Momma's Girl VI
Disclaimer: None of the mentioned series belong to me, and I make no money from this fic at all.
"What the hell is that thing?" The Great Saiyaman screamed as he saw this... giant frog-like thing hop across the police cars.
"I don't know," Clarinet hissed, taking cover. She couldn't use her powers- there were too many people present, but Videl was up in the air, dodging and weaving, attempting to distract it. It didn't help that fear seemed to ooze from all of them. They had planted the occasional spirit ward, but their attacks seemed to have no affect. The damned this just didn't exist the way they did.
"What the hell do we do now?"
Gohan powered up, and screamed "Ka-me-ha-me-HA!" He threw the attack, full force, at the monstrosity, but it still didn't seem to do any good. It was thrown back, from the kinetic energy, but it didn't seem damaged...
"You'll never destroy my body that way," the creature laughed, and kept bouncing around. Various police officers fired at it, but Videl was coming closer and closer. There was a final pass-
And she managed to slap a spirit ward on its head.
The reaction was a scream- one that sent red hot agony along their nerves, made everyone stop and cover their ears. There was a pause, then, as the paper ward started to shrivel and blacken, its holy power overwhelmed by evil. Then the noise of… other things came out of the woodwork.
"Oh shit oh shit oh shit," Clarinet chanted, seeing that other 'things' with the same aura of evil were approaching. They tore into the encircling police officers, while Videl tackled the main demon-
Gohan screamed, doing his best to burn the demonic creatures that were killing the people in the street. They were reveling in it- and even his level 2 super Saiya-jin power was having trouble holding them off-
"VIDEL!" he screamed, seeing her be slammed into the dirt. He was promptly dog piled by salivating monsters that scratched and gnawed at him. Pain filled his universe.
Clarinet had left her cover. She was running- towards Videl, transforming into her natural state-
"No," called a voice, gentle and haunting. All the monsters paused at the sound of that voice, turning towards the speaker.
Videl calmly stood up out of the dust, her eyes glowing whitely.
"The time of awakening is not yet come. If you should be attacking while you are so weak, you will be destroyed. Be gone."
The demons cringed at the voice, which seemed to echo through their bones. They looked into Videl's shining orbs and whispered, with varying degrees of fear and awe-
"Kniiiiiii-ght."
"It's the knight-"
"She'll destroy ussss…"
Videl looked displeased, frowning softly. "I said, be gone." There was a sense of gathering pressure, making all the humans/non demons wince and pop their ears. There was an uncomfortable shifting and moving as the creatures tried to resist, then a harsh wail. A loud POP was heard, as the beasts suddenly weren't there anymore- and the soft glow from Videl faded away. Videl faded with it, falling over, eyes closing into a deep, profound slumber, and the police, Clarinet and Gohan were left to wonder just what had happened…
~*~*~*~*~
Imp-chan tried her best not to stare at the beautiful young woman that was only a few feet away from her, bathing under the crisp, cold falls. The day was absurdly hot, and the chill of the waters was welcome after their hunting. Sweat, blood and dirt washed off their bodies and down stream… Imp-chan loved the water. Its soft babble or fierce roar always soothed her- but not even that could take her mind off the lovely goddess beside her.
She was staring again... Kami-sama help her. Why was she doing that? Sure, Bra made her look like a boyish and coarse, but she was also a girl. Depending on each other for survival had made them very close, closer than even sisters. Imp, who had never had very close friends, treasured this. Bra was just her friend, her beautiful, caring, funny...
When Imp realized where her thoughts were taking her, she face faulted, falling under the water. Sputtering, she was pulled to the surface by the subject of her musings, who looked at her with amusement.
"Trip again?" Bra teased. Imp felt herself blushing, and hoped that Bra thought she was just embarrassed. She wasn't- she was admiring Bra's lips, and enjoying the feel of being close to her in the water, without clothes...
Imp's eyes glazed over and she sank again... And was shaken out of it.
"Imp, if you keep doing this, I'm going to be mad at you. What's wrong? Been out in the sun too much?" the blue haired girl said in concern, and picked Imp out of the water, lofting them both to the shore. Bra had learned to fly when Imp had tripped, and knocked herself out. She had been caught buy an extremely fast Bra, who had dived off the top of the waterfalls they were exploring. Imp had then nicknamed Bra her 'keeper'.
