The doctor walked in the next morning, Usagi was holding normal
conversations again, and breathing without aid. "She's fine," the doctor
said. "She was stressed in the moment, so she was trying to help her friend
while her body was under much pressure."
"When do you think she can leave the hospital and go home?" Michiru asked the doctor. "Everyone really misses her." She quickly added in.
"She should be able to go home in one to two days. We need a second opinion on her."
"I want to go home." Usagi pouted from her bed. "I want Goten to come back, why hasn't Goten come back Michiru?" The doctor smiled at her, and left.
Michiru sighed. "I don't know where he is. It's 11 o'clock, he must be very tired though. But I'm sure he'll be here by noon though. Don't worry."
Usagi sighed and picked up the book on the bed stand. "Is this your book?"
"No, the nurse said it was shipped here from the other hospital." Usagi nodded.
"It's that book." Usagi carefully began to flip through the pages.
Michiru smiled. 'Trunks had that book, I wonder if Krillin found Artemis, the only girl who can see the future. It's possible Trunks can help her.'
*~*~*~*~
Krillin was in the kitchen making coffee. Goten was sleeping on the couch, whimpering every once in a while. Artemis was sitting in the rocking chair, staring into a crystal bowl.
*~*~*~*~
Trunks sighed, as he and Haruka taped off Goten's entire house, after they closed the road. Goku, Goten's father, went to stay the night at Gohan's house, while Goten stayed at his odd friends' house. It had been a long hard night, but finally, everything was over. They had several forensics around the house throughout the night. It was obvious she had been murdered, stabbed between her fourth and fifth ribs, and a large hole had been cut out of her trachea. Yes, this seemed very familiar with the murder of Hotaru. Possibly by the same person. But the cruelty and the sick humor of the murderer made Trunks wonder, how could they possibly be the same person.
There might have been an obvious answer that seems hard to understand. But Trunks had no reason not to believe it.
What was the one thing all the victims had alike? Nothing. Mr. Chiba and Mina were famous, along with Rei and Serena. But ChiChi and Hotaru? Nothing at all. Yamcha's death was an accident, it was clear he got in the way. Why would someone want to kill Hotaru? Maybe she was on the bad side of some sick joke. But why would they hide the body? It had to be different.
And what about ChiChi? Hardly anyone knew who she was, except a hard working house mom and preachers wife. Who would kill her? Now, Trunks stopped to think on how ChiChi always seemed odd. Was she really odd? No, you can't call her that odd. She was different, certainly, but not odd. She was strong for a woman, and would be a match for any well trained martial arts student. But that was a family thing. No one knew it but her children and husband. So why kill her? Was she another part of a sick joke? It was very possible. But really, all that had been going on led Trunks to believe differently.
But deep down, Trunks must have known, because when he got into his car he looked back at the house one last time, before decided to go to the hospital as soon as he could. Yes, he must have known.
*~*~*~*~
Karen Sebastian stood in front of a news camera, waiting to begin her segment of the hour. She had a great story to cover. The ruthless criminal of Nagasaki, Japan, had been captured, here, on this small boat. What luck that she had been on the boat, doing a report on trading square watermelon with Japan, and found her the biggest report of her lifetime.
"Karen, you're starting." Her camera man stated.
A voice came from a speaker, "Karen Sebastian will be telling us about square watermelon, from Japan.
"Very healthy for you I hear." Another voice came.
"Wait, Karen, who is that man behind you, with his hands cuffed?"
Karen smiled. "Susan and John, I am pleased to inform you that Vegeta Vejjita has been captured, here, on this small square watermelon trading boat. The crew suspects he was trying to 'hitch a ride to Mexico' for safety."
Muttering came from some of the camera crew in the studio. "She isn't supposed to do coverage on this. Why didn't she call in to tell us?"
Karen smiled. 'Yes, this is my lucky day.'
