Icycat turned back to face the cold, dark, and dank hallway. She was in the
lower levels of her house; this was where she kept her most powerful
training rooms and her old and new suits. And this is where she slept. Not
a nice place, but to her it was home.
She held out a hand, in the dim lightning, the golden skin seemed to radiate with an Inner Light, she turned and walked down the hallway. Her guests could find their way in, but she had training to do. She would not let the past happen again, she would not lose what friends she had.
She walked into a room, on the sides; dark blue tape was on the walls, coating it in thick stripes.
That was Power Tape, it hides power levels, and keeps the wall safe.
She stretched an arm up, hand reaching for something, and then let a low roar. A sword appeared in her hand, which she grasped tightly.
The golden hilt shone, brought to life with the emerald imbedded in a triangle shape, on the top, and to on either side. And a ruby was in the very center. It was the Kirean Sword of Truth. The Ice Child was the only one who could control it. The only ones like that where Future Catherine and Present Catherine.
Both of them had the same sword, Mirai Catherine's, from the future, and the other Catherine from her time.
Icycat, the Mirai Catherine, glanced around; to make sure everything was out of her way, then started training with her sword.
The wind whistled as the Truth Sword whipped through it. Her eyes closed, she soot her place of peace. She slowly reached out and latched onto it, slowly coming to as much peace as she could. Being from a terrible future, that wasn't much. But it was enough to help her in every day life.
But visions of her past suddenly appeared in front of her minds' eye; her father being killed, trying to protect her, her friends dying after a long battle, to distract the evil monsters as she left. She had woken up, just as the ship took off, and her friends started to fight. But no matter how much she tried, she could not get out of the ship. She had to watch, as each and every one of them died, protecting her.
After that she drifted from planet to planet, taking care of them and trying her best to train them. But her efforts where in vain. No one could stand up to those monsters.
Her power level rose along with her anger.
The sword twisted around her head, neck and shoulders. Close enough to cut. But her training had not been in vain; she had complete control over it. The small amount of ki energy that was inside strengthened it, and kept her mind where it belonged.
After breaking a light sweat she stopped and stood, her sword in her hand.
Suddenly an alarm went off.
*No, it can't be, how did the find out?! * She thought, shaking her head in denial. She quikly banished the sword, and called the royal staff of Kirean, her cloak, a light ice blue cloak down to her ankles, with the royal symbol of the princess of Kirean on the back. Her high heeled boots (that same kind the present Catherine wears when she goes Ice Saiyan) where an ice white, and her tunic was ice white, while her pants where ice blue. She had short and white, just like her tunic, gloves.
She quikly pulled the hood of her cloak up to hide her hair.
With a touch of her power she changed to color of her hair and eyes.
The staff of the Royal House of Kirean was made of wood, with gold symbols running up the sides, each one of the symbols stands for one of the members of the royal family it was passed too. On the top of it was a rainbow colored stone, a Kirean Blood stone. It was called that because when a royal gets angry, the stone glows red, and if they don't calm down, the power will kill the person they're angry at, if they will it to be so. That made the Royal Family twice as dangerous.
Catherine then stormed down the hallway, her cloak blowing behind her like bird wings.
As she got into the higher levels, she passed through some gates, her attire changed, in the place of her old medieval style boots where some fabric-like, fir-lined snow boots. In the place of her other clothes, rather then her gloves, where spandex saiyan armor, and leather gloves, that where ki resistant. But her cloak was the one that changed the least, like the Saiyan Prince Vegeta's, was attached to her amore. It also stayed the same color and design. Her staff stayed the same as well.
She kept walking without pausing. She glided out the door, keeping to the shadows; she kept her ki hidden, thanking Denda that she had thought to lock the lower levels before she went outside. They would just find an old abandoned house. Just like they people around her said.
All of the dust and cobwebs were left undisturbed, since she flew around the upper levels at a slow pace, because she knew kids around her thought it was haunted and would notice if so much as one cobweb was out of place.
(OKAY PEOPLE, WE'RE GOING TO MIRAI CATHERINE'S POV FOR NOW. I'LL TELL YOU WHEN WE GO BACK TO PRESENT CATHERINE.)
I growled as the walked through MY house. I quikly put a cap on my anger before my ki could rise.
I looked at the sky, Kirean's have looked to the sky for answers from as long as we can remember. And they have never led us astray.
After finding my answer I bowed my head in acceptance. This had to happen, for whatever reason this had to happen.
I quikly got out my private phone, and dialed Casey's number. After three rings, she answered.
"This is Casey Madison, what can I do for you?" she asked.
"It's Icycat. My house is out of order for now. Don't come over. I'll call you when I get the people out." I said. She quikly agreed and hung up after we said our good-byes.
I looked around, good, they where to busy snooping around to see me. I quikly took out a touch pad, and hide everything. It had been made in my future, to try and make sure those evil beasts didn't get their hands on anything important. It made no noise as it closed every door to the down stairs area, and every hole. It left nothing to suggest that there was any down stairs area.
I then started the long walk back to Silver Town. The town were I get everything from food to clothes. They where used to my weird clothes and everything. And they had long ago stopped asking me where I lived and where I came from, for they would never get an answer.
People looked at me, some of the new people looked at me like I was a demon, while others, people who had seen me before, and knew me, waved and shouted hello's.
I walked over to the market, all of my food was down stairs, and my capsule food would not last forever. More like three days at the most.
Both Kirean's and Saiyan's where known to eat allot. And it's a well-known fact that only the Kirean's could match the Saiyan's hunger.
I gracefully walked in, not even trying to be graceful, another credit to my blood. I quikly grabbing enough for a full sized army, but for a Kirean, enough to keep them happy for two weeks. And a half breed, one week.
I then walked to the cash register and paid for it.
What, you think I just threatened them? No, my Kirean side would never allow it, unless I had no money of course. I work as a inventor, like Bulma Briefs and her father. Only I work for the Element Corp. we make everything, rather then whatever Capsule Corp. makes. We don't want to try and beat them at anything, we know we would lose.
I'm happy with my job, and that's what keeps me there.
I then walked out and started on my way the sea. There was an island out there that I have training rooms on. It would be safe there. It was a well- known fact that Kate Kastanova lived there. And that she did not take well to strangers on her island.
