The Unholy Blackblood Mist
Chapter 8 : Talc Returns
AN: *_*'
Summary of story so far: Garlic Jr. takes over the Sailor dimension, the inner senshi are taken over by his new blackwater mist, and Mamo-chan is killed by them. The outers save Serena and bring her to the DBZ dimension for safekeeping. Serena is trained by Piccolo and is now being trained by Vegeta. In the last chapter Serena went through an unnatural transformation to a higher level of power, and it left her not feeling very well.
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Serena lowered herself into a fighting stance and began to concentrate her power. Vegeta stood in front of her with his arms crossed, examining her moves. This was the first time she was going to try and transform after last weeks battle between the two.
He had seriously been scared that night. After he had made sure she was physically alright he became afraid that he had gone to far...that she would hate him, even fear him. That was the last thing he wanted. He feared the moment when she would wake up and pull herself out of his arms in horror...but she hadn't done that. He had held her through the night and half the day, he watched as she slowly opened her blue eyes and they smiled at him, a genuine smile. He was amazed how all his fears disappeared from one smile; she was the only one who had ever made him feel that way. She accepted him and didn't judge him when he let down his guard.
"It's not working!" she dropped her arms and screamed in frustration. For some reason she just couldn't transform, was she doing something wrong?
"You're too weak, you're not ready yet."
"Look buddy, I did it before...remember? You were there too!" Even though even when she was transformed it felt weird...
"Yes, but don't you remember why you did it before? You feared for your life, and for the lives of your friends, you were angry you couldn't do anything to help, you're not in the right mind set right now, so it won't work."
"I'm still worried about my friends, and still wish I could be there right now helping them."
Vegeta smiled, "You know you don't feel the same rush emotions that drove you to you're transformation."
"Well I'd rather not go through that again if that's the only way." She said shyly, not looking at him.
"You don't have to feel that every time to transform," he said hurriedly and firmly, "you just need to train more, besides it took you a hella long time to get recovered the last time, the stronger you become the less side affects."
"Okay. That makes sense... Let's start then."
She got into a fighting stance and lunged at him, hoping to catch him off guard. He smirked and rushed to meet her advance.
Watching them spar was an amazing thing. It was like a beautifully choreographed dance. In the month they had been training together they had unconsciously made a routine with their spars, it got them both equally tired but it also showed in a deeper way how close they had become. Vegeta kept his level equal to hers; he wouldn't go into a Super-Saiyan again against her, until she was ready. Why was he being so weak?
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The next morning, Serena woke up before Vegeta. She felt that not all was right in their little clearing in the deep forest. The birds were silent, they weren't meeting the sun with their normal chorus of chirps, and the fish weren't flopping in the lake to catch the early morning bugs. All these were things she never would have paid attention to if it weren't for the new awareness she had received from training.
Then she noticed a note, right by where she was sleeping on the hard ground. How had a letter been left there and neither her nor Vegeta had woken up when the person dropped it off?...not even the rest of the Z gang knew where they were.
The seal on the letter, the unmistakable sign of Pluto, caught Serena by surprise. Serena greedily grabbed the letter into her hands and ripped open the seal. The letter was short but is sent a jab of fear through her body.
Princess,
It has come to my attention that you are in danger where you are. Meet me in the forest when you read this letter. I would advise not telling your new friends you are leaving for fear you may endanger them as well. I know you will use your good judgment.
Look forward to seeing you soon,
Pluto
After reading the letter, Serena went through a pile of emotions.
Did they manage to beat Garlic Jr.? She didn't care; she was just overjoyed she was going home! But, she was also going to have to leave all her new friends behind. And, she wasn't going to get to complete her training when she had so much more to learn. And worst of all she was going to have to leave Vegeta.
She knew that if she left now he would most likely regress back to the way he was when she came, and loose all the peace he'd found. He had begun to show more of himself to her, he let down his guard, they talked at night, he laughed every now and then...and it wasn't a laugh full of hate and loneliness.
