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Pairing: Goku/Kagome/Vegeta
Rated: M (dark themes, language)
"That fucking... IDIOT!" Vegeta snarled, looking at Trunks' dead body with a dark glare, "If I could not beat Cell, what makes you think a mere brat can?" He sneered, turning his nose up snootily, "What a waste."
"V-Vegeta?" Krillin stuttered, kneeling beside Trunks and placing his ear to the half-breed's chest. His expression turned a bit grim when he heard no pulse, "How can you say that? He's your son!" He frowned deeply, looking helplessly at his hand where a few Senzu Beans lay, 'It's no use! Only the Dragon Balls can help Trunks now!'
"He was a disgrace to my royal bloodline," Vegeta said impassively, seemingly not affected negatively by Trunks' death, "He was a mere half-breed."
"That's a horrible thing to say!" Krillin looked shocked at Vegeta's words, "You have to feel something for him!" He glanced up from Trunks, not noticing how the Shikon that dangled from a thin chain around Trunks' neck seemed to glow eerily.
"Nothing but contempt!" Vegeta snorted, crossing his arms over his chest and moving his eyes back to Cell, who was watching their little 'conversation' with highly amused eyes, "Now, you...!" The Saiyan growled lowly, feeling his Ki rise angrily at the very sight of the perfect Cell.
"Oh?" Cell smirked, "Tell me, Vegeta – how does it feel to watch your only child to be killed right in front of you?" He snickered at the harsh glare he received in return, "Will you attempt to avenge Trunks?"
"I have no use for such things!" Vegeta spat, "The only thing that I will avenge is my pride by slaughtering you!"
'You have to be kidding me!' Krillin wanted to slap his own forehead at the Saiyan's foolish words. All of them knew that Vegeta stood no chance against Cell's perfect form. He blinked, catching a flash of darkened light from the corner of his eyes and he glanced down back to Trunks' body.
The sight had him falling to his rear and Krillin gasped in slight fear and slowly began to scramble away backwards from the fallen warrior, "W-what's going on?" His fearful voice caught the attention of both Vegeta and Cell, both of whom glanced upwards to see what had Krillin so frightened.
"What the fuck...?" Vegeta growled while Cell looked on in morbid curiosity as a black light shone from the jewel hanging around Trunks' neck, "What the hell did you do to the Brat, Human?" Vegeta demanded, though Krillin could only shake his head while gaping at Trunks.
Krillin had to bite his lip to keep himself from letting loose a scream when Trunks' moved into a position that would help him sit up, "H-he's still alive?" He whispered in disbelief, quite sure that Trunks had been dead, "B-but, how...?"
Trunks' lips upturned into a dark grin that looked completely out of place on the teen's face and Krillin could only shake when he pushed himself to sit up, "Well," The voice that came out of the half-breed's mouth was definitely not Trunks', "Isn't this an unexpected surprise?"
The silence was almost deafening when Trunks brought his hands up to his face and seemed to curiously observe them while flexing his fingers, "I see, now. This body is much stronger and sturdier than the body Naraku gave me." The being that was not Trunks let out a full-out laugh that sent chills down Krillin's spine.
"W-who are you?" Krillin demanded fearfully, unconsciously shivering when Trunks' eyes moved to look at his own. He noticed that his eye colour changed from a sky blue to a blood red and that he now had a single jagged black stripe lining each cheek, "A-and where's Trunks?"
"Trunks, huh?" The being smirked, glancing down at his new body, "Is that the name of this boy?" He eyed Krillin, darkly satisfied when the human let out a small noise of fear and scrambled even further away.
"Who the fuck are you?" Vegeta snapped, not sure what was going on. Cell also looked on, a bit intrigued by this unexpected turn of events. It was a little more amusing than kicking the crap out of Vegeta anyway.
The being glanced away from Krillin, much to his relief, and towards Vegeta and Cell and he smirked sadistically, revealing long fangs that reached past his lips.
"My name is Magatsuhi."
~00~
"Trunks is dead?" Bulma said hoarsely, covering her mouth with her hand in horror, "My baby is dead?" She shrieked, tears streaming from her large blue eyes and down her cheeks to hit Baby Trunks on the top of his head.
Gohan glanced down gloomily, slowly nodding his head while Goku and Kagome looked sharply towards him. He winced at Bulma's all-out wails, feeling a guilt that he should not be feeling.
Goku frowned, narrowing his eyes at nothing in particular, "Bulma," He suddenly said in a commanding voice, instantly gaining his childhood friend's attention, "You need to calm down. Trunks can be revived by the Dragon Balls." He said encouragingly, patting the blue-haired woman on her shoulder in a soothing motion.
"B-but..." Bulma sniffled weakly, quickly wiping away her tears while unconsciously clutching Baby Trunks tighter in her arms.
Kagome stared at one spot, focusing her senses on something strange, "Kakarott," She glanced up, seeing Goku blink curiously, "Do you feel that? It feels... very strange." Kagome looked a bit confused, not too sure what to think about the foreign Ki she was sensing.
"Hmm," Goku closed his eyes, opening them when he felt the same thing that Kagome did, "Woah! You're right, that is strange!" He stated with slight surprise, "I've never felt anything like it!"
