Mental
04: Dominion
a DBZ fanfiction by LadyRivka
Kuririn had raced into an empty corridor, Miki grabbing tightly to him, her face buried in his shirt.
Kuririn, trying to catch his breath, whispered, "You…you can… stop hiding now. It's all right. No one's going to hurt you."
She looked him in the face, and stuttered, "H-how do you know? Every time I want to go somewhere there are creepy people after me. You don't know…"
"You've got me, don't worry."
"But…but these people…are…kind of part of me. They won't go away, they won't!" Miki again sobbed into Kuririn's T-shirt.
"What do you mean?"
"A long time ago, it was just me in here. There were windows, places to play, my brother. Then I remember them invading here…and I can't get rid of them. I can't. Get. Rid. Of. Them." Her body shook in fear.
Just then, Kuririn saw the shadow lady from earlier sneaking up behind Miki with a large Bowie knife.
She slowly brought it to the young girl's throat…
"Join with me. Admit we are the same person. Else it's bye-bye time…" Miki stared down at the knife pressed against her jugular and started to scream.
"NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
"God, how I love to hear little girls scream. And that big strong man you're with can't save you. Tsk, tsk," she purred evilly, sadistically.
"Get away from me!!" screamed the six-year-old.
"I can't," the dark lady smirked as she pressed the knife tighter against her throat.
Ready and able to slit it at any second…
But she didn't.
"Kid, I just wanted to see you scream like that. It's sooo adorable. Now I have to go, see ya round." She coldly walked away.
"Thank God she didn't kill you, Miki-chan." Kuririn sighed with relief.
"But I'm scared….scared that she will. Someday. She's been teasing me ever since her and her boss came in here. I hate it." Tears fell down Miki's cheeks.
"Who is her boss?"
"You'll see him, he's a creepy-lookin' old man…he's very deadly. Name's G-Ge-" Miki broke down in a hysterical crying fit. She did not want to say the mad scientist's name aloud, for fear it would call him, like a demon, to the place that they were now.
"Doctor Gero?!?"
Miki lept up. "Shhh…do you want him to know where we are?"
"No."
"Then don't say his name!"
But it was too late. In front of them materialized the fear of all fears…
Doctor Gero.
He walked towards Miki and glared, his cold cybernetic eyes meeting her natural blue ones.
Miki, although she was trying to fight back, floated in midair.
Kuririn watched her age into an eighteen-year-old, with the same blonde bob as #18. She wore a green sweater, a short black skirt, and the same Mary Janes she had had when younger. The detail Kuririn couldn't keep his eyes off of was the fact that Miki was fitted with two leg braces, and was seated in a wheelchair.
Gero's gaze met the floor, and Miki's wheelchair touched down.
"Good evening, my dark lady," he cackled. "Or…soon-to-be dark lady. The perfect assassin, you. And your brother as well. And you'll get rid of those dehumanizing braces if you join me. It's a futile battle."
"Bull shit, I won't!"
"I already have your brother, isn't that the ammunition you need, Miki?" Gero smirked.
Miki froze with fear.
"Oh, so you're silent? Maybe I will come back when you're able to talk." He de-materialized and Miki and Kuririn breathed a sigh of relief.
"Where do we go next?"
"I don't know, there are so few places to hide. I wish I knew…" Miki decided to randomly push her wheelchair around the warehouse, with Kuririn following her.
END CHAPTER 4
Chapter 5- Gero gets TRULY evil…
