[[[WARNING!!!! THE FOLLOWING HAS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE (IN MY OWN OPINION, AT LEAST) AND QUITE LIKELY HAS CHARACTER TORTURE TO BOOT. YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED, SO DON'T SAY I'VE TRAUMATIZED YOU.]]]
Ares Denetsu
*****
Anything For the Girl
All that existed in Rei's mind was pain. She couldn't see, but she could feel pain, agony, everywhere…
The flesh had been torn in a clean flap off the top of her rib cage, displaying her throbbing lungs and pulsing heart, blood dripping out of severed veins.
She couldn't move.
She didn't want to.
(*)
Gohan avoided Cell's thrusts with frightening ease, a crazed light shining disturbingly from his eyes.
Twisting his body in a previously impossible flip, the hybrid smashed his foot into the back of Cell's head, crushing metal without showing any signs of pain.
Gohan didn't use any ki attacks; he wanted to kill Cell slowly, painfully.
The android was beginning to experience fear. This sheer brutality, utter ruthlessness wasn't what Cell has expected.
"Bastard," the boy sneered, grasping one of Cell's arm with only his left hand, tearing the limb off effortlessly before cauterizing the open wound, effectively stopping the regenerative process.
Cell lunged, managing to get in one hit to Gohan's head. He didn't flinch. He didn't avoid it. He didn't budge when it hit.
Blonde hair stirring stiffly, Gohan shot behind Cell, lifting his hands and driving them into the android's back, battery fluid and blood alike spilling out as he tore through innards, grabbing the thickly corded spine in his hands and jerking back on it.
Cell spasmed and screamed, a horrible sound.
Gohan smirked and heaved harder.
(*)
Venus swung the Chain Wink Sword at Metallia's head, but the cruel entity merely laughed and blocked it carelessly with Mars' Fire Bow, threading an arrow of flames as the golden Senshi was thrown back.
Chanting in the runic language of Mars once more, the arrow was launched at Venus.
Fluidly, she swung at the incoming projectile, slamming it into a distant wall where it dissipated.
"You've grown stronger," Metallia laughed coldly, "but I'm afraid you forget I'm immortal now."
Juunanagou and Ginzishou were thrust back by an unseen barrier, helpless to aid their friends.
"Now, now, Metallia," Venus laughed right back, "so am I."
Metallia's cold smile vanished and, with a bloodcurdling scream, she lifted one hand, summoning a fire attack that burned the skin on Venus' arms in places, peeled the layers back cruelly.
"And now you die," the evil being snickered.
"No, you die!" Venus screamed, lifting the blade and planting her feet squarely in the ground, using the flat of the blade to drive away each offensive attack Metallia sent her way. Metallia was walking closer to the Senshi, falling right into the trap.
The corners of Venus' lips lifted emotionlessly.
Rei bled.
(*)
Blood was spilling dangerously from Cell's back, mixing with battery fluid.
"How does it feel," Gohan whispered into the screaming android's ear, "to become the puppet?" To add emphasis, he yanked viciously on Cell's spine, tearing it out the back, though leaving all nerves connected to it, and the discs still leading to the mechanical brain. "To be played with?" Releasing Cell's spine with one hand, he buried it deeper until he reached a fleshy lung; he simply tore through the delicate synthetic flesh and shattered a hole in the front of Cell, his entire arm and most of his shoulder plunged into the speckled, gushing body.
Smiling widely, Gohan pulled his hand back out of the opening, returning it to the spinal cord.
"Amazing how easy it is for me to destroy you," he chortled, green Super Saiya-jin 2 eyes narrowing coldly. "Sayonara, asshole." With that said, he wrenched on the spine to the left with his left hand and the right with his right hand. A loud, echoing snap resounded and Cell jerked, falling to the ground, still living even as his eyesight dimmed and his fluids and innards spilled to the floor, unable to regenerate with his spine destroyed.
Gohan showed no expression as he raised his hands, dripping blood, saying in a dead voice, "Masenko."
Cell was vaporized on the spot.
(*)
Venus smashed her sword through the bow, annihilating the weapon.
Metallia looked as if she was going to summon her legions of the undead when she heard Gohan's quiet, emotionless voice.
"Masenko."
A brilliant flash of light illuminated the grisly chamber and Metallia's face paled.
"My koibito…" She struggled with her emotions, for, sick as it was, she truly had loved Cell. "You killed him!"
A sharp feeling stung her chest and she glanced down wearily to see the Chain Wink Sword had pierced the heart. Venus twisted the blade and ripped it back out, taking the still-beating heart with it.
A wave of perverse pleasure rippled through Metallia and she threw her head back, screaming and choking with insane laughter. "I've won!" she gurgled crazily, "I might be dead along with my koibito, but I have won nonetheless!"
