Forgotten Guardians
~ Disclaimer: Same as the ones before this chapter.
Chapter 6
It used to be that when we cried, our world cried with us.
When we raged we were soothed by soft music brought on the wind from the mountains and forests.
Be careful when one under our oath is taken and being threatened, we will do anything to get them back and we will not fail.
Pity the fool who would dare to do so, for they will be given no mercy.
And pray for us, pray that we do not let our rage completely take us over, lest it turn to hate.
- The Thirtieth
After they reached Destiny's home Chi-Chi wouldn't let Destiny go anywhere until she had bandaged her hands and drank a glass of juice. "Destiny." Kevin said softly when he walked into the kitchen and found her. Destiny went to her adopted brother and the two hugged tightly for a moment. "How's Thomas?" She asked worriedly. "Sedated." He answered with a sigh. Destiny leaned against him for a moment and then motioned everyone to follow her into the living room where the introductions were made.
When everyone had sat down Destiny walked over to the window and stared out of it. "Dest, you don't have to do this." Kevin said. "But I do Kev, but I do." She answered with a sigh and leaned her forehead briefly against the window before she turned around to face them.
"I'm guessing you three would like to know about how my ki got so high?" She asked Vegeta, Goku, and Gohan. All three of the men nodded. "Well I guess the best place is to start at the beginning, or as close as I can get to it." She amended with a slight smile.
"Shadow and I are both decedents of kings and queens of a planet called Lear. But to understand us you have to understand our people's history. Centuries ago, the Learians discovered that the weakest among them were powerful enough to conquer the entire universe if they so chose. It was a discovery that should never have been made." As Destiny spoke her voice began to change, her voice got slightly deeper and her accent stronger.
"Our people began to change, they wanted to conquer. We, as rulers, couldn't allow that. And so, a battle began. Learian men, women, and wolves fought with each other against one another. We left, but before we did we were forced to destroy our planet, our home, our people. Because we, as the rulers were a hundred times stronger than our people but when the lives of billions upon billions of other beings lives were at stake we did what we had to. We swore then that we would be guardians and would defend those who were able to obtain our oaths of protection or those who could not defend themselves."
Destiny stopped for a moment and wiped the tears that trailed down her face. "But then we realized that our children could also be a threat and so we made it so that what we remembered would be past on down to the next generation. Over the centuries the Learian bloodline was getting weaker but because the memories of those who lived before us were passed down to us we also became smarter and could perform over thousands of fighting moves." Destiny stopped again and shook her head slightly to clear it.
"Shad and I are… well, we're not really supposed to be what we are. Over time, the Learian blood, powers, and such were getting weaker but both he and I are full blooded Learians." Destiny sighed and sat down on the floor and pulled her knees up under her chin. "And this is where Shad and I come into the story. We're both the same age, Learian wolves' age like humans thankfully, and both of our parents were killed when we were close to being four, with the exception of my mother since she died giving birth to me. It was a freak accident that landed us in the custody of the world's largest bastard and trainer of killers for hire. Yin Kormak."
Chi-Chi gasped softly and Destiny turned her gaze on her. "Yes, Shad and I were adults before we were six and killers before we were eight. We weren't old enough then to inherit the memories from our ancestors, and we hated Yin with every fiber of our beings. We never slept at night anymore either, Kormak's men would rape any girl, woman, boy, or man that they could; and we hated them just as much."
Destiny was silent and allowed time for the others to absorb what she had told them so far. Chi-Chi was weeping quietly and Goku was trying to comfort her. Gohan and Kevin watched her through sad eyes that were full of friendship. Vegeta stared at her in shock. Having to hear that this small girl was more powerful than he was shocking enough but even he, at his very worst, would never have done such things to a child. Nor had any of the other evil beings that he had known been so… sadistic when it came to children. Dying was one thing, destroying their minds, souls, and bodies was another.
"Yin believed that Shad was just a regular wolf and so he got off a little easier than I did since he was trained to do as many things as I was. And in Yin's training if you did one thing incorrectly you were whipped until your back bled most of its blood on the ground." She smiled dryly then. "Or for any act of defiance." She added.
"Is that were all the scars you have on your back came from?" Kevin asked.
"Yes, I almost never screwed up in training, that would have gotten me killed because we used real weapons that were nice and sharp. But I was very defiant."
Everyone in the room, except for Destiny, was getting angrier and angrier by the second. Not with Destiny, but with the monster that had taken her and Shad when they were younger and for kidnapping Kevin and Shad now.
"Turn around and let me see your back." Vegeta said quietly. Destiny gave him a long, hard look before she finally turned around, pulled her hair to the front of her shoulder and raised up the back of her shirt. Long white slashes criss-crossed, and overlapped many times on her back. You were whipped until your back bled most of its blood on the ground. Destiny's words echoed in their minds and even Goku, who was the most easy going, felt something very close to hate for the man who would do this. Destiny pulled her shirt back down and turned back around and continued.
"But Yin messed up, he trained us to be assassin's, mercenaries, actors, seducers, and a hundred other things; but he never guessed how much we hated him, or how smart we both are. We were a few months past ten when we rebelled outright. We killed many guards that day, and managed to blow up that whole damn place that reeked of death and fear. Shad and I thought we were going to die, we'd lost a lot of blood and our hatred for humans had nearly consumed us and I think we wanted to die because we hated what we were even more."
"And then, somehow or another, Thomas found us. He had been searching for us for over six years." Destiny smiled slightly and looked over at Kevin. "Neither of you boys were there at the time, which was probably a good thing considering how much hell we gave Thomas, or tried to any way."
"What do you mean?" Kevin asked curiously.
"We hated humans Kev, before Thomas all they were to us were people who would beat you, try to touch you, break you in any way that they could. But Thomas was different, and like any animal that's been badly abused and shown kindness, we began to let go of our hate and pain. But we continued to train, and after a year with Thomas we would spend half the year with various trainers who kept us on our feet."
"When did you get your ancestors memories?" Kevin asked. "When we turned twelve." She answered.
"So you're stronger than all of us right now?" Goku asked curiously.
"When it comes to ki attacks, magic, and other forms of fighting that aren't pure strength, yes. If all of the Saiyans were still alive today and they were all transformed to their strongest forms, their ki's combined would not equal half of Shad's or mine. Also, I'm faster than any of you. But if it were a fight that was purely physical with no ki attacks then you could beat me. Shad is the opposite, he's stronger than I am but no good at directing ki attacks."
"You make up for each other's weaknesses and combine your strengths, add that to the fact that you both have physic powers and can communicate with each other through mind speech and there you have it. The ultimate team." Kevin mused thoughtfully.
"That's…one way to put it." Destiny replied slowly. "But we rarely interfere unless it's drastic, that's why we're called the Forgotten Guardians."
"I thought you were the Guardian and he was the Companion."
"Only when we're being talked about separately." Destiny answered Kevin.
"How did you get to be so powerful?" Vegeta demanded.
"We were born this way. When we're children our power levels are very low and that's when we're most dependent upon our parents."
"Do you think that Matt could survive the whippings that you went through Dest?" Kevin asked worriedly.
"No, one of our gifts is incredibly fast healing. Don't worry too much Kev, Shad only looked drugged. They hadn't given him enough to really put him under for long."
"What?! How do you know?" Kevin gasped.
"Because I know my heart-brother." She answered simply.
~ This is one chapter that I would like some reviews on because it can be a bit confusing, well if you're not the writer cause then you know everything. (just kidding) Please read and review though. ~