Like I said in
the end of my last Chapter, I've already finished chapter 2
"Maniki!" she
sobbed, a figure in dark green with a long staff that resembled a key appeared
in front of her.
"Stop crying
child," she commanded with a wave of her staff. Usagi stopped and the woman
continued. "You have been brought before me because you are like a lone beacon
of hope that shines through a desolate world, you will one day return to your
home, and resolve they're differences." 'They're' meant the Stapo and the Jimo.
"But for now I see a new future for you, you have hidden talents young child
awaken them." Said the woman almost crying, "heaven knows you'll need help. I
will return you in 13 years time, but first let me tell you something." The
woman bent down, leaning gently on her staff, her garnet eyes sparkled and
glimmered, but Usagi was too heartbroken to notice. "Listen up squirt," she
ruffled the girl's soft blonde hair, "you are a born fighter, but yet a
peacemaker as well. And there will come a day when you have your sweet revenge,
I know it. But until then you learn to fight, kay slugger?"
Usagi nodded
wiping tears away.
"Okay y'little
punk if anyone every tries to hurt my little rabbit just remember that Sailor
Pluto is watching, and don't be afraid. In this world there is much less hate
and suffering, no remember." She jerked Usagi's face so that they're eyes met,
"don't be afraid to use your talents and fight for those less skilled than you.
And always, always protect the innocent." Sailor Pluto gave her a reassuring
smile, and with a wave of the woman's strange staff Usagi found herself
streaking once again through a portal.
(AN: don't kill
me if I get the ages wrong, it is right before Trunks appears bearing the news
of the androids, and Gohan is nine ok?)
Usagi found
herself whimpering in a bright new world, unlike hers, the sun shone regularly
here, while at home it only came out once a month. She got up and explored her
surroundings, she realized that she had fallen into a forest. "Wow," she
mumbled to herself, "these must be 'plants' like M-Maniki told me about." These
few words brought more pain, and fresh tears sprinkled onto the ground. A
hunger pang tore through the emotional pain, and her stomach growled. Knowing
that food came from a store she walked out in to the busy streets of downtown
Tokyo.
She felt a sharp
pain in her rear, and ignored it as she soon found a store that looked as
though it sold food, but she had no money. 'Remember y'little Bunny, it's
not bad to steal from the rich to feed the poor, but first make sure they're
rich ok?" Usagi remembered Maniki once saying. She ran into the store,
watching in amazement as the doors opened for her.
"And without
people too," she said with a smile. She watched as one of the customers buying
food handed some paper money to the clerk and he put it into his cash register.
Seeing many neat stacks of the paper money, Usagi was convinced that they were
rich and she walked towards the shelves picking out the bare minimums. A box of
matches, some cans of strange swirly liquid, which she thought must be some
sort of red soup, a bottle of water and a few other essentials. As she made her
way to the door a security guard stopped her.
"Miss, I don't
believe you payed for those," he said pointing at her bag.
"You're smart,"
she beamed up at him. "Now," she said carefully waiting until he had kneeled to
her height, "Let's see how fast you can run!" She catapaulted into the air
using his back for a runway, in an instant she was out the door, she could see
people turn their heads to see what the matter was, but she kept running. The
Guard had called several police officers and they all ran towards her.
Gohan was just
getting out of school when he saw a small girl with long blonde hair fanning
out behind her like a golden sunrise, as she ran. He watched as several police
officers chased her, she looked so scared and frightened. And there was
something with her eyes, they weren't normal, they looked dead and saddened,
extremely saddened. As if someone had beaten it into her, she looked so lonely Gohan
just couldn't ignore her. He flew over to her and picked her up taking her high
into the sky.
"What's
happening?" he asked trying to hold her tighter as she squirmed.
"I-I was hungry
so I took some food," she sobbed. "I didn't mean too, please, I really want to
tell you something, but," she chanced a look at the ground, and gave a small
whimper of fear.
"Oh," he said
with a goofy grin similar to his father's. "I'm sorry, here," he flew with
incredible speed towards the forest in which she had come from, "better?" he
asked once they were on solid ground.
