Chapter 2
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Wow! Thanks everyone for the reviews! I didn't know it would be that popular, I hope I don't let you guys down!
I also really appreciate the correction of Gohan's name, silly me. But that means you guys are really reading it to notice details like that! ^.^
Oops, I really didn't notice how bad a cliffhanger that was until you guys pointed it out! Gomen! I usually don't do that. ;P Thanks everyone for the suggestions, keep them coming!
And, thanks for the title suggestions. They were very helpful; they really did help me come up with the title. What do you think of this title? I promise it has relevance.
Am I talking too much, tell me if I am, I won't write as much next time if you think I am. ^.^'
To get started: In the DBZ dimension: Takes place after Freeza. The Nameks have left. Goku came back and got Freeza. Vegeta has already become a Super Saiyan. Don't count on Trunks (:( I'm disappointed too, believe me).
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"Who is she?" Goku asked with anger over her appearance apparent in his voice.
The Z gang all sat in a room in Kami's floating home. In the middle of the room was a bed where Eternal Sailor Moon was laying unconscious. She was still beaten and bruised badly with her fuku all battered and torn, with dried bloodstains on her fuku and in her hair. Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Krillin, Tien, Chaozu, Yamcha and Bulma were all in the room and none of them could look at the poor girl for more then a few seconds. All they could do was glance and then grimace at seeing her in so much pain. Here was this beautiful girl who had gone through so much torture, even Vegeta wanted to go rip the heads off whoever did this to her. When Bulma had entered the room she had immediately run over to her and tried to see what she could do to help her.
"She's from another dimension," Kami said, reluctant explain more.
"What happened to her, and why is she here?" Krillin asked.
"Apparently Garlic Jr. has escaped from the Dead Zone into her dimension. According to the Guardian of time and space, his appearance there has drastically changed the natural order of events for their dimension. If they don't stop him their future could be changed forever." He paused for a second not really wanting to go on with the rest of the information Sailor Pluto had given him when she dropped off the princess. He was about to speak more but decided to just say something else. "Sailor Pluto didn't really tell me what to do with her now that she is here, but she'll be here awhile. The timelines in our dimensions are so different that years could go by here for just one day there."
"What did Garlic Jr. do to her?" asked Krillin.
"It wasn't exactly him that did it to her...it was-"
"The Black Water Mist" Piccolo finished for him with a scowl on his face.
"That's correct. It was the Black Water Mist. She and five others were the only ones who missed being infected by the mist, one of them didn't make it..." he tapered off, not wanting to go into the gory details of Mamoru's death.
"Gee," Gohan said amazed.
"But who is she?" Bulma asked.
"She is one of the warriors of their planet. She was attacked by her friends, which is why she is in the state she is in right now, she didn't want to hurt them back."
A humph came from the corner of the room where Vegeta was leaning against the wall. Everyone just ignored him as usual.
"So do we go to her dimension and stop him?" asked Goku, who was still trying to look at the ground rather at the poor girl.
"I'm afraid that would be impossible. If we were to go into her dimension then we would age incredibly quickly due to the time differences in our dimension, old men wouldn't have a chance against Garlic Jr.; not to mention their atmosphere is poisonous for us."
"I see. Garlic Jr. is immortal so it doesn't effect him," Bulma said understanding.
"Then what are we supposed to do, just wait for him to take over her world and then try and come here and take over ours? I don't know about you guys but I'm not ready to take on an entire earth's population." Goku said.
"I haven't thought that far yet. Right now we're just waiting for Mr. Popo to come back with the senzu bean from Coren (I think I spelled his name wrong...)," Kami said a little nervously.
"There's something you're hiding," Piccolo said accusingly.
Everyone turned to look at Piccolo who was glaring at Kami.
When he had everyone's attention and Kami had looked down with regret, he continued, "Have you noticed the fact that she's been bitten? If you give her the senzu bean then she'll wake up and infect us all!"
The people in the room exchanged nervous looks.
"I noticed the bite, but she isn't infected," Kami said as if they were pulling teeth. He really didn't want to explain too much.
"How come?" asked Gohan in a confused manner.
Kami hesitated for a few seconds. "Because she isn't human, she's Lunarian."
"What?!" Vegeta yelled, shocked. "That race still exists in their dimension?"
"Sort of, she is the soul survivor of the Lunarian race in her dimension, I don't know much more then that," said Kami with finality in his voice. He wasn't planning on letting them, especially Vegeta, know that she was a princess and future queen of the solar system. He didn't want to risk Vegeta attempting anything.
