Ah, boy, I am so late on this update. I don't know why, but I just haven't
felt like writing. Is something wrong with me? It must be the SAT9 testing
I'm going through all this week and half of next! ~.~ And probably because
of my geography homework that I try to finish each night... If any of you
receive a 'school work' or 'geography hw' away message from me, then you
know what I'm talking about. I'm not trying to avoid anyone. But the good
news is I finished my piccie of my alter ego! ^_^ Does anyone know how I
can put it up on my bio? I've seen pictures on a few bios, but I just can't
figure out how they do it. If anyone knows, please feel free to tell me in
the reviews or e-mail me about it! It'd mean so much to me! Many thankies!
^_^ Now, enough about me and to the reviews!
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SSJ4 Goku: Aw, I'm touched that you think so. ^_^ Ramblings? Hardly! They're more like poems of inspiration! Now, what I say... Those are ramblings. Just look at the paragraph above! O.o Yep. Well, at least I'm reassured now. Don't want to become a braggart. . Bleh, that'd be so bad... Thank you! =^_^= You'll be seeing it a lot as I get easily embarrassed. Yes, evil things, beware! Pepsi is good!! I'll show him to everyone! ^_^ *** Well, true, but are you swaying that a bit to my story? I don't deserve it! It's too good of an honor! Yep, it did. ^_^ I have nightmares almost every night. But they're not really nightmares... They don't really scare me. They... disturb me. ^_^() But that scares me then. Aw, they're okay! They give me ideas then! ^_^ Once again, your support leaves me indebted to you. Maybe... Very good! I'd say it could be... depends on your definition of 'perfect', I guess. *** Yep! Ooh... Thanx! If I surprised you, then I am truly honored. It reassures me that I'm doing things right...sort of. ^_^() Voices bad! O.o Sorry for the wait! *** Yeah, I guess. Doesn't that so stink? Mine's been with me for seven... messed up quite a while ago. Ah... Really? You'd do that for me? Hmm... First I'll try to get it up on my profile and if that doesn't work, I'll turn to you! How's that? ^_^ I just want other people who know me to see it too if they want. See you then! ^_^ I wrote too much again! Whoops...
Sailor Taichichi Vegeta: Heh, really? Maybe it's him and maybe it's someone disguised as him... I'm getting other ideas now... Cheez poofs, huh? Well, that's perfectly normal compared to how I get ideas. O.o But that's a good observation! ^_^ Thanx!
Masquerade: You know, you really show me things that I never even would have considered to notice. I read the last chapter I wrote again and I was like, "Hey, she's right!" I've actually had the idea of Nuko for a while and began to like him so I don't really want him to die. But I don't know if he will or won't in the end... Have I said too much? Oh, well. You'd notice things before I would anyways. ^_^ Thank you!
lilmissgoten: Well, congrats if you did! ^_^ Hmm. I don't know. It'd cut the story short a bit. But you'll have to be a bit more patient. The romance is just going to begin! Ah, yes... skipping is so much faster though! ^_^ Try to bear with it. I'm sorry! If it makes you feel any better, I'm losing my mind(assuming I have one in the first place) trying to figure out what to make happen next. It was. ^_^ Me, too. It's just so... cute! Yeah, at least for now. You're gonna get more now. ^_^
ElysianAmazon: Aw, thanx. Well, you won't have to wait so long now. The next chapter is here! ^_^
SSJSkaterTrunks: Thanx! I love that word now! ^_^ But not for the others. But still good for Cell! ^_^ Thankies! I will! *blinks at Cell* I think I know where I get some of my dose of insanity now... O.o
kyro: Uh, really now? Okay then. Cheese? I like cheese! ^_^ *blinks at the two then smiles* Bye-bye! *waves the two finger wave and pokes herself in the eye* Ow! I'm halfway blind! Help! *runs away into a wall* I'm okay...
Cloudcover: Oh, okay. Really? I must check on them! The falling back part... Is that good? Aw, that's okay, I guess. I'll get one eventually in my own way... ¬.¬ (Gotcha. ^_~)
devil's lil imp: 'Nother new person! Yay! *does her happy dance and DOESN'T trip for once* Wow, really surprised? I'm glad I have your attention! ^_^ And I'm happy you're enjoying this!