She nodded. "Are
you sure I can trust you?"
"I guess I'm
better at keeping a secret than my dad," he grinned finally, "sure no prob!"
And so Usagi had
told him as best as a seven-year old kid could explain.
Gohan listened
with rapt attention as she explained about her sister, (holding back tears of
course) but the whole time he couldn't help but stare into her beautiful pale
blue eyes, and their haunting look. He felt as though he was lost in a see of
blue, in a place where the sea met the sky in an endless collage of colors.
At the end Usagi
felt that she could no longer fight back the tears that were slamming against
her eyes, like a battering ram. Then she cried and Gohan, not knowing what to
do, comforted her in her pains, as best he could. "S'okay Usagi, I'm here, I
believe you" he soothed her, gently rocking her back and forth.
"Hey, you
promise n-n-not to tell, not even your own family?" she sobbed and buried her
head in his arms.
"Sshh, yeah
Usagi, I'm sorry, my name is Son Gohan. I would like for you to meet my family,
I have a wonderful mother and father. Bulma would love to meet you. Hey!" he
stopped and looked once again into her eyes. "Bulma would love to take you in,
she's the greatest, she'll adore you."
By this time the
cops had arrived and Gohan took a money bag out of his pocket, and paid the
police a generous amount, and they shrugged it off, seeing how scared Usagi
looked.
"Aw it was
nothin' just don't do it again, kay?"
Usagi nodded, and
without another word, Gohan, with Usagi's frail figure in his arms, flew
towards his home.
ChiChi was busy
making an afternoon snack for her bottomless pit family, and hardly noticed her
son walk in with a stranger.
"Hi Mom," he
said with a heartwarming smile. "Is it okay if I have a friend over for a bit,
she's really nice."
"Sure Gohan,"
ChiChi said calmly, and then dropped her ladle into the pot of noodles she was
stirring, and spun around to face her son and his new guest. "She?" she asked
taking a good look at Usagi.
"Well yeah Mom,
so far I think she's a girl."
ChiChi walked
around Usagi, studying her at every angle. She remembered her first meeting
with Goku when he had asked if she was a girl since she didn't have a boys
'wee-wee.' She smiled, and went back to the kitchen to whip up a little
celebration feast for her son.
"Well I take
that as a yes," Gohan smiled, and led her upstairs to the guest room. "Here
make yourself at home, Dad's at Bulma's house, I'll see if I can take you their
after dinner. Catch a nap if you'd like, you look kind of tired to me."
Usagi smiled,
and Gohan saw something shine through, it was as if an angel had possessed her,
and she no longer looked like an emotional victim.
Goku soon arrived
home, and smiled at his son, as well as Usagi whom he found quite amusing. "You
know Gohan, Usagi has a somewhat high power level, she's at two hundred."
"Really Dad?"
Gohan asked openmouthed, while Usagi just looked at her plate.
She thought that
something must have been wrong, that something would happen in the future, and
she would be the cause.
Goku looked at
Usagi trying to find out something, the story she told him about living in an
orphanage all her young life just didn't make sense. And there was definetly
something wrong with her eyes, they were so sad, he decided to take his mind
off of the matter and ask her later. "So Gohan, up for a little contest?" he
said eyeing the food his loving wife had prepared.
"Sure Dad, you
wanna play too Usagi?"
"Um, I guess,"
Usagi's voice was high and soft.
"Okay, let's see
who can eat the most noodles," said Goku with a grin. Gohan clapped his hands
together with a grin, and Usagi merely put the napkin in place. ChiChi smiled
and brought up the first round.
Goku and Gohan
both dug in with a grin, but Usagi took it slowly and wiped her mouth with a
napkin every so often, then packing in avidly as ever. Even a transformed sajin
monkey couldn't eat forty-five bowls of noodles and go back for dessert, but
Usagi could, and she hadn't (and much to ChiChi's jealousy) so much as gained
an ounce.
"I give up
Usagi, your name might be rabbit, but you're nothing close to it," said Goku
patting his swollen stomach.