A sinking emotion drove through Venus' gut. "What do you mean?" she asked slowly, the heart still beating slickly on the blade's edge.
"I'm the only one who knows where the three souls are!" she giggled, blood spurting up in a crimson tide from her red lips and the hole in her chest, "And it appears that you've killed me! I've won! You'll never find them now and…" Her eyes shut abruptly and she dropped to the marble floor, drowning in a puddle of thick blood.
Breathing came fast and erratic for Venus. She had been too caught up in her bloodlust, her need to avenge Rei…and by doing so, she had fumbled everything up again.
Juunanagou broke through the barrier, jogging to her, his face pleading with her.
Why?
The sword was moving her, but she didn't care; Venus ignored Gohan as he kneeled next to Rei's dying ten-year old body, she ignored his horrified cry of "NO!!" when she drove the blade deep into Rei's heart.
Rei and Mars glowed red for only a split second, and then both opened their eyes and sat up.
"Venus," Mars said clearly, smiling, "You have healed me."
Rei smiled, too, and then they were gone, merging back together.
Red light exploded, brightening the black marbled room and suddenly the darkness fled, turning into light, the decaying black marble shifting to healed red sandstone.
And Super Sailor Mars was standing, whole again, but still ten.
Gohan blinked, powering down to his normal self, his sanity returning.
"I will remain ten," she was saying, to him more than to anyone else, "because that is the age you need me in." Mars smiled sweetly at Gohan and he didn't feel uncomfortable anymore; he accepted the tender emotions he felt for her. "But there is someone I must say fare well to," she added softly, a look of pain glimmering across her face, and then she as seventeen, and then she was gone.
Venus' shoulders shook and she dropped the bloody Chain Wink Sword, falling to her hands and knees, vomiting and weeping as Juunanagou and Ginzishou cradled her.
Gohan bowed his head. Come back to me soon, Rei, he thought gently, please.
This chapter is dedicated to SpazSailor, one of my best friends and the only person who knew what the chapter was going to be like, as well as the Rei epilogue.
Purple Mongoose/PallaPlease.
DISCLAIMER:
The Sailor Senshi are © to Takeuchi Naoko-san, Kodansha, DiC, Cloverway, Toei Animation, Mixx Entertainment, etc.
The Dragonball characters are © to Toriyama Akira-san, Shogakun (?), FUNimation, Toei Animation, Viz Entertainment, etc.
"Ares Denetsu" in its entirety, all situations and plot devices thus far, is © to myself, referred to on-line as PallaPlease or Purple Mongoose/PallaPlease.
Ares Denetsu
*****
Anything For the Girl
All that existed in Rei's mind was pain. She couldn't see, but she could feel pain, agony, everywhere…
The flesh had been torn in a clean flap off the top of her rib cage, displaying her throbbing lungs and pulsing heart, blood dripping out of severed veins.
She couldn't move.
She didn't want to.
(*)
Gohan avoided Cell's thrusts with frightening ease, a crazed light shining disturbingly from his eyes.
Twisting his body in a previously impossible flip, the hybrid smashed his foot into the back of Cell's head, crushing metal without showing any signs of pain.
Gohan didn't use any ki attacks; he wanted to kill Cell slowly, painfully.
The android was beginning to experience fear. This sheer brutality, utter ruthlessness wasn't what Cell has expected.
"Bastard," the boy sneered, grasping one of Cell's arm with only his left hand, tearing the limb off effortlessly before cauterizing the open wound, effectively stopping the regenerative process.
Cell lunged, managing to get in one hit to Gohan's head. He didn't flinch. He didn't avoid it. He didn't budge when it hit.
Blonde hair stirring stiffly, Gohan shot behind Cell, lifting his hands and driving them into the android's back, battery fluid and blood alike spilling out as he tore through innards, grabbing the thickly corded spine in his hands and jerking back on it.
Cell spasmed and screamed, a horrible sound.
Gohan smirked and heaved harder.
(*)
Venus swung the Chain Wink Sword at Metallia's head, but the cruel entity merely laughed and blocked it carelessly with Mars' Fire Bow, threading an arrow of flames as the golden Senshi was thrown back.
Chanting in the runic language of Mars once more, the arrow was launched at Venus.
Fluidly, she swung at the incoming projectile, slamming it into a distant wall where it dissipated.
"You've grown stronger," Metallia laughed coldly, "but I'm afraid you forget I'm immortal now."
Juunanagou and Ginzishou were thrust back by an unseen barrier, helpless to aid their friends.
"Now, now, Metallia," Venus laughed right back, "so am I."
Metallia's cold smile vanished and, with a bloodcurdling scream, she lifted one hand, summoning a fire attack that burned the skin on Venus' arms in places, peeled the layers back cruelly.
"And now you die," the evil being snickered.