That hour, before millions watching the news across the states witnessed the death of Karen Sebastian, whom did Vegeta Vejjita beat to death with a square watermelon (which are very healthy for you, but dangerously heavy and expensive.).
*~*~*~*~
There she sat, in the rocking chair staring into the crystal bowl filled with pure water. She was watching an image move across the water. It was a man, (Toru?), with lilac hair and piercing blue eyes. He moved in front of the girl, with pink hair who was muttering something in a foreign language. 'You cannot hurt her!' he seemed to shout. (she couldn't hear anything they were saying while she was looking into the bowl.) An other woman with dark blue hair stood facing him off. "NO!"
Artemis jolted in fear, spilling much of the pure water onto her black skirt. Krillin watched in, "What's wrong?"
She looked up, her eyes wide and blood shot. "Nothing." She spat. He looked at her and smiled slightly. He knew why she was so upset. She had been up all night, trying to see into the future, trying to reawaken her powers.
"It's fine Artemis, get some sleep." She sighed and closed her eyes. Sleep, a very valuable thing.
*~*~*~*~*
I'm going to write more, but I wanted to put my note in here instead of the beginning.
The story will be ending soon, but I'm not sure anyone but me will take any joy in it. Over time I have to admit this story improved, the plot thickened, and thanks to Ian, and your reviews. It's ending. Three more chapters, then there will be a hiatus. I will be preparing a new DBZ/SM fanfiction, while focusing partly on 'Follow the Black Crow'. I wanted to say thanks real quick to anyone whose stuck with me throughout the story, and everyone who didn't. ^^; I gave a speech earlier! Leave me alone! I'm not a sappy person! I like to give speeches! YAY!
Clu; Freak.
*~*~*~*~
As soon as he got to the hospital, he checked in, and walked over to her room. "Hi Usa-chan," he said as he handed her some flowers. "I heard you're getting out soon."
She nodded happily. "And as soon as I get out of here I'll be back in work! Then you can question me all you want! Because there won't be any doctors saying it'll stress me out!"
Michiru laughed. "Don't get too excited. We're probably keeping you out of work for awhile."
"But he can question me, right Michiru?" Usagi questioned as she put the flowers down. "Because I think once you guys know, everything will make sense. I think I might know what's going on. If we could find out who Ami is, we could find out why she's killing everyone! And why she shot Trista!"
Trunks pulled a chair up. "Why don't we ignore the doctors for now, and you tell us what happened. Because I have this feeling."
Michiru looked over to him. "Why hasn't Goten come over so far today?"
Trunks sighed. "His mother was stabbed in the heart and throat last night. she died and when he got home the killer was gone, and had propped ChiChi up in a chair, staring right at the door. Goten is going through a little trauma. He opened the door and there she was, staring straight at him." He stopped his gory details. "He went to stay at Juunangou and Krillin's house."
Usagi's eyes were wide. "ChiChi-san?" she died? How could a woman of such noble strength be killed? "I need to see Goten!" She began shouting. "I Need to see Goten!"
"Usagi calm down! He'll be fine. Don't worry."
"B-but."
"Usagi, please tell us what happened, and I'll try my hardest to let you see him as soon as possible."
"You get me out of here tonight and I will tell you everything."
Trunks sighed. "I can't do that!"
"Talk to the doctors! Tell them something to get me out of here! I can't stand it anymore!" She shouted, a by-passer looked into the room nervously.
"Fine, I'll see about that. But tell us now."
"I was at the pier, Trista was there and she brought a partner, I think, with her. He partner had short dark blue hair, and her name was 'Ami'. She pulled out a gun, and shot Trista. Trista died, and then Ami said something about something 'awakening', and then." she looked rather confused. "I think I was speaking. French!" She continued, with the same confused look on her face. "And the water began to splash violently. And Ami began speaking in another language. and the disappeared. but I can't remember anything else." She stopped speaking. The confused look on her face moved into her eyes and her face settled.
