Forgotten Guardians
~ Disclaimer: I own nothing off of DBZ or anything like that. I do claim original characters though. This takes place during the Buu Saga, which in my story, never happened. Sorry peeps but I never saw how it ended. But in any case Goku is back with his family and among the living. ~
Remember your past..
Stay true to your heart.
Never turn away a friend in need.
Keep close to your heart-sibling.
And live for the joy of being alive!
- Destiny and Shadow, the Last
Chapter 13In his control room Larex smiled. The pieces were all falling into place now, and everything was coming to a full circle. Although Destiny, like her mother, was unaware of it, they're families had always been against each other. His father had wanted Destiny's mother but she had refused him, and Larex had wanted Destiny since he'd first seen her all those years ago. But like her mother had denied his father so had she denied him by staying with the demi-saiyan! Even now it made his blood boil to think of what those two may have done in the long nights that they spent with one another.
That's when he heard the wolf howl in sorrow at the same time that Destiny yelled out in anger. The two voices mixed eerily together and echoed throughout the palace.
"So it begins!" Larex cried out and began to laugh madly as he made his way to the palace gardens.
Back on Earth…Silvon had been talking with Vegeta and the others when he stopped suddenly and looked up at the sky.
"What is it?" Goku asked when the Dragon Lord didn't respond to his question.
"It is beginning." Silvon said in a faraway voice and stood up.
"What's beginning?" Vegeta asked in confusion.
"The Final Battle." He answered and his head lowered in sorrow and he said words that had not been read nor repeated in thousands of years.
There will come a time when two will be born with the blood of the past.
Flawless will their bodies and gifts be.
For none have been, nor will be, as powerful as they.
Much sorrow and pain will they be made to endure.
Prayers for death and release will be denied and hate will consume.
Battered and near broken, an escape will be made.
Healed with the love of family, hate dims and fades.
Burned within are the memories, never to be forgotten, and so the training goes on.
Be wary of the calm before the storm.
Old enemies with new faces come into play and new friends are made.
The two will be ripped asunder, twins cruelly ripped apart.
Then will oaths divide and forces collide.
The two will clash and tears will fall as readily as blood.
Gathered around to watch are those who have lived before.
In icy anger will damnation be given.
Should they be forced to end one another, the balance will be broken.
The weeping of the universe will be heard throughout the planets.
And life will cease to exist.
But if not, then in joys healing light will the tears be wiped away.
The two made whole once again, but with a price.
Weary in body and soul will they be taken away, and may one day return.
Destined and bound to time and its call.
Linked by oath and held by bonds of honor.
Forever fated to answer the call of the past, present, and future.
"It's Destiny and Shadow isn't it." Goku said rather than asked.
"Wait! What do you three mean? How could they destroy the universe?" Krillin demanded.
Silvon looked at the short man sadly and replied, "little mortal, how can you not understand? Those two are so powerful that if you had two million saiyans at their very strongest it still would only be about half of the power those two contain within themselves. Together they are nearly indestructible."
"You said nearly, what's the exception?" Vegeta asked.
"Like any living creatures they can be killed, although it is much harder to kill them."
"But what if they were to fight each other to the death?" Vegeta asked.
"That is what the prophecy foretells, but one cannot live without the other. Like the other Guardians and Companions before them, they are linked as only twins, or heart-siblings can be."
"So what are you going to do now?" Goku asked.
"I must go to them."
"Then will come with you!" Krillin cried.
Silvon looked around at the three men and met each of their eyes easily. Goku looked determined, Vegeta angry, and Krillin anxious. But still, it was good to have friends.
"Very well then." He agreed and a red light swallowed them up suddenly and when it was gone, so were the four men.
When Destiny and Gohan finally arrived at the palace gardens Larex was waiting there for them with Shad and Matt. Yin was there as well, smirking evilly.
"Ah, my lovely princess. The time has finally come." Larex said smoothly.
Stay here. Destiny commanded to Gohan in mind-speech as she walked towards the small group. Gohan watched her go and had to fight to make himself stay put.
"Why?" She asked.
"Because you scorned me! I could have given you the world!" He screamed insanely.
Destiny's sapphire blue eyes turned icy as she locked her eyes upon his for a long moment. "Give me the boy." She demanded.
"No." Larex answered with a smirk.
"Give him to her, otherwise the oath I've sworn to you is void." Shadow snarled in hatred.
Larex paled visibly and motioned Yin to shove the boy to her. Destiny caught him and held him tenderly in her arms.
"Ah, little brother. You're very sick aren't you?" She asked softly as she smoothed back his hair. Destiny touched her forehead to his lightly and used some of her energy to purge his body of the poisons that Larex and Yin had been pouring into it.
"D-D-Destiny?" Matt stumbled over her name as he opened his eyes slowly.
"Yes, quiet now. You're safe."
"I know, I love you big sister."
Destiny's eyes glimmered with unshed tears as she kissed his forehead. "I love you too little brother." She whispered and then gently floated him over to Gohan.
"Such a touching scene." Larex said sarcastically before swinging around to Shad. "Destroy her and when you finish that you will kill the boy and his family!"
"As you wish." Shad snarled and he and Destiny leapt into the air to prepare for battle.
I am sorry heart-sister. If I had not made an oath to do his bidding he would have killed Matt.
I know heart-brother. I know, and now we must destroy each other to save those we love.