"No, you die!" Venus screamed, lifting the blade and planting her feet squarely in the ground, using the flat of the blade to drive away each offensive attack Metallia sent her way. Metallia was walking closer to the Senshi, falling right into the trap.
The corners of Venus' lips lifted emotionlessly.
Rei bled.
(*)
Blood was spilling dangerously from Cell's back, mixing with battery fluid.
"How does it feel," Gohan whispered into the screaming android's ear, "to become the puppet?" To add emphasis, he yanked viciously on Cell's spine, tearing it out the back, though leaving all nerves connected to it, and the discs still leading to the mechanical brain. "To be played with?" Releasing Cell's spine with one hand, he buried it deeper until he reached a fleshy lung; he simply tore through the delicate synthetic flesh and shattered a hole in the front of Cell, his entire arm and most of his shoulder plunged into the speckled, gushing body.
Smiling widely, Gohan pulled his hand back out of the opening, returning it to the spinal cord.
"Amazing how easy it is for me to destroy you," he chortled, green Super Saiya-jin 2 eyes narrowing coldly. "Sayonara, asshole." With that said, he wrenched on the spine to the left with his left hand and the right with his right hand. A loud, echoing snap resounded and Cell jerked, falling to the ground, still living even as his eyesight dimmed and his fluids and innards spilled to the floor, unable to regenerate with his spine destroyed.
Gohan showed no expression as he raised his hands, dripping blood, saying in a dead voice, "Masenko."
Cell was vaporized on the spot.
(*)
Venus smashed her sword through the bow, annihilating the weapon.
Metallia looked as if she was going to summon her legions of the undead when she heard Gohan's quiet, emotionless voice.
"Masenko."
A brilliant flash of light illuminated the grisly chamber and Metallia's face paled.
"My koibito…" She struggled with her emotions, for, sick as it was, she truly had loved Cell. "You killed him!"
A sharp feeling stung her chest and she glanced down wearily to see the Chain Wink Sword had pierced the heart. Venus twisted the blade and ripped it back out, taking the still-beating heart with it.
A wave of perverse pleasure rippled through Metallia and she threw her head back, screaming and choking with insane laughter. "I've won!" she gurgled crazily, "I might be dead along with my koibito, but I have won nonetheless!"
A sinking emotion drove through Venus' gut. "What do you mean?" she asked slowly, the heart still beating slickly on the blade's edge.
"I'm the only one who knows where the three souls are!" she giggled, blood spurting up in a crimson tide from her red lips and the hole in her chest, "And it appears that you've killed me! I've won! You'll never find them now and…" Her eyes shut abruptly and she dropped to the marble floor, drowning in a puddle of thick blood.
Breathing came fast and erratic for Venus. She had been too caught up in her bloodlust, her need to avenge Rei…and by doing so, she had fumbled everything up again.
Juunanagou broke through the barrier, jogging to her, his face pleading with her.
Why?
The sword was moving her, but she didn't care; Venus ignored Gohan as he kneeled next to Rei's dying ten-year old body, she ignored his horrified cry of "NO!!" when she drove the blade deep into Rei's heart.
Rei and Mars glowed red for only a split second, and then both opened their eyes and sat up.
"Venus," Mars said clearly, smiling, "You have healed me."
Rei smiled, too, and then they were gone, merging back together.
Red light exploded, brightening the black marbled room and suddenly the darkness fled, turning into light, the decaying black marble shifting to healed red sandstone.
And Super Sailor Mars was standing, whole again, but still ten.
Gohan blinked, powering down to his normal self, his sanity returning.
"I will remain ten," she was saying, to him more than to anyone else, "because that is the age you need me in." Mars smiled sweetly at Gohan and he didn't feel uncomfortable anymore; he accepted the tender emotions he felt for her. "But there is someone I must say fare well to," she added softly, a look of pain glimmering across her face, and then she as seventeen, and then she was gone.
Venus' shoulders shook and she dropped the bloody Chain Wink Sword, falling to her hands and knees, vomiting and weeping as Juunanagou and Ginzishou cradled her.
Gohan bowed his head. Come back to me soon, Rei, he thought gently, please.
This chapter is dedicated to SpazSailor, one of my best friends and the only person who knew what the chapter was going to be like, as well as the Rei epilogue.
Purple Mongoose/PallaPlease.
DISCLAIMER:
The Sailor Senshi are © to Takeuchi Naoko-san, Kodansha, DiC, Cloverway, Toei Animation, Mixx Entertainment, etc.
The Dragonball characters are © to Toriyama Akira-san, Shogakun (?), FUNimation, Toei Animation, Viz Entertainment, etc.
"Ares Denetsu" in its entirety, all situations and plot devices thus far, is © to myself, referred to on-line as PallaPlease or Purple Mongoose/PallaPlease.