"Humph!" Vegeta said as he retreated to his corner.
"Oh man! This really sucks!" Krillin said. "Gohan just got rid of that guy! He just keeps on coming back doesn't he!"
"That's what happens when you're immortal," Piccolo spat.
"What do you mean, Gohan just got rid of him?" Yamcha asked.
"Yeah, what do you mean? I don't remember that," Bulma added.
"Humph," Piccolo said with a half smile.
"Well ah...you guys were kinda-" Gohan didn't get to finish explaining that they were running around like zombies (the blackwater mist), because Mr. Popo ran in the room out of breath, holding up the senzu bean.
"I've got it!" he exclaimed happily.
Before he could give the senzu bean to Serena, Vegeta fazed out of his corner and fazed back in right next to Mr. Popo and grabbed the senzu bean.
"Vegeta what are you doing?" Goku demanded, "Let him give her the bean."
"If she truly is a Lunarian, then I think I'd be doing us all a favor by letting her perish." Vegeta said gruffly.
"What are you talking about Vegeta?" Tien said.
"As a boy I heard a legend of the Lunarians that spoke of their great power, power that surpasses that of a super saiyan even. Not only that, it's because of the Lunarians that Saiyans turn in to ware-monkeys when they see the full moon."
"Really? Isn't that a good thing for you then? I mean, isn't it your strongest form? You should thank her for letting the Saiyans transform," Krillin pointed out.
"No Baldy, it isn't a good thing. Before that we could transform whenever we wanted to, without the full moon." Vegeta shot back at him, causing Krillin to lean back as far away from him as possible.
Goku laughed and held out his hand to Vegeta, "Give me the senzu bean, Vegeta."
Mumbling rather unkind things under his breath, Vegeta gave Goku the bean and folded his arms. All the others could pick up was something like "Baka...third class...bastard...onna." Then he said audibly, "You'll all be sorry, I know Lunarians are powerful."
"If she was that powerful then she would've already been able to stop Garlic Jr., don't you think?" Goku reasoned as he placed the senzu bean in Sailor Moon's mouth. "Besides Vegeta, since when are you afraid of a girl?"
Vegeta was tempted to rip off Goku's head, but as he began to verbally assault him everyone in the room shushed him as they all stared at Serena.
Almost immediately after Goku had placed the senzu bean in Serena's mouth her wounds began to heal, the dried blood disappeared and bruises faded away.
They all crowded around the bed she was lying on and watched her to see what would happen when she woke up.
"Look, she's waking up," Bulma whispered.
The people surrounding the bed leaned in closer just as the girl opened her beautiful crystal blue eyes. She blinked a few times, as if she couldn't see what was in front of her and then she opened her mouth and screamed. "MAMO-CHAN...NOOOOOOO!"
The sudden outburst caused everyone around her to fall backwards covering their ears. Serena just kept on screaming as loud and as high pitched as she could until Bulma jumped up and hugged her trying to comfort her. After a short while she calmed down and everyone was able to relax.
"Oh yeah, Vegeta," Krillin said, yelling to talk over the ringing in his ears. "She's really dangerous...for your ears!"
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One hour later everyone was still sitting around Kami's Palace talking, it was starting to get dark. They had explained the situation to Serena and were trying to make her understand. It had taken awhile just to prove to her that they weren't going to hurt her, especially Piccolo, Kami, and Tien (cause they all look different...ah never mind :P). Once she felt safe she decided it would be better to get out of her half-there, ripped and torn fuku. When she de-transformed she was even more embarrassed to be in her pink bunny pajamas. When her cat was trying to kill her she hadn't had time to change out of them. She had turned bright red when Yamcha laughed at her.
Vegeta was standing in the corner still, with his arms crossed watching Serena very carefully, studying her every move to make sure she didn't try anything. Yamcha was asleep leaning against Bulma who had her eyes half closed. Gohan and Krillin were watching Serena, very interested in the situation. Goku was trying his hardest to stay awake but wasn't doing a very good job. Piccolo was being his usual self, not saying much just listening, and pretending he wasn't interested with an unhappy look on his face. Kami was trying to explain everything.
"So let me get this straight," Serena finally said after listening to Kami for a while. "This Radish (Garlic Jr.) guy collected seven dragon eggs (balls) and made a wish to be immortal? He wants to kill that little kid," she said indicating Gohan, "so he's turning everyone from my dimension into zombie/vampires so that he has a big enough army to come over here and take over the world?"