Pluto had said to find her in the forest...how specific. She took one last look at Vegeta lying asleep on the ground next to her. She had to go, but she would miss him. Never had she met someone like him before, he was lost, she wanted to help him. She felt an odd connection to him somehow, she had thought that being there the rest of the time she would discover what the connection meant, but now that could never happen.
"Don't forget me," She whispered to the snoring figure as she walked out of the clearing and disappeared into the shadows of the tall pine trees.
She concentrated on finding the ki of her friend. Slowly, as she walked on for a little while she did sense someone very far away. 'Why did she have to go so far away? Now I'm going to be hiking all morning before I find her.' As she walked she thought more and more about the situation. Perhaps she didn't need to go back yet...or maybe once everything was settled over there Pluto could send her back here. That way she could finish her training and make Vegeta lighten up a bit. That's what she would do.
A chill went down her spine as she continued walking through the forest. 'What's this bad feeling I'm getting? Something's not right...' As she got nearer to the Ki she realized it didn't feel right. 'Pluto must be in danger, that Ki is getting stronger!'
Serena picked up her pace as she ran to find her friend. She wasn't going to let anything happen to her, not now that she was strong enough that she could do something to help.
Within minutes she arrived into a clearing and burst out in concern, "Pluto! Are you ok? Where are you?"
The figure in front of her in the clearing was wearing a dark green hooded cloak. It didn't take Serena long to realize that this was not Pluto and nor was she there. She had been tricked. Immediately she began powering up, hopefully Vegeta would be able to sense her in danger...but would he get there in time?
The hooded creature laughed a deep and evil chuckle at the girl's actions. "Well, well Princess, it looks as though you've been busy while you've been here."
"What do you want with me?" Serena asked as her aura grew brighter and brighter as she prepared to defend herself. She had to last as long as she could, then maybe Vegeta could get there. The hooded figure's ki made her shiver in fear of its evilness.
"Nothing really, I just need to take you back to Master Garlic so that he can properly take over your world."
"I'm not going with you," she stated firmly, trying to hide her fear.
"Oh, I was so hoping to avoid any kind of fighting...wait, no I wasn't. Garlic said he wanted you alive, but he didn't say how alive you had to be." As he said this he took off his hood revealing his pale, long, almost girly pretty, green face with darker green hair that feel down perfectly to shoulder length. What caught Serena the most was his red, demon eyes that showed nothing but emptiness. When he felt Serena's energy level, his perfect black lips curved into a smirk, a smirk more evil and full of bloodlust than Vegeta's had ever been. "Aren't you even going to give me a challenge?"
Talc lunged at Serena with such grace and force she didn't have time to dodge. She fell to the ground with a thud. Before Talc could attack her again she got up and jumped out of his way. He may be fast but she was faster. This is the way things went for awhile, Serena dodged as many of Talc's moves as she could every now and then she would land a punch or a kick which would barely even effect him and there were times when he managed to hit her despite her speed, these did her a lot of damage. She was wearing down but she kept going because she knew that before long Vegeta would be there to help her. He had to be well on his way by now with the amount of energy the two were giving off.
"What are you waiting for? Did they only teach you how to dodge? I can tell you have more in you, Moon Princess. But even that won't be enough to help you."
"Vegeta will be here any second to stop you!"
This sent Talc into raving laughter. He even had to stop fighting to control his fit.
"You think that Vegeta is going to save you? HA! That's the funniest thing I've ever heard."
"He will come and help me, I know him."
"Ha, ha. He doesn't even know where you are, as soon as you stepped into this clearing you were shielded from the outside world. That was why you didn't feel my true power until you got here, the other power you felt was just to lure you here, and Vegeta has no idea of where you are."
This hit Serena like a ton of bricks...she was all alone, on her own.
"So you see Princess it would be best if you just gave up now. Perhaps if you came without further fight Master Garlic would have compassion on you and not kill your friends. I'm sure you're well aware, as are you friends, that I could kill all the Sailor Senshi without even breaking a sweat."
She almost made up her mind to give up, and then a feeling came over her as she thought of Vegeta that told her she couldn't give up. He would simply murder her if he found out she had given up without even fighting.
