Man, have I missed a lot or something? I leave for two days and ff.net
won't let me log in anymore! O.o It's getting weird. With my scary dreams
and going back to school today... ~.~ Could it be an omen for something?
O.o I hope it's not a bad one! Anyways, hope you enjoy this chappie! ^_^
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SSJ4 Goku: O.o Well, it better not take that risk then... Yeah, it's good to consider keeping it in check. Definitely. But do they really have any other hobbies? O.o Oh, you're embarrassing me... *blushes deeply* Wow, that is strange. But can that really be bad? Only if it harms your health. ^_^ Yep and I am too! Oh, I'm happy for that! ^_^ Most definitely. But he'll be back sooner or later... Of course I will want to! Why wouldn't I? I'm not one to leech off of others. At least, I don't think I am... O.o Yeah, some do. It knocks good sense into them! Wait, I might need a hit... Uh-huh. It's not hard to believe. You show great talent in your writing all the time. ^_^ Really, I can't help it. And more new people are reading and reviewing, too. It's just so wonderfully overwhelming. *sniffs* ^_^ There I go again... Yeah, I guess so. I'm glad that it wasn't boring to you! ^_^ Yep. She'll need it. We will now...
mae: Yes, he is! But that's him. Can't change that... ~.~ Thank you! ^_^
lilmissgoten: Yeah, he's just such good comic relief. ^_^ Yep. She won't give up especially after getting all riled up by that voice... No, she doesn't, but she hates to be left out of the action. And Cell's got some work to do himself. Oh, my gosh! He has! O.o The world must truly be ending... Well, maybe not. ^_^() She does... I'm glad it wasn't to you! ^_^ Yeah, you're right. Can't skip over the little things, now can we? ^_~ Thankies! You don't have to wait anymore. Hey, that's cool. I've never seen that movie... Must be good, though, from what little things I've heard about it. Aw, hey, you don't have to. Stay! Uh, sorry... I'm just alone in the house right now, that's all. ^_^()
SSJSkaterTrunks: Aw, thank you! Your encouragement really means a lot to me like the other reviews. ^_^ Ah, that Cell... Having to make notice of little differences. *rolls her eyes* That is definitely him. Yeah, you tell him! So what, Cell? I'm not worrying about acting as my career in life. :P Haha, Cell is getting annoyed! *gasp* He's coming! He's coming! *starts jumping around like crazy* Ooh, how do I look?! Is my hair okay? *starts blabbering stupidly* Eep! I must make a good impression. *trips* Uh... Nobody saw that, 'k? ^_^()
Sailor Vegeta Taichichi: I love that word! 'Groovy!' ^_^ I guess she is. Kinda insane now but brave nonetheless. ^_^() Aw, don't sell yourself short. You never know... ^_^
Lady Rose: Hello! ^_^ Thanx! No, don't go! Please! :( Aw... But there's got to be some! So maybe I'll keep seeing you, right? ^_^ RIGHT?! Good. ^_^ Well, I'll still be here and writing so you know where to find me. ^_^ So I'll see you whenever hopefully!
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Disclaimer: DBZ or any of its characters are not mine. Any other unfamiliar characters are mine, though. I'm tired of saying this...
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Cat and Mouse: Chapter Sixteen
"Now where could that cockroach be?" Sekai mumbled absently, steering her cruise boat along the surface of the ocean. Only a few minutes had passed since she left the Kame House and now some other islands came into her view as she drove. Droplets of water flew up and mixed with the sweat on her face. Even as the sun began to set, the temperature didn't seem to get any lower.
One particular island was exceptionally close, and she made that one her next destination. Keeping a steady pace, she steered the boat westward to the island.
'Maybe I can find something there that will be of use,' she thought. Her throat felt parched and she wished that she had gotten something to eat or drink back at that house. Turning her head out to the water, she sighed in remorse. 'Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink,' she repeated the old saying. 'I bet the person who came up with that is laughing really hard at me right now.' Still, she pushed onward.
About ten minutes passed before she came quite close to the land. It was then that she thought she heard some sounds way up ahead. Like gunshots or something...
"What in the world is it now?" she grumbled. As she came closer, the sounds became more distinct, and she found them not to be gunshots at all but fired blasts of a sort. Getting suspicious, she abruptly changed course, nearly making the boat tip over and send her splashing into the cold water below. The islands were so far away that she couldn't get a clear shot of what was happening there even as hard as she squinted her eyes. She growled. 'I bet it's Cell's handywork,' she assumed.