"Eh, basically...he just wants to rule the world, make it suffer," Kami said.
"Then what are we doing sitting around here? Since you guys are fighters why don't we just go on over to my dimension, kill Garnet (Garlic Jr.) then turn my friends back to normal?"
"It really isn't that simple. You see-"
Serena cut him off, "Well if you guys don't want to help that's fine, just tell me how to get back to my friends," as she said this her voice started to crack and her hand went to her neck as if it were bothering her.
"If you went back you would only be wasting your life. According to the way Sailor Pluto explained your method of fighting you wouldn't stand a chance," Kami said kindly and patiently. "Your best bet is to wait for Sailor Pluto to return."
"If what you say is true and our 'fighting methods don't stand a chance' against him, then Sailor Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn don't stand a chance against him," Serena reasoned with fear apparent in her voice.
"I gave her our bottle of the Water of Life, and I told her how to weaken him by destroying the star. She said she would return in a half a year our time. If you wish to return with her then, be my guest, but it is not in my power to open the portal needed to get you back home."
Serena nodded, she wanted to curl up in a ball and cry but she forced herself not to. If she was to be stuck with these strange people for a half a year while her friends suffered a half a day then she was determined to make the best of it. She turned to Gohan, who was watching her carefully, "If you beat him last time, can you please teach me?"
"Ha Ha Ha, you want Kakorott's little brat to teach you how to fight?" Vegeta laughed.
"I'm sure we can all help teach you, Gohan is still learning himself," Goku said kindly.
Serena smiled for the first time that day, "Thank you so much!"
Kami sighed, he wasn't sure he was happy with the way things were turning out. Just knowing Garlic Jr. was making another plot to take over the world, didn't make him too happy. "Well we can't start training tonight, I think it's time to call it a night." He said sounding old.
"Oh Serena, you don't have anyplace to stay. I would be honored if you would stay with me at my house," Bulma offered, beaming at Serena.
"Thank you very much," she said politely.
Everyone took his or her turn to leave at that moment. Goku and Gohan left giving a few words of encouragement and jumped off the edge of Kami's house. Krillin followed doing the same. Tien and Chaozu bowed to her then left. When Yamcha's turn came, he shook her hand and kissed it. Bulma slapped him upside the head and then giggled to Serena showing there were no hard feelings. Kami wished her well and promised they would meet again soon to talk. Piccolo nodded to her and promised he would see her bright and early in the morning.
Bulma shouted to Vegeta to come and started leading Serena to the edge f Kami's floating house, then she remembered she had to speak to Kami about some project she was doing and ran back to talk to him. Serena just kept on walking, at the same time looking in the sky at all the stars. She turned around and started walking backwards as she was looking for the moon. Of course she didn't know she was thousands of miles up in the air, so when she came to the end of Kami's palace she fell right off the edge.
As she was falling she looked down below her, and in the light of the stars she could see clouds. 'I'm above the clouds! Oh my gosh, I'm going to die!' The only other time she had ever fallen from this high up was when Pegasus gave her wings to save Chibi-Usa, she doubted somehow he was going to show up and give her wings this time.
She closed her eyes started wailing at the top of her lungs as she plummeted to the earth far below. She was falling for what seemed like forever when her decent ended abruptly. 'Am I safe? Or did I pass out?' She stopped screaming and opened her eyes to see Vegeta staring back at her.
"You're a Lunarian warrior and you don't even know how to fly?" he asked amazed and cynical at the same time.
Just the way he said it to her made her angry and she completely forgot how he had just saved her life. "Fly? How am I supposed to fly without wings? People don't do that where I come from!" she spat uncharacteristically back at him. (give her a break, she's had a long day)
He rolled his eyes and then without warning bolted back up to Kami's. He hadn't intended on causing her to cling on him so hard, but that didn't mean he didn't enjoy terrifying her so much. (aww...:D)
Bulma was waiting for them, all apologies, as they made it back up. Vegeta nearly had to pry Serena off of him, she was holding on so hard. Bulma promised Serena that she wouldn't leave her again until she was comfortable by herself.
"Usually I would have driven my hover car, but Kami told us it was an emergency and it was more convenient to take Vegeta," Bulma laughed. Serena was still too sick to laugh with her. "Poor thing, let's get home now, Vegeta."
"Don't tell me what to do, woman," Vegeta hissed as he picked up Bulma and Serena by their waists and blasted off, causing Serena to hold on for her dear life.
