Chapter 10
"No Mercy"
Authors (2) Notes: Well, looky this…me and DragonUk wrote a chapter together! This is so cool! I think that me and Char (DragonUk) will be writing the rest of, if not a lot of this together….She'll add her own notes, of course, because she's my co-author! Yay! Oh…hehe, sorry it took so long to get put up…I couldn't have written it without DragonUk! *smile*
Author Note #2: Hey! Yep, it's me, your worst nightmare! I'm gonna help with the fic, and I hope you enjoy it! Cause I love writing fics, and I love this one! Hopefully, chapters will come out real quick! So, if you're still there, and not asleep because of my insane blabbering, READ!
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Vegeta's eyes widened and he felt him self drop to the ground. "You have just killed everyone alive on Gaia and Terra alike. You've just killed us, you and your damn family, 'saiya-jin'." The words echoed threw Vegeta's head. He… Had killed them? His family? Trunks, Bulma? No! Impossible! They were lies, of course….lies from some worthless human that was trying to show off. That was it…
"Vegeta… You just killed…" Krillin started.
"Shut up you baka! I'm trying to think!" Vegeta's head was pounding, practically spinning with confusion. Bulma… his mate, his pride… He had killed her? Their bond, was it breaking now? Or was she gone already? Was he searching for nothing?
"You're an idiot, Vegeta." Amarant snarled. "You killed your wife and son…you killed everyone in Gaia and Terra. You killed yourself."
"Vegeta, don't you think before you act anymore?" Gohan suddenly intervened. He had gathered the importance of what the 'worthless human' had said, and was now standing with his fists clenched tight. All the while, thoughts were still bubbling inside Vegeta's head… Trunks, his son… was going to die? The heir to the Royal throne? No, that was simply a lie…it was clear that the world was not at an end. It was intact. Monsters? The prince of saiya-jins could easily crush them! Why did he have to…worry…?
Vegeta crossed his arms, looking away. "I have killed thousands….millions in my past! I care not of a small, pathetically weak planet!" he spat.
"But… the monsters, Vegeta." Zidane protested. "Do you know exactly how many creatures we're talking about? If we can't defend ourselves against them, or at least hide…we're doomed. And you don't feel anything?" Zidane asked.
"No." In truth Vegeta was lying. How could he say something more? He had his pride…that came before all else, and no words would pass his lips.
"What kind of man are you?" Freya suddenly whispered in a threatening, unbelieving voice. "You don't care…you can fly. You should just fly away from it all, shouldn't you? That is you intention."
"My intentions are none of your business, rat," The prince scowled as he spoke, forcing the rising concern in the pit of his hollow heart take a dreadful U-turn. "I can assure you, I am a man of many feelings…but that doesn't mean that I feel any sorrow! I don't care if your pathetic mud ball is gone; it is no concern of mine!" he shouted, keeping his back to the lot.
"This 'pathetic mudball', sir, hosts the reason you are here in the first place!" It was Steiner's turn to interrupt. His normally formal-taken face were nearly beat red, and he was literally radiating a certain level of anger he had not surpassed before.
"I will not let some alien tin can talk to me in that way!" Vegeta snarled. "My family is my business, and I will find them alone!"
Dagger had been completely silent throughout the entirely entrade. She listened with sullen interest, but barely made a sound when she broke the pregnant silence that followed. "Half of the monsters coming are stronger than even we are…some of them have the ability to destroy you while you sleep under their spell…not even my Eidolons will be able to do much damage against the Ruby Dragons…"
"U-um…"
Everyone, including Vegeta turned to look at this new voice. In fact, it was Vivi, and not new at all, but the fact that he had spoken at all was a surprise. The young black mage peered carefully into the expectant faces and made a bold move. "I w-was just wondering how the…monsters souls can flow from Gaia when the...the Iifa tree was destroyed."
"Master Vivi-" Steiner began.
"Monsters don't travel through the Iifa tree," Zidane said solemnly, before the knight could make up some cheap lie. "They disappear when they die, and this is where they go…Gaian souls travel through the Iifa tree…or at least they did. Nothing can stop the monsters from flowing back and forth between worlds, even if the tree is destroyed."
"The ugly truth," Amarant growled. "Leave it to Zidane to point that out."
"Amarant, leave him alone…" Dagger sighed. "We understand that you shouldn't-"
"Be here? I thought it was obvious enough." Amarant crossed his arms impatiently. "The seven of you are enough to take care of this damn little adventure yourself. You don't need me to babysit you."
"Is that what you were doing?" Vegeta suddenly asked, just as Dagger was about to reply. A new pain of jealousy was beginning to tear at his mind. "I was getting the impression that they were looking after you."
Amarant stared, but said nothing in return.
"Come on, Amarant…don't you get it? I'm challenging you." The saiya-jin lifted himself from the charred ground a few feet, glaring very maliciously. "I'll show you how grown men can cry after all…"
"I'll make you eat those words…" Amarant said coolly. Vegeta grinned, and answered by turning into a super saiya-jin.
"We shall see who is stronger now." At this, he lunged.
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