Yes… He answered softly.
And so it began, brother against sister. Guardian against Companion. Learian Wolf against Learian Woman. But not by choice, even as they inflicted blows upon each other tears dripped down their faces and mingled with blood.
Below, Gohan, matt, Larex, and Yin watched until a sudden red glow caught their attention. When it faded, Silvon, Vegeta, Goku, and Krillin all stood there. Silvon looked up at the sky while the three men looked around. Then other bright glows appeared but when they faded, it was the Dragon Clan in their true forms that looked back at them. These great beings who had come to watch their adopted children fight while they stood by helpless to do anything.
Above, Destiny and Shadow were moving so fast that they only time you could see them was when they braked to circle each other warily. It was one of the most heart wrenching things that anyone could have seen in their life. The two that fought each other with such deadly skill had identical looks of heartbreak on their faces as they felt the other's pain, and they switched to ki attacks for a while.
Around them the earth began to quake and the very sky seemed to shake. The wind began to blow violently and all around they could feel disturbances going on.
"It's beginning." Silvon said softly.
"It is ending you mean." Corrected a voice from behind him. Silvon, Gohan and the other's all turned in shock to see a woman who looked remarkably similar to Destiny except that her hair was a dark red, with a white wolf at her side.
"Your Majesties." Silvon said and bowed low.
Rise, Dragon Lord. We did not destroy our world to keep this universe safe to see it destroyed by the corruption of one man and the heartache of our descendants. The First Companion said royally. These two were the first of the Forgotten Guardians, although weaker than Destiny and Shadow, they were here to fulfill their part of the prophecy.
Suddenly a crack rent the sky and you could see the stars above.
"Pray, do something quickly!" Silvon called out.
A soft blue light encircled the whole area then, and when it faded all of the old Guardians and Companions of the past surrounded them. A few were in the air between Destiny and Shadow, stopping their fight, while others surrounded the Dragon Clan and the mortals from Earth. And still others, like the First, and Destiny's mother faced Yin and Larex.
"Betrayer."
"Oath-Breaker."
"Liar."
"Murderer."
"Rapist."
"Monster."
"Betrayer."
"Oath-Breaker."
"Liar."
"Murderer."
"You betrayed your people."
"You betray life itself as you seek destruction."
"Betrayer."
"Oath-Breaker."
"Liar."
"Murderer."
Over and over they repeated those words to Larex and Yin as their bodies began to glow and a white band made a doorway behind the two men, as the slowly backed into the gateway.
"Banished to be tortured until you die."
"Never shall you escape."
"Always will you be curse."
"Betrayer!"
"Oath-Breaker!"
"Liar!"
"Murderer!"
With those last damning words the two stumbled into the gateway, but just before it sealed itself shut you could hear their screams of terror and pain.
"It is done!" The Forgotten Guardians declared as one and all but the First and Destiny's mother, Lily, along with Shadow's father, Hunter, remained.
Destiny and Shadow were both kneeling in exhaustion on the ground. Both had been so heavily injured by one another and by feeling the other's pain that they couldn't even heal themselves yet.
How we love you both so much. Our children, our hope. Lily and Hunter said together as they sent all their love for their children to Destiny and Shadow before they too faded away.
The First looked at Shad and Destiny and shook their head's sadly.
"It is not over yet children." She said.
"You must fix what you have rent." He added.
Destiny and Shadow looked up wearily at the two before them and wearily staggered to their feet.
"Hey! You can't make them do anything more! They've got nothing left to give!" Goku yelled in protest.
They have to restore what they destroyed in their fight. Can't you feel the very fabric of the universe around you breaking? The First Guardian demanded while her Companion just glared at them.
"Do what you have to do children." They said and slowly faded.
Destiny and Shadow looked at each other for a long moment and then Destiny leapt into the air once again, except this time, she let her wings come forth. A sparkling blue light flowed out of Destiny and shot out into the sky, the earth, the rivers, everywhere. Below her, Shad was giving her all of the power and strength he had left, and together they healed what they had destroyed. The sky closed back up and the earth quit shaking. When it was done, Destiny slowly dropped back down and collapsed beside Shadow. They had given everything they had within themselves, had anyone wanted to kill them now they could easily do so.
"Destiny!" Gohan cried and would have run to her but Silvon stopped him.
"Now is not the time, young Gohan."
"What do you mean, Silvon?" Krillin asked.
"We must take them now. They need to recuperate and regain their strength somewhere where they will be safe. They are too vulnerable now." Silvon answered as members of the Dragon Clan tenderly picked up the two exhausted Learians.
"Will you ever come back?" Gohan asked but it wasn't Silvon who answered.
We'll come back one day, Gohan. Until then, remember us. Destiny answered softly in mind-speech before she blacked out.
"And now I will return you to your home." Silvon said and a familiar light surrounded them all once again…
Two months later…Gohan and Videl had just finished their desserts at an outside café when Gohan happened to look up and see a semi-familiar back across the street. Almost as if she had sensed him watching her, the girl with a baseball cap turned around and grinned at him.
Gohan thought his heart had stopped. It was Destiny!
But then a large bus went by and she was gone.
Remember… A voice echoed softly in his mind and he looked up at the sky and smiled.
I will. He promised.
"Gohan? Are you alright?" Videl asked worriedly.
"I'm fine, just fine." He answered with a grin.
THE END
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