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After Vegeta, Bulma, and Serena had made the trip back to Capsule Corp, Bulma had hurried Serena into the kitchen sure that she was famished. Once Serena had gotten over the shock of the wild ride to CC she realized she hadn't eaten all day. The thought of all that had happened only that morning caused her to almost cry so she pushed it out of her mind.
"I hope you like pizza," Bulma said as she was fishing through the refrigerator.
"You bet!" said Serena, her stomach grumbling just at the thought.
Serena sat down at the table as Bulma set to work getting her food.
She felt strange, a flood of emotions washed over her face as she became lost in her thoughts. Her mind told her she should be all beaten up but when she looked at her arms they were perfectly normal; she pictured the deep scratch Luna had given her that morning, but it was gone now. It wasn't fair. She didn't deserve to be alive when Mamo-chan was-She forced herself to stop thinking about it, she knew she couldn't handle it and she didn't want to start crying in front of Bulma. She changed her mind to her friends, some of them were lost, and the others were fighting for her world and their lives, it wasn't fair, Serena wanted to be there! Her face darkened with anger. How could she just sit around for a few months knowing what was going on with the ones she loved?
Bulma's voice woke Serena from her thoughts, "Do you want anything Vegeta?" she asked rudely.
Serena looked around the room slightly startled. She hadn't realized Vegeta had followed them into the kitchen. When her eyes fell on him she shrank. He was standing in the corner staring straight at her. 'Has he been watching me this entire time?' she wondered to herself.
"Here you go," said Bulma, as she gave Serena her plate of pizza.
"Thanks," said Serena immediately forgetting about everything else but her food.
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He looked down on her lying there peacefully; her golden hair spread all around her, framing her face, her long eye lashes delicately resting against her soft pink cheek. She looked so serene and beautiful asleep.
'So this is a mighty Lunarian,' he thought as moved silently closer to her. He couldn't believe that this girl could have the power he'd heard of when he was a child.
This was the legend he heard:
Long ago, when the Saiyan race was young, a great empire ruled the universe. They were strong, like gods, but in them there was no wish for power, no wish for anything other than the well being of others.
They formed moons around the planets they protected. In exchange for the peace and serenity they offered the races they protected, all they asked for was assurance that the inhabitants would be peaceful and not seek war. Under the rule of Lunarians other races lived long, peaceful and happy lives.
Though there are always those who cannot accept peace. The Solarites were as powerful as gods as well, except they didn't like peace. They declared war against the Lunarians and asked all the races under the control of the Lunarians to join them against the Lunarians.
The Saiyans, being power hungry and war craving, pledged allegiance to the Solarites. The Solarites were pleased with the Sayians and bestowed on them the power to change into oozarus, ware-monkeys. In this form they were nearly unstoppable and a valuable asset to the Solarite army. .
The Lunarians wished to punish the Sayians for turning against them and they feared the oozarus lack of control and lack of morals. They used their power to punish the Sayians to only change into oozarus when they saw the light of the full moon. It was ironic because the Sayians had rejected the Lunarians in order to gain more power and they ended up needing them to keep their power.
Eventually the Solarites and the Lunarians destroyed each other and the planets and races left behind started over.
The Saiyans stayed power-hungry and were always fighting, a blessing or a curse, from their allegiance with the Solarites. They still relied upon the moon ruins left behind from the Lunarian bases to grow in power.
Vegeta looked down at her wondering if she held the power that the Lunarians of old did. He reached down and gently caressed her cheek. As his skin made contact with her smooth skin he felt her power. It was strong, and it was good. It filled his body with energy and seemed to awaken feelings he hadn't felt for a very long time (no, not those feelings...but remember that he felt strange feelings and I'll explain them later. ;)) He jerked his hand away from her and the feeling gradually faded away. He didn't have to fear her, but he'd keep his distance. He slowly backed toward the door, deciding it was safe to leave her alone. He took one last look at her beauty as he closed the door.
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What do you think, should I continue? Yes? No? Maybe so? Tell me what you think? I just gotta know. Give me suggestions, corrections, anything! ^_^'
In the next chapter (I'll try and have it out next weekend), We find out what's happening to our friends back in the SM dimension. Who's that hooded person that helps Garlic Jr.? Find out next time on BLACKBLOOD MIST!
~Shi ------- Shigal5@aol.com (please feel free e-mail me with any questions. In fact I insist!)