I carefully raised my power level, and right before it would catch the attention of any of the Z-fighters, I put a silver ring from my cloak pocket on. It hide my power level from everyone.
I flew quikly over the ocean, then for a bit of fun, dived in and quikly drew a bit of my ki up to lungs. Because of my Kirean blood (I'm saying that a lot aren't I?) I can breathe threw my lungs. In other words, not have to breathe with any air. My lungs can re-use the air already in it.
As I swam through the water I thought of my past.
~*~Flashback~*~
A young girl cowered in a ally way as soldiers ran by, her light blue cloak blending with the blue wall behind her.
She quikly moved after the soldiers left, moving with cat-like grace and without one sound she walked down the ally but stayed in the shadows. Her hair and eyes where black as night, with no emotions.
They weren't dyed, they where put under illusions, so she seemed to be fully Saiyan. Every since those evil things had come, the remaining Saiyan's had grouped with them.
The girl walked over to a part of the wall that was pitch black and pressed her hand to it, the wall moved back and to the side, reveling a hallway.
She looked around to make sure no one was watching, then walked down it. The people that were sitting in the only room off of the hallway turned at her entrance then went back to their talk. One of the people leaning against the walls turned and walked over to her as the illusions disappeared, reveling a young girl with stone cold emerald eyes and short, dark red/gold hair with dark cream/gold streaks.
The boy who had walked over had short black hair and bottomless black eyes.
It was her brother, Timer. He was one of the very few people in the Supreme Kia family that was still alive, rather then Icycat. The Supreme Kia was already dead and gone, and could not be brought back to life until Coldcat could get her hands on the last Ice Star Dragon Ball. The Dragon Balls she had created.
They where ice blue with white stars. The most powerful, and lest known of the Dragon Balls, the last one was in the hands of the Saiyans.
"Are you okay, sis?" he asked, taking the cloak for her after she took it off.
"Yeah, just tired. You know how using as much power as I have in the past three days wears me out." She said, pressing a hand to her forehead and rubbing it fiercely.
"Hey, take it easy, how about you take a rest in the one of the other rooms, you look like you need it." He said, removing her hand from her forehead.
"Thank you." She said, and followed him to the other doors, walking around to giant table and through the double doors behind it.
They quikly made their way down the hallway. That had all been an act, because they needed to talk. They walked down to a tall oak door; everything else was made of metal, but this door. It was the doorway to an ancient room, and only a powerful and brave Saiyan could stand it.
They walked into a replica of the Room of Spirit and Time. Both of them knew that no one would dare interrupt them here, and they would not leave until they were done training and talking. Unlike the Room of Spirit and Time, you could spend three years in this room with no worries on being stuck.
"So sister, what did you want to talk to me about?" Timer asked, turning to his younger sister.
"I'm thinking of going to the past brother. And for that I'll need your help." She said looking at him without the shields; dead, lifeless eyes meet his cold, fearless ones.
"I'll help, but I'm going to another Mirai world after this, I can't stay here, this universe is going to die soon." He said.
"How soon?" she asked, turning to her brother.
"Fifteen years at the most." He said, sinking into a battle pose, as did his sister.
"Hmmm. After this can we leave? After our time here that is." She said, moving out of range of his first punch.
"As you wish, he said, trying to kick her.
"I do wish that."
~*~End Flashback~*~
I flew up and out of the water. I quikly took a couple deep breaths. Even though I don't need to breath air, how would feel if you saw someone not breath air at all? Afraid, I would think. But I can't just reuse the same air again and again; there's a point to which you can't reuse the air. But the ability to reuse breath becomes handy once and a while.
Another thing about Kirean's is chocolate. Chocolate to a Kirean is what bear is to earthlings. Which is why we stay away from it, Half-breeds can stand more chocolate then purebred Kirean's. But after a while even they get tipsy.
I flew over an island; it was filled with trees and other planets, a metal building right in the center, hidden from other peoples eyes. I landed, and scanned my surroundings. I quikly made my way to the metal building, my other lab and training room.
I placed my hand on the metal beside the only visible doorway.
Unknown to me, I was being followed, by the Z-Fighters.
"Permission to enter, granted." A computer voice said, the door opened without a sound, another thing me and anybody else who opposed the Evil Ones had learned to love, as well as hate. Silence could mean one of two things, everybody was dead, or everyone was hiding.
Our ears had also learned to hear things most people would not.
But because the Z-Fighters knew better then to make the most silent sound, and kept their Ki hidden, I did not know they had found me.
"Miss. Icycat, Coldcat and the others what to know if you need any help."
"Tell them I do not. I'm safe for now. Has father called?" I asked, hoping for a yes.
"Not yet, but should I inform you if he does?"
"Yes. I'm going hunting. It will calm me. And I need to find some peace, so I'm going to leave my capsules here with you." I said, grabbing them out of my cloak's pocket and dropping them in a bin my computer opened, that closed after I dropped them in it.
"Bye." I said and walked back into the forest.
My feet quikly found a faint path as I let my mind wander.
~*~Flashback~*~
"Who ARE you?" a young girl with hair almost to her knees.
"I'm your future self, or at least I could have been. But since the Trunks of the future came and help stop the androids and Cell, I'm not." A taller and colder girl, who looked almost, like a twin of the longhaired girl.
Her hair was down the bottom of her ears. But the tips of her pointed ears peeked out, reveling that she was not totally human.
"What's with you hair?" Kelly asked, pointing the girl's hair.
"I cut it. I'm a fighter, and the Evil One's had a hobby of yanking my hair, so I cut it. Besides, it got into my eyes." The older girl, the one who was called Icycat said.
"Then it's a pleasure to meet you, Cat." The Supreme Kia said.
"I knew you would recognize me, father." She said, nodding to him.
"Oh?" he asked, looking at her, with a look that said 'and how did you know this?'.
She face grew sad and her eyes quikly lost all of the warmth it had gained.
"Lets not get into that, please." She said, dropping her eyes.
"As you wish, lets go inside." Her father, in this time, draped his arm (he was floating, okay, so he was just about as tall as she was.) and walked in the house with his daughter.
That night, she walked out into the night, her eyes sad, and filled with pain.