She pressed on the accelarator of the boat as hard as she could without breaking it off and sped to the source of the disturbance. It was times like this that she felt regretful for some of the things that she'd done. "Why is that I never have a fast vehicle when I need it?!" she scolded herself. 'Because you never had enough money to buy one,' she answered her own question. Strong gusts of wind blew, making her eyes tear up from the iciness of it all. All she could hope was that she didn't miss anything and made it in time.
Soon, the sounds of the blasts were loud enough to hurt her ears. Sekai knew that she was getting dangerously close and that the only way that she would be able to escape would be either fleeing on land or on the ocean by her slow cruise boat. The latter would have her killed-- drowned, more accurately-- most likely. Yet she had to see what was going on.
The sight of a large, red ball of energy made her gasp and stop the boat from going any farther. The ki ball was headed straight for one of the many islands. Sekai watched with unblinking eyes as the blast swallowed up the land and burst its surroundings in a flourish of light and wind. She only hope that the island had been deserted so no people could have been destroyed as well.
Coming out of her shock after a moment, she grit her teeth to control her anger. Whipping her head up towards the sky, she looked for the location of the origin of the blast. Her eyes went back and forth, looking for any figure in the air. Finally, her eyes rested on the silhouette of a creature. A creature with a killer tail.
"Cell..." she hissed. "Wait. He's saying something." She strained her ears to listen to him.
"... out now! I will not ask again! Eighteen! Come out!" His voice rang clearly in her ears but was unfamiliar.
'His voice... It's changed,' she noted. 'Oh, well. It doesn't really matter. He's still his old, evil self and his death is all that is important enough to accomplish.' She moved the boat on again towards his location. 'But who's this Eighteen?'
She continued to drive and listen to what Cell had to say, keeping a watchful eye on him. As he waited for a response and later received none, he called out again. Sekai smirked at hearing his tone. He was frustrated about something and was glad he was.
'Let him get some payback, the bastard...' Once again, his voice traveled to everything within a forty mile radius. 'God, he's got some major lungs.' She flinched at the annoying sound.
"Eighteen! Are you listening to me?! If you don't come out, then I will destroy each and every one of these islands until you do! Do you hear me?!" Cell screamed.
Eighteen gasped from her place on one of the islands. "Oh, no..." she murmured.
"Eighteen, please. You must remain quiet. We cannot take any chances of Cell finding you," a mechanical voice spoke.
Android 18 turned to her companion. "But, Sixteen, we can't just stay here. Sooner or later, this island will be the only one left and, after that, it will be gone too."
"I realize that," he continued. "But if you try to escape, then Cell will see you and you'll be caught again. All we can do for now is wait."
"Wait for what?! Our deaths? There must be something we can do. Anything to stop that monster," she cried.
Android 16 paused. "There is nothing to be done. Cell is too powerful, especially now that he has absorbed Android 17."
Eighteen bristled. It had been a horrible experience watching her brother get absorbed by that creature. To see him die like that... She would do whatever she could to avoid getting in the same predicament. Saddened, she turned back to look at the sky at Cell.
'I won't let you get away with this, Cell. You monster...' she thought.
"Ah!" Sekai cried out unintentionally. Cell had charged up another blast and shot it at the very island that she had been planning to set foot on. Yet the energy ball had hit way before she was too dangerously close to get caught in the fire of it. However, much disturbance occurred including a tidal wave that her boat had barely managed to survive and had soaked her to the bone. Slapping a hand over her mouth while fighting to keep control of the boat, she only prayed that he hadn't heard her. She looked up at him.
His body was turned away from her and he still remained frustrated as ever as his tail whipped about in anger. He hadn't seemed to have heard.
She sighed out of her nose and removed her hand from her mouth. The best thing she had right now was the element of surprise, and she didn't want to lose that, too. Another island lay ahead of her, as she saw, that looked quite lush and mountainous. It was the nearest one to her so she decided to go there. Being careful not to have Cell spot her, she steered the boat to the far side of the island, away from him. She was actually surprised that he hadn't sensed her yet.
'He's too focused on something else to take note of his surroundings,' she thought. 'Heh, not the brightest.' Minutes passed and more islands were obliterated, but the one she was going to was, thankfully, spared. Finally, she reached land and stepped foot on the sandy ground. Capsulizing her boat, she started on her way towards the huge mountain. From there, she would be able to get a clear view of him and attack.
Cell growled furiously. That android just loved to annoy him! There was no sign of her anywhere and there were only three or four islands left to where she could be hiding so she couldn't have escaped yet. He only wished that androids had a ki to sense. Things would be much easier then!
Eighteen tensed and backed away a few steps.
"Don't move," Sixteen ordered. Eighteen looked at him, confused. "Cell will be able to spot the slightest movement anywhere and, once he does, he will come after you."