"How do I know you haven't already killed them?" She said finding courage in the thought of Vegeta. "How else would you have known where I am?"
"Good point! They were begging for mercy when I beat them to find where you were. You should have heard the way the little one cried when I smashed her into the wall."
"No, Hotaru! You monster! You won't get away with this."
"And the other two, it was disgusting how much they sacrificed to save you and each other, I didn't even have to try hard to get them because they'd keep on jumping in front of my ki blasts to save each other."
(Remember, the outers are really ok, he's just making her think he killed them to get her mad)
'Haruka and Michiru, how could I have let this happen to them?' The sadness seemed to swallow her up, and then rage took over. This had to stop and it had to stop now.
She closed her eyes and powered more. Talc watched with amusement, and then became a little uneasy as she kept on going. Every muscle in her body was tensed. Her hair flashed from gold to sparkly silver then gold and then sparkly, her eyes opened and flashed from blue to silver.
When she had powered up to all she felt she could handle she said: "I have to protect them."
Talc was in fear for his life but shook it off and responded, "It's too late for that, Princess."
She lunged at him, letting all her rage and grief out through her punches and kicks. Every punch she through was packed with a celestial power. She tossed moonbeam at him with no effort at all. Talc couldn't defend against her attacks; she sent numerous ki blasts that burned his green flesh.
He backed away from Serena holding his hands up in defeat. Serena stopped attacking him but kept up her guard, she wasn't even panting from the beating she had given him, never had she experienced so much power and rage.
"Do you give up?" she asked in an uncaring voice.
"Yes of course Princess Serenity, please forgive me for my sins against you," he said in mock defeat, but he had a trick up his sleeve. He stealthily took out a vile from his pocket. It contained the blood of the most evil beings of this universe. It was with this he mixed the black water mist to control the sailor scouts...the first time he misjudged the amount needed to take control of the Moon princess and the outer Senshi. With this concentration he should gain complete control of her, no matter whom she was, she would belong to the dark side.
He then chanted the words to open the portal back to the Sailor dimension. Once she was affected by the black blood he had a limited time to get her into the portal before she went under the affect, the process she would go under would be violent and not very pretty.
She wasn't the least bit affected when he opened the portal to some other dimension. She figured he had given up. But she didn't see the vile he had pulled out of his pocket with his bloodied up hands, she didn't know that he was planning to poison her and try to change her.
"Get Garlic Jr. out of my dimension and fix what you have done," she said in an uncaring tone.
"Of course your majesty, I am lowly scum and I misjudged the power of the future Queen of the world. I will be leaving now."
Serena still didn't act as if she cared in anyway what he said, she just watched him with an uncaring glare.
Talc turned to the portal that was between them to the side of the clearing that was smeared with his blood. His beautiful features were all distorted in pain.
She watched him go with disgust. Just as he reached the portal he prepared his arm to throw the vile at her, she didn't notice this. Right as he was about to contaminate her a gigantic ball of energy crashed into his once regal body. The vile fell from his hand and he was pushed into the portal destroying it after he went through.
Serena turned her uncaring eyes to the person who had saved her no emotion shown when she saw Vegeta glowing in his majestic golden glow.
The two stared at each other for awhile. A thousand thoughts went through his head. He had seen the end of the battle. When he had woken up and found no Serena and a note claming to be from Pluto he had gone nuts and searched the entire forest for her. He had come in time to see her transformation. At first he was proud to see her beating this strange creature so maliciously, then it hit him how horribly wrong it was for her to act that way, he had done this to her, he had made her this way, it was something so completely against her nature that he had force upon her.
As he looked into her cold, uncaring, silver eyes he hid his confusion. He should be happy she was able to take care of herself, which was what he had meant to do when he set out in training her, Piccolo had even known that was what he was going to do when he backed Vegeta training her. So why was it so wrong? He thought back to the caring person she had always been to him, always urging him to feel. She made him feel so much of what he had to conclude was love...and he had turned her into an uncaring monster. And what had that demon meant? He called her a princess?
Finally she opened her mouth to speak; he leaned urgently closer to hear what she had to say. Her voice was cold and sounded as if it came from another person. "I feel so empty."