LadyBuG: Yes, it was. ^_^ Aw, thank you. Really? It was. It just felt all warm and fuzzy in that moment. Thank you! I will try! ^_^
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Disclaimer: DBZ is property of Akira Toriyama. Not me. Otherwise I'd be rich and stuff without such wonderful friends like you! :( If that were to happen to me, then I'd gladly give up the title to be a humble fanfiction writer. ^_^ Being with you all is worth more than anything else to me. Oh, yeah. Sekai and other new characters whom I'm too lazy to name are mine as usual.
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Cat and Mouse: Chapter Twenty
"He's coming!"
Krillin was the first to take note of Cell's approach towards them.
"What?!" Eighteen cried. She looked to see Cell's bulky form landing closer to them. He surely looked like he knew where he was going. And he seemed to be going right to them.
She growled in her frustration and misery. "That damn bastard! Why won't Vegeta stop him?!"
"Cell has tricked him into letting him become perfect. In exchange for letting him achieve his perfection, he promised Vegeta a challenge against him," Sixteen stated.
Krillin and Eighteen turned to the gentle android in shock. "But why?! Even Vegeta's not that dense to fall for that, is he?"
"I don't know... Vegeta's done some pretty stupid things at times..." Krillin said quietly as if Vegeta might hear him. He rubbed a hand behind his head. Just the thought of Vegeta beating him to a pulp at the comment made him shudder in fear. "Like knocking Trunks away like that..." he thought back to the recent incident.
"Eighteen, you must escape from here quickly. Cell has pinpointed your exact location," Sixteen warned, looking up at the monster approaching them.
"I'm not leaving without you, Sixteen. I'm not about to abandon you," Eighteen said with determination.
Krillin gritted his teeth as Cell finally landed a few meters from them. All heads turned to him, save for Vegeta who had been watching them the whole time, bored. Eighteen became scared and froze.
"Hello, my dear Eighteen," Cell said gently with a slight bow. Eighteen growled at him in disgust, trying to hide her fear.
"Please, get out of here now," Krillin whispered. "I'll distract him." Eighteen gasped at the little man, surprised at what he said. He shot off towards Cell before she could even take in another breath.
'Oh, man, I must be real crazy! Then again, I have fallen for an android,' Krillin thought, quite panicky. He pulled back his fist in an attempt at a sucker punch and saw Cell's blue lips curve downwards in a frown. "Go now!" Krillin called as he let his fist fly.
It never even touched him. Krillin cried out as Cell pulled back his own arm over his chest and brought it back to knock him in the shoulder. The monk was propelled to the large mountain that dominated the entire island. They could all feel his ki drop, indicating that he was unconscious.
Eighteen's eyes widened and she gasped again at the sight before her. Sixteen's eyes lowered in sympathy for Krillin's bravery and kept silent. Vegeta remained waiting and impatient.
"Cell, you're really trying my patience! Just get on with it!" he yelled.
"Of course," was all Cell said. He was glad to obey the command and started to walk at a casual pace towards Eighteen. She became startled and tense, her fear mixing with her anger and sadness for the man who tried to help her and for her brother.
'Damn you, Cell. You killed my brother and now want to do the same with me. Well, you won't get me so easily. I'm not giving up without a fight!' she thought.
Cell could sense her uneasiness and smiled almost reassuringly. "Don't be afraid, Eighteen. Joining with me won't hurt at all. Just come to me and no harm will come to you."
"Join with you? That's even worse than being tortured. What do you think I am? Stupid? No way would I join with you even if my life depended on it," she spat.
Cell grinned. 'I couldn't have said it better myself,' he thought, laughing in his mind. "But my dear Eighteen, your life does depend on it." He was now only three feet away from the blonde android, and she reeled back a few steps.
'What am I doing?' she thought. 'Running from him won't do me any good. I'll just have to attack him head on.' With her mind made up, she ran at him yelling. She would do this for Seventeen!
Cell sighed. 'These people just never learn...' Honestly, he had not wanted to hurt her for reasons of his own but now she left him with no choice. He had to be quick in absorbing her.
She punched and kicked at the bio-android as fast as lightning. However, Cell dodged them all by miles. No matter how hard she tried to change her fighting patterns, he was always one step ahead and anticipated each attack. Finally bored, Cell thrust his tail above his head, expanded the funnel tip, and brought it down over Eighteen's skull. She tried to grasp the rim of the funnel to stop herself from going farther in, but just couldn't get a hold of it in time as Cell's tail muscles pulled her into the darkness that was him.
