~A.N.~ Hi! Second chapter! I hope you liked the first and I hope you enjoy
this chapter as well for the rest of the book to be written in up coming
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Chapter 2
Not so warm welcoming
Slowly Piccolos eyes opened to bare darkness. Small moans sounded around him, and a small rustling. Slowly but surly his consciousness came back and he arose to his knees and hands, peering around; every sense straining to make out where he was. Just as he rose higher he felt a hand on his leg. His heart leaped to his throat, he spun around and grabbed the hand on his leg. On hearing a yelp he heard a voice through the darkness.
"Piccolo! It's me, Gohan!" The figure announced. Piccolo took a secret deep breath of relief and released Gohan on the ground. Piccolo raised his hand to Gohan's head, touching his hand to his head to make sure he felt the familiar hair, which he did, and covered up by lifting Gohan off the ground to stand next to him.
"How did you know it was me who grabbed you?" Piccolo asked. Gohan coughed slightly, not in embarrassment but in a joking way.
"No one else I know wears a long cape and reacts that fast to grab someone like you do. Plus your nails were a dead give away." He joked slightly. Piccolo growled at his sarcasm.
"This is no time to joke Gohan. Where are the others? Goku! Vegeta!" He yelled in to the abyss of blackness. He heard a small rustling to his left.
"Right here." He heard the familiar voice of Goku. Then a grunt from the other side indicated Vegeta was present too. A small light eliminated through the darkness. Turning to see Vegeta light up his hand with a Ki, they all looked around to see their surroundings. The ground was as red like blood; it wasn't like anything any of them had ever seen before. It was solid but rippled like water with each of their steps as they walked under the light of Vegeta's ki blast light. They saw nothing else although.
"Where are we?" Goku asked Vegeta.
"Well let me get the map and check. How should I know?" He said sarcastically then went back to his attitude.
"Sorry, I was just asking." Goku elongated his apology.
"If you two will stop fighting we can go find someone and ask." Gohan said. Piccolo just listened to the Sayjins; they could be very annoying sometimes.
"Oh there's a brilliant idea. Lets go looking for whatever freaks live here and ask 'Excuse me, but where are we?'." Vegeta mocked.
"Got any better ideas Vegeta?" Gohan snapped back. Piccolo stopped and looked around. He could feel something deep in his bones. They were being watched.
"Silence…listen. We're not alone." Piccolo instructed. Vegeta stopped the furthest away and the two other Sayjins stopped closer to Piccolo. They all strained their senses. Yes, with no doubt, they were being watched. A small whispering came from the blackness. It wasn't like language, but squeaks and moans. They all froze in place.
"I believe we've found the locals." Vegeta said as small creatures crawled into the light. Their skins were black and slimy looking. From their lips flowed dark blue ooze that dropped to the ground and burned through. Legs like lizards, they were up underneath their bodies, with large spikes sticking out of the front and back knees. There faces were gruesome. Small horns erected from their foreheads, dead, rotting flesh hung from a horn or yellow tooth on each of the creatures. Large warts coved up most of their features and there eyes glowed white in a snake way shape. Small grunts flowed from their mouths that showed large teeth crooked and stained, large fangs incrusted with blood.
"Ewww, how disgusting." Gohan and Goku said.
"So who's asking? Be my guest." Vegeta said sarcastically. The creature on the left growled at him. Vegeta frowned and looked as though he was about to puke. The smell was so awful. It was gym socks being used again constantly dirty, crap, and dead flesh. Piccolo looked on with total disgust, their appearance making him feel sick and weak in most. One smiled and laughed like. Without warning the one on the left jumped at Piccolo, he dodged just in time to miss the total blow, but a thin line of blood flowed through his arm. Getting ready to blast the beast to smithereens another creature jumped from the shadows. Piccolo and the rest of the fighters barely saw as the monster blew from the inside out and then its partner screamed out of pure agony as it disappeared in a quick pass of light, that disappeared just as fast as it came. Confused, the group got into a fighting circle of stances. Watching all sides getting ready to attack whatever came at them. But out of the darkness came something they didn't expect.