In her hand was a sharp and shiny sword, the Kirean Sword of Truth. She went into a nearby clearing, and started her work out.
Unknown to her, the Supreme Kia was watching her.
As the blade barley missed her neck he saw something that he would never see, loneliness in her eyes, shining bright and clear.
He felt and saw his Mirai daughter transferring some of her ki into the Truth Sword.
The sword came down hard in a down strike that would have cut a enemy in two if there had been one, as it was the wind whistled as it cam down, so fast it blurred.
After and hour of training with her sword, she raised her hand with the sword in it, her spirit left her body for a minute…
The Mirai girl's spirit appeared in the middle of a long hallway, after a mile a door would appear, but she passed every one of the old wood doorways. This was the Kirean House and Spirit volt, were people put their stuff when they didn't need it. Only the Royal Family could get into every one of these volts, an ordinary Kirean could only get into their own volt. The spirit girl walked quikly passed every door until she came to one with the numbers '9,001' on it. Her volt. She opened the door to reveal some money, weapons and some royal and warrior clothes.
She walked over to one of the walls and put the Sword of Truth on one of the racks for swords only, then walked over to another wall, where a gold case sat on a up raised platform. She opened it.
It in was a long staff, just as tall as she was, when she got it out, it shifted to fit her hand.
It was the Royal Staff of the Kirean Royal family. Only the Royal family and their most trusted people could hold it, and only the Royal family could use it.
The Mirai child walked out, not seeing the ghost women and the ghost man who hovered in the center of the room.
"May you find your way one of these days, my daughter." The women, Queen Mary Anne the Fifth, said, smiling sadly. For until her daughter found peace, neither could the Queen and her mate, Kiro, the Fourth.
Both of them then left to watch their daughter…
~*~End Flashback~*~
As I reached the desired clearing, with a water fall showering over a large cave I sometimes slept or rested in. the small calm pound there gave me a sense of peace, and at the same time a sense of belonging. The beautiful flowers shown their bright colors with pride and the trees stood tall. Everything there brought peace and belonging. I quikly put my sword away and got out my staff from the Kirean House and Spirit Volt.
I then started training. Everything around here helped me find my peaceful center so that I could stop the flashbacks. They didn't help me keep my center, and if I could stop them for now my temper would not rise so quikly.
Sweat soaked I stopped training and pushed my soaked hair out of my eyes with a smile. Finally I could rest.
I walked over to the stream and drank some of the cold water, then dunked my head in for a while.
I jerked up as I heard a roar. It was my Mirai brother, Timer.
A tall black cat with white stripes appeared out of the woods, then disappeared again as a whole bunch of mist surrounded him for two minutes, in it's place stood a tall man, with jet black hair and black eyes with spots of white. His loose black clothes with a pocket watch hanging out of one of the many pockets. On each of his wrists where at least two watches, and I would not put it past him to have allot more.
"Good day to you, sister." He said, his words sounding bright and happy.
"What, did you just step out of the eighth century or something?" I asked, knowing he had done just that.
He glared at me. "You know, one of these days, that attitude of yours is going to get you in trouble." He stated, but softened his words with a Legend smirk, where you smirk and go into a battle stance as well as seem to let your guard down.
"And when it does, you'll be right there laughing." I said, sinking into a battle stance as well.
We battled for at least two hours, using new attacks as well as old, and some new types of energy helpers.
Finally I had him pinned. "Do you yield?" I asked.
"I yield." He said, I got up and smirked again.
"I win as always." I said, meeting his eyes as he glared daggers at me.
"One of these days I'm going to beat you, little sister." He stated, winching as he got up.
"Yeah, that'll be the day, big bro." I said, walking up to him and fishing a small bag from one of my pockets. I took out a small white bean. It's a power bean, twice as power as a senzo bean.
He happily took it and ate it. One minute later he was fully healed.
"One of these days your going to have to tell me where you get those." He said, happily stretching his newly healed muscles.
"So why are you here, brother, I know you would not come all the way here just to get your butt kicked." I said, looking at the sky.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but our time, our Mirai timeline, died two days ago, I found out yesterday." He said, his face bleak.
"I knew that it would happen soon, at least we weren't there when it happened." I said, turning to face him. He nodded.
"That's one of the things we can be grateful for. I had better get going. I hope that one of these days, when we both find our mates, that you can come over to visit us, my dear sister." He said hugging me. Yet another one of our deals, I thought. After my brother dropped me off on the Supreme Kia's planet, we made a deal, my brother and I. I promised never to go to his time until we both found mates. So far neither of us has had much luck. But we keep searching.
"I hope so to, my brother. Now get going, you're needed in your time, just like I will be in mine soon." I said, pushing him back and grabbing his arms.
"You are right. See you later, sister." He said and vanished back into his cat form, and back into his time.
After I was sure he was gone, I burst into tears, borrowing my head in my hands, not bothering to try and hold back my feelings. Even though I could only feel half of my pain and sorrow, I still felt my pain.
I looked at the dark sky, which felt my sorrow and darkened in response. Lighting slashed the sky and thunder roared in the night. Stars disappeared, hidden by the clouds, and rain poured soaking my hair farther, and making my clothes stick to my skin, I felt non-of this. Mist surrounded me, and a panther stood in my place, it's eyes dark with pain.
I took off to the cliffs, my pain over ran my other senses, over running my thoughts and blocking common sense.
When I reached the top of the tallest one, I roared my defiance to the world, scramming my pain, my anger and my loneliness. I screamed my hatred, my fear, everything I felt, I roared to the world.
The Z-fighters watched the girl-cat; she seemed to have lost control of her body. But what was she doing on top of that cliff?
I felt the depression take over my body, I fought it for as long as I could, but I knew that I was fighting a loosing battle. Every Kirean knew these symptoms. My brother could hold it off longer then I could. Everyone knew that females, most importantly powerful females, could not hold off The-Spirit-Death. If a female reached 22 without a mate, then nature would take its course. The soil of Kirea could hold it off until she reached 25, but after that nothing could hold it off, other then the presence of her mate. I had run out of Kirea soil yesterday, and had not thought of the moon being out. The moon made The-Spirit-Death twice as powerful.