Trunks nodded. "Michiru, do you know what she's talking about?"
Michiru opened her mouth, smiling, when the doctor and two nurses walked in. "Usagi, we're going to take some sample blood, check it, and if everything looks good you should be leaving within the next two hours." Usagi's face brightened.
"I get to go?" She asked as one of the nurses began to swab at her wrist.
The doctor nodded as he looked through a bunch of charts, and scans. "Everything looks good. Jane will go test your blood." The nurse who was taking the blood stood up, and pricked Usa, who winced. Then the nurse left with the blood.
After a bit, the doctor and the nurse left. Michiru, Usagi, and Trunks waited a moment before continuing the conversation they had been holding.
"Ami is a woman." Michiru stated, pausing only to make sure there were no ease-droppers and that they were paying attention to her. "Who lives with an old retired man named Bardock."
"Bardock?" Usagi repeated.
"Yes, he's an old retired man, I think he owned a company that was very successful in the early 90's. I might be wrong, but I think it was some kind of scientific study building."
Michiru paused to let it sink in.
"So. is she some deformed scientific monster or something? Because I have the faintest feeling there was something odd about her." Usagi said seriously.
Michiru sighed. "Ami didn't start working for Bardock until a year before it was closed. And they don't to test on humans, they do it on animals of all sorts." She took at deep breath. "Now she is his helper. The reason the building was shut down is Bardock was doing some sort of testing on himself. He thought he created a vaccination that would give humans superior strength."
Trunks' eyes widened. "Superior strength? Like flying or something?"
Michiru shook her head. "Mind powers. He wanted to control his mind powers. Telekinesis, telepathic, etc. he was forced to retire as soon as word got out of the building, and is ill from the vaccinations he gave himself. He's paralyzed from his waist down, and Ami is there to assist him because he doesn't want a house nurse."
Usagi nodded. "I think I get it."
"Just put the pieces together and." Trunks stated thinking, lost in thought at the same time.
"She's been infected by the radiation coming from him!" Usagi muttered under her breath.
"I don't think so." Michiru stated simply. "I think I've got it all figured out now." She stood up. "It's not wise to speak of it in here though. Come to Juu's house as soon as you can get her out of here Trunks, bring her with you and hurry about it. If they tell you she needs to stay the night call me, and we'll have to break her out of here. Or something." Michiru sighed, picked up her things, and handed Usagi a newspaper article. "this is the article was printed when the press found out he was testing on himself. You'll find something about it pretty interesting."
Michiru winked, and left. Usagi smiled, then looked down at the article Michiru handed her. "Wow! Trunks look at the picture!"
Trunks looked at the picture in the article. There, in the background of the picture, was Usagi's mother. She was covering something on her arm, as the man centered in the photo, with hair like Goten's and eyes like Gohan's, was talking to another reporter. "What is she covering?" They both leaned in to look at the photo, bumping heads, then moving back up.
"I think that dark thing coming out from her arm is. blood." Usagi stated.
*~*~*~*~*
The phone rang and Bulma quickly picked it up. "Moshi, Moshi, Capsule Corporation, Bulma Briefs speaking, who is this."
"I see." Bulma said after the man on the phone paused.
"Yes, I understand that it's now American and Japanese problems. And no, I did not help him get onto that boat, it was all on his own I'm sure."
"Alright, I understand. I think I can take a bit of time off to see his trial. And possibly witness for him."
"No I don't care what the press thinks!" She shouted. "Just because everyone else thinks he murdered before Karen, doesn't mean he did! That was the first time he- Are you listening?" She shouted, her only answer was the quiet humming of the dead phone line. "You hung UP!?" She shouted into the phone, then slammed it down onto the receiver. She thought a moment, then unplugged the phone. It was going to be a busy week.
*~*~*~*~*
TADA! I'm done with that! And we have about three more chapters. And everything makes sense now, if you don't think so, re-read some of it, because more then most of it was explained. I have a few new things in this chapter, but other then that there's nothing. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go finish my math homework. REVIEW PLEASE!!
