Hah, I found the PERFECT song that goes with The
Legendary. Crawling by Linkin Park. Ultimate song, it describes the whole book
perfectly…Anyway, enjoy this chapter! The Legendary is coming to a close!…Or is it?
Goku tried to keep his eyes open through the light that fogged his entire vision. Had he been knocked out? Why couldn't he see? Gingerly, Goku reached out to the light surrounding him and was surprised to see his own hand. Looking down, he saw his body. Was he…in a dream? A white dream?
Where was he?
" Hello?" Goku asked quietly into the light. He heard his voice echo between space and time. Yes, space and time! That must be it, Goku thought as he looked around. Places like the Spirit and Time Chamber, where he had trained with Gohan to defeat Cell for one year. It had been that room, that place that had opened his closed eyes and seen his son in a new light.
A light that could save them all. A light that had the power to destroy Cell and any other rival that would descend upon Earth with its darkness. But never, in his wildest dreams, would he think his son contained so much power within himself. His kin was the…The Legendary. Fog's counterpart? No, it was way too much for his mind to comprehend. He could never imagine his child to more then that: His. Not something else, not something stronger. Not something he should had seen a long time ago but never took the time to notice. Damn him, he should have done something for Gohan. Did his kin know how to control the power that he had? Or would he turn into something worse, something like Fog.
Fog's counterpart.
His light to the dark.
How was it possible for his son to be such a being?
Goku opened his eyes that had closed during the period of his thoughts and lifted his head just in time to see a figure approach him from within the light. Eyes that widened slowly as the boy slowly took shape, black locks of hair falling into his eyes. Eyes that were just as black locked upon the man on his knees. Sadness was etched across the boy's fallen features, his white and gold clothes tattered and torn from a battle that seemed more from within himself then outside forces.
" Gohan…" Goku whispered and tried to rise to his feet but found he could not, for all the strength had left him from the sight of his son. Why so sad, Gohan? Goku thought, his own face beginning to fall into that of woe and sympathy.
The little boy stopped before his father and a choked noise escaped his lips before he spoke, " Father…"
Goku slowly rose his hands together to cup his son's achy face, " What's wrong? What happened?"
Small hands covered the larger ones and black eyebrows fell like the sorrowful eyes, " Fog is here."
" Where is here?"
" Between space and time. He will be forever locked here…for a price."
Goku stilled the thumb that has stroked his son's cheek and slowly, tentively, he licked his lips before whispering, " What price?"
" I wont be coming home, Papa."
At that, the bridge that had held the boy up, broke and with in came the tears that fell mercilessly down dirty cheeks. Shoulders shook and the strong body quivered. Goku shook his head disbelieving and grabbed his son desperately as if he was about to disappear any moment. Bringing his only child to his chest, he held him close, tightly, as he continued to shake his head in denial.
" No!"
" I'm so sorry, Father!" Gohan cried and clung onto the strong body that had protected him from evil time and time again. But he knew, that however strong and tight he held onto his dad, that he would soon disappear and become part of the world of light. Trapped forever for the crime he had committed against the law of life and death. He had no choice, he remembered, when Fog started gaining the upper hand. If he hadn't, he would be dead…or worse…
So he called forth this place with his endless power – the Land of End. It stretched on forever, the place between dimensions, time, and space. And when he had, he seemed to have broken some law. And now, forever would be stay here in this forbidden place with his arch enemy and never again see his Prince, his mentor, or his father again.
It was just too much.
~ " Gohan, please don't cry." ~
Gohan stilled his endless sorrow from his mind and looked inside, as a soft and gentle voice spoke to him.
~ " I can make it better."
" How?"
" By mind and soul, I am part of you. So then, I am you. You can make it better. If you choose, you can do good to your imprisonment."
" What do you mean…?"
" You can travel from space and time and dimensions. This place will lead you to where they beg of your help. The Legendary's Help. And when your imprisonment, your torture, is over for this act, you can return home."
" Home…"
" Gohan, many people beg for your help. Please don't ignore their pleas." ~
Silence then filled Gohan's mind and startling himself, he realized he had stopped his crying. Eyes turning upwards, Gohan came to another startling discovery:
His father was crying.
With his face buried into Gohan's locks, he didn't realize he had started crying but once he did, he found he couldn't stop. But they were silent, endless tears that fell from his eyes, down his cheeks, and into the dark mass of hair beneath him. It wasn't fair that his son would be tortured for doing the universe good. He was only a boy; he had never experienced anything in his life and now…now he would be locked away and go mad.
" Father."
Startled, Goku opened his closed eyes and lifted his head to look down at his son's now dry eyes.
" Gohan…?"
" I'll come home again, someday, Father. Until then, this is the last thing I can do."
Pulling back slightly from his father's hold, Gohan held up something that had magically appeared in his hand. Gold light flashed across Goku's face as his eyes widened and his tears sparkled.
A Dragonball.
Ah, I'm very satisfied with this
chapter. Longer too. Will the next chapter be the last one…? Or will it be the beginning of an entire new
series…? Stay tuned!