The ring I had, had on fell off and over the edge, my spirit was slowly pushed out of my body until I stood outside of it. In my normal Kirean Princess clothes, black tight pants, and loose black shirt that went to the middle of my thighs, and the neck went up to up to my chin. My belt was silk and ended on my left hip and the end went down to my knees. The Kirean Sword of Truth was sheath was black and was attached to a leather belt under the silk belt.
On both of my wrists where dark silver bracelets, hidden under the loose sleeves of my shirt. I wore no crown, but I wore the Royal colors. Black and dark, metallic silver.
The colors were dark and sad because the first Royal family died, and while the planet was still in mourning, their son was crowned, and he choose those colors for the Royal colors. No one knows why, but they agreed with him.
I looked at my body, and released a mental blast of power.
I had mental powers beyond imagine. But even I would have trouble with this battle. I knew that anyone could see this battle, but I thought no one was around, after all, who would come here?
Two long, painful hours, the battle lasted. I lashed out with a mental fire bolt, while the Spirit Demon unleashed a lightning bolt. I moved out of the way of the Lightning bolt, while the Demon got hit with my fire blot, he fell to the ground, and released my body.
I didn't return, not yet, I had to find out where he was going. Who knew what horrors he could attack the world with?
The Z-fighters watched the battle of the Spirit Child and the cat with amazed eyes. But they back up as they saw a demon leave the Cat-girl's body, and head for them.
I cursed; these people just had to come here right now didn't they? Oh well, no time to wonder how they got here, I just have to protect them.
I jerked to a stop between them and the Demon. I switched my body so that was side ways.
"Spirit War Strike!" I called, pouting my forefinger towards the Demon, a huge, angry, growling wolf, that you could see through, it then started battling the Demon. I quikly returned to my body. I didn't waste the energy changing clothes so I was in the clothes that I had worn when I was in spirit. I quikly ran over to where the Z-fighters, though I didn't know that's who they where, and grabbed the tallest one, Goku and jerked him over to where I knew we would be safe if my Spirit Wolf didn't win the battle, (though I'm stronger then that Demon, and I doubt that my Spirit wolf will fail. But better safe then sorry.).
"Come one, Wolf can't last forever." I said, dragging Goku behind me. After I said that he followed me, along with everyone else other then the short, black hair one, whose hair flamed up like a fire.
"I can take on that monster." He said, sticking his nose in the air.
"Yeah right. A Spirit Demon? Even the most powerful fighters in the universe have failed." Even after I said those words, he would not move. "Listen okay, if you don't obey me, I will knock you out and drag you to the Demon Safe House. If you come with me now, you can preserve your pride. If not, then you'll make a fool of yourself." I said, deathly quite. He looked at me.
"You? A child? Even more shameful a girl?" he asked. It was plan that he did not believe me.
"I'm no child, I'm Catherine SilverGold Legend Kia, the Kirean Princess. Half Saiyan half Kirean. I'm from a time that died two days ago. I've been through hell and back. I've watched my father and my most trusted friends' die to protect me. I've watched my brother nearly die. I've seen people die in unspeakable ways, I've watched hope bloom on a planet that looked like it would die, I seen universes die after being taken over by people who could care less. Listen mister. I am not a child. I've had my childhood taken away from me, and I will be reminded. Not you can try and fight that Spirit Demon, I can promise you this, and you aren't going to win. And I wouldn't want my friends to tell my family, if I had one, that I had died being foolish and trying to fight a Spirit Demon." I said, my ki growing. I went Super Saiyan without turning so much as a hair. He gulped and nodded (Okay so Vegeta is OOC, I can't seem to get him right.) "Good now come on." I said, looking at the sky and tracking the battle real quick. Good, Wolf was wining, I thought.
I quikly made my way through the forest, not really running, more like jogging. These guys were having a hard keeping up with me.
Training on planets with a million times earth's natural gravity pays off.
I ran over to the metal door of the Demon Safe house.
"Computer, open doors!" I yelled. The doors opened without a sound, with the others not far behind.
"Close doors!" I yelled after the last person ran in. I sighed and walked over to the light switch. Some things I like doing the old way. In this case, the lights, I don't use them much, but when I do, I like to have to search for them.
Light filled the building, hurting my eyes, I quikly reached into my pants and brought out my sunglasses.
"Come on, I'm sure that you guys need to sit down, and have something to eat and drink." I stated, walking down the hallway.
I walked into a large dining room, and uncurled my tail and waved it behind me, thinking of food. My stomach growled at the thought.
"Computer, is the food ready? Since I already know you've taken count of how many people we have with us." I said, watching them out of the corner of my eye. I didn't know them, but I think I may have heard of them. Though I would not let them know that. "I think we have two full blooded Saiyan's, three half Saiyans, and one android." I said, turning back to the problem at hand.
"Of course, I'm guessing your really hungry?" the female voice of my computer said. I had built this safe house by myself, one year after I came to Earth. The speakers are inside the walls, and protected by shields, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
I sat down by the fire, another chair beside me. The fire felt good on my cold skin. Every Kirean, who survived stage two of The-Sprit-Death, would feel cold until they finally get near a fire.
I put my hands on my chin, watching the people look at the food, hungrily.
"Go ahead and eat it. I already have my dinner!" I called; every one dived in after I said that.
Two robots walked in, each holding a tray, one went to me, while the other went to the android.
"Here you go, Miss. Catherine." She said, putting the tray on the table in front of me. Eight pills sat on the plate, and a brown on sat on a smaller plate. Nine glasses of water and milk sat above them.
I quikly took the brown pill. It was full of Kirean soil. I nodded my thanks to the droid. I then started to eat the other pills. Because I had just gotten done with the second stage of death, I was going through a ceremony. Even though it might weaken me, it was needed for me to start the third, and most terrible.
I sat back after finished everything; I then got up, but was brought to my knees in pain. I gasped in pain.
"WARNING, WARNING. Spirit-Death is reaching level three. Danger, if it does not stop, may become deadly!" the computer shouted.
My brother appeared behind me, "Icycat!" He called, running over to me. We both knew that the deadly gene that was in every Kirean would not be kept under control any longer.
"Guess we won't see who is stronger then who, huh big bro?'' I said, grinning weakly.
"And who says that?" He said, managing a weak smile, while tears filled his eyes.
