His Demons
a DBGT fanfic by LadyRivka
"…Not tonight, dear, I don't feel like it."
Arale just sat there on the right side of the bed and stared. This was very unusual for Shujin-kun as Arale called Juunanagou. Every night since they had first gotten married he had usually wanted to make love until sunrise. But the past week had been weird. Juunana wasn't acting like himself. He seemed disinterested in everything: hunting, sex, his family…and for some reason, he would go into these odd spells where he would lie there, almost catatonic, and start screaming like hell, mostly about Dr. Gero and the need to get him out of his head.
Arale was confused, even due to the circumstances. "Hoyo? But I'm wearing that nightie you like…"
"Dammit, Arale, I don't care anymore. You should understand…"
"What?"
"For some reason I sense that bastard is trying to do something with me again."
"Didn't you tell me he was dead?"
"Yes, I did. I killed him with one swift kick to his head. But I didn't really kill him…"
"Hoyoyoyo?!? What do you mean?" Arale curled up into a ball, frightened.
"Gero's still in my head. I can't do anything about it. Sometimes I wonder what I did to deserve this crap…"
"It's not crap. You have me, shujin-kun!" said Arale, worried.
Juunana fell from his sitting-up position, and banged himself down against the futon mattress. His eyes appeared to roll back into his head, and his whole body went limp as he muttered, "Get…him…out….get…him…out…he…is…here…get…him…the…hell…out…" over and over, his voice growing louder and more frantic.
"SHUJIN-KUN!" Arale screamed as she tried to make him come to. She slapped his face, she shook him, but nothing worked. She put on her bathrobe and slippers, grabbed an activation device, and headed for her daughter's room.
She opened the door and pressed the ON button. "Cipu-chan, Daddy's having one of his fits again. Can you help me?"
The five-year-old android rubbed her eyes. "Haha-san, you woke me up! I was dreamin' about ponies and me shooting the ponies and…"
"No time. Daddy's having a fit, and you need to help me help him get out of it."
"M'kay", Cipu yawned as she lazily followed her mother into the master bedroom. There she saw her father, screaming like a banshee, his body oddly rigid.
"Ch-chichi-san!" she screamed at the top of her lungs. "Don't! I'm here!!!!"
As if by magic, Juunana got up at the sound of his daughter's plaintive cries. "Don't worry, C-ko, I was just having some sort of odd…what do humans call them…nightmare. I know it's not real, but I lose it, I lose everything." Staring off into the window, he said contemplatively, "I've lost everything thanks to that rat bastard Gero, but I've gained some of it back thanks to you two, but I have a feeling I may lose even you two…"
Meanwhile, three sinister figures were on a hill, watching the goings-on.
"Somehow, he knows…" said one.
"It's his human base. He still has some sort of a subconscious mind…he will need some persuasion." The second figure cocked his head and grinned evilly. "That's where you come in, my dear Hellfighter…"
"I shall do my best, Doctor," the third figure smirked.
"And about the purple-haired girl?" asked the first figure.
"What about her?" replied the second.
"What should we do with her?"
"She is one of the most advanced androids ever built…built by one Norimaki Senbee. She is almost exactly like a human being, although she is more efficient than what Nature ever intended…and she was built from the ground up. An amazing feat of technology…"
"Like Cell?"
"She is better than Cell, in many respects. Actually, it puzzles me how the man known throughout the Terran scientific community as " the incredibly incompetent 'Dr. Slump' " could build something like her…if we could win her over to our side, revenge would be more than exacted."
"But what about our plan?"
"We will see how the two #17's react to each other, and if that isn't enough, we will take her, too."
"Ah, brilliant as always, Dr. Gero," smirked Hellfighter. "I suppose we will wait until sunrise, yes?"
"Yes," responded the two mad scientists in unison.
END CHAPTER 1
JAPANESE VOCAB NOTE
Shujin= Husband (more specifically, the speaker's husband; an Arale-ism I came up with [shujin-kun])
Chichi= (the speaker's) father; Daddy, Dad
Haha= (the speaker's) mother; Mommy, Mom
Chichi and haha are used in place of otoosan and okaasan when referring to one's own parents. (Thank you, Penniman-sensee!!!)