It was cat like creature. Black ears with white inner topped off its head; long white hair flowed down its back. Standing upright it was about as tall as Vegeta. Its face was uncommonly beautiful. Her eyes were curved like a cats, its eyes glowed black with a line of white in the middle to split the black. A black tail with a white tip curved and swerved back and forth. Although this creature had just killed the creatures that attacked them, it didn't look too happy, nor did it look welcoming.
"Strangers. Where have come from?" It asked, it sounded human, and spoke English. As she spoke you could see long white fangs with flawless teeth. On her body was a black body suit, her feet and hands had retractable claws like a cat, but the flesh and look like a humans, besides for the feet were like paws, furry. A soft yellow light stringed from around them. Looking up they saw two moons, black but out lined in yellow like a full eclipse of the sun.
"First you answer my questions. Where are we?" Vegeta demanded as if he had control of the planet or something. He was the Prince of the nearly extinct race of Sayjins, and the ones that were alive didn't take orders from him anyways, so he had no authority whatsoever here or anywhere else.
"I do not take orders from you. I ask the questions around here. I will answer your question, however, do not expect me to go easy just because you know nothing." She said, her voice scratching and harsh. Vegeta narrowed his eyes and turned away crossing his arms.
"Follow me and I will tell you what you want to know, after you answer mine before hand." She emphasized on after, turning she walked in and out of the eerie moon glow.
"As I asked before, where have you come from?" She asked.
"Earth." Goku answered. "Ever heard of it?" He asked. She seemed to narrow her eyes ever so slightly. Her footsteps were inaudible, not even Piccolo, with his extremely acute hearing and trying to hear couldn't hear her stepping. No wonder I couldn't sense her coming earlier. She's practically the air, with her kind of stealth. Piccolo thought as the feline woman answered.
"Earth, yes, I have heard of the planet Earth. A bunch of weaklings live there though. Earthlings are said to be some of the weakest creatures in the universe." She answered.
"That's for sure." Vegeta said quietly to himself.
"I wouldn't be too sure, there are some really strong fighters on Earth." Gohan said.
"Yeah, like Krillin, Yamcha—" Goku started but was cut off by a cold stare the girl gave him.
"Did I ask you to verify or ague with the fact? No. Now silence and ask your bloody questions before I get an even bigger headache." She demanded. Goku's eyes widened confused then got serious. Gohan just stared a moment. Piccolo, however, narrowed his eyes and looked above her.
"Finally someone with some sense around here." Vegeta said with a bit of annoyance in his voice.
"That did not sound like a question to me." She stretched out 'me'. Vegeta growled at the cruel manner of the being.
"Fine, than answer my questions first …where are we? And who are you?" Vegeta asked again.
"You are in the Celestial World." She answered curtly. The fighters gave her a blank face for her cut short answer.
"And what is the Celestial world?" Piccolo asked. The girl looked back quickly at the tall green Namekian behind her. She knew of the Namekian race, in fact there were a few here being tortured.
"It's a second place for though's who were evil in life to come. When they over qualify for HFIL, short to say, they come here to be tortured for all eternity. They die painful deaths over and over again. Like the demons you met back there, they eat them…dead or alive. There are many types, those were the weakest, and there are unbelievable powerful beings here to look out for. Also there are a few rules to abide by. No enjoying yourself, no smiling or laughing out of joy or happiness, no happiness, no making friends…just to name a few." She added to her blunt reply earlier.
"Whoa, I'd rather fight Cell again than come here." Gohan exclaimed.
"You are here." The girl replied. Gohan looked embarrassed.
"Well yeah, but I mean, uhh, never mind." He tried to explain.
"Never mind that, who are you?" Piccolo asked. Gohan and Goku looked at Piccolo then at the girl.