"When do you think she can leave the hospital and go home?" Michiru asked the doctor. "Everyone really misses her." She quickly added in.
"She should be able to go home in one to two days. We need a second opinion on her."
"I want to go home." Usagi pouted from her bed. "I want Goten to come back, why hasn't Goten come back Michiru?" The doctor smiled at her, and left.
Michiru sighed. "I don't know where he is. It's 11 o'clock, he must be very tired though. But I'm sure he'll be here by noon though. Don't worry."
Usagi sighed and picked up the book on the bed stand. "Is this your book?"
"No, the nurse said it was shipped here from the other hospital." Usagi nodded.
"It's that book." Usagi carefully began to flip through the pages.
Michiru smiled. 'Trunks had that book, I wonder if Krillin found Artemis, the only girl who can see the future. It's possible Trunks can help her.'
*~*~*~*~
Krillin was in the kitchen making coffee. Goten was sleeping on the couch, whimpering every once in a while. Artemis was sitting in the rocking chair, staring into a crystal bowl.
*~*~*~*~
Trunks sighed, as he and Haruka taped off Goten's entire house, after they closed the road. Goku, Goten's father, went to stay the night at Gohan's house, while Goten stayed at his odd friends' house. It had been a long hard night, but finally, everything was over. They had several forensics around the house throughout the night. It was obvious she had been murdered, stabbed between her fourth and fifth ribs, and a large hole had been cut out of her trachea. Yes, this seemed very familiar with the murder of Hotaru. Possibly by the same person. But the cruelty and the sick humor of the murderer made Trunks wonder, how could they possibly be the same person.
There might have been an obvious answer that seems hard to understand. But Trunks had no reason not to believe it.
What was the one thing all the victims had alike? Nothing. Mr. Chiba and Mina were famous, along with Rei and Serena. But ChiChi and Hotaru? Nothing at all. Yamcha's death was an accident, it was clear he got in the way. Why would someone want to kill Hotaru? Maybe she was on the bad side of some sick joke. But why would they hide the body? It had to be different.
And what about ChiChi? Hardly anyone knew who she was, except a hard working house mom and preachers wife. Who would kill her? Now, Trunks stopped to think on how ChiChi always seemed odd. Was she really odd? No, you can't call her that odd. She was different, certainly, but not odd. She was strong for a woman, and would be a match for any well trained martial arts student. But that was a family thing. No one knew it but her children and husband. So why kill her? Was she another part of a sick joke? It was very possible. But really, all that had been going on led Trunks to believe differently.
But deep down, Trunks must have known, because when he got into his car he looked back at the house one last time, before decided to go to the hospital as soon as he could. Yes, he must have known.
*~*~*~*~
Karen Sebastian stood in front of a news camera, waiting to begin her segment of the hour. She had a great story to cover. The ruthless criminal of Nagasaki, Japan, had been captured, here, on this small boat. What luck that she had been on the boat, doing a report on trading square watermelon with Japan, and found her the biggest report of her lifetime.
"Karen, you're starting." Her camera man stated.
A voice came from a speaker, "Karen Sebastian will be telling us about square watermelon, from Japan.
"Very healthy for you I hear." Another voice came.
"Wait, Karen, who is that man behind you, with his hands cuffed?"
Karen smiled. "Susan and John, I am pleased to inform you that Vegeta Vejjita has been captured, here, on this small square watermelon trading boat. The crew suspects he was trying to 'hitch a ride to Mexico' for safety."
Muttering came from some of the camera crew in the studio. "She isn't supposed to do coverage on this. Why didn't she call in to tell us?"
Karen smiled. 'Yes, this is my lucky day.'
That hour, before millions watching the news across the states witnessed the death of Karen Sebastian, whom did Vegeta Vejjita beat to death with a square watermelon (which are very healthy for you, but dangerously heavy and expensive.).