Gohan stayed silent, also sensing the strange energy, but having nothing to add. Just as his father said, he had never felt anything so weird before.
"Should we go down there?" Kagome asked cautiously, "I can still sense Cell's Ki under that strange energy. Vegeta doesn't stand a chance against him." She pointed out quietly.
"Yeah," Goku slowly agreed, "Just to see what is going on," He turned around, eyeing Gohan with serious eyes, "Son, you need to stay here," He said, his frown deepened just as Gohan looked like he was going to interrupt, "Just a little longer. And then you can go into the Room of Spirit and Time."
'With who?' Gohan thought and he was about to ask it when Goku and Kagome raised their fingers to their foreheads, concentrating on their allies' Ki and disappearing instantly.
He could only hope that they didn't die like Trunks did...
~00~
"M-Magatsuhi?" Krillin stammered, making sure he was far away from the malevolent being as he possibly could be.
"Don't make me repeat myself, little man," Magatsuhi smirked, satisfied at Krillin's obvious fear of his presence, "I know you heard me. My name is Magatsuhi."
"I don't give a flying fuck about your name," Vegeta snarled, his stance unknowingly shifting into something more defensive as he faced the unknown new enemy, "Where the hell did you come from? And why have you taken the Brat's body?"
Magatsuhi glanced at Vegeta as if he were a mere speck of dirt underneath his boot, "Do you long for your son back, Saiyan Prince?" He asked in a mocking tone, effectively riling up the warrior, "I'm afraid that cannot happen. He is dead."
Magatsuhi's red eyes then turned onto the intrigued Cell's, "So, this is the one Kagome is making a big fuss about?" He sneered, catching Vegeta's attention at the mention of Kagome's name, "So much that she would train in that hell room for a year?"
"How do you know the woman?" Vegeta demanded, "She has never mentioned knowing any 'Magatsuhi' to me before!"
Magatsuhi completely ignored Vegeta, not bothering to answer him as he and Cell eyed each other down, "Kagome has become pathetic if she is unable to beat one such as you," He sneered, shaking his head with a mocking expression, "Even if she is physically stronger now."
"I sense you have an incredible power," Cell observed easily, "I am pleased. I need a challenge to test my ultimate strength." He smirked confidently.
Magatsuhi narrowed his red eyes, "What makes you think you are worthy to fight me?" He asked with disdain, surprising Cell with his condemning words, "There is only one person in this world who can defeat me and that would be Kagome."
"What?" Cell narrowed his eyes, not looking so amused anymore as Magatsuhi's total dismissal of his perfected form, "You are not serious, are you?" The Android asked, "That tiny slip of a girl?" He took a step back in shock, feeling Magatsuhi's fingers touch his cold cheek before he could even noticed that the demon had moved, 'He's... fast!'
"I may not like her," Magatsuhi lazily admitted and Cell let out a noise of surprise when his hand clenched viciously underneath his chin and around his jaw, digging in deeply and actually causing a purple blood-like liquid to seep out and coat his sharp claws, "But someone as pathetic as you will not disrespect her in front of me." He growled savagely.
Vegeta, Krillin, and the damaged No. 16 all watched in shocked awe as this unknown being actually scolded Cell for talking down about Kagome.
Cell wretched his face free from Magatsuhi's claws, almost ripping out the entirety of his lower face, "What are you?" The Android snapped, feeling his face regenerate because of Piccolo's cells.
Magatsuhi snorted, looking away with disinterest from Cell and glancing to another empty spot that had the others all confused, "It looks like she's finally here."
Vegeta, Krillin, No. 16, and Cell all looked a bit startled when Magatsuhi's words came true as Goku and Kagome instantly appeared in the spot that he was looking at.
"G-Goku...!" Krillin weakly stated the obvious, falling to his knees when his best friend looked around curiously.
"What's going on?" Goku asked with puzzlement, scratching his head and focusing his eyes onto each warrior that was standing in the surroundings. However, his eyes widened quite comically when he noticed that Trunks was looking at them expectantly, "Trunks? You're still alive?"
Kagome all-right stared at Trunks, sensing something very wrong, "That's not Trunks, Kakarott." She said quietly, unsure of the mixed emotions she was feeling.
"Huh?" Goku blinked, looking down at the shorter Saiyan, "What are you talking about, Kagome? That's Trunks... I think?" He frowned slowly, tensing when he felt a very different Ki than Trunks' emitting from the half-breed's body.
"Kagome's right, Kakarott," Magatsuhi said his Saiyan name mockingly, "I am not Trunks," He confirmed, startling both Saiyans when he appeared in front of them without even looking like he had moved, "Leave." He stated coldly to Goku, blowing away the warrior with a mere rise of his impressive Ki.
Goku instantly regained his footing, looking concerned when Magatsuhi glanced down at Kagome with morbid curiosity. However, he did not rush in to attack because he did not have any killing intent towards Kagome.
"You...!" Kagome glared up at Magatsuhi and clenched her fists in order to hold herself back from attacking him as he invaded her personal space, "You're the one who..."