"You know that I'm not that strong. I have no mate, my brother, so how can I live through this stage, no one has without a mate. We both know it's true." I said, then fell into the painless void of sleep…
She held out a hand, in the dim lightning, the golden skin seemed to radiate with an Inner Light, she turned and walked down the hallway. Her guests could find their way in, but she had training to do. She would not let the past happen again, she would not lose what friends she had.
She walked into a room, on the sides; dark blue tape was on the walls, coating it in thick stripes.
That was Power Tape, it hides power levels, and keeps the wall safe.
She stretched an arm up, hand reaching for something, and then let a low roar. A sword appeared in her hand, which she grasped tightly.
The golden hilt shone, brought to life with the emerald imbedded in a triangle shape, on the top, and to on either side. And a ruby was in the very center. It was the Kirean Sword of Truth. The Ice Child was the only one who could control it. The only ones like that where Future Catherine and Present Catherine.
Both of them had the same sword, Mirai Catherine's, from the future, and the other Catherine from her time.
Icycat, the Mirai Catherine, glanced around; to make sure everything was out of her way, then started training with her sword.
The wind whistled as the Truth Sword whipped through it. Her eyes closed, she soot her place of peace. She slowly reached out and latched onto it, slowly coming to as much peace as she could. Being from a terrible future, that wasn't much. But it was enough to help her in every day life.
But visions of her past suddenly appeared in front of her minds' eye; her father being killed, trying to protect her, her friends dying after a long battle, to distract the evil monsters as she left. She had woken up, just as the ship took off, and her friends started to fight. But no matter how much she tried, she could not get out of the ship. She had to watch, as each and every one of them died, protecting her.
After that she drifted from planet to planet, taking care of them and trying her best to train them. But her efforts where in vain. No one could stand up to those monsters.
Her power level rose along with her anger.
The sword twisted around her head, neck and shoulders. Close enough to cut. But her training had not been in vain; she had complete control over it. The small amount of ki energy that was inside strengthened it, and kept her mind where it belonged.
After breaking a light sweat she stopped and stood, her sword in her hand.
Suddenly an alarm went off.
*No, it can't be, how did the find out?! * She thought, shaking her head in denial. She quikly banished the sword, and called the royal staff of Kirean, her cloak, a light ice blue cloak down to her ankles, with the royal symbol of the princess of Kirean on the back. Her high heeled boots (that same kind the present Catherine wears when she goes Ice Saiyan) where an ice white, and her tunic was ice white, while her pants where ice blue. She had short and white, just like her tunic, gloves.
She quikly pulled the hood of her cloak up to hide her hair.
With a touch of her power she changed to color of her hair and eyes.
The staff of the Royal House of Kirean was made of wood, with gold symbols running up the sides, each one of the symbols stands for one of the members of the royal family it was passed too. On the top of it was a rainbow colored stone, a Kirean Blood stone. It was called that because when a royal gets angry, the stone glows red, and if they don't calm down, the power will kill the person they're angry at, if they will it to be so. That made the Royal Family twice as dangerous.
Catherine then stormed down the hallway, her cloak blowing behind her like bird wings.
As she got into the higher levels, she passed through some gates, her attire changed, in the place of her old medieval style boots where some fabric-like, fir-lined snow boots. In the place of her other clothes, rather then her gloves, where spandex saiyan armor, and leather gloves, that where ki resistant. But her cloak was the one that changed the least, like the Saiyan Prince Vegeta's, was attached to her amore. It also stayed the same color and design. Her staff stayed the same as well.
She kept walking without pausing. She glided out the door, keeping to the shadows; she kept her ki hidden, thanking Denda that she had thought to lock the lower levels before she went outside. They would just find an old abandoned house. Just like they people around her said.
All of the dust and cobwebs were left undisturbed, since she flew around the upper levels at a slow pace, because she knew kids around her thought it was haunted and would notice if so much as one cobweb was out of place.
(OKAY PEOPLE, WE'RE GOING TO MIRAI CATHERINE'S POV FOR NOW. I'LL TELL YOU WHEN WE GO BACK TO PRESENT CATHERINE.)
I growled as the walked through MY house. I quikly put a cap on my anger before my ki could rise.
I looked at the sky, Kirean's have looked to the sky for answers from as long as we can remember. And they have never led us astray.
After finding my answer I bowed my head in acceptance. This had to happen, for whatever reason this had to happen.
I quikly got out my private phone, and dialed Casey's number. After three rings, she answered.
"This is Casey Madison, what can I do for you?" she asked.
"It's Icycat. My house is out of order for now. Don't come over. I'll call you when I get the people out." I said. She quikly agreed and hung up after we said our good-byes.
I looked around, good, they where to busy snooping around to see me. I quikly took out a touch pad, and hide everything. It had been made in my future, to try and make sure those evil beasts didn't get their hands on anything important. It made no noise as it closed every door to the down stairs area, and every hole. It left nothing to suggest that there was any down stairs area.
I then started the long walk back to Silver Town. The town were I get everything from food to clothes. They where used to my weird clothes and everything. And they had long ago stopped asking me where I lived and where I came from, for they would never get an answer.
People looked at me, some of the new people looked at me like I was a demon, while others, people who had seen me before, and knew me, waved and shouted hello's.
I walked over to the market, all of my food was down stairs, and my capsule food would not last forever. More like three days at the most.
Both Kirean's and Saiyan's where known to eat allot. And it's a well-known fact that only the Kirean's could match the Saiyan's hunger.
I gracefully walked in, not even trying to be graceful, another credit to my blood. I quikly grabbing enough for a full sized army, but for a Kirean, enough to keep them happy for two weeks. And a half breed, one week.
I then walked to the cash register and paid for it.
What, you think I just threatened them? No, my Kirean side would never allow it, unless I had no money of course. I work as a inventor, like Bulma Briefs and her father. Only I work for the Element Corp. we make everything, rather then whatever Capsule Corp. makes. We don't want to try and beat them at anything, we know we would lose.
I'm happy with my job, and that's what keeps me there.
I then walked out and started on my way the sea. There was an island out there that I have training rooms on. It would be safe there. It was a well- known fact that Kate Kastanova lived there. And that she did not take well to strangers on her island.
I carefully raised my power level, and right before it would catch the attention of any of the Z-fighters, I put a silver ring from my cloak pocket on. It hide my power level from everyone.