"Yes, tell us, who are you? You seem to have a lot to say." Vegeta said, an almost unnoticeable sarcasm in his voice. She stared back at them then turned back to their endless walking. They didn't seem to be getting anywhere. Piccolo wondered where the heck they were.
"First, where are we going?" He asked before she answered the other questions.
"You will see. Now, who am I? I am Cestrilia, that is the name the demons give me, because I don't remember my real name; I am the guardian of this world. I guard the entrances of the Celestial world to see that those who are to come, come." She answered.
"What about the exits, who guards those?" Piccolo asked.
"There is no way out. I have looked since my youth for a way out, but no score." Cestrilia said bluntly, too calmly.
"No exits?" Goku asked.
"Nope." She answered.
"But there has to be a way out. If you can get in you have to get out too." Gohan said through logic.
"Clearly I have stated that there is no way out. Now stop thinking logically, it will not help you any where you are present." Cestrilia said getting annoyed with there dumb questions. Why am I stuck with the worst job…She thought to herself, rubbing her temple a moment to subdue the pain before letting her arm rest back at her side. Piccolo looked at the creature. He had never seen anything like her before. She didn't seem too powerful, but looks could be deceiving. Perhaps if he knew her age it could be a key factor to figuring out how skilled she was in fighting and how powerful she was.
"And how old are you?" He asked. She licked her lips and blinked.
"I am 28 in Celestial years. But in Earth accusation that would be…280 million years." Cestrilia answered as if it was no big deal. The fighters' foreheads participated with pellets of sweat and their eyes were wide with amazement.
"280 MILLION YEARS!" Goku exclaimed. How is that possible? Who is this woman? And what does she want with us? Piccolo thought as they approached a cave. The girl turned around and looked at them.
"Here we are, welcome, to the cave of fears."
~Oh, no! The cave of fears! *Runs and hides under the bed quivering and starts mumbling pathetically 'the cave of fears…the cave of fears* What's that? What'll happen to our fighters as they find out more about their tour guide of this strange world? And why did she bring them to the cave of fears? (Says in DBZ announcer voice mock) Find out on the next chapter of Dragon Ball Z. ~_*
Chapter 2
Not so warm welcoming
Slowly Piccolos eyes opened to bare darkness. Small moans sounded around him, and a small rustling. Slowly but surly his consciousness came back and he arose to his knees and hands, peering around; every sense straining to make out where he was. Just as he rose higher he felt a hand on his leg. His heart leaped to his throat, he spun around and grabbed the hand on his leg. On hearing a yelp he heard a voice through the darkness.
"Piccolo! It's me, Gohan!" The figure announced. Piccolo took a secret deep breath of relief and released Gohan on the ground. Piccolo raised his hand to Gohan's head, touching his hand to his head to make sure he felt the familiar hair, which he did, and covered up by lifting Gohan off the ground to stand next to him.
"How did you know it was me who grabbed you?" Piccolo asked. Gohan coughed slightly, not in embarrassment but in a joking way.
"No one else I know wears a long cape and reacts that fast to grab someone like you do. Plus your nails were a dead give away." He joked slightly. Piccolo growled at his sarcasm.
"This is no time to joke Gohan. Where are the others? Goku! Vegeta!" He yelled in to the abyss of blackness. He heard a small rustling to his left.
"Right here." He heard the familiar voice of Goku. Then a grunt from the other side indicated Vegeta was present too. A small light eliminated through the darkness. Turning to see Vegeta light up his hand with a Ki, they all looked around to see their surroundings. The ground was as red like blood; it wasn't like anything any of them had ever seen before. It was solid but rippled like water with each of their steps as they walked under the light of Vegeta's ki blast light. They saw nothing else although.
"Where are we?" Goku asked Vegeta.
"Well let me get the map and check. How should I know?" He said sarcastically then went back to his attitude.
"Sorry, I was just asking." Goku elongated his apology.
"If you two will stop fighting we can go find someone and ask." Gohan said. Piccolo just listened to the Sayjins; they could be very annoying sometimes.
