i was that young. but this battle shall weaken her n make her more "human" for those of you that think shes too strong. ^.^" like? not like? lemme know! it took wow 3 hrs to type! Dx so yeah i prob wont update again for a while but youre used to it by now so.. yeah review if ya wanna! xD annon. types here ya go!!! geez theres too many of you Dx oh well lets see who do we have now?
XxSailorWinchesterXx: well im sorry that the cliffy had to be this long.. hehe ^.^ i hope you like this update, i didnt get that lazy in thew fighting i dont think =D Thnx for the review!
Should get an account?: OMG love the name! get one and make that your name!!! xD oh right your review.. thank you for such kind words ^.^ oh that was the point of my title xD ill try to update but yeah i may be in trouble soon.. shh . Thanx for the review!
Yukiko: my goodness all these nice words. the thrill of reviews never wears off man! =D i shall continue as my inspirtaion tells me to. i read chpt 24 just yesterday and i was like time to update! xD Thanx for the review!
Luna: nice name =D yeah what is a fic with out some drama and twists? poor couple xD i also dont like yamcha in this fic, whadda jerk! D well now you know, thank you for the kind words and Thanx for the review!
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