So, you people don't like how I keep you guessing. Well, TOUGH. I don't
care, mwa ha ha ha ha. And here's a bit of a longer chapter for all of
those that complained that they were short.
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"Blue Celestial Arrow." I called at I shot my ki arrow at the wizards hand. He dropped the orb, which shattered to pieces under him. Shin stopped fighting just in time to get a punch in his stomach. When he didn't get back up, Kyudo placed both feet on the ground (one was up in the air, ready to kick his father) and knelt down next to him.
"Nice shot Casey," Siobhan comlimented. The man screamed out in pain before he started being sucked into himself. In seconds he was gone, the battle was over, and I had some splanin to do.
Kyudo
"You ok?" I asked him. "I didn't know he was gone. Sorry bout that."
He looked at me like I head suddenly tuned green and grown an extra head. He slowly backed away beofore he stood up and adressed to my mother, "See what happens when you don't take the time out to listen to me?"
My mom turned back to normal and landed on the ground. "Well sorrrrry," she said with a pretty snooty aditude, "But I handled it pretty well don't you think?"
"Oh you're just full of yourself," he replied. OK, wasn't my mom just fighting off the urge to love him, like, 5 SECONDS AGO? Now they looked ready to kill each other.
"You, me, talk, NOW!" my mother ordered before she grabbed the man and used her instant transmision (she refused to teach me that) to teleport somewhere.
Casey
We popped back up on a cliff overlooking the forest. I slumped down on a rock, put my head in my hands, and let out a deep sigh. What was I gonna do now?
"I don't know, I was hoping you knew," he answered to the questions in my head.
"You wanna know something?" I asked, but didn't await a reply, "I used to worship you. A little after everyone watched the tape of me making a moron out of myself I found the more recent tape of Mariam talking about how, for as long as she live, she would love Trunks. And Siobhan, she was all like "My Goten, mine, you cannot have him, he is MY Goten, MINE I SAY, MINE! And then you see me, all in black, and I faint on my bed and go 'Shin is the sexiest bitch ever to live.' I acually said that. Before I knew you were real I wanted you, and what did I get, well, I guess I got what I wanted, didn't I?"
"I didn't know. I swear I didn't. I read your thoughts the first time I met you and they were full of hateful thought about me. Explain that."
"I needed to convince myself I didn't really want you. You know I had the whole problem with you being the Supreme Kai and all." Shin nodded. "Can you imagine what it's like when you're so young and you're left to face a HUGE responibily by yourself? And that you have to remain alone cause you know in your heart you can never love someone else? Hmm? How bout having to tell your kid that his father is dead to save him from the hurt of knowing he didn't care."
"I never said I didn't care. I told you, I had no idea a child came out of that one night you and I spent together. You talk about how bad YOUR life is when I knew I couldn't have what I wanted being I wasn't allowed to have things like love. I had to wach over a universe. My whole destiney is stretched out before me. For the rest of my never-ending life I am suck with the most important job of jobs. So don't come to me and complain about how your life is hard when mine is ten times worse."
I walked over and sat down, letting my legs dangle at the egde of the cliff. "I never thought of it like that. I'm sorry Shin, I really am. It's just, when it finally hit me that you had left for good, I didn't know what to do or think or," I sniffled and held back my tears. I wasn't going to start crying, I didn't do that. He placed his hand on my shoulder, he was short enough to reach it without crouching. The fact that his feet rarely touched the ground gave the illusion that he was nearer to my teenage hieght. But when he stood with his feet on the ground, he was at eyes level with my chest.
"Don't worry about all that now. The past is the past and we are fools to think we can change it. All we can hope for is a better future." He stopped for a minute, I could tell he was kinda trying to figure if he should ask his question or not. I could tell by the way he quickly spit out, "What's our son like?"
"You on the outside and me on the inside," I answered. "He's so strong and he's attached to Darian and Joya just as Mariam, Siobhan and I did. I guess I should have expected so. And he's strong too. Out of Guardian Mode he's starting to pose quite a challenge whe we spar. You'r immortal right?"
"Correct."
"And tell me the truth about my life expectancy, and why you lied to me."
"Well, I wasn't sure how you'd react to knowing you had to live to see the end of your reign as a Guardian. You are immortal till then. The only thing that can kill you is me and another Guardian. However, I cannot kill Mariam and Trunks cannot kill you. He can hurt you, but not kill. Your reign started the first time you transformed, so you become vunerable and start aging 1000 years after that day you fought your father."
"So if I'm, like, semi-immortal, and you're totally immortal, what does that leave our son?"