*~*~*~*~
There she sat, in the rocking chair staring into the crystal bowl filled with pure water. She was watching an image move across the water. It was a man, (Toru?), with lilac hair and piercing blue eyes. He moved in front of the girl, with pink hair who was muttering something in a foreign language. 'You cannot hurt her!' he seemed to shout. (she couldn't hear anything they were saying while she was looking into the bowl.) An other woman with dark blue hair stood facing him off. "NO!"
Artemis jolted in fear, spilling much of the pure water onto her black skirt. Krillin watched in, "What's wrong?"
She looked up, her eyes wide and blood shot. "Nothing." She spat. He looked at her and smiled slightly. He knew why she was so upset. She had been up all night, trying to see into the future, trying to reawaken her powers.
"It's fine Artemis, get some sleep." She sighed and closed her eyes. Sleep, a very valuable thing.
*~*~*~*~*
I'm going to write more, but I wanted to put my note in here instead of the beginning.
The story will be ending soon, but I'm not sure anyone but me will take any joy in it. Over time I have to admit this story improved, the plot thickened, and thanks to Ian, and your reviews. It's ending. Three more chapters, then there will be a hiatus. I will be preparing a new DBZ/SM fanfiction, while focusing partly on 'Follow the Black Crow'. I wanted to say thanks real quick to anyone whose stuck with me throughout the story, and everyone who didn't. ^^; I gave a speech earlier! Leave me alone! I'm not a sappy person! I like to give speeches! YAY!
Clu; Freak.
*~*~*~*~
As soon as he got to the hospital, he checked in, and walked over to her room. "Hi Usa-chan," he said as he handed her some flowers. "I heard you're getting out soon."
She nodded happily. "And as soon as I get out of here I'll be back in work! Then you can question me all you want! Because there won't be any doctors saying it'll stress me out!"
Michiru laughed. "Don't get too excited. We're probably keeping you out of work for awhile."
"But he can question me, right Michiru?" Usagi questioned as she put the flowers down. "Because I think once you guys know, everything will make sense. I think I might know what's going on. If we could find out who Ami is, we could find out why she's killing everyone! And why she shot Trista!"
Trunks pulled a chair up. "Why don't we ignore the doctors for now, and you tell us what happened. Because I have this feeling."
Michiru looked over to him. "Why hasn't Goten come over so far today?"
Trunks sighed. "His mother was stabbed in the heart and throat last night. she died and when he got home the killer was gone, and had propped ChiChi up in a chair, staring right at the door. Goten is going through a little trauma. He opened the door and there she was, staring straight at him." He stopped his gory details. "He went to stay at Juunangou and Krillin's house."
Usagi's eyes were wide. "ChiChi-san?" she died? How could a woman of such noble strength be killed? "I need to see Goten!" She began shouting. "I Need to see Goten!"
"Usagi calm down! He'll be fine. Don't worry."
"B-but."
"Usagi, please tell us what happened, and I'll try my hardest to let you see him as soon as possible."
"You get me out of here tonight and I will tell you everything."
Trunks sighed. "I can't do that!"
"Talk to the doctors! Tell them something to get me out of here! I can't stand it anymore!" She shouted, a by-passer looked into the room nervously.
"Fine, I'll see about that. But tell us now."
"I was at the pier, Trista was there and she brought a partner, I think, with her. He partner had short dark blue hair, and her name was 'Ami'. She pulled out a gun, and shot Trista. Trista died, and then Ami said something about something 'awakening', and then." she looked rather confused. "I think I was speaking. French!" She continued, with the same confused look on her face. "And the water began to splash violently. And Ami began speaking in another language. and the disappeared. but I can't remember anything else." She stopped speaking. The confused look on her face moved into her eyes and her face settled.
Trunks nodded. "Michiru, do you know what she's talking about?"