"Yeah Usagi,
where did you learn how to do that, I mean gosh, I doubt Vegeta could pack away
that much," Gohan agreed. "Hey anyway, d'you wanna go see Bulma now? Don't you
think she'd love her Daddy?"
"Yeah, but I
worry a bit, I don't want a mini-Bulma, and think of poor Usagi's hair being
blue?"
Everyone laughed
except for Usagi. "I'm sorry, it'll be all right, I'm not that attached to my
hair color. Atleast I would have a family, and thet's the most important thing
isn't it?"
"Of course dear,
now would you like to meet Bulma?" asked ChiChi calmly.
Usagi smiled,
and Gohan was speechless once again. Goku carried ChiChi into the air and
summoned his nimbus for Usagi, "I'm sure you're heart is pure, hop on."
Gohan helped her
up, and his parents both hid a smile. They arrived at Capsule Corp a few
moments too soon, Bulma burst through the door, her blue hair in disarray.
"Vegeta you
worthless piece of … when I get my hands on you!" She growled and ran after the
short sajin.
"Bulma!" yelled
Goku from above, "hi!"
"Oh hi Bulma,
ChiChi, Gohan, who's this?" she pointed at Usagi, her anger quickly melting
away at the sight of her friends.
"This is Usagi,
that's why we're here, she uhh… well we'll explain later, can we come in?"
Gohan asked.
"I don't know
can you?" Bulma said then chuckled as she saw the look on Gohan's face. "Yeah
sure, c'mon in, Vegeta just tracked mud all over the house, and I uh kinda lost
my temper," Bulma hid the frying pan behind her back with an "innocent" smile.
Usagi hopped off
her flying cloud and gave it a small pat and whispered, "go on now nimbus, go
have some fun, okay?" She waddled into Bulma's house, her childish face lighted
up at the sight of it. "You're Bulma right?" she asked Bulma, clinging onto
her, with a brilliant smile.
"Yeah, hey
kiddo, you're gonna be one cute girl when you grow up, know that?" Bulma said,
not noticing Gohan blush the color of Bulma's red curtains. "So where are ya
from, I haven't seen you around. Where do you live?"
"Hey Bulma,
that's what we're here for, see she lived in an orphanage for quite a while,
and well, well we were wondering if you two would like to get to know each
other. I mean, since Vegeta lives here and everything, I'm sure you wouldn't
mind her. She would be just like a little sister to you," ChiChi suggested, and
Goku stared at her for a few moments, before nodding in agreement.
"Well I guess
so," said Bulma watching Usagi, who had challenged Gohan into a race, her on
the nimbus of course. "She seems so strange, and whats with the eyes, they're
freaking me out? It's as if someones broken her spirit, it's so odd."
"And Gohan
really seems to like her, look at him, he's slowing down already," ChiChi said,
watching in admiration.
Goku chuckled,
"what's weird though Bulma, is that she's got a power level, and it's at about
three hundred right now, and when she gets excited, it just flares up. I want
her to train with Gohan, what do you think?"
"Well, I mean if
she shows that much. Well alright but lets wait until she's situated a bit, but
Goku please, be gentle with her she looks so sad all the time," Bulma
confessed.
"I know I don't
get it, the story she told me about the orphanage makes no sense. Well no
matter, in a week or two I'll call for Piccolo," said Goku leaning back on his
chair.
Surely, Usagi moved
into one of Bulma's extra rooms, and they went shopping, which much to
everyone's surprise Usagi highly enjoyed. Situated calmly in her new house,
with a new bedspread, and new clothes, and toys, Usagi waited the arrival of
Piccolo, bouncing slightly on her feather bed. He was to arrive in an hour with
Gohan, so that they could begin. Vegeta had kept to his training most of the
time, all Usagi knew was that he was really weird (according to Bulma) and just
thought about defeating Goku. Usagi wondered why someone as nice as Goku should
be killed, and on some nights she had cried about the thought of Goku getting
killed. So that afternoon. Usagi hopped off her bouncy bed and made her way
outside to the gravity machine. She opened the door, and switched on the
lights.