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Wow! Thanks everyone for the reviews! I didn't know it would be that popular, I hope I don't let you guys down!
I also really appreciate the correction of Gohan's name, silly me. But that means you guys are really reading it to notice details like that! ^.^
Oops, I really didn't notice how bad a cliffhanger that was until you guys pointed it out! Gomen! I usually don't do that. ;P Thanks everyone for the suggestions, keep them coming!
And, thanks for the title suggestions. They were very helpful; they really did help me come up with the title. What do you think of this title? I promise it has relevance.
Am I talking too much, tell me if I am, I won't write as much next time if you think I am. ^.^'
To get started: In the DBZ dimension: Takes place after Freeza. The Nameks have left. Goku came back and got Freeza. Vegeta has already become a Super Saiyan. Don't count on Trunks (:( I'm disappointed too, believe me).
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"Who is she?" Goku asked with anger over her appearance apparent in his voice.
The Z gang all sat in a room in Kami's floating home. In the middle of the room was a bed where Eternal Sailor Moon was laying unconscious. She was still beaten and bruised badly with her fuku all battered and torn, with dried bloodstains on her fuku and in her hair. Goku, Gohan, Piccolo, Vegeta, Krillin, Tien, Chaozu, Yamcha and Bulma were all in the room and none of them could look at the poor girl for more then a few seconds. All they could do was glance and then grimace at seeing her in so much pain. Here was this beautiful girl who had gone through so much torture, even Vegeta wanted to go rip the heads off whoever did this to her. When Bulma had entered the room she had immediately run over to her and tried to see what she could do to help her.
"She's from another dimension," Kami said, reluctant explain more.
"What happened to her, and why is she here?" Krillin asked.
"Apparently Garlic Jr. has escaped from the Dead Zone into her dimension. According to the Guardian of time and space, his appearance there has drastically changed the natural order of events for their dimension. If they don't stop him their future could be changed forever." He paused for a second not really wanting to go on with the rest of the information Sailor Pluto had given him when she dropped off the princess. He was about to speak more but decided to just say something else. "Sailor Pluto didn't really tell me what to do with her now that she is here, but she'll be here awhile. The timelines in our dimensions are so different that years could go by here for just one day there."
"What did Garlic Jr. do to her?" asked Krillin.
"It wasn't exactly him that did it to her...it was-"
"The Black Water Mist" Piccolo finished for him with a scowl on his face.
"That's correct. It was the Black Water Mist. She and five others were the only ones who missed being infected by the mist, one of them didn't make it..." he tapered off, not wanting to go into the gory details of Mamoru's death.
"Gee," Gohan said amazed.
"But who is she?" Bulma asked.
"She is one of the warriors of their planet. She was attacked by her friends, which is why she is in the state she is in right now, she didn't want to hurt them back."
A humph came from the corner of the room where Vegeta was leaning against the wall. Everyone just ignored him as usual.
"So do we go to her dimension and stop him?" asked Goku, who was still trying to look at the ground rather at the poor girl.
"I'm afraid that would be impossible. If we were to go into her dimension then we would age incredibly quickly due to the time differences in our dimension, old men wouldn't have a chance against Garlic Jr.; not to mention their atmosphere is poisonous for us."
"I see. Garlic Jr. is immortal so it doesn't effect him," Bulma said understanding.
"Then what are we supposed to do, just wait for him to take over her world and then try and come here and take over ours? I don't know about you guys but I'm not ready to take on an entire earth's population." Goku said.
"I haven't thought that far yet. Right now we're just waiting for Mr. Popo to come back with the senzu bean from Coren (I think I spelled his name wrong...)," Kami said a little nervously.
"There's something you're hiding," Piccolo said accusingly.
Everyone turned to look at Piccolo who was glaring at Kami.
When he had everyone's attention and Kami had looked down with regret, he continued, "Have you noticed the fact that she's been bitten? If you give her the senzu bean then she'll wake up and infect us all!"
The people in the room exchanged nervous looks.
"I noticed the bite, but she isn't infected," Kami said as if they were pulling teeth. He really didn't want to explain too much.
"How come?" asked Gohan in a confused manner.
Kami hesitated for a few seconds. "Because she isn't human, she's Lunarian."
"What?!" Vegeta yelled, shocked. "That race still exists in their dimension?"
"Sort of, she is the soul survivor of the Lunarian race in her dimension, I don't know much more then that," said Kami with finality in his voice. He wasn't planning on letting them, especially Vegeta, know that she was a princess and future queen of the solar system. He didn't want to risk Vegeta attempting anything.