I flew quikly over the ocean, then for a bit of fun, dived in and quikly drew a bit of my ki up to lungs. Because of my Kirean blood (I'm saying that a lot aren't I?) I can breathe threw my lungs. In other words, not have to breathe with any air. My lungs can re-use the air already in it.
As I swam through the water I thought of my past.
~*~Flashback~*~
A young girl cowered in a ally way as soldiers ran by, her light blue cloak blending with the blue wall behind her.
She quikly moved after the soldiers left, moving with cat-like grace and without one sound she walked down the ally but stayed in the shadows. Her hair and eyes where black as night, with no emotions.
They weren't dyed, they where put under illusions, so she seemed to be fully Saiyan. Every since those evil things had come, the remaining Saiyan's had grouped with them.
The girl walked over to a part of the wall that was pitch black and pressed her hand to it, the wall moved back and to the side, reveling a hallway.
She looked around to make sure no one was watching, then walked down it. The people that were sitting in the only room off of the hallway turned at her entrance then went back to their talk. One of the people leaning against the walls turned and walked over to her as the illusions disappeared, reveling a young girl with stone cold emerald eyes and short, dark red/gold hair with dark cream/gold streaks.
The boy who had walked over had short black hair and bottomless black eyes.
It was her brother, Timer. He was one of the very few people in the Supreme Kia family that was still alive, rather then Icycat. The Supreme Kia was already dead and gone, and could not be brought back to life until Coldcat could get her hands on the last Ice Star Dragon Ball. The Dragon Balls she had created.
They where ice blue with white stars. The most powerful, and lest known of the Dragon Balls, the last one was in the hands of the Saiyans.
"Are you okay, sis?" he asked, taking the cloak for her after she took it off.
"Yeah, just tired. You know how using as much power as I have in the past three days wears me out." She said, pressing a hand to her forehead and rubbing it fiercely.
"Hey, take it easy, how about you take a rest in the one of the other rooms, you look like you need it." He said, removing her hand from her forehead.
"Thank you." She said, and followed him to the other doors, walking around to giant table and through the double doors behind it.
They quikly made their way down the hallway. That had all been an act, because they needed to talk. They walked down to a tall oak door; everything else was made of metal, but this door. It was the doorway to an ancient room, and only a powerful and brave Saiyan could stand it.
They walked into a replica of the Room of Spirit and Time. Both of them knew that no one would dare interrupt them here, and they would not leave until they were done training and talking. Unlike the Room of Spirit and Time, you could spend three years in this room with no worries on being stuck.
"So sister, what did you want to talk to me about?" Timer asked, turning to his younger sister.
"I'm thinking of going to the past brother. And for that I'll need your help." She said looking at him without the shields; dead, lifeless eyes meet his cold, fearless ones.
"I'll help, but I'm going to another Mirai world after this, I can't stay here, this universe is going to die soon." He said.
"How soon?" she asked, turning to her brother.
"Fifteen years at the most." He said, sinking into a battle pose, as did his sister.
"Hmmm. After this can we leave? After our time here that is." She said, moving out of range of his first punch.
"As you wish, he said, trying to kick her.
"I do wish that."
~*~End Flashback~*~
I flew up and out of the water. I quikly took a couple deep breaths. Even though I don't need to breath air, how would feel if you saw someone not breath air at all? Afraid, I would think. But I can't just reuse the same air again and again; there's a point to which you can't reuse the air. But the ability to reuse breath becomes handy once and a while.
Another thing about Kirean's is chocolate. Chocolate to a Kirean is what bear is to earthlings. Which is why we stay away from it, Half-breeds can stand more chocolate then purebred Kirean's. But after a while even they get tipsy.
I flew over an island; it was filled with trees and other planets, a metal building right in the center, hidden from other peoples eyes. I landed, and scanned my surroundings. I quikly made my way to the metal building, my other lab and training room.
I placed my hand on the metal beside the only visible doorway.
Unknown to me, I was being followed, by the Z-Fighters.
"Permission to enter, granted." A computer voice said, the door opened without a sound, another thing me and anybody else who opposed the Evil Ones had learned to love, as well as hate. Silence could mean one of two things, everybody was dead, or everyone was hiding.
Our ears had also learned to hear things most people would not.
But because the Z-Fighters knew better then to make the most silent sound, and kept their Ki hidden, I did not know they had found me.
"Miss. Icycat, Coldcat and the others what to know if you need any help."
"Tell them I do not. I'm safe for now. Has father called?" I asked, hoping for a yes.
"Not yet, but should I inform you if he does?"
"Yes. I'm going hunting. It will calm me. And I need to find some peace, so I'm going to leave my capsules here with you." I said, grabbing them out of my cloak's pocket and dropping them in a bin my computer opened, that closed after I dropped them in it.
"Bye." I said and walked back into the forest.
My feet quikly found a faint path as I let my mind wander.
~*~Flashback~*~
"Who ARE you?" a young girl with hair almost to her knees.
"I'm your future self, or at least I could have been. But since the Trunks of the future came and help stop the androids and Cell, I'm not." A taller and colder girl, who looked almost, like a twin of the longhaired girl.
Her hair was down the bottom of her ears. But the tips of her pointed ears peeked out, reveling that she was not totally human.
"What's with you hair?" Kelly asked, pointing the girl's hair.
"I cut it. I'm a fighter, and the Evil One's had a hobby of yanking my hair, so I cut it. Besides, it got into my eyes." The older girl, the one who was called Icycat said.
"Then it's a pleasure to meet you, Cat." The Supreme Kia said.
"I knew you would recognize me, father." She said, nodding to him.
"Oh?" he asked, looking at her, with a look that said 'and how did you know this?'.
She face grew sad and her eyes quikly lost all of the warmth it had gained.
"Lets not get into that, please." She said, dropping her eyes.
"As you wish, lets go inside." Her father, in this time, draped his arm (he was floating, okay, so he was just about as tall as she was.) and walked in the house with his daughter.
That night, she walked out into the night, her eyes sad, and filled with pain.
In her hand was a sharp and shiny sword, the Kirean Sword of Truth. She went into a nearby clearing, and started her work out.
Unknown to her, the Supreme Kia was watching her.