"Uh..." Eighteen blinked, unable to think of anything to say. Silently, she turned her head back to the scene.
"Argh... It's times like this that I wish I knew how to fly," Sekai complained as she rounded a sharply high hill. Watching her handholds and footholds, she continued up over the mountain. She had discovered that everywhere around it, the ground temperature was intensly hot. It had been hard enough just going through it to get to the base of the mountain, and she was sure that the heat would have killed her of dehydration way before she reached the other side of the island. So she had resorted to climbing the mountain in the free open air. It was much better than suffocating in a natural oven.
*You know you can learn how to fly.*
Sekai nearly lost her grip on the rock she was grasping and almost fell seven hundred feet to the forest floor in her surprise.
'What are you doing here?! Trying to kill me?! You scared the hell out of me!' she screamed in her mind.
*Sorry. I just want to help you with your little dilemma.*
'Your help is unwanted, O Killer of Humans everywhere,' she thought flatly.
*Very funny. But I just want you to know that you can really learn how to fly. All you have to do is release your ki and let it push you upwards.*
'Really now? How would you know that? I thought you didn't have a physical body so how could you have learned?'
*Don't be foolish. I lost my physical body after I learned how to fly. Before that, I always flew around. Anyways, I would have still had the knowledge of flying even if I never did fly for reals.*
'Well, that's interesting. Just how did you lose your body?' she asked.
*That's not important. Now just let go of your ki and make it push you up into the air.*
'Fine.' She let go of the topic for the moment and figured that she had nothing to lose for trying it.
*But I do suggest that you try it out on some solid and level ground.*
Sekai looked down and got a disturbing view of nothing but sharp, jagged, hard rocks below her. She gulped and started climbing up again.
'For once, you're actually right,' she admitted. A few feet higher up, she saw what looked like a large cliff. "There. That'll be a good spot for a test flight. Looks sturdy enough," she said and continued onwards, climbing in the direction to reach the cliff.
As soon as she reached it, she hopped onto the surface and nearly fell over from lack of balance. She soon steadied herself, however, and readied herself.
"Okay, now..." she said to no one. Getting a glimpse of the landslide that suddenly plummeted to the ground, she gulped again and looked away from the sight. "I guess it starts now then." She closed her eyes as she concentrated on her ki...
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Well, there it is. Sorry for being late with posting it. I'll try to post the next chapter by tomorrow, but there are no guarantees. ^_^() So later!
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SSJ4 Goku: O.o Well, it better not take that risk then... Yeah, it's good to consider keeping it in check. Definitely. But do they really have any other hobbies? O.o Oh, you're embarrassing me... *blushes deeply* Wow, that is strange. But can that really be bad? Only if it harms your health. ^_^ Yep and I am too! Oh, I'm happy for that! ^_^ Most definitely. But he'll be back sooner or later... Of course I will want to! Why wouldn't I? I'm not one to leech off of others. At least, I don't think I am... O.o Yeah, some do. It knocks good sense into them! Wait, I might need a hit... Uh-huh. It's not hard to believe. You show great talent in your writing all the time. ^_^ Really, I can't help it. And more new people are reading and reviewing, too. It's just so wonderfully overwhelming. *sniffs* ^_^ There I go again... Yeah, I guess so. I'm glad that it wasn't boring to you! ^_^ Yep. She'll need it. We will now...
mae: Yes, he is! But that's him. Can't change that... ~.~ Thank you! ^_^
lilmissgoten: Yeah, he's just such good comic relief. ^_^ Yep. She won't give up especially after getting all riled up by that voice... No, she doesn't, but she hates to be left out of the action. And Cell's got some work to do himself. Oh, my gosh! He has! O.o The world must truly be ending... Well, maybe not. ^_^() She does... I'm glad it wasn't to you! ^_^ Yeah, you're right. Can't skip over the little things, now can we? ^_~ Thankies! You don't have to wait anymore. Hey, that's cool. I've never seen that movie... Must be good, though, from what little things I've heard about it. Aw, hey, you don't have to. Stay! Uh, sorry... I'm just alone in the house right now, that's all. ^_^()
SSJSkaterTrunks: Aw, thank you! Your encouragement really means a lot to me like the other reviews. ^_^ Ah, that Cell... Having to make notice of little differences. *rolls her eyes* That is definitely him. Yeah, you tell him! So what, Cell? I'm not worrying about acting as my career in life. :P Haha, Cell is getting annoyed! *gasp* He's coming! He's coming! *starts jumping around like crazy* Ooh, how do I look?! Is my hair okay? *starts blabbering stupidly* Eep! I must make a good impression. *trips* Uh... Nobody saw that, 'k? ^_^()
Sailor Vegeta Taichichi: I love that word! 'Groovy!' ^_^ I guess she is. Kinda insane now but brave nonetheless. ^_^() Aw, don't sell yourself short. You never know... ^_^
Lady Rose: Hello! ^_^ Thanx! No, don't go! Please! :( Aw... But there's got to be some! So maybe I'll keep seeing you, right? ^_^ RIGHT?! Good. ^_^ Well, I'll still be here and writing so you know where to find me. ^_^ So I'll see you whenever hopefully!
