Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball, Dragonball Z or Dragonball GT. They belong to their appropriate owners.
Warnings: blood, violence, yaoi, lemon, strong language and more
Everything is gone
by sol-chan
II
the two who left
" Vejita ?!" Shouted Gokou, appearing in the smashed and burned remnants of the Gravity Room's construction. Just then it hit him, the silence and that weird feeling in the air, the scent of death, the scent of burned human flesh...
His eyes widened, as he hadn't found Bulma's Ki when he scanned for it. The he realized that Vejita's whole family's Ki's were gone, they were dead... Kami, what had happened here...? He trembled, feeling something more, feeling his family's Ki's disappearing as well. His hand went to his forehead on its own accord... but he stopped himself.
What was happening ? An enemy ? A nightmare ? It was so unreal, Ki's
of millions of people just disappearing in a second... Chi-Chi, Gohan,
Goten, Pan... Krillin... It hit again... Piccolo... Kami... It killed Dende,
so the dragonballs...
How ?
Why ? What was that ?!
His fists clenched at his sides, tears blurring his vision. Damn, he wanted to fight it, no matter what it was, make it pay, he needed to find a way to revive them all... A nightmare, yes, it was just a nightmare. Something like this just wasn't possible, so it was a nightmare, a dream, and he was going to wake up, soon... His mind was dazed, so hard to acknowledge so many things in seconds. Even if one's mind had been trained in battle to think fast when needed, the whole weight of the loss not even getting to him fully, not yet...
" Kakka...rotsu..."
His mind cleared immediately as he heard that weakened, silent voice. Vejita's voice.
" Vejita ?" He shouted again, heading in the direction that Vejita's ki signature was pointing him. He threw away a few pieces of rubble and found Vejita buried under it, hurt, bleeding badly and barely conscious. His left arm was smashed under something that seemed to be a control panel of the Gravity Room, so Gokou took it and threw it away as well, freeing a bloody mass that had once been Vejita's arm. He took his hand up to his face to wipe the tears that suddenly filled his vision. They were all dead... His family... His friends... And even Vejita was going to die...
Vejita was trying to move, to no avail, something weird for him, terrible fear appearing on his face for a moment as he couldn't control any part of his body. He blinked a few times, black eyes narrowing at Gokou.
" What is it, Vejita ?" He asked, sliding an arm under Vejita's back and taking him up to a half-sitting position.
" What ?" Asked Vejita softly.
Gokou could feel the limpness of his body under his hand, he bet every single one of Vejita's ribs were broken in several places, literally crushed, as well as various other bones in his body. It was amazing even for him how Vejita was standing this, terrible pain that had to be accompanying his every breath and move.
" What has happened ? Where are all of them ?! Who, in Kami's sake, did this ?!"
Vejita breathed deeply, gaining the strength to say another phrase, more of the red froth appearing on his lips with every breath.
" I don't know." He whispered through the blood filling his mouth. "But... Look around... us, Kakkarotsu. Is there... some piece of glass... somewhere ?" He asked, his head sliding down as he wasn't capable anymore of keeping it up.
" What ? A glass ?" Asked Gokou, looking around and noticing one, just in front of Vejita, in the place he was obviously looking at himself.
" You've... found it ?" Asked Vejita, closing his eyes.
" Yeah..." Gokou wondered what was really wrong with Vejita. Why was he behaving like if he wasn't seeing that piece of glass in front of him, why was he asking about it ? Just then, Gokou noticed something weird, the glass, it wasn't transparent like it should be, but shaded. " It's shaded." He whispered, looking down at Vejita.
" Radiation... Damn, Kakkarotsu... take us out of here !"
" What ? What has happened ?"
Vejita tried to move his right hand to his lips to wipe the blood, but couldn't even reach. Gokou brushed his own hand over his lips waiting for an answer. It seemed Vejita knew what was going on. Thank Kami that Vejita was alive, at least him.
" Humans... You were always saying... hating the violence and... causing destruction... so much... Damned humans killed them !"
" How ?"
" Atomic explosion... You understand... Kakkarotsu ? Teleport us... out of here... or we'll die of the radiation sickness... before the day will be over..."
