Evil Tama: All questions will be answered within the next
chapters. Hold tight!
' In the waves of pain and suffering, comes the light of anew. Let go of your fears and your doubts; they are useless. Let go of love and adoration; they are only emotions. Let go of hate and vengeance; you will never get anywhere with them. Look down, deep inside, and find the being within. Look down, deep inside, and you will find…me.'
Gohan slowly came to consciousness behind closed eyelids and at first felt nothing. The feeling of emptiness and confinement, a feeling he welcomed with opened arms, numbed him. Even his head was held back from thoughts and that he was thankful also. It kept him from relating back to the few hours…days…weeks…however long ago of when he was betrayed by his father, slained by his ally, and lost from his eternal friend. With these thoughts subdued to blankness, Gohan laid still upon what he could only guessed was the floor.
But the worried thoughts did not stay back for long, for soon they are all that consumed him. Covered in the blanket of regret and sorrow; shadowed by anger and betrayal; all the emotions were bursting from his head and heart, unable to sort through them, or stay to think one over.
And Bardock…the haunting Saiyan, his blood, had laughed through all his pain and confusion. Leaned over Gohan's small form and taunted him so, tortured him to complete madness. Oh how the hate grew within his chest, filled with vengeance for what the full blood had done to his…his family.
Gohan's brows grew heavier over his closed eyelids and his breath was starting to come out in more attempts to calm himself. He couldn't control the emotion anymore; all he could see was Piccolo being surrounded by the energy of darkness and entering his torn and bloody body; Goku turning from his happy self to someone Gohan didn't even know; and Vegeta becoming like an evil puppet, eager to please and kill.
Gohan, through his blinding rage, didn't hear the light footsteps behind him. Nor did he listen to the figure walk around him continuously, murmuring softly to himself in an unknown language.
Only when he was kicked sharply in the ribs that he realized someone was in the room with him.
" Now that I have your attention," Bardock's voice hissed around the small boy. " The real fun begins."
Gohan's eyes tightened and he curled up. All of a sudden, he began to realize the details he should have pointed out to himself earlier. For one, he was tied behind the back, both arms, with some metal thing. Every time he made an attempt to move them, to get them off, they were hiss with what sounded like electricity and tighten even more. Soon, there was blood seeping from his wrists and into Gohan's small hands and upon the floor.
Thinking of the floor, Gohan felt something very strange about it. There would be a soft drift of wind, or what it seemed like, under his cheek and he would feel it throughout his body. It was a weird experience and he was aching to know what exactly he was laying upon. But then again, he was afraid to tear open his eyes and see something he would most likely regret.
" First of all, Gohan, you'll have to open your eyes," Bardock said with simplicity. " There is nothing scary in this room, you big baby, so open them."
Furious for being called a mere child, a baby in fact, Gohan's eyes snapped open – and his jaw dropped open.
Instead of seeing the menacing Bardock he saw what was very much a galaxy in front of him. A galaxy! Its three arms of light swirled with colors of mist as it slowly, ever so slowly, turned around their core. And the core was swirling with a bright light; so amazing that Gohan forgot his anger, Bardock even, as his scientific side took over.
Gohan tilted his head to the side, looking up at what should have been the ceiling, but instead he spotted another galaxy, graced with purple and white as it too shone through out the universe.
Everywhere Gohan turned his head, even underneath him, were glittering, swirling, amazing galaxies. It was like he was standing outside, in space, and could walk straight over to the swirling lights. But he was not floating and could breathe, so something must have been protecting him from the vacuum of space.
" We are on a ship, Gohan," Bardock whispered, breaking through the curious boy's thoughts. " A ship where you can see through its boundaries of metal and steel. Where the ship is completely invisible so that you can look beyond."
Gohan turned his head to his enemy, feeling no anger for what the monster had done. Instead, he looked to where Bardock was pointing, towards a gold and white galaxy.
" You see them, Gohan?" Bardock asked quietly.
The young boy nodded.
" Well, they can all be yours."
I told you I was in a writing mood…Just goes to
show what can happen eh?