Sixteen could only watch helplessly as his friend was absorbed. In the condition he was in, he couldn't even stand up without a support of some sort. His brain had been too badly damaged to react in time to actions as well. Even as he watched, he could feel the wires in his cranium spark and crackle, shutting down some of the major components in his body. He only wished that he wasn't so injured so that he could save Eighteen.
Vegeta watched silently as the bio-android swallowed the mechanical one whole. His eyes turned to his right where he could see something quickly approaching. He recognized the ki signature immediately.
'About time that brat showed up...'
In just a moment, Trunks reached his father's side, panting. He looked down at the scene playing before him and gasped in horror. He quickly reacted and flew down to stop the obviously greater trouble that was about to come. "No! Cell!" he growled. Powering up to his fullest, he saw a bright green light emit from Cell's body as Eighteen was finally absorbed into his being. As the light grew, so did great gusts of wind and rocks and pebbles. Trunks slowed himself a little to shield himself from the obstacles. He gazed over his arms at the light with Cell inside. He charged up a ki blast and shot it into the fire of energy.
Cell didn't even notice the blast coming, nor did he care. He was finally going to be perfect! His lifelong dream and ambition was finally going to come true. All that was needed was a few more seconds and then the universe was his!
The ki blast hit the energy dome around Cell but only bounced off at the same angle into the sky. Trunks gasped and charged up more, firing multiple blasts at the monster only to get the same results. He could only watch as Cell came closer and closer to his ultimate perfection.
'No... It's too late. There's nothing more I can do now,' he thought.
The fate of the world was nearly sealed now.
~*No.*~
He pushed her away and jumped back. Confusion lit his eyes along with fear and anger. He didn't know what to think.
Sekai watched in pity as her brother drifted away from her. She wanted to help him, not hurt him. Why couldn't he accept her help?
'Please, Nuko... Listen to me,' she reached a hand out to him.
~*No. The humans are a menace. I will not take part in helping them. They don't deserve to live!*~ He shook his head furiously.
'You're looking too much at the negative points of humans. We're not perfect, you know. We all have flaws. But we also have good points, too.'
~*Like what?*~
'We do what we can to aid people and animals in need. We do research and find cures to diseases which plague the earth. And some protect the earth from evil aliens,' she said, thinking back to the Z-senshi.
~*All those things could have been prevented in the first place had it not been for humans!*~
'You don't know that!' she corrected. He was becoming irrational and not thinking things through.
~*And neither do you! For all we know, the humans could have been the cause of all the diseases of the world. They might be the reason all this evil is coming to Earth.*~
She narrowed her eyes. 'Let's not tread on a topic we know nothing about, shall we?'
He blinked at the dangerous look in her eyes and nodded slightly. ~*Fine then. No point in making things up for defense. That is what usually happens with ignorance.*~
Sekai thought to herself silently, 'You should know.'
'But please, brother, don't be like this. You're letting your anger cloud your judgment,' she spoke to him.
~*My feelings towards the humans won't change, you know. I have been hurt too much to forgive so easily.*~
'But holding a grudge for ten years is no way to solve a problem. It only worsens your character.' She tried to talk him out of making a big mistake.
~*No. Everyday, I watch through your eyes how our race hurts each other continuously. It is like a cycle. Neverending.*~
'Like the way you hurt me? With those headaches?' she inquired with slight scorn.
He tried not to look affected. ~*Those were to test how resistent you were to pain. They were to help you in the upcoming battle. And they worked; each time, I had to use a stronger force to let it affect you.*~
She growled. 'That's not the point! You hurt me just as the humans did! And you scold them? You're nothing but a hypocrite!'
~*Quiet! I don't need to take this from you. No matter what anyone says, I will do whatever I can to wipe out the human race. They are my enemies.*~
'Then I'm afraid I can no longer support you,' she said, closing her eyes. 'For the humans are the people I fight to protect.' She opened her eyes and looked at Nuko defiantly. 'Now get me out of this dream and don't talk to me until you come to your senses.'
He looked angry at her for a moment but faded away and released her from the world of dreams and nightmares.
But not before giving her a headache as a parting gift.
She knew she was awake now.
But she wouldn't open her eyes just yet. Not until the pain in her head dissipated.
