Kaiooshin-kai: A History

Book of Cups, part 5: Destruction Commences

A DBZ fanfiction by LadyRivka

Aboard the spaceship, Bibidi concentrated long and hard to find the location of the Star-Child and to channel energy into Majin Buu. His efforts were fruitless in the former aspect, but Majin Buu was definitely stronger than before.

"I suppose we test you, eh?" he said to the glowing veined ball in the middle of the spaceship. "There's a planet over there with a lot of life-energy. If we blow it up, we will gather more energy, and perhaps that of the Star-Child, understand?"

"Buu!" responded a voice.

"So you can talk, eh, my pet?" Bibidi put his "ear" to the ball to listen to what his demon creation could say.

"Buu talk! Buu talk lots!"

"Well, I'll be damned." Bibidi paced in front of Buu's orb.

"Me hungry. Where chocolate?"

"You don't need chocolate. You will feed on life-force, understand? When I let you out of that cocoon, you will go and destroy the nearest planet. It'll be FUN!" The wizard raised his arms over his head in jubilation.

"Me go now then."

"Yes, yes! We'll go!" With that, Bibidi pressed a teleportation button in the spaceship's hull, and both he and Majin Buu were gone.

The planet they were to attack was a lush, verdant one in the midst of the Andromeda galaxy, where all sorts of flora and fauna were to be found. There was an intelligent civilization there, the Baseru-jin; they had learned to control the lush rainforests on the planet to their advantage. But they were a weak people, with not much in the way of physical strength or technology.

Bibidi and Buu landed on the planet, Bibidi releasing the pink demon from his slumber. Majin Buu devoured everything in sight, turning people into crullers and trees into Chocolate Mousse Pocky, until not a trace of life was left. Then Bibidi yelled, "Pa-pa-ta pa-PAAA!" and, suddenly, Buu's fist plummeted into the planet, crumbling it into shards of dust.

"Good work, my dear Buu!" Bibidi smiled. "But I have a feeling that the Star-Child was not on that planet…we will search for others, eh?"

"More! More! Buu want more!"

"Well, then, back to the ship we go! Are you ready?"

"Me ready!" With that, Bibidi yelled his customary "Pa-pa-ta pa-PAAA!" and sealed Majin Buu back up in his cocoon. With a wave of his hands, Bibidi and his creation were back in the ship, searching for more planets to destroy.

Shirotori was roused from slumber by an odd disturbance in the Universe somewhere. It most definitely wasn't in the South Quadrant, but it was there, and strong enough to wake the Southern mage from his afternoon nap.

He scratched his head, wondering if Hoshiko had picked up the same thing as he. She should have; after all, it was her quadrant, or so he thought (he wasn't exactly sure, but he had a sense it was in the East quadrant).

After a while, he got up the nerve to contact her telepathically.

Hoshiko? Ten'ue Hoshiko, are you there? This is Hakuchoo Shirotori, the Mage of the Southern Universal Quadrant.

Hoshiko, grown weary from the feasting and various other activities of the "coronation" of the new East Kaiooshin, bobbed her head up from her chair and said, "Huh? That you, Shirotori?"

Yes, it is I, he thought. Pay attention please, this is very important. Did you sense the destruction of a planet in your quadrant?

I think so, she thought back. Something was shaking in the pit of my stomach while I was eating at the banquet…and it wasn't that Kibito snuck off with East Kaiooshin for five minutes to do who-knows-what…it was a different feeling, like part of myself were missing.

Shirotori got sidetracked. Who's Kibito?

Oh, he's just the new East Kaiooshin's assistant. It's kind of hard to believe he's a Namae-nai and he got this far, assisting a young god.

Figures he's lower-class, he was probably doing something awful to him. Now, what did you sense disappear?

Baseru-see, she thought. A jungle planet in the midst of Andromeda. And I also felt…

Majin?

Yes, Majin. And a quite powerful Kuromajutsu force behind it, too. And I think it will destroy other words, including this one… she thought.

I'm quite sure of it, thought the Southern mage. The prophecies of the Southern Mage tend to be very accurate.

With that, Hoshiko's stomach tied up in knots. It was unbearable to know the future and not do anything about it…

END CUPS

A/N: Baseru: Nipponization and anagram of the Spanish word for "jungle" (selva, or "se-ru-ba" in Japanese)

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