Kaiooshin-kai: A History

Book of Cups, part 3: Meaning and Majutsu

A DBZ fanfiction by LadyRivka

The next morning, Hoshiko couldn't get the eerie dream out of her brain.

What was this force that called itself "Majin"? Why did it destroy? And most of all, was it all in her head or an actual prophecy, an actual force?

Confused, the mage hurriedly got dressed and ran off to the South Quadrant to see if any of the prophets there, most likely South Kaiooshin, had the same dream.

Once there, she spied booth upon booth of Hakuchoo astrologers dealing in the old system of tarot, and astronomers selling telescope views of the stars. But she had no time for such foolishness; she had to see South Kaiooshin at once.

Absentmindedly, she bumped into a young man about the same height as her with long slicked-back orange hair (all the Hakuchoo clan had orange hair), a long red jacket, and an old wooden staff.

"Excuse me," she said to him, "do you know where the South Kaiooshin is?"

"Of course I do," said he. "I am the Lead Mage of the Southern Universal Quadrant, my name is Hakuchoo Shirotori. I can lead you directly to him, if you so desire."

"Y-yes," said Hoshiko. "Certainly."

"I recognize you from somewhere- you look like a Ten'ue, but you have black hair instead of white."

"I AM a Ten'ue- Ten'ue Hoshiko, Lead Mage of the Eastern Universal Quadrant," she said, shaking the Southern mage's hand.

"I've heard quite a bit about you from my employer," he said. "You are quite gifted in the magical arts…you even had the privilege to train a young god! How did you receive such good timing?"

"I don't know," she said, dumbfounded that she was this famous in other quadrants. She had certainly thought less of the other mages, but she was surprised that the others were less egotistical than she. "Let's be off, shall we?"

"Yes." With that, Shirotori led Hoshiko to the area of the South Kaiooshin.

Once there, she asked, "Dear sirs, if I may so have the privilege of asking, did any of you have a dream or a vision about a dark, destructive force known as 'Majin'?"

Shirotori spoke first. 'Yes, I dreamed that Kaiooshin-kai, the whole of this planet, was covered with this dark force which called itself the 'Majin'. I didn't know where it came from, but I knew if it took over, the Universe would cease to exist. I knew it was prophecy because I felt different during the dream- like I was awake and moving my body via telekinesis."

Then came the South Kaiooshin. "Yes, I had a vision similar to that of my mage Shirotori here, but the force of 'Majin' transformed into a monster rather like a pink marshmallow…a being of infinite destruction formed by a foreigner's Kuromajutsu."

"Ku- Kuromajutsu?!?" squealed Hoshiko in shock. "Why would anyone use that?"

South Kaiooshin stared at her for a long while, filling her brain telepathically with one word:

Destruction.

A wizard, small and looking rather like a chartreuse rat, stood aboard a spaceship, brooding. He thought of where in the Universe he could find the Star-Child so he might be able to control his mind and gain absolute magical power. His magic orb had been on the fritz the past few weeks, so all the wizard named Bibidi had to go on was a short prophetic poem in his book of Kuromajutsu:

The orb upon which dwells

The Highest of the high

The Star-Child shineth bright

In the eastern sky.

He could make neither hide nor hair of it. Sure, Bibidi was a skilled wizard, but he didn't have very much of a brain for anything else. But he knew he had to find him. And the only way he knew how was to destroy planets, solar systems, even entire galaxies.

Thusly he rolled up his proverbial sleeves and chanted spells late into the night, the most powerful ones in Kuromajutsu. When all of his dark magic had become balled up into one place, he shouted, "Pa-pa-ta pa-PAAA!" and a shell, high as the ship, grew around the orb of magic.

It was alive, simple as it may have been, but powerful, perhaps the most powerful being in the Universe.

And the wizard Bibidi christened it Majin Buu, just because he liked the name.

END PART 3

A/N: Shirotori= "White bird"

Majutsu= "magic" Kuromajutsu= "black magic"; will use to describe magic system of wizards as opposed to mages.

PART 4- Hoshiko returns, and a god is made….