"Oh there's a brilliant idea. Lets go looking for whatever freaks live here and ask 'Excuse me, but where are we?'." Vegeta mocked.
"Got any better ideas Vegeta?" Gohan snapped back. Piccolo stopped and looked around. He could feel something deep in his bones. They were being watched.
"Silence…listen. We're not alone." Piccolo instructed. Vegeta stopped the furthest away and the two other Sayjins stopped closer to Piccolo. They all strained their senses. Yes, with no doubt, they were being watched. A small whispering came from the blackness. It wasn't like language, but squeaks and moans. They all froze in place.
"I believe we've found the locals." Vegeta said as small creatures crawled into the light. Their skins were black and slimy looking. From their lips flowed dark blue ooze that dropped to the ground and burned through. Legs like lizards, they were up underneath their bodies, with large spikes sticking out of the front and back knees. There faces were gruesome. Small horns erected from their foreheads, dead, rotting flesh hung from a horn or yellow tooth on each of the creatures. Large warts coved up most of their features and there eyes glowed white in a snake way shape. Small grunts flowed from their mouths that showed large teeth crooked and stained, large fangs incrusted with blood.
"Ewww, how disgusting." Gohan and Goku said.
"So who's asking? Be my guest." Vegeta said sarcastically. The creature on the left growled at him. Vegeta frowned and looked as though he was about to puke. The smell was so awful. It was gym socks being used again constantly dirty, crap, and dead flesh. Piccolo looked on with total disgust, their appearance making him feel sick and weak in most. One smiled and laughed like. Without warning the one on the left jumped at Piccolo, he dodged just in time to miss the total blow, but a thin line of blood flowed through his arm. Getting ready to blast the beast to smithereens another creature jumped from the shadows. Piccolo and the rest of the fighters barely saw as the monster blew from the inside out and then its partner screamed out of pure agony as it disappeared in a quick pass of light, that disappeared just as fast as it came. Confused, the group got into a fighting circle of stances. Watching all sides getting ready to attack whatever came at them. But out of the darkness came something they didn't expect.
It was cat like creature. Black ears with white inner topped off its head; long white hair flowed down its back. Standing upright it was about as tall as Vegeta. Its face was uncommonly beautiful. Her eyes were curved like a cats, its eyes glowed black with a line of white in the middle to split the black. A black tail with a white tip curved and swerved back and forth. Although this creature had just killed the creatures that attacked them, it didn't look too happy, nor did it look welcoming.
"Strangers. Where have come from?" It asked, it sounded human, and spoke English. As she spoke you could see long white fangs with flawless teeth. On her body was a black body suit, her feet and hands had retractable claws like a cat, but the flesh and look like a humans, besides for the feet were like paws, furry. A soft yellow light stringed from around them. Looking up they saw two moons, black but out lined in yellow like a full eclipse of the sun.
"First you answer my questions. Where are we?" Vegeta demanded as if he had control of the planet or something. He was the Prince of the nearly extinct race of Sayjins, and the ones that were alive didn't take orders from him anyways, so he had no authority whatsoever here or anywhere else.
"I do not take orders from you. I ask the questions around here. I will answer your question, however, do not expect me to go easy just because you know nothing." She said, her voice scratching and harsh. Vegeta narrowed his eyes and turned away crossing his arms.
"Follow me and I will tell you what you want to know, after you answer mine before hand." She emphasized on after, turning she walked in and out of the eerie moon glow.
"As I asked before, where have you come from?" She asked.
"Earth." Goku answered. "Ever heard of it?" He asked. She seemed to narrow her eyes ever so slightly. Her footsteps were inaudible, not even Piccolo, with his extremely acute hearing and trying to hear couldn't hear her stepping. No wonder I couldn't sense her coming earlier. She's practically the air, with her kind of stealth. Piccolo thought as the feline woman answered.
"Earth, yes, I have heard of the planet Earth. A bunch of weaklings live there though. Earthlings are said to be some of the weakest creatures in the universe." She answered.