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Disclaimer: DBZ or any of its characters are not mine. Any other unfamiliar characters are mine, though. I'm tired of saying this...
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Cat and Mouse: Chapter Sixteen
"Now where could that cockroach be?" Sekai mumbled absently, steering her cruise boat along the surface of the ocean. Only a few minutes had passed since she left the Kame House and now some other islands came into her view as she drove. Droplets of water flew up and mixed with the sweat on her face. Even as the sun began to set, the temperature didn't seem to get any lower.
One particular island was exceptionally close, and she made that one her next destination. Keeping a steady pace, she steered the boat westward to the island.
'Maybe I can find something there that will be of use,' she thought. Her throat felt parched and she wished that she had gotten something to eat or drink back at that house. Turning her head out to the water, she sighed in remorse. 'Water, water everywhere but not a drop to drink,' she repeated the old saying. 'I bet the person who came up with that is laughing really hard at me right now.' Still, she pushed onward.
About ten minutes passed before she came quite close to the land. It was then that she thought she heard some sounds way up ahead. Like gunshots or something...
"What in the world is it now?" she grumbled. As she came closer, the sounds became more distinct, and she found them not to be gunshots at all but fired blasts of a sort. Getting suspicious, she abruptly changed course, nearly making the boat tip over and send her splashing into the cold water below. The islands were so far away that she couldn't get a clear shot of what was happening there even as hard as she squinted her eyes. She growled. 'I bet it's Cell's handywork,' she assumed.
She pressed on the accelarator of the boat as hard as she could without breaking it off and sped to the source of the disturbance. It was times like this that she felt regretful for some of the things that she'd done. "Why is that I never have a fast vehicle when I need it?!" she scolded herself. 'Because you never had enough money to buy one,' she answered her own question. Strong gusts of wind blew, making her eyes tear up from the iciness of it all. All she could hope was that she didn't miss anything and made it in time.
Soon, the sounds of the blasts were loud enough to hurt her ears. Sekai knew that she was getting dangerously close and that the only way that she would be able to escape would be either fleeing on land or on the ocean by her slow cruise boat. The latter would have her killed-- drowned, more accurately-- most likely. Yet she had to see what was going on.
The sight of a large, red ball of energy made her gasp and stop the boat from going any farther. The ki ball was headed straight for one of the many islands. Sekai watched with unblinking eyes as the blast swallowed up the land and burst its surroundings in a flourish of light and wind. She only hope that the island had been deserted so no people could have been destroyed as well.
Coming out of her shock after a moment, she grit her teeth to control her anger. Whipping her head up towards the sky, she looked for the location of the origin of the blast. Her eyes went back and forth, looking for any figure in the air. Finally, her eyes rested on the silhouette of a creature. A creature with a killer tail.
"Cell..." she hissed. "Wait. He's saying something." She strained her ears to listen to him.
"... out now! I will not ask again! Eighteen! Come out!" His voice rang clearly in her ears but was unfamiliar.
'His voice... It's changed,' she noted. 'Oh, well. It doesn't really matter. He's still his old, evil self and his death is all that is important enough to accomplish.' She moved the boat on again towards his location. 'But who's this Eighteen?'
She continued to drive and listen to what Cell had to say, keeping a watchful eye on him. As he waited for a response and later received none, he called out again. Sekai smirked at hearing his tone. He was frustrated about something and was glad he was.
'Let him get some payback, the bastard...' Once again, his voice traveled to everything within a forty mile radius. 'God, he's got some major lungs.' She flinched at the annoying sound.
"Eighteen! Are you listening to me?! If you don't come out, then I will destroy each and every one of these islands until you do! Do you hear me?!" Cell screamed.
Eighteen gasped from her place on one of the islands. "Oh, no..." she murmured.
"Eighteen, please. You must remain quiet. We cannot take any chances of Cell finding you," a mechanical voice spoke.
Android 18 turned to her companion. "But, Sixteen, we can't just stay here. Sooner or later, this island will be the only one left and, after that, it will be gone too."
