His Demons, Chapter 2 :
Shujin-kun is Missing!!
A DBGT fanfiction by LadyRivka
Arale woke up that morning, not knowing what to expect. Juunana had gone out hunting again, that was sure, which meant that she had to get the house halfway in order and fix breakfast and lunch for herself and give her husband and daughter their servings of Robobitan A. She quickly put on a spearmint-green dress, a pioneer-style one that went almost to her ankles, her lucky apron, a pair of socks, her glasses, and her slippers (not necessarily in that order). She went to the bathroom and brushed her teeth, and quickly put her long lilac tresses into a neat braid.
She was the very image of the loyal Japanese housewife, the one who always stood by her husband through thick and thin, no matter what he did.
She began work on the master bedroom, rolling up the futon and putting it in the closet, then started mindlessly sweeping the floor, humming a tune that had seemed to be forgotten by everyone else but her…[asoko, asoko, Arale-cha-n, n'cha, n'cha, n'cha-cha, kin-ka-ka-kin-kin-kang, ku-pe-pu-pe-pi-pi-po, Gacchan mo…]
Juunanagoo was out in the middle of the woods, ready for a long day's work of hunting small game and chopping down lumber for firewood and for wood-carving, his hobby from which his family managed to survive. He sensed a strange presence surrounding him, enveloping him…
Could it be…?
No. He's dead. You killed him, Juunanagoo. Logic just had to prevail in the cyborg's mind.
But this feeling…what is it?
Suddenly, Juunana blurted aloud, " Nan desu ka? Dare-ga imasu ka?" (What's that? Who's there?)
A voice, sounding much like his own, answered, "I am you, you are me. We will become one."
"NEVER!" he screamed at the voice. But then he felt his head tingle and his feet not following his mind's directions. Whoever he was had hypnotized him.
"You will get our sister and take over the world…"
"Take over…" he muttered, blindly repeating what Hellfighter was saying.
"Take over."
"Yeeesss…" Old Juunana smirked. Hellfighter had gotten ahold of his mind.
The best was yet to come.
"Haha-san, did you feel that?" A nervous Cipu tugged at her mother's dress. "Chichi-san's gone!"
"Of course he's gone," answered Arale. "Don't worry, Cipu-chan, he just went hunting. That's how Daddy makes his living."
"No, no,no!" the five-year-old android screamed. "REALLY GONE!"
"Honey, Daddy can't die, and neither can we. Don't worry, he'll be back."
"You don't understand," wailed Cipu. "Go to the forest and look for yourself! See what I say's right, 'kay, haha-san?"
"Okay." Arale sighed and walked out the door towards her husband's hunting grounds.
Upon her arrival, she saw nothing. Must be busy, she thought.
"SHUJIN-KUN?!? YOU THERE?!?"
No answer.
Again she called plaintively into the wilderness.
Again, no answer.
In her vain attempt to serarch for #17, Arale tripped over something…
His rifle. And laying next to it, his axe.
"Hoyo? If he's not here, how come his stuff is?" Arale was truly puzzled… but there were chores to be done and food to be eaten, so she took the rifle and axe back with her to the cabin.
Unfortunately, she hadn't seen what her daughter had…two old men standing on their front lawn, laughing evilly.
"Bad guys," muttered Cipu as she watched Gero and Myuu on her lawn. "I think they took chichi-san…I'll kick their asses!"
END CH. 2
NOTES:
Ya gotta love Norimaki Cipu. Eternally five years old, attitude and hair like her "father", eyes and quirkiness like her "mother". She, having been 5 for 25 years, combines the intuitiveness of a child with the wisdom (and bad habits, to a point!)of an adult.
Stay tuned for Chapter 3…Arale tries to thwart Gero's and Myuu's plans and get her shujin-kun back… will she succeed?