"I don't know. Can I see him, I mean, I'd like to speak with him. I want to know what he's like." By now he was kneeling next to me, occasional shifting his gaze from the treetops to me.
"I guess, but not now. He might need some time. When he's ready I'll let you know."
"How?"
"I know the instant transmission, just don't try to hide your ki. I should be able to find you. You'll be hangin out on your planet I take it."
"Yes. Oh, I'm going to have to tell Kibito about you, he'll want to to know why I'll be visiting Earth so much."
He was smiling and it took a second for what he said to regester in my head.
"You mean... you're not gonna leave me agian?"
"Never, and that's a promise." And with that, he kissed me.
"Wait," he interrupted, "How obsessed with me were you?"
"I carried around pictures of you in my back pocket. I was part of a group of people who liked you actually. Who knew I'd actually get you in the end. Boy I'd love to shove that in their faces."
"There are other people out there that find me attractive?"
"Oh yeah. There's people who wanna do some nasty things to you. There was this one girl I talked to," I thought for a moment, "her name escapes me now. She had the whole thing with chocolate sauce and whip cream that I'm not even sure people can do."
"What would you do with whip cream and chocolate sauce?"
"Um...you don't wanna know. Oh and this on girl wrote this story where Dabura raped you, and it made me wanna gouge my brain out with a rusty spo-"
"DABURA DID WHAT?!" he screamed. He tried to stand but the pure shock of what I had just said made him fall on the ground. "THAT'S DISGUSTING, THE KING OF THE DEMON WORLD WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING!"
"Tell her," I said as I shuttered; remembering the day I read that.
"Oh, that's just sick. What exactly did Dabura do, NO, I don't want to know."
I was holding back the urge to giggle, which didn't last to long and soon I was rolling on the ground laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"You, AH HA HA!"
"It's not funny," he mummbled.
I stopped suddenly, remembering what I'd been meaning to ask him for years. "Why can't I remember that night totally?"
"Oh, that, yes I should return this." He held out this little white light and I satred at it like I was 5 or something.
"What is it?"
"Your memory. When I came to the conclution that I'd have to leave, I decided it'd be best if you never knew it happened. What do you remember?"
I smiled evilly and grabbed the tip of his ear. "That that hurts."
"Ow, oh, that's a great part of your emory to leave." Shin complained rubbing the ear I'd pinched. He suddenly got this sly little look on his face that'd I'd never seen on him before. "I've got a better idea. Forgot old memories, let's make new ones.
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"Blue Celestial Arrow." I called at I shot my ki arrow at the wizards hand. He dropped the orb, which shattered to pieces under him. Shin stopped fighting just in time to get a punch in his stomach. When he didn't get back up, Kyudo placed both feet on the ground (one was up in the air, ready to kick his father) and knelt down next to him.
"Nice shot Casey," Siobhan comlimented. The man screamed out in pain before he started being sucked into himself. In seconds he was gone, the battle was over, and I had some splanin to do.
Kyudo
"You ok?" I asked him. "I didn't know he was gone. Sorry bout that."
He looked at me like I head suddenly tuned green and grown an extra head. He slowly backed away beofore he stood up and adressed to my mother, "See what happens when you don't take the time out to listen to me?"
My mom turned back to normal and landed on the ground. "Well sorrrrry," she said with a pretty snooty aditude, "But I handled it pretty well don't you think?"
"Oh you're just full of yourself," he replied. OK, wasn't my mom just fighting off the urge to love him, like, 5 SECONDS AGO? Now they looked ready to kill each other.
"You, me, talk, NOW!" my mother ordered before she grabbed the man and used her instant transmision (she refused to teach me that) to teleport somewhere.
Casey
We popped back up on a cliff overlooking the forest. I slumped down on a rock, put my head in my hands, and let out a deep sigh. What was I gonna do now?
"I don't know, I was hoping you knew," he answered to the questions in my head.
"You wanna know something?" I asked, but didn't await a reply, "I used to worship you. A little after everyone watched the tape of me making a moron out of myself I found the more recent tape of Mariam talking about how, for as long as she live, she would love Trunks. And Siobhan, she was all like "My Goten, mine, you cannot have him, he is MY Goten, MINE I SAY, MINE! And then you see me, all in black, and I faint on my bed and go 'Shin is the sexiest bitch ever to live.' I acually said that. Before I knew you were real I wanted you, and what did I get, well, I guess I got what I wanted, didn't I?"
"I didn't know. I swear I didn't. I read your thoughts the first time I met you and they were full of hateful thought about me. Explain that."