"What do you
want brat?" Vegeta snarled at her, and continued throwing punches around the
room.
"Why do you want
to kill Goku, he's really nice?" Usagi asked with an innocent look on her
childish face.
"Why do you
care, now get lost before I decide to use you as target practice," Vegeta said
and pointed at the door sternly.
"What's that?"
Usagi pointed a finger at the dial for the gravity machine, the red glow of the
numbers indicated it was at 25x G.
"Get lost brat!"
Vegeta growled and was about to blast her to the next dimension when he
stopped. "Hey kid you got a power level," he said in mock surprise.
"I do?"
"Yeah, it's way
high for little pipsqueak like you," Vegeta said and bent down to her height. A
power level shows how strong you are, mines higher than a million, but the
normal humans is no more than 2 or 3."
"So what's
mine?" asked Usagi gently.
"Well lets see,"
he said, knowing all powers raise when threatened. He shoved her out the door
and charged up a small final flash.
Usagi stood
paralyzed with fear, it reminded her of the beam cannons that the soldiers
always used to destroy buildings and planes. Usagi knew that Bulma's beautiful
house stood directly behind her, and Bulma's family was still inside. Usagi let
out a whimper, Vegeta hadn't yet released it but stood sneering at the cowering
figure in front of him.
"So brat, not so
cocky now, are you?" He smirked, the blast would tae out a good chunk of earth
if released in the right way.
"TIME FREEZE!"
came a loud familiar voice, and Usagi felt everything stop around her, and grow
dark. A garnet portal opened in front of her and Sailor Pluto stepped out. Her
face was contorted with fury, and Usagi saw her time staff outstretched. Pluto
gripped the staff, so that her knuckles were white. "Usagi," she said
menacingly, not taking her eyes off of the now frozen Vegeta, "fight back. Your
heart is pure, and your intentions are good. Not once did you think of your
life, did you. Now, I'm going to unfreeze time again, and I want you to do your
best, I bet you're angry now huh? Now use all your anger, all your hate that's
inside of you and form it into a ball in your hands. Set Vegeta right, I'm off,
3….2….1…Good Luck!" Pluto disappeared into her portal once again, and Usagi
warmed up, as time continued.
She shut her
blue eyes tightly and concentrated everything that had ever gone wrong. Her
birthday ruined because of some bombings, the landlords angry face as he beat
Maniki, Maniki getting shot, her mother and father dying. Usagi's eyes snapped
open, and some tears trickled from her sockets, and in an instant a ball of
blue white energy was at her side, growing, as she did too. Her rage had
reached a peak, as the energy continued to flow from her veins, taking part of
her soul with her. Her body felt warm, and she sweat as she watched through
crimson eyes, Vegeta looking in interest. The ball had reached the size of a
large basketball when she released it with a yell. It sucked everything in the
air around it as it whistled through the air growing twice as fast, Vegeta's
final flash erupted and he released it as well.
"Take that brat,
FINAL FLASH!" The final flash ripped through Usagi's beam and continued towards
Usagi.
Usagi, was once
again paralyzed with fear, when she felt some comfort, she had watched closely
when Vegeta had charged up the Final Flash attack. She charged up following
exactly what she remembered, "FINAL FLASH!"
Vegeta faltered
when he heard those words and saw the blue energy rush towards his blast, her
power level was quickly advancing to over 500 and counting. The imitated blast
had completely annihilated Vegeta's, and Vegeta was about to release a series
of blasts at the small girl, when he saw Goku, Gohan, and Piccolo arrive.
"Usagi!" yelled
Gohan and teleported next to her, "what happened?"
"Nothing," she
said furiously, her tiny fists were balled together as she stared up at Vegeta
with disgust.
"Your power
level, Usagi, it's at 1000! That's incredible, what happened? And who sent a
Final Flash back at Vegeta?" Gohan stammered, looking utterly confused.
"I did," Usagi
murmered quietly, and watched as Goku yelled at Vegeta.
Gohan didn't
hear her, and forgetting that Vegeta could squash him at any moment tackled
Vegeta out of the sky.