"Keeper of my heart," Imp said under her breath, thinking it was too quiet for Bra to hear.
When the Princess didn't say anything, Imp sighed in relief.
"Could you do the clothes trick again?" her friend said hopefully, looking at their shabby gear. In the four months they had been out there, they had gone through four sets of clothes. They had learned the first time- after an unlucky ki blast, some animal dung and an angry squirrel- that Imp could change their clothing into new garments. This was heaven for two girls, who absolutely hated not having fresh clothes or soap.
"I don't understand guys, why do they think it will toughen you up to go without a proper shampoo?" Bra sighed, as Imp changed her worn blue gi into a new one- with slightly heavier weights. Both had been increasing the weights, when Imp realized she could do that too. Imp changed her purple gi as well, and sighed happily. She was fed, she had clean clothes, she was with Bra...
Her disturbing thoughts from earlier arose again. How did she feel about Bra? What would happen if Bra found out? She couldn't... Right?
"I'm BORED!" Bra muttered, and looked around. "I know, lets leave the island!"
Startled out of her musings, Imp could only return with "Eh- what?"
Bra rolled her eyes. "We could leave- we both can fly now, right? Heck, we could start doing more than survival training, we could train for real! I'm sure there some temples out there that would be interesting, and willing to take in two beautiful women like us," Bra proclaimed, tossing her damp hair. "All right, one beautiful girl and one nice one," Bra said impishly. It was an old joke now- Bra would talk about her beauty while Imp would tease her about her vanity.
"Hey, you are beautiful too," Imp answered, laughing. "Don't put yourself down like that..."
~*~*~*~*~
Videl looked into the mirror in the foyer of her apartment, and fussed a moment with her sunglasses. She had taken to wearing them since... that incident.
The daughter of Mr. Satan knew that she had something inside her- she had known since she could talk. A calm voice would advise her, would help her keep her head when she would have done something stupid. Not that she would always listen-
For the first time, it had completely woken up. It had warned her for her whole life something big was coming, and she had to be ready... She had thought it was Buu, meeting the Saiya-jins and helping Piccolo. Now she knew otherwise, and she was as ready as she could be- no longer a green girl, but an experienced warrior.
She looked out her window with a rakish grin. Let them come.
The sunglasses were to keep the occasional glow from being noticed. The first time it had happened Clarinet had nearly fainted. Clair had been acting odd lately, and it worried Videl. It especially worried her because she knew that Clair and Gohan hadn't been on the best of terms lately- and it didn't help that her true feelings hadn't faded one bit.
Maybe it was finally time to do something about that?
~*~*~*~*~
Another month had passed, and it was nearing the end of the girls' training.
"I don't see why you like that thing," Bra asked, seeing Imp swing her new, massive sword around in mid air.
"Its sharp and pointy!" Imp answered happily, still swinging.
"We need to get you medication when we get back," Bra said, affectionately. "All this being in the wilderness has affected your brain."
"You're just jealous that I was the one to save that temple and they gave me this in thanks!" Imp retorted
Bra didn't answer... because she was a little bit...
"Hey! Those were the training grounds that guy mentioned!" Bra exclaimed. They had told the one Japanese speaker at the temple that they were looking for training- and he had babbled something nearly incoherent about 'springs' and 'training ground'.
"It doesn't look that hard," Imp said, surveying the area. It was just a bunch of springs with bamboo poles of varying lengths stuck in at random intervals. Bra nodded.
"But still, want to give it a go?" she asked, and Imp shrugged. They both flew down to the very edge, where Imp carefully put her sword down. Then, with only their muscles, they jumped to the closest poles.
"You're going down, blue girl!" Imp snarled.
"As if- you are going to be toast!"
They dived at each other, exchanging midair kicks and punches in a flurry, before landing on another pole. This went on for some time-
Until the inevitable happened.
Imp landed on a pole- and the pole BROKE, sending the quarter Saiya-jin down-
"IMP!" Bra screamed, and tried to dive after her- and sent Imp flopping into the next pool over.
Bra landed with a spectacular splash into the spring that nearly claimed Imp-
~*~*~*~*~
Everything was quiet for several moments.