"I needed to convince myself I didn't really want you. You know I had the whole problem with you being the Supreme Kai and all." Shin nodded. "Can you imagine what it's like when you're so young and you're left to face a HUGE responibily by yourself? And that you have to remain alone cause you know in your heart you can never love someone else? Hmm? How bout having to tell your kid that his father is dead to save him from the hurt of knowing he didn't care."
"I never said I didn't care. I told you, I had no idea a child came out of that one night you and I spent together. You talk about how bad YOUR life is when I knew I couldn't have what I wanted being I wasn't allowed to have things like love. I had to wach over a universe. My whole destiney is stretched out before me. For the rest of my never-ending life I am suck with the most important job of jobs. So don't come to me and complain about how your life is hard when mine is ten times worse."
I walked over and sat down, letting my legs dangle at the egde of the cliff. "I never thought of it like that. I'm sorry Shin, I really am. It's just, when it finally hit me that you had left for good, I didn't know what to do or think or," I sniffled and held back my tears. I wasn't going to start crying, I didn't do that. He placed his hand on my shoulder, he was short enough to reach it without crouching. The fact that his feet rarely touched the ground gave the illusion that he was nearer to my teenage hieght. But when he stood with his feet on the ground, he was at eyes level with my chest.
"Don't worry about all that now. The past is the past and we are fools to think we can change it. All we can hope for is a better future." He stopped for a minute, I could tell he was kinda trying to figure if he should ask his question or not. I could tell by the way he quickly spit out, "What's our son like?"
"You on the outside and me on the inside," I answered. "He's so strong and he's attached to Darian and Joya just as Mariam, Siobhan and I did. I guess I should have expected so. And he's strong too. Out of Guardian Mode he's starting to pose quite a challenge whe we spar. You'r immortal right?"
"Correct."
"And tell me the truth about my life expectancy, and why you lied to me."
"Well, I wasn't sure how you'd react to knowing you had to live to see the end of your reign as a Guardian. You are immortal till then. The only thing that can kill you is me and another Guardian. However, I cannot kill Mariam and Trunks cannot kill you. He can hurt you, but not kill. Your reign started the first time you transformed, so you become vunerable and start aging 1000 years after that day you fought your father."
"So if I'm, like, semi-immortal, and you're totally immortal, what does that leave our son?"
"I don't know. Can I see him, I mean, I'd like to speak with him. I want to know what he's like." By now he was kneeling next to me, occasional shifting his gaze from the treetops to me.
"I guess, but not now. He might need some time. When he's ready I'll let you know."
"How?"
"I know the instant transmission, just don't try to hide your ki. I should be able to find you. You'll be hangin out on your planet I take it."
"Yes. Oh, I'm going to have to tell Kibito about you, he'll want to to know why I'll be visiting Earth so much."
He was smiling and it took a second for what he said to regester in my head.
"You mean... you're not gonna leave me agian?"
"Never, and that's a promise." And with that, he kissed me.
"Wait," he interrupted, "How obsessed with me were you?"
"I carried around pictures of you in my back pocket. I was part of a group of people who liked you actually. Who knew I'd actually get you in the end. Boy I'd love to shove that in their faces."
"There are other people out there that find me attractive?"
"Oh yeah. There's people who wanna do some nasty things to you. There was this one girl I talked to," I thought for a moment, "her name escapes me now. She had the whole thing with chocolate sauce and whip cream that I'm not even sure people can do."
"What would you do with whip cream and chocolate sauce?"
"Um...you don't wanna know. Oh and this on girl wrote this story where Dabura raped you, and it made me wanna gouge my brain out with a rusty spo-"
"DABURA DID WHAT?!" he screamed. He tried to stand but the pure shock of what I had just said made him fall on the ground. "THAT'S DISGUSTING, THE KING OF THE DEMON WORLD WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING!"
"Tell her," I said as I shuttered; remembering the day I read that.
"Oh, that's just sick. What exactly did Dabura do, NO, I don't want to know."
I was holding back the urge to giggle, which didn't last to long and soon I was rolling on the ground laughing.
"What's so funny?"
"You, AH HA HA!"
"It's not funny," he mummbled.
I stopped suddenly, remembering what I'd been meaning to ask him for years. "Why can't I remember that night totally?"
"Oh, that, yes I should return this." He held out this little white light and I satred at it like I was 5 or something.
"What is it?"
"Your memory. When I came to the conclution that I'd have to leave, I decided it'd be best if you never knew it happened. What do you remember?"
I smiled evilly and grabbed the tip of his ear. "That that hurts."
"Ow, oh, that's a great part of your emory to leave." Shin complained rubbing the ear I'd pinched. He suddenly got this sly little look on his face that'd I'd never seen on him before. "I've got a better idea. Forgot old memories, let's make new ones.