'Empty,' it was the exact definition of his life since he was taken away from his mother all those years ago. He had been forced to change by his father and the other Saiyan monsters, and now that was what he had become in every action, he had lost his mother because of it, and now he had done the same thing to Serena, they had done to him. He didn't want to loose her too.
She looked at him for a second more then her eyes closed and Vegeta knew what was coming. He flew to her and caught her before she reached the ground. Now, back to her golden haired, blue eyed self, she opened her eyes with her body aching in pain.
"You came..." she whispered painfully.
"Why did he call you a princess?" he hadn't meant to ask her that, and he absolutely did not mean to sound so angry with her. He wanted to tell her that he was glad she was ok, that he had been so scared when he had woken up and found her gone, that he was sorry for pushing her against her nature...but he couldn't force the words out.
Her pained form looked up at him, sadly. He wasn't supposed to find out that way...even though Kami had told her not to tell Vegeta, after spending so much time with him she would have in a second. She trusted him with her life, and all her secrets.
"I'm sorry that I didn't tell you, Vegeta, I am the Moon Princess where I come from, the last Lunarian Princess..." Her voice was coming out in pained gasps, and it was becoming harder and harder for her to speak.
"You lied to me."
He hadn't meant to say it, he knew he was only saying it because he was mad at himself for allowing her to get hurt. He was mad at himself for caring about her so much that he had become so scared for her. He could care less she had lied to him, he trusted her enough to know she had a reason for not telling him. He loved her...
"Vegeta, I'm sorry...I...I love you!" She stammered, fighting to speak through all the pain her body was going through, this unnatural pain.
"You shouldn't waste you energy speaking, you need to rest."
And he wanted to kill himself more than ever.
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Phew! How about that! SIX MONTHS!!!!! WOW that sure took forever!
K, well I'm going to go and work on the next chapter so it gets out sooner than six months....i still can't believe I've been that bad....
~Shi
Chapter 8 : Talc Returns
AN: *_*'
Summary of story so far: Garlic Jr. takes over the Sailor dimension, the inner senshi are taken over by his new blackwater mist, and Mamo-chan is killed by them. The outers save Serena and bring her to the DBZ dimension for safekeeping. Serena is trained by Piccolo and is now being trained by Vegeta. In the last chapter Serena went through an unnatural transformation to a higher level of power, and it left her not feeling very well.
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Serena lowered herself into a fighting stance and began to concentrate her power. Vegeta stood in front of her with his arms crossed, examining her moves. This was the first time she was going to try and transform after last weeks battle between the two.
He had seriously been scared that night. After he had made sure she was physically alright he became afraid that he had gone to far...that she would hate him, even fear him. That was the last thing he wanted. He feared the moment when she would wake up and pull herself out of his arms in horror...but she hadn't done that. He had held her through the night and half the day, he watched as she slowly opened her blue eyes and they smiled at him, a genuine smile. He was amazed how all his fears disappeared from one smile; she was the only one who had ever made him feel that way. She accepted him and didn't judge him when he let down his guard.
"It's not working!" she dropped her arms and screamed in frustration. For some reason she just couldn't transform, was she doing something wrong?
"You're too weak, you're not ready yet."
"Look buddy, I did it before...remember? You were there too!" Even though even when she was transformed it felt weird...
"Yes, but don't you remember why you did it before? You feared for your life, and for the lives of your friends, you were angry you couldn't do anything to help, you're not in the right mind set right now, so it won't work."
"I'm still worried about my friends, and still wish I could be there right now helping them."
Vegeta smiled, "You know you don't feel the same rush emotions that drove you to you're transformation."
"Well I'd rather not go through that again if that's the only way." She said shyly, not looking at him.
"You don't have to feel that every time to transform," he said hurriedly and firmly, "you just need to train more, besides it took you a hella long time to get recovered the last time, the stronger you become the less side affects."
"Okay. That makes sense... Let's start then."
She got into a fighting stance and lunged at him, hoping to catch him off guard. He smirked and rushed to meet her advance.