"Humph!" Vegeta said as he retreated to his corner.
"Oh man! This really sucks!" Krillin said. "Gohan just got rid of that guy! He just keeps on coming back doesn't he!"
"That's what happens when you're immortal," Piccolo spat.
"What do you mean, Gohan just got rid of him?" Yamcha asked.
"Yeah, what do you mean? I don't remember that," Bulma added.
"Humph," Piccolo said with a half smile.
"Well ah...you guys were kinda-" Gohan didn't get to finish explaining that they were running around like zombies (the blackwater mist), because Mr. Popo ran in the room out of breath, holding up the senzu bean.
"I've got it!" he exclaimed happily.
Before he could give the senzu bean to Serena, Vegeta fazed out of his corner and fazed back in right next to Mr. Popo and grabbed the senzu bean.
"Vegeta what are you doing?" Goku demanded, "Let him give her the bean."
"If she truly is a Lunarian, then I think I'd be doing us all a favor by letting her perish." Vegeta said gruffly.
"What are you talking about Vegeta?" Tien said.
"As a boy I heard a legend of the Lunarians that spoke of their great power, power that surpasses that of a super saiyan even. Not only that, it's because of the Lunarians that Saiyans turn in to ware-monkeys when they see the full moon."
"Really? Isn't that a good thing for you then? I mean, isn't it your strongest form? You should thank her for letting the Saiyans transform," Krillin pointed out.
"No Baldy, it isn't a good thing. Before that we could transform whenever we wanted to, without the full moon." Vegeta shot back at him, causing Krillin to lean back as far away from him as possible.
Goku laughed and held out his hand to Vegeta, "Give me the senzu bean, Vegeta."
Mumbling rather unkind things under his breath, Vegeta gave Goku the bean and folded his arms. All the others could pick up was something like "Baka...third class...bastard...onna." Then he said audibly, "You'll all be sorry, I know Lunarians are powerful."
"If she was that powerful then she would've already been able to stop Garlic Jr., don't you think?" Goku reasoned as he placed the senzu bean in Sailor Moon's mouth. "Besides Vegeta, since when are you afraid of a girl?"
Vegeta was tempted to rip off Goku's head, but as he began to verbally assault him everyone in the room shushed him as they all stared at Serena.
Almost immediately after Goku had placed the senzu bean in Serena's mouth her wounds began to heal, the dried blood disappeared and bruises faded away.
They all crowded around the bed she was lying on and watched her to see what would happen when she woke up.
"Look, she's waking up," Bulma whispered.
The people surrounding the bed leaned in closer just as the girl opened her beautiful crystal blue eyes. She blinked a few times, as if she couldn't see what was in front of her and then she opened her mouth and screamed. "MAMO-CHAN...NOOOOOOO!"
The sudden outburst caused everyone around her to fall backwards covering their ears. Serena just kept on screaming as loud and as high pitched as she could until Bulma jumped up and hugged her trying to comfort her. After a short while she calmed down and everyone was able to relax.
"Oh yeah, Vegeta," Krillin said, yelling to talk over the ringing in his ears. "She's really dangerous...for your ears!"
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One hour later everyone was still sitting around Kami's Palace talking, it was starting to get dark. They had explained the situation to Serena and were trying to make her understand. It had taken awhile just to prove to her that they weren't going to hurt her, especially Piccolo, Kami, and Tien (cause they all look different...ah never mind :P). Once she felt safe she decided it would be better to get out of her half-there, ripped and torn fuku. When she de-transformed she was even more embarrassed to be in her pink bunny pajamas. When her cat was trying to kill her she hadn't had time to change out of them. She had turned bright red when Yamcha laughed at her.
Vegeta was standing in the corner still, with his arms crossed watching Serena very carefully, studying her every move to make sure she didn't try anything. Yamcha was asleep leaning against Bulma who had her eyes half closed. Gohan and Krillin were watching Serena, very interested in the situation. Goku was trying his hardest to stay awake but wasn't doing a very good job. Piccolo was being his usual self, not saying much just listening, and pretending he wasn't interested with an unhappy look on his face. Kami was trying to explain everything.
"So let me get this straight," Serena finally said after listening to Kami for a while. "This Radish (Garlic Jr.) guy collected seven dragon eggs (balls) and made a wish to be immortal? He wants to kill that little kid," she said indicating Gohan, "so he's turning everyone from my dimension into zombie/vampires so that he has a big enough army to come over here and take over the world?"