Gokou's eyes widened as he was taking his hand to his forehead. Dead... All were dead... It was real... and... and humans, the ones he had been always defending, risking and sacrificing his life for, had done it... How ? Atomic explosion, Vejita was saying. Yes. For sure, nothing else could have killed so many people in such a little amount of time, in seconds, not one explosion, but three, in West Capital, East Capital and Satan City... But, why ? A war ? Certainly... As if there hadn't been enough wars with aliens in the past years, humans had started their own... and killed all he had loved. He himself was alive only because he had teleported to check on Vejita, a second before the explosion that would have killed him for sure if he had been there and, because of the Gravity Room's great endurance, Vejita had miraculously survived as well... At least he wasn't all alone... So weird, that just the two of them had lived through it, like a destiny...
They appeared in the living room of Gokou's house. He bet it was safe here, it was a few hundred miles away from East Capital. If his family hadn't gone to do the shopping today, they would have been alive... but no. The day of the explosion they had to be there to die. He looked around, noticing the soiled plates in the sink in the kitchen, left from the breakfast they had had here mere hours ago. Goten's homework had been left on the table, and there, upstairs, there was a wardrobe full of Chi-Chi's clothes in their bedroom and Goten's room. And next to this house, there was another, where Gohan, Videl and Pan had used to live. Now, all were dead, these houses wouldn't be full of noise and life anymore, all their inhabitants were dead, only he was left, alone.
A muffled cry from Vejita snapped him out of his reverie. He took the shorter warrior to the couch and laid him down there, looking closely at his injuries.
" What's wrong with you, Vejita ? Can you speak ?"
" Yeah... Get me some water."
Gokou went to the kitchen and came back in a minute with a glass of cold water. Vejita was trying to reach for it with his right hand but the shoulder must be sprained, he couldn't take it up. Gokou maneuvered one arm behind Vejita's back and held him up still while pouring the water into his bloody lips. Vejita managed to drink only a few drops before beginning to cough with a light, red blood. So, there was something wrong with his lungs, the crushed ribcage had to be damaged then.
" Kakkarotsu... Get me... a sensu... I won't make it... without it... Not this time..."
Gokou nodded and went to the kitchen where the sensu should be. He hoped it would be there, though he could remember eating the last from the little bag a few days ago, to heal minor injuries got while training. He was praying to Kami there would be one more as he noticed the bag laying on the shelf. He reached for it... only to find it empty. He tried to locate Korin's ki, to no avail. Kami's palace had had to have been destroyed by the explosion in Satan City, it was close from there, and the construction had been rather delicate.
He went back to the living room to tell Vejita. His heart squeezed painfully as he felt how weak Vejita's Ki was, he was barely alive, only his iron-like will keeping him alive, his body almost completely destroyed. Vejita was right, he wasn't going to live through it, not this time. But... He couldn't let him die, not him, the one person who was left other than himself.
" I don't have a sensu, Vejita. But I will save you without it. Tell me what's wrong."
Vejita smirked.
" You're... going to save me ? Don't make me laugh... Kakkarotsu... You can do... only one thing for me... now... dig me a fine grave..." He finished by coughing out more blood.
" What do you feel is wrong ?" asked Gokou once again, ignoring Vejita's comment.
Vejita looked up in his direction, but his black eyes moved over him like if he wasn't any different from the air surrounding him. Vejita was keeping his usual barriers up well, considering his conditions, or so it seemed...
" I can't feel... my left arm, I can't move... right, I barely breath... My ribcage is in shreds... I may have something more broken... Everything... hurts like hell... and I have to be... seriously radiated... You as well..."
" This isn't enough to kill you. In a month, you'll be fine."
Vejita smirked bitterly once more.
" Fine ?"
" There is something more, isn't there, Vejita ?" Asked Gokou, heading to the kitchen for some bandages, clothes and water.
" What... what do you mean ?"
Gokou collected the needed things, then came back and knelt down next to the couch.
" Something more... Something that makes you think that you won't be fine anymore. You fear that sickness ?"
" Baka ! I don't fear... anything !"
" Even that your left arm may be paralyzed ?"
" No. It was... hurt, seriously hurt... once... and I was doing fine... without it... for a few months..."
" So, what is it ?"
" Nothing."
" Something with your eyes ?"
" What ?" Asked Vejita uncertainly.
Gokou created the smallest Ki ball he was capable of in his hand and held it close to Vejita's eyes, as to dazzle him. Vejita didn't close them. So, he was blind, to all his injuries that were mortal and he knew it, he just couldn't tell Vejita he was certain there was no chance for him, he wasn't going to see. Kami, he wanted Vejita to live through it, for him, to stay with him when everyone else was gone. He needed him now, he didn't want him to die, more than ever before.
" Just don't surrender on it. Everything's going to be all right."
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