~ Unknown Destiny ~
Chapter Eight
I have great news for you all! I have just been named the most lazy person in the world! =^-^= Now I can stop trying so hard for the award and finally get back to work eh? I'm not going to write how sorry I am and how I'll never do it again because, frankly, I think I might. =~-~= Not that I'll do it soon mind you but I'm sure it'll happen so I'm just saying I won't promise that. I'll just go on to the normal intro type thing now okay? Enough babble. Now, I'm going to start up right where I left off. With Usagi in the yard with Trunks, Goten, and Gohan late at night. Okay? Then here we go! =~-^= Disclaimer: I don't own them. Don't sue. Simple, ne?
Notes: * * - Personal thoughts
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...before... Usagi just blinked then tried, unsuccessfully, to hold in a spurt of giggles. *He sure can talk fast, I'll give him that. Gohan eh? Hmmmm.* She turned her attention from the still chattering Goten back to the full moon. A chill wind blew up and Usagi couldn't help but shiver. It felt as though she was being watched but by who, she could never know.
The feeling passed as soon as it came and Usagi just shrugged it off as nothing. She focused her attention back on the out of breath Goten and managed to catch onto the last sentence he had spoken.
-Because if you were it would be okay for you to come stay at my house sometimes, just like Trunks does. That'd be cool huh? But if you stayed like you are now then you would have to go with Gohan or something. He'd probably make you study too.
Goten wrinkled his nose and glanced over at his brother, glaring at him in advance for something he might or might not do in the future. Usagi's sweat drop easily equaled Gohan's in size but she surpassed him in confusion since Gohan had paid attention to Goten the entire time. Well, he tried to at least. *Maybe I shouldn't have let him have some of that coffee to help him stay up. I wonder what Mom would say if she saw him now?*He shuddered slightly but a small grin did manage to reach his mouth as he thought of his mother's reaction.
Usagi was trying to make some sense of the brief bit of Goten's speech she had heard. She heard a slight laugh and glanced over at her twin for help. He just smirked at her. Usagi rolled her eyes and frowned slightly. *You'd think my long lost brother would be even a little helpful. Maybe he's really an evil twin brother like in that soap opera thing Mina-Chan had me watch with her. Yup! I bet that's it!* She narrowed her eyes in suspicion at the purple haired wonder but lost her serious face as he mirrored her actions perfectly. Goten was watching this all with a look on his face which made it perfectly clear he was oblivious and quite happy that way thank you very much. With a grin he turned back to Usagi.
So what do ya think? Can you actually do anything about it? Or is it one of those irreversible type o' things?
He blinked a few times quite rapidly as he awaited her answer. Again Usagi looked to her brother for help and actually found him waiting patiently for an answer as well. He actually looked interested in her answer! Gohan was listening as well since he seemed to be a part of this thing for some reason. *I wonder what it's all about? I can't just ask him to repeat it since I was supposed to be listening instead of shivering at weird feelings. What would be the best response to a question I know nothing about? Hmmmm.* Usagi made a big show of thinking over what was said and they unconsciously leaned forward as she tapped her lips in thought. Suddenly her eyes flashed and she grinned at them.
I think all I can say about it right now is that I might be able to but I'd have to check with Puu first. If you'll excuse me I'll go find her right now and be back before you can say li-
She left.
Usagi almost fell on her way to the house when she heard what was said. With a whirl of her wings she had turned back to face the speaker, a stricken look on her face. Gohan stepped back slightly at the bunny's reaction to his statement. With her wings spread like they were and her hair cut as it was she was quite an imposing figure. It didn't matter that she looked more ready to cry than attack him.
Nani?! Did you just say . . . s-. . she . . . LEFT?!
Usagi's exclamation reverberated in the still night and a dog started barking somewhere down the road. Gohan just nodded his head quickly in reply with Trunks and Goten soon joining in. Usagi's shocked expression melted away and a grin replaced it, almost shocking the three more than her previous reaction had.
This is great! Finally I won't have to listen to someone telling me what to do or what not to do! Both Luna and Puu gone, I have the best luck! Now I don't have to worry bout always being the perfect princess or the perfect decoy teenager. I can just be me!
Usagi threw a fist up in the air to punctuate her statement and Gohan grinned crookedly at the girl. Usagi continued jumping for joy then finally seemed to realize where she was and what time it was. It also helped that the time was yelled to her by some of the more helpful neighborhood friends. With a sheepish grin Usagi nervously rubbed the back of her neck.
Well! *giggle* I guess I was a little loud huh? Time for bed too. Well, G'night!
Gohan nodded and waved while Goten tried to prepare a long farewell speech which was quickly ended as his elder brother grabbed him by the shoulders and started flying away. Trunks waved as did Usagi then she turned to go letting out a huge yawn, her eyes squeezing shut. I guess that's why she didn't see the door jam when she ran into it. Or the bottom stair when she tripped on it. Or the corner in the hallway as she tried to find her new room. Or her twin as he tried to guide her back in the direction of the hastily made up room. Or her twins face as she mistakingly tried to grab it and twist it thinking it was the door knob. Or the. . . (Authors voice fades away as the list continues. . . *L*)
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(AN: And I guess I'll just leave it there! After all,two pages is long enough right? . . . . You don't think so? Really? =^-^= okay then. On to the next day! Enjoy!)