"Eh, basically...he just wants to rule the world, make it suffer," Kami said.
"Then what are we doing sitting around here? Since you guys are fighters why don't we just go on over to my dimension, kill Garnet (Garlic Jr.) then turn my friends back to normal?"
"It really isn't that simple. You see-"
Serena cut him off, "Well if you guys don't want to help that's fine, just tell me how to get back to my friends," as she said this her voice started to crack and her hand went to her neck as if it were bothering her.
"If you went back you would only be wasting your life. According to the way Sailor Pluto explained your method of fighting you wouldn't stand a chance," Kami said kindly and patiently. "Your best bet is to wait for Sailor Pluto to return."
"If what you say is true and our 'fighting methods don't stand a chance' against him, then Sailor Pluto, Neptune, Uranus, and Saturn don't stand a chance against him," Serena reasoned with fear apparent in her voice.
"I gave her our bottle of the Water of Life, and I told her how to weaken him by destroying the star. She said she would return in a half a year our time. If you wish to return with her then, be my guest, but it is not in my power to open the portal needed to get you back home."
Serena nodded, she wanted to curl up in a ball and cry but she forced herself not to. If she was to be stuck with these strange people for a half a year while her friends suffered a half a day then she was determined to make the best of it. She turned to Gohan, who was watching her carefully, "If you beat him last time, can you please teach me?"
"Ha Ha Ha, you want Kakorott's little brat to teach you how to fight?" Vegeta laughed.
"I'm sure we can all help teach you, Gohan is still learning himself," Goku said kindly.
Serena smiled for the first time that day, "Thank you so much!"
Kami sighed, he wasn't sure he was happy with the way things were turning out. Just knowing Garlic Jr. was making another plot to take over the world, didn't make him too happy. "Well we can't start training tonight, I think it's time to call it a night." He said sounding old.
"Oh Serena, you don't have anyplace to stay. I would be honored if you would stay with me at my house," Bulma offered, beaming at Serena.
"Thank you very much," she said politely.
Everyone took his or her turn to leave at that moment. Goku and Gohan left giving a few words of encouragement and jumped off the edge of Kami's house. Krillin followed doing the same. Tien and Chaozu bowed to her then left. When Yamcha's turn came, he shook her hand and kissed it. Bulma slapped him upside the head and then giggled to Serena showing there were no hard feelings. Kami wished her well and promised they would meet again soon to talk. Piccolo nodded to her and promised he would see her bright and early in the morning.
Bulma shouted to Vegeta to come and started leading Serena to the edge f Kami's floating house, then she remembered she had to speak to Kami about some project she was doing and ran back to talk to him. Serena just kept on walking, at the same time looking in the sky at all the stars. She turned around and started walking backwards as she was looking for the moon. Of course she didn't know she was thousands of miles up in the air, so when she came to the end of Kami's palace she fell right off the edge.
As she was falling she looked down below her, and in the light of the stars she could see clouds. 'I'm above the clouds! Oh my gosh, I'm going to die!' The only other time she had ever fallen from this high up was when Pegasus gave her wings to save Chibi-Usa, she doubted somehow he was going to show up and give her wings this time.
She closed her eyes started wailing at the top of her lungs as she plummeted to the earth far below. She was falling for what seemed like forever when her decent ended abruptly. 'Am I safe? Or did I pass out?' She stopped screaming and opened her eyes to see Vegeta staring back at her.
"You're a Lunarian warrior and you don't even know how to fly?" he asked amazed and cynical at the same time.
Just the way he said it to her made her angry and she completely forgot how he had just saved her life. "Fly? How am I supposed to fly without wings? People don't do that where I come from!" she spat uncharacteristically back at him. (give her a break, she's had a long day)
He rolled his eyes and then without warning bolted back up to Kami's. He hadn't intended on causing her to cling on him so hard, but that didn't mean he didn't enjoy terrifying her so much. (aww...:D)
Bulma was waiting for them, all apologies, as they made it back up. Vegeta nearly had to pry Serena off of him, she was holding on so hard. Bulma promised Serena that she wouldn't leave her again until she was comfortable by herself.
"Usually I would have driven my hover car, but Kami told us it was an emergency and it was more convenient to take Vegeta," Bulma laughed. Serena was still too sick to laugh with her. "Poor thing, let's get home now, Vegeta."
