~Prelude~

I was awakened by the cold gusts of wind against my face. "Where...where am I?" I brushed my slate black hair off my face, which had been obstructing my view. "Oh man. That's not good I was unconscious?? What happened?? Why can't I remember?" Shuddering, I looked around me, the once beautiful buildings of my city now looked like tombstones for the scattered lifeless bodies that decorated the ground.

"Uhmugh...."

I glanced quickly beside me, about twenty feet away I saw the rubble start to move. I watched intently as something shot up from underneath. My heart started pounding, as the figure slowly moved towards me, I tried desperately to catch my breath.

"OH!" Everything came back in an instant of seeing him: even if I wasn't there I could've know what had happened just by the look in his eyes. I frantically started searching through the rubble, "Oh please be alive...PLEASE!" Soon everything morphed into a blur from all the tears in my eyes. "Damn it, where are you," I cried out in frustration.

His hand reached my shoulder as if sealing some horrible fear.

"Oh Kari..."

I snapped my head back at him his gaze pierced my heart. I became number and number as my heart kept dropping, seeing tears stream down his face. He closed his eyes and faced the opposite direction. I, almost painfully, looked behind me
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"N...n...n...no...n...NO!" I choked. I stumbled over to the mangled body, rubble strewn all over it.

"Please be O.K..." Then, I saw his eyes, staring blankly ahead, bits of dirt and glass stuck inside them. I turned and vomited as if my body was trying to assist in purging the image from my mind.

"Kari, oh please, don't torture yourself anymore," the boy pleaded.

Slowly, I started picking all the pieces of building off of him, and whimpered.

"Oh Gohan..."

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