As the blade barley missed her neck he saw something that he would never see, loneliness in her eyes, shining bright and clear.
He felt and saw his Mirai daughter transferring some of her ki into the Truth Sword.
The sword came down hard in a down strike that would have cut a enemy in two if there had been one, as it was the wind whistled as it cam down, so fast it blurred.
After and hour of training with her sword, she raised her hand with the sword in it, her spirit left her body for a minute…
The Mirai girl's spirit appeared in the middle of a long hallway, after a mile a door would appear, but she passed every one of the old wood doorways. This was the Kirean House and Spirit volt, were people put their stuff when they didn't need it. Only the Royal Family could get into every one of these volts, an ordinary Kirean could only get into their own volt. The spirit girl walked quikly passed every door until she came to one with the numbers '9,001' on it. Her volt. She opened the door to reveal some money, weapons and some royal and warrior clothes.
She walked over to one of the walls and put the Sword of Truth on one of the racks for swords only, then walked over to another wall, where a gold case sat on a up raised platform. She opened it.
It in was a long staff, just as tall as she was, when she got it out, it shifted to fit her hand.
It was the Royal Staff of the Kirean Royal family. Only the Royal family and their most trusted people could hold it, and only the Royal family could use it.
The Mirai child walked out, not seeing the ghost women and the ghost man who hovered in the center of the room.
"May you find your way one of these days, my daughter." The women, Queen Mary Anne the Fifth, said, smiling sadly. For until her daughter found peace, neither could the Queen and her mate, Kiro, the Fourth.
Both of them then left to watch their daughter…
~*~End Flashback~*~
As I reached the desired clearing, with a water fall showering over a large cave I sometimes slept or rested in. the small calm pound there gave me a sense of peace, and at the same time a sense of belonging. The beautiful flowers shown their bright colors with pride and the trees stood tall. Everything there brought peace and belonging. I quikly put my sword away and got out my staff from the Kirean House and Spirit Volt.
I then started training. Everything around here helped me find my peaceful center so that I could stop the flashbacks. They didn't help me keep my center, and if I could stop them for now my temper would not rise so quikly.
Sweat soaked I stopped training and pushed my soaked hair out of my eyes with a smile. Finally I could rest.
I walked over to the stream and drank some of the cold water, then dunked my head in for a while.
I jerked up as I heard a roar. It was my Mirai brother, Timer.
A tall black cat with white stripes appeared out of the woods, then disappeared again as a whole bunch of mist surrounded him for two minutes, in it's place stood a tall man, with jet black hair and black eyes with spots of white. His loose black clothes with a pocket watch hanging out of one of the many pockets. On each of his wrists where at least two watches, and I would not put it past him to have allot more.
"Good day to you, sister." He said, his words sounding bright and happy.
"What, did you just step out of the eighth century or something?" I asked, knowing he had done just that.
He glared at me. "You know, one of these days, that attitude of yours is going to get you in trouble." He stated, but softened his words with a Legend smirk, where you smirk and go into a battle stance as well as seem to let your guard down.
"And when it does, you'll be right there laughing." I said, sinking into a battle stance as well.
We battled for at least two hours, using new attacks as well as old, and some new types of energy helpers.
Finally I had him pinned. "Do you yield?" I asked.
"I yield." He said, I got up and smirked again.
"I win as always." I said, meeting his eyes as he glared daggers at me.
"One of these days I'm going to beat you, little sister." He stated, winching as he got up.
"Yeah, that'll be the day, big bro." I said, walking up to him and fishing a small bag from one of my pockets. I took out a small white bean. It's a power bean, twice as power as a senzo bean.
He happily took it and ate it. One minute later he was fully healed.
"One of these days your going to have to tell me where you get those." He said, happily stretching his newly healed muscles.
"So why are you here, brother, I know you would not come all the way here just to get your butt kicked." I said, looking at the sky.
"I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but our time, our Mirai timeline, died two days ago, I found out yesterday." He said, his face bleak.
"I knew that it would happen soon, at least we weren't there when it happened." I said, turning to face him. He nodded.
"That's one of the things we can be grateful for. I had better get going. I hope that one of these days, when we both find our mates, that you can come over to visit us, my dear sister." He said hugging me. Yet another one of our deals, I thought. After my brother dropped me off on the Supreme Kia's planet, we made a deal, my brother and I. I promised never to go to his time until we both found mates. So far neither of us has had much luck. But we keep searching.
"I hope so to, my brother. Now get going, you're needed in your time, just like I will be in mine soon." I said, pushing him back and grabbing his arms.
"You are right. See you later, sister." He said and vanished back into his cat form, and back into his time.
After I was sure he was gone, I burst into tears, borrowing my head in my hands, not bothering to try and hold back my feelings. Even though I could only feel half of my pain and sorrow, I still felt my pain.
I looked at the dark sky, which felt my sorrow and darkened in response. Lighting slashed the sky and thunder roared in the night. Stars disappeared, hidden by the clouds, and rain poured soaking my hair farther, and making my clothes stick to my skin, I felt non-of this. Mist surrounded me, and a panther stood in my place, it's eyes dark with pain.
I took off to the cliffs, my pain over ran my other senses, over running my thoughts and blocking common sense.
When I reached the top of the tallest one, I roared my defiance to the world, scramming my pain, my anger and my loneliness. I screamed my hatred, my fear, everything I felt, I roared to the world.
The Z-fighters watched the girl-cat; she seemed to have lost control of her body. But what was she doing on top of that cliff?
I felt the depression take over my body, I fought it for as long as I could, but I knew that I was fighting a loosing battle. Every Kirean knew these symptoms. My brother could hold it off longer then I could. Everyone knew that females, most importantly powerful females, could not hold off The-Spirit-Death. If a female reached 22 without a mate, then nature would take its course. The soil of Kirea could hold it off until she reached 25, but after that nothing could hold it off, other then the presence of her mate. I had run out of Kirea soil yesterday, and had not thought of the moon being out. The moon made The-Spirit-Death twice as powerful.
The ring I had, had on fell off and over the edge, my spirit was slowly pushed out of my body until I stood outside of it. In my normal Kirean Princess clothes, black tight pants, and loose black shirt that went to the middle of my thighs, and the neck went up to up to my chin. My belt was silk and ended on my left hip and the end went down to my knees. The Kirean Sword of Truth was sheath was black and was attached to a leather belt under the silk belt.