Michiru opened her mouth, smiling, when the doctor and two nurses walked in. "Usagi, we're going to take some sample blood, check it, and if everything looks good you should be leaving within the next two hours." Usagi's face brightened.
"I get to go?" She asked as one of the nurses began to swab at her wrist.
The doctor nodded as he looked through a bunch of charts, and scans. "Everything looks good. Jane will go test your blood." The nurse who was taking the blood stood up, and pricked Usa, who winced. Then the nurse left with the blood.
After a bit, the doctor and the nurse left. Michiru, Usagi, and Trunks waited a moment before continuing the conversation they had been holding.
"Ami is a woman." Michiru stated, pausing only to make sure there were no ease-droppers and that they were paying attention to her. "Who lives with an old retired man named Bardock."
"Bardock?" Usagi repeated.
"Yes, he's an old retired man, I think he owned a company that was very successful in the early 90's. I might be wrong, but I think it was some kind of scientific study building."
Michiru paused to let it sink in.
"So. is she some deformed scientific monster or something? Because I have the faintest feeling there was something odd about her." Usagi said seriously.
Michiru sighed. "Ami didn't start working for Bardock until a year before it was closed. And they don't to test on humans, they do it on animals of all sorts." She took at deep breath. "Now she is his helper. The reason the building was shut down is Bardock was doing some sort of testing on himself. He thought he created a vaccination that would give humans superior strength."
Trunks' eyes widened. "Superior strength? Like flying or something?"
Michiru shook her head. "Mind powers. He wanted to control his mind powers. Telekinesis, telepathic, etc. he was forced to retire as soon as word got out of the building, and is ill from the vaccinations he gave himself. He's paralyzed from his waist down, and Ami is there to assist him because he doesn't want a house nurse."
Usagi nodded. "I think I get it."
"Just put the pieces together and." Trunks stated thinking, lost in thought at the same time.
"She's been infected by the radiation coming from him!" Usagi muttered under her breath.
"I don't think so." Michiru stated simply. "I think I've got it all figured out now." She stood up. "It's not wise to speak of it in here though. Come to Juu's house as soon as you can get her out of here Trunks, bring her with you and hurry about it. If they tell you she needs to stay the night call me, and we'll have to break her out of here. Or something." Michiru sighed, picked up her things, and handed Usagi a newspaper article. "this is the article was printed when the press found out he was testing on himself. You'll find something about it pretty interesting."
Michiru winked, and left. Usagi smiled, then looked down at the article Michiru handed her. "Wow! Trunks look at the picture!"
Trunks looked at the picture in the article. There, in the background of the picture, was Usagi's mother. She was covering something on her arm, as the man centered in the photo, with hair like Goten's and eyes like Gohan's, was talking to another reporter. "What is she covering?" They both leaned in to look at the photo, bumping heads, then moving back up.
"I think that dark thing coming out from her arm is. blood." Usagi stated.
*~*~*~*~*
The phone rang and Bulma quickly picked it up. "Moshi, Moshi, Capsule Corporation, Bulma Briefs speaking, who is this."
"I see." Bulma said after the man on the phone paused.
"Yes, I understand that it's now American and Japanese problems. And no, I did not help him get onto that boat, it was all on his own I'm sure."
"Alright, I understand. I think I can take a bit of time off to see his trial. And possibly witness for him."
"No I don't care what the press thinks!" She shouted. "Just because everyone else thinks he murdered before Karen, doesn't mean he did! That was the first time he- Are you listening?" She shouted, her only answer was the quiet humming of the dead phone line. "You hung UP!?" She shouted into the phone, then slammed it down onto the receiver. She thought a moment, then unplugged the phone. It was going to be a busy week.
*~*~*~*~*
TADA! I'm done with that! And we have about three more chapters. And everything makes sense now, if you don't think so, re-read some of it, because more then most of it was explained. I have a few new things in this chapter, but other then that there's nothing. Now if you don't mind, I'm going to go finish my math homework. REVIEW PLEASE!!