"Why did you become so pathetic, Kagome?" Magatsuhi sneered, abruptly grabbing a lock of Kagome's and tugging it maliciously, "You may have gotten your wish to be physically stronger, but is it worth it to be separated from that miserable Inuyasha for eternity?" His smirk widened when he noticed the familiar and fiery defiance blazing in Kagome's blue eyes.
"I have no idea what you are talking about," Kagome said calmly, slapping Magatsuhi's hand away from her long hair and ignoring the pain that throbbed in her scalp, "I have no clue who this 'Inuyasha' is." However, a blend of gold and silver and red all flashed into her mind as soon as she said that name.
Magatsuhi raised a lavender brow and he scoffed at the female Saiyan, "And to think I was defeated by you," He said with disdain, glancing at Goku out of the corners of his reddened eyes, "It seems that you have somehow altered your continual punishment."
Kagome looked completely baffled by his words, as did Goku and Krillin. The others merely did not let their confusion show externally on their faces, "What does that mean?" She asked cautiously.
Kagome could only tense in shock when Magatsuhi placed his clawed hand on her stomach and leaned down to breathe heavily in her ear, "Isn't this what you wished for more than anything?" He whispered heatedly, "The very thing that Inuyasha could not give you?"
Magatsuhi quickly jumped out of Kagome's reach as she went to slam her fist into his face, snarling loudly while an golden-hued aura of pure raw energy surrounded her small form, "Whoever you are, get out of Trunks' body now!" She demanded in a cold icy voice.
"He is dead," Magatsuhi simply said, "Why put this body to waste when I can use it?"
Cell frowned, a bit angry that all the attention was on this stranger when it should be placed upon him and his perfect form, "I was disappointed by both Vegeta and Trunks," He suddenly said, gaining all the attention back to himself as he eyed Magatsuhi, "However, you may be able to give me the challenge that I am searching for."
Magatsuhi wrinkled his nose at the very idea, as if Cell wasn't even worth his notice, "Kagome, you're losing to an Artificial Human and not to a demon?" He asked, his arm already around Cell's shoulder before anyone could see him move, "First, that Frieza and now this?" He smirked as Cell seemed to freeze at his touch, "I'm so disappointed in you."
"W-what the hell...?" Krillin whimpered, gasping deeply in shock when long thick appendages, that suspiciously looked like slimy brown tentacles, burst out from the back of Trunks' body and wrapped tightly around Cell's limbs.
"W-what is that?" Goku looked a bit disturbed as did Kagome and even Vegeta. Krillin looked as if he were on the verge of passing out.
"What are you doing?" Cell roared, struggling to get free from the tentacles, but to no avail, "My perfect form will not be defeated by the likes of you!"
Magatsuhi ignored Cell for now and turned back to glance at Goku, "As of now, you nor anybody else is strong enough to defeat me or Cell," He said casually, the extra appendages slowly retracting back into his body while they held their grip on Cell, "If given more time, I suppose all of you can get stronger in that hell room."
The Saiyans, Krillin, and even No. 16 were all absolutely speechless as Magatsuhi's form began to glow with Ki and Cell's screams abruptly stopped when his body completely disappeared into Magatsuhi's body. They all looked on in disgust as Trunks' appearance began to shift and change; turning into something that looked more of a hybrid of both Trunks and Cell.
"In that case," Magatsuhi purred darkly, glancing down at his green-tinged fingers, "I will hold a Martial Arts Tournament," He laughed loudly at the dumbfounded expressions, "I'll hold it in ten days from now!"
"A Martial Arts... Tournament?" Goku repeated dumbly, taking a step back at the raw power that the Trunks/Magatsuhi/Cell hybrid form possessed.
"My chance has come again!" Magatsuhi threw back his head and let loose a maniacal laugh that sent shivers down all their spines, "But, first – I want entertainment! Get strong," He smirked sadistically, eyeing Kagome in particular, "And see if you can stop me again!"
"A Tournament?" Goku gasped, "You mean, like the Tenkaichi Tournament?"
"Call it what you will," Magatsuhi said without care, "I will be your only opponent and the fights will be one-on-one. If I win, then the next person will fight me until you all drop like flies! Bring any number of people that you like – your advantage will be that much greater if you do!" He grinned malevolently, "I will let you know of the minor details in a short while. You might want to prepare yourselves a whole lot of those Senzu Beans or whatever!"
"What's your purpose behind all of this?" Goku asked, seeing that Magatsuhi was about ready to take off, "What's your ultimate goal?"
Magatsuhi snorted, rolling his eyes, "I would like to plunge the world into an inescapable terror. That is my only purpose to exist – to see the fear in all your eyes." He greedily licked his lips at the thought and all of the warriors could only watch with wide eyes as Magatsuhi took to the skies, though he stopped before he left for good to glance down at Kagome with a sadistic smirk.
"And, please," His voice was dripping with sarcasm, "Little Miko – be careful. After all, you wouldn't want to harm the baby inside of you, now would you?"
With that, Magatsuhi was gone and all eyes turned to Kagome with shock, including Goku's, as she put a hand protectively over her stomach.
"Y-you're... PREGNANT?"
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