"Don't tell me what to do, woman," Vegeta hissed as he picked up Bulma and Serena by their waists and blasted off, causing Serena to hold on for her dear life.
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After Vegeta, Bulma, and Serena had made the trip back to Capsule Corp, Bulma had hurried Serena into the kitchen sure that she was famished. Once Serena had gotten over the shock of the wild ride to CC she realized she hadn't eaten all day. The thought of all that had happened only that morning caused her to almost cry so she pushed it out of her mind.
"I hope you like pizza," Bulma said as she was fishing through the refrigerator.
"You bet!" said Serena, her stomach grumbling just at the thought.
Serena sat down at the table as Bulma set to work getting her food.
She felt strange, a flood of emotions washed over her face as she became lost in her thoughts. Her mind told her she should be all beaten up but when she looked at her arms they were perfectly normal; she pictured the deep scratch Luna had given her that morning, but it was gone now. It wasn't fair. She didn't deserve to be alive when Mamo-chan was-She forced herself to stop thinking about it, she knew she couldn't handle it and she didn't want to start crying in front of Bulma. She changed her mind to her friends, some of them were lost, and the others were fighting for her world and their lives, it wasn't fair, Serena wanted to be there! Her face darkened with anger. How could she just sit around for a few months knowing what was going on with the ones she loved?
Bulma's voice woke Serena from her thoughts, "Do you want anything Vegeta?" she asked rudely.
Serena looked around the room slightly startled. She hadn't realized Vegeta had followed them into the kitchen. When her eyes fell on him she shrank. He was standing in the corner staring straight at her. 'Has he been watching me this entire time?' she wondered to herself.
"Here you go," said Bulma, as she gave Serena her plate of pizza.
"Thanks," said Serena immediately forgetting about everything else but her food.
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He looked down on her lying there peacefully; her golden hair spread all around her, framing her face, her long eye lashes delicately resting against her soft pink cheek. She looked so serene and beautiful asleep.
'So this is a mighty Lunarian,' he thought as moved silently closer to her. He couldn't believe that this girl could have the power he'd heard of when he was a child.
This was the legend he heard:
Long ago, when the Saiyan race was young, a great empire ruled the universe. They were strong, like gods, but in them there was no wish for power, no wish for anything other than the well being of others.
They formed moons around the planets they protected. In exchange for the peace and serenity they offered the races they protected, all they asked for was assurance that the inhabitants would be peaceful and not seek war. Under the rule of Lunarians other races lived long, peaceful and happy lives.
Though there are always those who cannot accept peace. The Solarites were as powerful as gods as well, except they didn't like peace. They declared war against the Lunarians and asked all the races under the control of the Lunarians to join them against the Lunarians.
The Saiyans, being power hungry and war craving, pledged allegiance to the Solarites. The Solarites were pleased with the Sayians and bestowed on them the power to change into oozarus, ware-monkeys. In this form they were nearly unstoppable and a valuable asset to the Solarite army. .
The Lunarians wished to punish the Sayians for turning against them and they feared the oozarus lack of control and lack of morals. They used their power to punish the Sayians to only change into oozarus when they saw the light of the full moon. It was ironic because the Sayians had rejected the Lunarians in order to gain more power and they ended up needing them to keep their power.
Eventually the Solarites and the Lunarians destroyed each other and the planets and races left behind started over.
The Saiyans stayed power-hungry and were always fighting, a blessing or a curse, from their allegiance with the Solarites. They still relied upon the moon ruins left behind from the Lunarian bases to grow in power.
Vegeta looked down at her wondering if she held the power that the Lunarians of old did. He reached down and gently caressed her cheek. As his skin made contact with her smooth skin he felt her power. It was strong, and it was good. It filled his body with energy and seemed to awaken feelings he hadn't felt for a very long time (no, not those feelings...but remember that he felt strange feelings and I'll explain them later. ;)) He jerked his hand away from her and the feeling gradually faded away. He didn't have to fear her, but he'd keep his distance. He slowly backed toward the door, deciding it was safe to leave her alone. He took one last look at her beauty as he closed the door.
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What do you think, should I continue? Yes? No? Maybe so? Tell me what you think? I just gotta know. Give me suggestions, corrections, anything! ^_^'
In the next chapter (I'll try and have it out next weekend), We find out what's happening to our friends back in the SM dimension. Who's that hooded person that helps Garlic Jr.? Find out next time on BLACKBLOOD MIST!
~Shi ------- Shigal5@aol.com (please feel free e-mail me with any questions. In fact I insist!)