The pool that had swallowed up Bra seemed to erupt- and out shot a young man, with aqua blue hair, in Bra's gi. He was slender but muscled- and a pair of massive black wings beat the air behind him, his arms scaly, and his hands were talons. However, as his wings were soaked, he collapsed into the nearby dirt quickly. He lay there, panting, wondering what the hell had happened- the last thing he remembered was... Falling into a spring.
His mother Filia, he remember, had brought him up as best she could. She was a kind... if eccentric... woman. However, no matter how hard she had tried, she couldn't protect him from himself. When his memories had awoken, he had nearly gone insane, wondering who this person was he had been- who had tried to destroy the world. He'd finally left his comfortable village, and traveled, trying to grapple with himself.
Then he had met up with Gary. His friend, then much more. Enormous, red haired Gary with a hideous orange trench coat. He'd been born in a village off to the south of his own, and had left because he wanted some place big enough for him.
Valteria blinked as more of his last moments came to him- a priest with purple hair had suddenly grabbed him, taken him prisoner, and...
Gary had tried to save him, and had erupted into to the form of a three headed dragon, which had overshadowed the sky- but it was too late, the priest had stabbed him, he'd fallen into the waters, and Gary was someone else, he was lost, his dragon blood turning the clear spring red-
Then he had waken up here.
"Gary?" he said, trying to move his heavy wings. "GARY?"
He looked around, he couldn't have been under water that long, could he? Gary should be around here, somewhere-
Then a bonbori collided with his head.
~*~*~*~*~
Imp's skin tingled as the little warrior dropped like a stone. Power hummed all around her, not the strength of ki- that she was used to, that she could understand. This was completely different. She opened her mouth to scream as the hum turned to a roar, and the tingle to a thousand needles lancing her skin and her soul. Fluid rushed into her lungs and she choked, wanting to cough but not being able to. An ancient, immense spirit flooded in with the water. It battered at the place of her soul, trying to take her place.
A young girl shouldn't have been able to fight that. She couldn't- who could withstand a god?
But if she didn't survive, she wouldn't be able to see Bra again-
NO!
Golden light shone above the pool as Imp-chan went Super Saiya-jin, screaming to the heavens-
The invading spirit paused, and two very different souls looked at each other. Gaav, the demon dragon king, general of the Dark Lord Shabridingo, and rebel of the Demon Tribe. A creature that had been forced to be reborn into a human body and a human soul. A man who had also been in love with his servant and brought his soul back from hell to be born to meet him again. Imp, the child of three races and in love with a girl that could have been a female version of Val...
The meeting had bizarre conclusion-
Two souls in one body, and a merging of memories.
~*~*~*~*~
A red haired man, nearly eight feet tall with blue eyes and rough hewn features floated to the top of the water, and seemed to stand there for several moments, looking around. He stepped out, and saw the massive sword on the side of the springs, that looked oddly like his... well, it looked familiar.
In looking around, he noticed... several women, and an aqua haired young man who was unconscious. He felt oddly angered at that sight.
"Ah," said, what for all intents and purposes could have been a walking prune, "I see you both have been cursed by Jusenkyo. Easily remedied-"
splash
Hot water hit him in the face, turning he into a she, and Imp-chan had her memories back and passed out cold.
~*~*~*~*~
Imp and Bra, who had been dressed in new Chinese clothes, dry, and wondering what the hell had happened, were sitting in front of a very old woman named Shampoo.
"So, you are saying that we fell into these cursed springs, we now will change into whatever when hit with cold water, and that warm water will change us back?" Bra said in shock, her eyebrows hitting her hairline.
The Elder nodded. "Had you waited for the Guide, you would have been spared this discomfort," she rebuked mildly.
"What did we turn into?" Imp said in curiosity, shock having blurred her memory.
"Best to show you," Shampoo replied and dashed her cold tea into their faces. Both girls recoiled, because both had just bathed in HOT water for the first time in five months. Bra's change was mild- she simply became a little taller, more muscular, and changed genders. Her wings this time were absent.
A rip like gun shot snarled, announcing that Imp had just outgrown her clothing.
"Oh shit," the large male said, instinctively covering his chest, then his privates.
The Elder Shampoo smiled faintly. "This might be a problem..."
To be continued!