"I realize that," he continued. "But if you try to escape, then Cell will see you and you'll be caught again. All we can do for now is wait."
"Wait for what?! Our deaths? There must be something we can do. Anything to stop that monster," she cried.
Android 16 paused. "There is nothing to be done. Cell is too powerful, especially now that he has absorbed Android 17."
Eighteen bristled. It had been a horrible experience watching her brother get absorbed by that creature. To see him die like that... She would do whatever she could to avoid getting in the same predicament. Saddened, she turned back to look at the sky at Cell.
'I won't let you get away with this, Cell. You monster...' she thought.
"Ah!" Sekai cried out unintentionally. Cell had charged up another blast and shot it at the very island that she had been planning to set foot on. Yet the energy ball had hit way before she was too dangerously close to get caught in the fire of it. However, much disturbance occurred including a tidal wave that her boat had barely managed to survive and had soaked her to the bone. Slapping a hand over her mouth while fighting to keep control of the boat, she only prayed that he hadn't heard her. She looked up at him.
His body was turned away from her and he still remained frustrated as ever as his tail whipped about in anger. He hadn't seemed to have heard.
She sighed out of her nose and removed her hand from her mouth. The best thing she had right now was the element of surprise, and she didn't want to lose that, too. Another island lay ahead of her, as she saw, that looked quite lush and mountainous. It was the nearest one to her so she decided to go there. Being careful not to have Cell spot her, she steered the boat to the far side of the island, away from him. She was actually surprised that he hadn't sensed her yet.
'He's too focused on something else to take note of his surroundings,' she thought. 'Heh, not the brightest.' Minutes passed and more islands were obliterated, but the one she was going to was, thankfully, spared. Finally, she reached land and stepped foot on the sandy ground. Capsulizing her boat, she started on her way towards the huge mountain. From there, she would be able to get a clear view of him and attack.
Cell growled furiously. That android just loved to annoy him! There was no sign of her anywhere and there were only three or four islands left to where she could be hiding so she couldn't have escaped yet. He only wished that androids had a ki to sense. Things would be much easier then!
Eighteen tensed and backed away a few steps.
"Don't move," Sixteen ordered. Eighteen looked at him, confused. "Cell will be able to spot the slightest movement anywhere and, once he does, he will come after you."
"Uh..." Eighteen blinked, unable to think of anything to say. Silently, she turned her head back to the scene.
"Argh... It's times like this that I wish I knew how to fly," Sekai complained as she rounded a sharply high hill. Watching her handholds and footholds, she continued up over the mountain. She had discovered that everywhere around it, the ground temperature was intensly hot. It had been hard enough just going through it to get to the base of the mountain, and she was sure that the heat would have killed her of dehydration way before she reached the other side of the island. So she had resorted to climbing the mountain in the free open air. It was much better than suffocating in a natural oven.
*You know you can learn how to fly.*
Sekai nearly lost her grip on the rock she was grasping and almost fell seven hundred feet to the forest floor in her surprise.
'What are you doing here?! Trying to kill me?! You scared the hell out of me!' she screamed in her mind.
*Sorry. I just want to help you with your little dilemma.*
'Your help is unwanted, O Killer of Humans everywhere,' she thought flatly.
*Very funny. But I just want you to know that you can really learn how to fly. All you have to do is release your ki and let it push you upwards.*
'Really now? How would you know that? I thought you didn't have a physical body so how could you have learned?'
*Don't be foolish. I lost my physical body after I learned how to fly. Before that, I always flew around. Anyways, I would have still had the knowledge of flying even if I never did fly for reals.*
'Well, that's interesting. Just how did you lose your body?' she asked.
*That's not important. Now just let go of your ki and make it push you up into the air.*
'Fine.' She let go of the topic for the moment and figured that she had nothing to lose for trying it.
*But I do suggest that you try it out on some solid and level ground.*
Sekai looked down and got a disturbing view of nothing but sharp, jagged, hard rocks below her. She gulped and started climbing up again.
'For once, you're actually right,' she admitted. A few feet higher up, she saw what looked like a large cliff. "There. That'll be a good spot for a test flight. Looks sturdy enough," she said and continued onwards, climbing in the direction to reach the cliff.
As soon as she reached it, she hopped onto the surface and nearly fell over from lack of balance. She soon steadied herself, however, and readied herself.
"Okay, now..." she said to no one. Getting a glimpse of the landslide that suddenly plummeted to the ground, she gulped again and looked away from the sight. "I guess it starts now then." She closed her eyes as she concentrated on her ki...
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Well, there it is. Sorry for being late with posting it. I'll try to post the next chapter by tomorrow, but there are no guarantees. ^_^() So later!