On both of my wrists where dark silver bracelets, hidden under the loose sleeves of my shirt. I wore no crown, but I wore the Royal colors. Black and dark, metallic silver.
The colors were dark and sad because the first Royal family died, and while the planet was still in mourning, their son was crowned, and he choose those colors for the Royal colors. No one knows why, but they agreed with him.
I looked at my body, and released a mental blast of power.
I had mental powers beyond imagine. But even I would have trouble with this battle. I knew that anyone could see this battle, but I thought no one was around, after all, who would come here?
Two long, painful hours, the battle lasted. I lashed out with a mental fire bolt, while the Spirit Demon unleashed a lightning bolt. I moved out of the way of the Lightning bolt, while the Demon got hit with my fire blot, he fell to the ground, and released my body.
I didn't return, not yet, I had to find out where he was going. Who knew what horrors he could attack the world with?
The Z-fighters watched the battle of the Spirit Child and the cat with amazed eyes. But they back up as they saw a demon leave the Cat-girl's body, and head for them.
I cursed; these people just had to come here right now didn't they? Oh well, no time to wonder how they got here, I just have to protect them.
I jerked to a stop between them and the Demon. I switched my body so that was side ways.
"Spirit War Strike!" I called, pouting my forefinger towards the Demon, a huge, angry, growling wolf, that you could see through, it then started battling the Demon. I quikly returned to my body. I didn't waste the energy changing clothes so I was in the clothes that I had worn when I was in spirit. I quikly ran over to where the Z-fighters, though I didn't know that's who they where, and grabbed the tallest one, Goku and jerked him over to where I knew we would be safe if my Spirit Wolf didn't win the battle, (though I'm stronger then that Demon, and I doubt that my Spirit wolf will fail. But better safe then sorry.).
"Come one, Wolf can't last forever." I said, dragging Goku behind me. After I said that he followed me, along with everyone else other then the short, black hair one, whose hair flamed up like a fire.
"I can take on that monster." He said, sticking his nose in the air.
"Yeah right. A Spirit Demon? Even the most powerful fighters in the universe have failed." Even after I said those words, he would not move. "Listen okay, if you don't obey me, I will knock you out and drag you to the Demon Safe House. If you come with me now, you can preserve your pride. If not, then you'll make a fool of yourself." I said, deathly quite. He looked at me.
"You? A child? Even more shameful a girl?" he asked. It was plan that he did not believe me.
"I'm no child, I'm Catherine SilverGold Legend Kia, the Kirean Princess. Half Saiyan half Kirean. I'm from a time that died two days ago. I've been through hell and back. I've watched my father and my most trusted friends' die to protect me. I've watched my brother nearly die. I've seen people die in unspeakable ways, I've watched hope bloom on a planet that looked like it would die, I seen universes die after being taken over by people who could care less. Listen mister. I am not a child. I've had my childhood taken away from me, and I will be reminded. Not you can try and fight that Spirit Demon, I can promise you this, and you aren't going to win. And I wouldn't want my friends to tell my family, if I had one, that I had died being foolish and trying to fight a Spirit Demon." I said, my ki growing. I went Super Saiyan without turning so much as a hair. He gulped and nodded (Okay so Vegeta is OOC, I can't seem to get him right.) "Good now come on." I said, looking at the sky and tracking the battle real quick. Good, Wolf was wining, I thought.
I quikly made my way through the forest, not really running, more like jogging. These guys were having a hard keeping up with me.
Training on planets with a million times earth's natural gravity pays off.
I ran over to the metal door of the Demon Safe house.
"Computer, open doors!" I yelled. The doors opened without a sound, with the others not far behind.
"Close doors!" I yelled after the last person ran in. I sighed and walked over to the light switch. Some things I like doing the old way. In this case, the lights, I don't use them much, but when I do, I like to have to search for them.
Light filled the building, hurting my eyes, I quikly reached into my pants and brought out my sunglasses.
"Come on, I'm sure that you guys need to sit down, and have something to eat and drink." I stated, walking down the hallway.
I walked into a large dining room, and uncurled my tail and waved it behind me, thinking of food. My stomach growled at the thought.
"Computer, is the food ready? Since I already know you've taken count of how many people we have with us." I said, watching them out of the corner of my eye. I didn't know them, but I think I may have heard of them. Though I would not let them know that. "I think we have two full blooded Saiyan's, three half Saiyans, and one android." I said, turning back to the problem at hand.
"Of course, I'm guessing your really hungry?" the female voice of my computer said. I had built this safe house by myself, one year after I came to Earth. The speakers are inside the walls, and protected by shields, twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week.
I sat down by the fire, another chair beside me. The fire felt good on my cold skin. Every Kirean, who survived stage two of The-Sprit-Death, would feel cold until they finally get near a fire.
I put my hands on my chin, watching the people look at the food, hungrily.
"Go ahead and eat it. I already have my dinner!" I called; every one dived in after I said that.
Two robots walked in, each holding a tray, one went to me, while the other went to the android.
"Here you go, Miss. Catherine." She said, putting the tray on the table in front of me. Eight pills sat on the plate, and a brown on sat on a smaller plate. Nine glasses of water and milk sat above them.
I quikly took the brown pill. It was full of Kirean soil. I nodded my thanks to the droid. I then started to eat the other pills. Because I had just gotten done with the second stage of death, I was going through a ceremony. Even though it might weaken me, it was needed for me to start the third, and most terrible.
I sat back after finished everything; I then got up, but was brought to my knees in pain. I gasped in pain.
"WARNING, WARNING. Spirit-Death is reaching level three. Danger, if it does not stop, may become deadly!" the computer shouted.
My brother appeared behind me, "Icycat!" He called, running over to me. We both knew that the deadly gene that was in every Kirean would not be kept under control any longer.
"Guess we won't see who is stronger then who, huh big bro?'' I said, grinning weakly.
"And who says that?" He said, managing a weak smile, while tears filled his eyes.
"You know that I'm not that strong. I have no mate, my brother, so how can I live through this stage, no one has without a mate. We both know it's true." I said, then fell into the painless void of sleep…