'Oh, what has happened to you, brother? You're so different, so irrational. What hate has changed you so much?' she thought in pity.
Once the pain faded away, she opened her eyes and observed her surroundings. Since she was looking straight ahead at the sky, she concluded that she must be lying on the ground on her back. But why was the sky turning green?
She bolted upright and immediately regretted it. A sharp, stinging pain coursed through her back and she placed a hand on the lower part of it. Seething slightly, she looked at the ground around her and noticed that she was sitting in a small crater just a little bigger than her own body.
'Last time I remember, I was climbing that mountain. I guess I finally fell,' she thought. She groaned and rubbed her back gingerly. 'And hard.'
As she rubbed the pain in her back away, she looked up at the mountain. Behind it, a bright green light shone like the light of the sun behind the horizon. Only the real sun had just setted and the rest of the sky was colored in splashes of yellow, orange, red and violet.
'What the hell is going on?' she thought. 'Did I miss something very important?' She stretched her senses far and frowned, her brows knitting together. 'Oh, no... That's Cell I sense over there. Crap...'
She slowly got to her feet and stared out at the view in worry. 'Something's happened. And I'm pretty sure it's something bad.' But Cell wasn't the only one she was worried about.
'Damn it. How on Earth am I going to get there in time? There's no way that I can learn to fly in time. And I am not going for another test flight again,' she thought stubbornly. She wiped some sweat from her brow. Since she was so close to the forest and its canopy, the trapped heat was beginning to affect her. Although the temperature was lower with the sun gone down, it was still hard to bear. She pondered.
Growling, she finally gave in and looked to the forest. 'Oh, what the hell! Either way, I'm screwed so why not deal with it?' she ran off along the side of the mountain as fast as she could to get to the action.
'Somebody better have some ice ready for me... or else the fire is really going to start to burn!' she thought as she ran towards her destination and fought against the heat at the same time.
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Whoo, I'm already getting hot just from writing that. And the summer's barely here! How will I stand it if I can't even handle reading and writing about it?? Oh, I'll think of something. But anyways, I'd say the romance will begin in the next chapter. Some of you have asked me where it is and, well, I don't know. ^_^() I'll just have to think up a good reaction for Sekai after she meets Perfect Cell. Oh, that would be a sight to see... Sorry that this chapter was kinda short. Like I said before, I haven't felt up to writing lately. Next update should be by this weekend if not earlier. I've got to focus on my SAT9 testing and homework this week so sorry for any inconvenience. Bye for now! ^_^
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SSJ4 Goku: Aw, I'm touched that you think so. ^_^ Ramblings? Hardly! They're more like poems of inspiration! Now, what I say... Those are ramblings. Just look at the paragraph above! O.o Yep. Well, at least I'm reassured now. Don't want to become a braggart. . Bleh, that'd be so bad... Thank you! =^_^= You'll be seeing it a lot as I get easily embarrassed. Yes, evil things, beware! Pepsi is good!! I'll show him to everyone! ^_^ *** Well, true, but are you swaying that a bit to my story? I don't deserve it! It's too good of an honor! Yep, it did. ^_^ I have nightmares almost every night. But they're not really nightmares... They don't really scare me. They... disturb me. ^_^() But that scares me then. Aw, they're okay! They give me ideas then! ^_^ Once again, your support leaves me indebted to you. Maybe... Very good! I'd say it could be... depends on your definition of 'perfect', I guess. *** Yep! Ooh... Thanx! If I surprised you, then I am truly honored. It reassures me that I'm doing things right...sort of. ^_^() Voices bad! O.o Sorry for the wait! *** Yeah, I guess. Doesn't that so stink? Mine's been with me for seven... messed up quite a while ago. Ah... Really? You'd do that for me? Hmm... First I'll try to get it up on my profile and if that doesn't work, I'll turn to you! How's that? ^_^ I just want other people who know me to see it too if they want. See you then! ^_^ I wrote too much again! Whoops...
Sailor Taichichi Vegeta: Heh, really? Maybe it's him and maybe it's someone disguised as him... I'm getting other ideas now... Cheez poofs, huh? Well, that's perfectly normal compared to how I get ideas. O.o But that's a good observation! ^_^ Thanx!