Once again we make our way to the quiet of space. Softly twinkling stars and the occasional comet. As well as the sight of Damion Artice's ship making it's towards the Earth's moon at a terrific speed. It was dawn of the next day for the Z crew but for Damion, or mostly for his crew, it was just another hour in the endless work day.
The crew had finally made some progress in their search for information about the small planet Earth. The Earth had been mostly unknown for quite a long time but over the past few decades certain people had taken an interest in the planet and who was to do its ruling or destroying. Such as an organization known as the Red Ribbon Army, space aliens' which he guessed may have been saiyans, and Freeza. Damion knew little of the long deceased emperor. He only knew him through the business'. He had heard him to be pretty strong however and so was curious as to who had actually defeated him. It obviously wasn't the government or armies of the Earth. The reports he received about androids and some Cell games' left him even more baffled. These reports said that the savior to the world was a man called Satan. That didn't fit, especially after he saw the personal report of the weak human. So who?
The history of the saiyans had been a little trickier but they had managed to pull together enough information to keep their leader sated. Most of it was the usual babble that most people already knew about the saiyans but Damion had gotten quite excited by a strange document they had stumbled upon hours later. It had been an old myth about about a battle between chaos and the light of hope. To the half-witted crew it had been a fantasy story that had made no sense at all but to Damion it was a major clue to the puzzle of this albino saiyan. Now if only he could put his few pieces together and try to decipher the whole thing.
*Not likely.* Damion sighed tiredly and ran his hand through his already rumpled hair. Things just weren't going his way. Not only had he not been getting very good information but he had been on edge since his last mental encounter with the girl. *If only they could give me more of something to work with. Something. . . something about the girl herself. Yet they seem incapable of even that! What did she do? Appear out of thin air? No birth records, medical records, or even someone knowing her name?! It's not possible! Here I am hours away from Earth and I might actually be two steps back from where I began. Can anything else go wrong?*
He clutched his red and silver hair between his fingers in frustration. A few of the closest members of the crew nervously glanced at each other. They had known Damion for many years, even before he had started this whole business with conquering. Before he had just been an unknown space pirate that their previous captain had hired as a bodyguard. Damion had only been working for him a month before he killed him. His temper hadn't changed at all through the years and they knew that he could blow up at any second.
What they didn't know about Damion was that he had actually known the captain for years and had been hired to assassinate him because of a bad deal made decades before with some emperor in another system. They also didn't know who he really was, where he came from, or what species he was. And they would never find out either since not even Damion knew the answers.
Damion's earliest memories were of him being trained to fight and kill. The teacher had been a strange creature that he could barely remember. One thing did stick in his memory and that was that his teacher was female. Sometimes he thought that possibly this woman had actually been his mother. *Now that would be irony. Being taught by my own mother and then ending up killing her to escape.* He had made that escape barely six years ago. After leaving the woman's strange dwelling, and setting fire to it, he had made his way to nearby civilization and hired himself out as an assassin. His first jobs were very simple and they pay not good but as word spread of the young, deadly hired killer he decided it was finally time to find a name for himself. You see, he had never had one and until then hadn't needed one. The woman he had grown up with had sometimes called him artice' which could be roughly translated to blade of ice'. He kept the name and soon choose Damion to go along with it.
Through the years his career had taken a few occasional branches which included mercenary and pirate. This is where he had met the previous owner of this ship and also the man who had hired him to kill the owner. After receiving his pay and inspecting the ship he had found it to be loaded with stolen goods and brainless burly crew members that received and obeyed his orders as readily as they had the captains. He put this to his advantage and soon began his own business in piracy. This next led to being a full time hired mercenary working for the likes of Freeza. Soon Damion tried his hand at capturing his own planet and took it up as his favorite sport because of its relative ease.
Now he was Emperor Artice and hiring his own mercenaries to do his dirty work. *Not too shabby for a man who had only six years in which to accomplish the feat. I've won myself riches, planets, respect and fear and now I'll be damned if I don't win this girl.* He slammed his fist against the arm of the chair causing a few workers to jump. Filled with new energy he jumped up from his chair and rushed to the navigators chair. The beady eyed scaly creature averted it's gaze and leaned slightly out of his way as Damion studied the small screen. He smiled slightly at his findings. They were barely an hour away from his destination. *I guess I'd better move on to part two of my plan if I am to accomplish anything. After setting up base I'll send down a few of my fighters to survey the planet and possibly even locate that angel. At least I hope they can handle that.*
Damion rolled his eyes as he watched one of the inept crew members trying to carry a box through the doorway. All it was managing to do was bump both ends of the long thin box against the doorframe. If it had thought it out it would know that if it turned to its side he and the box would both be thin enough to fit. Yet he just continued running into the doorframe in confused bewilderment. Damion sighed and rubbed his temples. *It's been a long day and I have a feeling it's only going to get worse.* With that thought he left the navigator and went to see about the box laden creature.
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Alrighty minna-san! Let me know if you like it and tell me what it is you like about it! If you don't like it, do the same thing! =~-~=; I mean, tell me what it is you don't like about it. I believe some people call it C&C but that was just for those of you who don't know what that means. =^-^=; Well, I hope you did like it so review and I'll get the next chapter out soon! Ja ne minna-san!
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