"That's for sure." Vegeta said quietly to himself.
"I wouldn't be too sure, there are some really strong fighters on Earth." Gohan said.
"Yeah, like Krillin, Yamcha—" Goku started but was cut off by a cold stare the girl gave him.
"Did I ask you to verify or ague with the fact? No. Now silence and ask your bloody questions before I get an even bigger headache." She demanded. Goku's eyes widened confused then got serious. Gohan just stared a moment. Piccolo, however, narrowed his eyes and looked above her.
"Finally someone with some sense around here." Vegeta said with a bit of annoyance in his voice.
"That did not sound like a question to me." She stretched out 'me'. Vegeta growled at the cruel manner of the being.
"Fine, than answer my questions first …where are we? And who are you?" Vegeta asked again.
"You are in the Celestial World." She answered curtly. The fighters gave her a blank face for her cut short answer.
"And what is the Celestial world?" Piccolo asked. The girl looked back quickly at the tall green Namekian behind her. She knew of the Namekian race, in fact there were a few here being tortured.
"It's a second place for though's who were evil in life to come. When they over qualify for HFIL, short to say, they come here to be tortured for all eternity. They die painful deaths over and over again. Like the demons you met back there, they eat them…dead or alive. There are many types, those were the weakest, and there are unbelievable powerful beings here to look out for. Also there are a few rules to abide by. No enjoying yourself, no smiling or laughing out of joy or happiness, no happiness, no making friends…just to name a few." She added to her blunt reply earlier.
"Whoa, I'd rather fight Cell again than come here." Gohan exclaimed.
"You are here." The girl replied. Gohan looked embarrassed.
"Well yeah, but I mean, uhh, never mind." He tried to explain.
"Never mind that, who are you?" Piccolo asked. Gohan and Goku looked at Piccolo then at the girl.
"Yes, tell us, who are you? You seem to have a lot to say." Vegeta said, an almost unnoticeable sarcasm in his voice. She stared back at them then turned back to their endless walking. They didn't seem to be getting anywhere. Piccolo wondered where the heck they were.
"First, where are we going?" He asked before she answered the other questions.
"You will see. Now, who am I? I am Cestrilia, that is the name the demons give me, because I don't remember my real name; I am the guardian of this world. I guard the entrances of the Celestial world to see that those who are to come, come." She answered.
"What about the exits, who guards those?" Piccolo asked.
"There is no way out. I have looked since my youth for a way out, but no score." Cestrilia said bluntly, too calmly.
"No exits?" Goku asked.
"Nope." She answered.
"But there has to be a way out. If you can get in you have to get out too." Gohan said through logic.
"Clearly I have stated that there is no way out. Now stop thinking logically, it will not help you any where you are present." Cestrilia said getting annoyed with there dumb questions. Why am I stuck with the worst job…She thought to herself, rubbing her temple a moment to subdue the pain before letting her arm rest back at her side. Piccolo looked at the creature. He had never seen anything like her before. She didn't seem too powerful, but looks could be deceiving. Perhaps if he knew her age it could be a key factor to figuring out how skilled she was in fighting and how powerful she was.
"And how old are you?" He asked. She licked her lips and blinked.
"I am 28 in Celestial years. But in Earth accusation that would be…280 million years." Cestrilia answered as if it was no big deal. The fighters' foreheads participated with pellets of sweat and their eyes were wide with amazement.
"280 MILLION YEARS!" Goku exclaimed. How is that possible? Who is this woman? And what does she want with us? Piccolo thought as they approached a cave. The girl turned around and looked at them.
"Here we are, welcome, to the cave of fears."
~Oh, no! The cave of fears! *Runs and hides under the bed quivering and starts mumbling pathetically 'the cave of fears…the cave of fears* What's that? What'll happen to our fighters as they find out more about their tour guide of this strange world? And why did she bring them to the cave of fears? (Says in DBZ announcer voice mock) Find out on the next chapter of Dragon Ball Z. ~_*