Masquerade: You know, you really show me things that I never even would have considered to notice. I read the last chapter I wrote again and I was like, "Hey, she's right!" I've actually had the idea of Nuko for a while and began to like him so I don't really want him to die. But I don't know if he will or won't in the end... Have I said too much? Oh, well. You'd notice things before I would anyways. ^_^ Thank you!
lilmissgoten: Well, congrats if you did! ^_^ Hmm. I don't know. It'd cut the story short a bit. But you'll have to be a bit more patient. The romance is just going to begin! Ah, yes... skipping is so much faster though! ^_^ Try to bear with it. I'm sorry! If it makes you feel any better, I'm losing my mind(assuming I have one in the first place) trying to figure out what to make happen next. It was. ^_^ Me, too. It's just so... cute! Yeah, at least for now. You're gonna get more now. ^_^
ElysianAmazon: Aw, thanx. Well, you won't have to wait so long now. The next chapter is here! ^_^
SSJSkaterTrunks: Thanx! I love that word now! ^_^ But not for the others. But still good for Cell! ^_^ Thankies! I will! *blinks at Cell* I think I know where I get some of my dose of insanity now... O.o
kyro: Uh, really now? Okay then. Cheese? I like cheese! ^_^ *blinks at the two then smiles* Bye-bye! *waves the two finger wave and pokes herself in the eye* Ow! I'm halfway blind! Help! *runs away into a wall* I'm okay...
Cloudcover: Oh, okay. Really? I must check on them! The falling back part... Is that good? Aw, that's okay, I guess. I'll get one eventually in my own way... ¬.¬ (Gotcha. ^_~)
devil's lil imp: 'Nother new person! Yay! *does her happy dance and DOESN'T trip for once* Wow, really surprised? I'm glad I have your attention! ^_^ And I'm happy you're enjoying this!
LadyBuG: Yes, it was. ^_^ Aw, thank you. Really? It was. It just felt all warm and fuzzy in that moment. Thank you! I will try! ^_^
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Disclaimer: DBZ is property of Akira Toriyama. Not me. Otherwise I'd be rich and stuff without such wonderful friends like you! :( If that were to happen to me, then I'd gladly give up the title to be a humble fanfiction writer. ^_^ Being with you all is worth more than anything else to me. Oh, yeah. Sekai and other new characters whom I'm too lazy to name are mine as usual.
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Cat and Mouse: Chapter Twenty
"He's coming!"
Krillin was the first to take note of Cell's approach towards them.
"What?!" Eighteen cried. She looked to see Cell's bulky form landing closer to them. He surely looked like he knew where he was going. And he seemed to be going right to them.
She growled in her frustration and misery. "That damn bastard! Why won't Vegeta stop him?!"
"Cell has tricked him into letting him become perfect. In exchange for letting him achieve his perfection, he promised Vegeta a challenge against him," Sixteen stated.
Krillin and Eighteen turned to the gentle android in shock. "But why?! Even Vegeta's not that dense to fall for that, is he?"
"I don't know... Vegeta's done some pretty stupid things at times..." Krillin said quietly as if Vegeta might hear him. He rubbed a hand behind his head. Just the thought of Vegeta beating him to a pulp at the comment made him shudder in fear. "Like knocking Trunks away like that..." he thought back to the recent incident.
"Eighteen, you must escape from here quickly. Cell has pinpointed your exact location," Sixteen warned, looking up at the monster approaching them.
"I'm not leaving without you, Sixteen. I'm not about to abandon you," Eighteen said with determination.
Krillin gritted his teeth as Cell finally landed a few meters from them. All heads turned to him, save for Vegeta who had been watching them the whole time, bored. Eighteen became scared and froze.
"Hello, my dear Eighteen," Cell said gently with a slight bow. Eighteen growled at him in disgust, trying to hide her fear.
"Please, get out of here now," Krillin whispered. "I'll distract him." Eighteen gasped at the little man, surprised at what he said. He shot off towards Cell before she could even take in another breath.
'Oh, man, I must be real crazy! Then again, I have fallen for an android,' Krillin thought, quite panicky. He pulled back his fist in an attempt at a sucker punch and saw Cell's blue lips curve downwards in a frown. "Go now!" Krillin called as he let his fist fly.
It never even touched him. Krillin cried out as Cell pulled back his own arm over his chest and brought it back to knock him in the shoulder. The monk was propelled to the large mountain that dominated the entire island. They could all feel his ki drop, indicating that he was unconscious.