Watching them spar was an amazing thing. It was like a beautifully choreographed dance. In the month they had been training together they had unconsciously made a routine with their spars, it got them both equally tired but it also showed in a deeper way how close they had become. Vegeta kept his level equal to hers; he wouldn't go into a Super-Saiyan again against her, until she was ready. Why was he being so weak?
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The next morning, Serena woke up before Vegeta. She felt that not all was right in their little clearing in the deep forest. The birds were silent, they weren't meeting the sun with their normal chorus of chirps, and the fish weren't flopping in the lake to catch the early morning bugs. All these were things she never would have paid attention to if it weren't for the new awareness she had received from training.
Then she noticed a note, right by where she was sleeping on the hard ground. How had a letter been left there and neither her nor Vegeta had woken up when the person dropped it off?...not even the rest of the Z gang knew where they were.
The seal on the letter, the unmistakable sign of Pluto, caught Serena by surprise. Serena greedily grabbed the letter into her hands and ripped open the seal. The letter was short but is sent a jab of fear through her body.
Princess,
It has come to my attention that you are in danger where you are. Meet me in the forest when you read this letter. I would advise not telling your new friends you are leaving for fear you may endanger them as well. I know you will use your good judgment.
Look forward to seeing you soon,
Pluto
After reading the letter, Serena went through a pile of emotions.
Did they manage to beat Garlic Jr.? She didn't care; she was just overjoyed she was going home! But, she was also going to have to leave all her new friends behind. And, she wasn't going to get to complete her training when she had so much more to learn. And worst of all she was going to have to leave Vegeta.
She knew that if she left now he would most likely regress back to the way he was when she came, and loose all the peace he'd found. He had begun to show more of himself to her, he let down his guard, they talked at night, he laughed every now and then...and it wasn't a laugh full of hate and loneliness.
Pluto had said to find her in the forest...how specific. She took one last look at Vegeta lying asleep on the ground next to her. She had to go, but she would miss him. Never had she met someone like him before, he was lost, she wanted to help him. She felt an odd connection to him somehow, she had thought that being there the rest of the time she would discover what the connection meant, but now that could never happen.
"Don't forget me," She whispered to the snoring figure as she walked out of the clearing and disappeared into the shadows of the tall pine trees.
She concentrated on finding the ki of her friend. Slowly, as she walked on for a little while she did sense someone very far away. 'Why did she have to go so far away? Now I'm going to be hiking all morning before I find her.' As she walked she thought more and more about the situation. Perhaps she didn't need to go back yet...or maybe once everything was settled over there Pluto could send her back here. That way she could finish her training and make Vegeta lighten up a bit. That's what she would do.
A chill went down her spine as she continued walking through the forest. 'What's this bad feeling I'm getting? Something's not right...' As she got nearer to the Ki she realized it didn't feel right. 'Pluto must be in danger, that Ki is getting stronger!'
Serena picked up her pace as she ran to find her friend. She wasn't going to let anything happen to her, not now that she was strong enough that she could do something to help.
Within minutes she arrived into a clearing and burst out in concern, "Pluto! Are you ok? Where are you?"
The figure in front of her in the clearing was wearing a dark green hooded cloak. It didn't take Serena long to realize that this was not Pluto and nor was she there. She had been tricked. Immediately she began powering up, hopefully Vegeta would be able to sense her in danger...but would he get there in time?
The hooded creature laughed a deep and evil chuckle at the girl's actions. "Well, well Princess, it looks as though you've been busy while you've been here."
"What do you want with me?" Serena asked as her aura grew brighter and brighter as she prepared to defend herself. She had to last as long as she could, then maybe Vegeta could get there. The hooded figure's ki made her shiver in fear of its evilness.
"Nothing really, I just need to take you back to Master Garlic so that he can properly take over your world."
"I'm not going with you," she stated firmly, trying to hide her fear.