"Gohan!" yelled
Goku, and took after his son in a streak of light.
Usagi felt like
releasing another Final Flash, just to stop them from arguing, but had another
idea in mind, filling her cheeks with air she yelled out, "STOP IT!"
Gohan, Goku, and
Piccolo stopped what they were doing, as Vegeta crawled back to his time
chamber. "Are you okay Usagi, I'm sorry about Vegeta," Goku apologized.
"I'm fine, and I
let out that final flash, he was going to kill Bulma's house. Can we just
forget it? I'm really sorry for what I did, I'll never do it again, I promise,"
Usagi said, tears flowing freely now.
Goku teleported
next to her and said, "hey Usagi, no one cares, I was just surprised that you
could fight back like that. You see Vegeta, Gohan and I are all saiya-jins, a
special race, and not many humans are as powerful as you. We were just
surprised, that's all."
Piccolo snorted,
"alright Goku, we found her, you can leave now. I have two people to train
right now."
"Saiya-what?"
asked Usagi.
"Saiya-jin's,
Usagi. C'mon Piccolo let's start," said Gohan, and Goku took ChiChi home.
"Fine, Gohan
stand back. Let's spar rabbit," Piccolo spat.
"But!" Gohan
protested, knowing that Piccolo would squash her like a rabbit in no time.
"Gohan, stay out
of this!" Piccolo took off his weighted clothing and started to power up. The
ground shook and a fissure opened at Usagi's feet, she screamed, and fell over.
Piccolo's shouts filled the air, and Usagi felt a gigantic power being
awakened.
I can do it
too, Usagi told herself. I
made that flash thing, and I can do this too. She threw off her oversized
blue hat that had been a birthday present from Maniki the year before. The
spunky seven year old copied Piccolo's stance and started yelling like there
was no tomorrow. She noticed something different however, the green giant was
making whole rocks break, and Usagi was just screaming. She took a look at
Gohan, who shot her an encouraging look. She tried to make another final flash,
and stopped screaming, but the rage wasn't in her hands, it was in her eyes and
head. She found it impossible to make the ball of energy.
Piccolo sped
forwards his hands making a blast at his side, he charged forward, and sped
away at the last moment, leaving the blast to hit Usagi head on, and she hit
the ground with a yelp. The blast had singed her hair and clothes, and her body
was covered with purple bruises. She tried to move her right arm but found that
she couldn't, it stuck out at an odd angle, as did her leg. She attempted to
push herself up with her good arm, but came crashing down again.
Usagi's eyes
stared voraciously at Piccolo, as she tried again and again to push herself up,
each effort more drastic than the last. Anger surged through her, more powerful
than when Vegeta had attacked her. She was supposed to be trained to help fight
for this beautiful world, regardless of whether Maniki was in it or not. She
had been given a second chance, she, out of every other person on her planet.
And now this, this freak was going to take it away from her? This monster who
was going to end her life in another blast. He could kill her and Gohan (who
was being held tight by Goku, who had teleported over) with one drastic effort
she gave a yell and shoved upwards, she was floating in the air, like the hand
of God was holding her up. With her good arm, Usagi snapped her bones back in
place, and flew over to Piccolo, her power level skyrocketing.
"Never!" she
screamed as she and Piccolo went higher into the sky in a flurry of punches and
kicks. Piccolo was trying his hardest to block her barrage. "Never, ever!" she
yelled, and charged up an attack. "FINAL FLASH!" she yelled through tears as
the giant blast tore through the sky towards Piccolo.
The sky flashed
light and dark, as the blast appeared inches away from Piccolo. Gohan saw his
master fighting the blast with a will. He pulled free of his father's grasp and
teleported next to Piccolo, sending out a Ka Me Ha Me Ha to help counter it.
Usagi's blue
eyes had turned crimson, as her eyebrows failed to hold the perspiration back,
she narrowed her eyes, battling to be able to see. Piccolo's fist connected
with her jaw, and she fell from the sky.
Well, how do you, like it so far? I'll have part 3 up today or tomorrow.
--FireflyAngel