Eighteen's eyes widened and she gasped again at the sight before her. Sixteen's eyes lowered in sympathy for Krillin's bravery and kept silent. Vegeta remained waiting and impatient.
"Cell, you're really trying my patience! Just get on with it!" he yelled.
"Of course," was all Cell said. He was glad to obey the command and started to walk at a casual pace towards Eighteen. She became startled and tense, her fear mixing with her anger and sadness for the man who tried to help her and for her brother.
'Damn you, Cell. You killed my brother and now want to do the same with me. Well, you won't get me so easily. I'm not giving up without a fight!' she thought.
Cell could sense her uneasiness and smiled almost reassuringly. "Don't be afraid, Eighteen. Joining with me won't hurt at all. Just come to me and no harm will come to you."
"Join with you? That's even worse than being tortured. What do you think I am? Stupid? No way would I join with you even if my life depended on it," she spat.
Cell grinned. 'I couldn't have said it better myself,' he thought, laughing in his mind. "But my dear Eighteen, your life does depend on it." He was now only three feet away from the blonde android, and she reeled back a few steps.
'What am I doing?' she thought. 'Running from him won't do me any good. I'll just have to attack him head on.' With her mind made up, she ran at him yelling. She would do this for Seventeen!
Cell sighed. 'These people just never learn...' Honestly, he had not wanted to hurt her for reasons of his own but now she left him with no choice. He had to be quick in absorbing her.
She punched and kicked at the bio-android as fast as lightning. However, Cell dodged them all by miles. No matter how hard she tried to change her fighting patterns, he was always one step ahead and anticipated each attack. Finally bored, Cell thrust his tail above his head, expanded the funnel tip, and brought it down over Eighteen's skull. She tried to grasp the rim of the funnel to stop herself from going farther in, but just couldn't get a hold of it in time as Cell's tail muscles pulled her into the darkness that was him.
Sixteen could only watch helplessly as his friend was absorbed. In the condition he was in, he couldn't even stand up without a support of some sort. His brain had been too badly damaged to react in time to actions as well. Even as he watched, he could feel the wires in his cranium spark and crackle, shutting down some of the major components in his body. He only wished that he wasn't so injured so that he could save Eighteen.
Vegeta watched silently as the bio-android swallowed the mechanical one whole. His eyes turned to his right where he could see something quickly approaching. He recognized the ki signature immediately.
'About time that brat showed up...'
In just a moment, Trunks reached his father's side, panting. He looked down at the scene playing before him and gasped in horror. He quickly reacted and flew down to stop the obviously greater trouble that was about to come. "No! Cell!" he growled. Powering up to his fullest, he saw a bright green light emit from Cell's body as Eighteen was finally absorbed into his being. As the light grew, so did great gusts of wind and rocks and pebbles. Trunks slowed himself a little to shield himself from the obstacles. He gazed over his arms at the light with Cell inside. He charged up a ki blast and shot it into the fire of energy.
Cell didn't even notice the blast coming, nor did he care. He was finally going to be perfect! His lifelong dream and ambition was finally going to come true. All that was needed was a few more seconds and then the universe was his!
The ki blast hit the energy dome around Cell but only bounced off at the same angle into the sky. Trunks gasped and charged up more, firing multiple blasts at the monster only to get the same results. He could only watch as Cell came closer and closer to his ultimate perfection.
'No... It's too late. There's nothing more I can do now,' he thought.
The fate of the world was nearly sealed now.
~*No.*~
He pushed her away and jumped back. Confusion lit his eyes along with fear and anger. He didn't know what to think.
Sekai watched in pity as her brother drifted away from her. She wanted to help him, not hurt him. Why couldn't he accept her help?
'Please, Nuko... Listen to me,' she reached a hand out to him.
~*No. The humans are a menace. I will not take part in helping them. They don't deserve to live!*~ He shook his head furiously.
'You're looking too much at the negative points of humans. We're not perfect, you know. We all have flaws. But we also have good points, too.'
~*Like what?*~
'We do what we can to aid people and animals in need. We do research and find cures to diseases which plague the earth. And some protect the earth from evil aliens,' she said, thinking back to the Z-senshi.
~*All those things could have been prevented in the first place had it not been for humans!*~
'You don't know that!' she corrected. He was becoming irrational and not thinking things through.
~*And neither do you! For all we know, the humans could have been the cause of all the diseases of the world. They might be the reason all this evil is coming to Earth.*~
She narrowed her eyes. 'Let's not tread on a topic we know nothing about, shall we?'
He blinked at the dangerous look in her eyes and nodded slightly. ~*Fine then. No point in making things up for defense. That is what usually happens with ignorance.*~
Sekai thought to herself silently, 'You should know.'
'But please, brother, don't be like this. You're letting your anger cloud your judgment,' she spoke to him.
~*My feelings towards the humans won't change, you know. I have been hurt too much to forgive so easily.*~
'But holding a grudge for ten years is no way to solve a problem. It only worsens your character.' She tried to talk him out of making a big mistake.
~*No. Everyday, I watch through your eyes how our race hurts each other continuously. It is like a cycle. Neverending.*~
'Like the way you hurt me? With those headaches?' she inquired with slight scorn.
He tried not to look affected. ~*Those were to test how resistent you were to pain. They were to help you in the upcoming battle. And they worked; each time, I had to use a stronger force to let it affect you.*~
She growled. 'That's not the point! You hurt me just as the humans did! And you scold them? You're nothing but a hypocrite!'
~*Quiet! I don't need to take this from you. No matter what anyone says, I will do whatever I can to wipe out the human race. They are my enemies.*~
'Then I'm afraid I can no longer support you,' she said, closing her eyes. 'For the humans are the people I fight to protect.' She opened her eyes and looked at Nuko defiantly. 'Now get me out of this dream and don't talk to me until you come to your senses.'
He looked angry at her for a moment but faded away and released her from the world of dreams and nightmares.
But not before giving her a headache as a parting gift.
She knew she was awake now.
But she wouldn't open her eyes just yet. Not until the pain in her head dissipated.
'Oh, what has happened to you, brother? You're so different, so irrational. What hate has changed you so much?' she thought in pity.
Once the pain faded away, she opened her eyes and observed her surroundings. Since she was looking straight ahead at the sky, she concluded that she must be lying on the ground on her back. But why was the sky turning green?
She bolted upright and immediately regretted it. A sharp, stinging pain coursed through her back and she placed a hand on the lower part of it. Seething slightly, she looked at the ground around her and noticed that she was sitting in a small crater just a little bigger than her own body.
'Last time I remember, I was climbing that mountain. I guess I finally fell,' she thought. She groaned and rubbed her back gingerly. 'And hard.'
As she rubbed the pain in her back away, she looked up at the mountain. Behind it, a bright green light shone like the light of the sun behind the horizon. Only the real sun had just setted and the rest of the sky was colored in splashes of yellow, orange, red and violet.
'What the hell is going on?' she thought. 'Did I miss something very important?' She stretched her senses far and frowned, her brows knitting together. 'Oh, no... That's Cell I sense over there. Crap...'
She slowly got to her feet and stared out at the view in worry. 'Something's happened. And I'm pretty sure it's something bad.' But Cell wasn't the only one she was worried about.
'Damn it. How on Earth am I going to get there in time? There's no way that I can learn to fly in time. And I am not going for another test flight again,' she thought stubbornly. She wiped some sweat from her brow. Since she was so close to the forest and its canopy, the trapped heat was beginning to affect her. Although the temperature was lower with the sun gone down, it was still hard to bear. She pondered.
Growling, she finally gave in and looked to the forest. 'Oh, what the hell! Either way, I'm screwed so why not deal with it?' she ran off along the side of the mountain as fast as she could to get to the action.
'Somebody better have some ice ready for me... or else the fire is really going to start to burn!' she thought as she ran towards her destination and fought against the heat at the same time.
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Whoo, I'm already getting hot just from writing that. And the summer's barely here! How will I stand it if I can't even handle reading and writing about it?? Oh, I'll think of something. But anyways, I'd say the romance will begin in the next chapter. Some of you have asked me where it is and, well, I don't know. ^_^() I'll just have to think up a good reaction for Sekai after she meets Perfect Cell. Oh, that would be a sight to see... Sorry that this chapter was kinda short. Like I said before, I haven't felt up to writing lately. Next update should be by this weekend if not earlier. I've got to focus on my SAT9 testing and homework this week so sorry for any inconvenience. Bye for now! ^_^