"Oh, I was so hoping to avoid any kind of fighting...wait, no I wasn't. Garlic said he wanted you alive, but he didn't say how alive you had to be." As he said this he took off his hood revealing his pale, long, almost girly pretty, green face with darker green hair that feel down perfectly to shoulder length. What caught Serena the most was his red, demon eyes that showed nothing but emptiness. When he felt Serena's energy level, his perfect black lips curved into a smirk, a smirk more evil and full of bloodlust than Vegeta's had ever been. "Aren't you even going to give me a challenge?"
Talc lunged at Serena with such grace and force she didn't have time to dodge. She fell to the ground with a thud. Before Talc could attack her again she got up and jumped out of his way. He may be fast but she was faster. This is the way things went for awhile, Serena dodged as many of Talc's moves as she could every now and then she would land a punch or a kick which would barely even effect him and there were times when he managed to hit her despite her speed, these did her a lot of damage. She was wearing down but she kept going because she knew that before long Vegeta would be there to help her. He had to be well on his way by now with the amount of energy the two were giving off.
"What are you waiting for? Did they only teach you how to dodge? I can tell you have more in you, Moon Princess. But even that won't be enough to help you."
"Vegeta will be here any second to stop you!"
This sent Talc into raving laughter. He even had to stop fighting to control his fit.
"You think that Vegeta is going to save you? HA! That's the funniest thing I've ever heard."
"He will come and help me, I know him."
"Ha, ha. He doesn't even know where you are, as soon as you stepped into this clearing you were shielded from the outside world. That was why you didn't feel my true power until you got here, the other power you felt was just to lure you here, and Vegeta has no idea of where you are."
This hit Serena like a ton of bricks...she was all alone, on her own.
"So you see Princess it would be best if you just gave up now. Perhaps if you came without further fight Master Garlic would have compassion on you and not kill your friends. I'm sure you're well aware, as are you friends, that I could kill all the Sailor Senshi without even breaking a sweat."
She almost made up her mind to give up, and then a feeling came over her as she thought of Vegeta that told her she couldn't give up. He would simply murder her if he found out she had given up without even fighting.
"How do I know you haven't already killed them?" She said finding courage in the thought of Vegeta. "How else would you have known where I am?"
"Good point! They were begging for mercy when I beat them to find where you were. You should have heard the way the little one cried when I smashed her into the wall."
"No, Hotaru! You monster! You won't get away with this."
"And the other two, it was disgusting how much they sacrificed to save you and each other, I didn't even have to try hard to get them because they'd keep on jumping in front of my ki blasts to save each other."
(Remember, the outers are really ok, he's just making her think he killed them to get her mad)
'Haruka and Michiru, how could I have let this happen to them?' The sadness seemed to swallow her up, and then rage took over. This had to stop and it had to stop now.
She closed her eyes and powered more. Talc watched with amusement, and then became a little uneasy as she kept on going. Every muscle in her body was tensed. Her hair flashed from gold to sparkly silver then gold and then sparkly, her eyes opened and flashed from blue to silver.
When she had powered up to all she felt she could handle she said: "I have to protect them."
Talc was in fear for his life but shook it off and responded, "It's too late for that, Princess."
She lunged at him, letting all her rage and grief out through her punches and kicks. Every punch she through was packed with a celestial power. She tossed moonbeam at him with no effort at all. Talc couldn't defend against her attacks; she sent numerous ki blasts that burned his green flesh.
He backed away from Serena holding his hands up in defeat. Serena stopped attacking him but kept up her guard, she wasn't even panting from the beating she had given him, never had she experienced so much power and rage.
"Do you give up?" she asked in an uncaring voice.
"Yes of course Princess Serenity, please forgive me for my sins against you," he said in mock defeat, but he had a trick up his sleeve. He stealthily took out a vile from his pocket. It contained the blood of the most evil beings of this universe. It was with this he mixed the black water mist to control the sailor scouts...the first time he misjudged the amount needed to take control of the Moon princess and the outer Senshi. With this concentration he should gain complete control of her, no matter whom she was, she would belong to the dark side.
He then chanted the words to open the portal back to the Sailor dimension. Once she was affected by the black blood he had a limited time to get her into the portal before she went under the affect, the process she would go under would be violent and not very pretty.
She wasn't the least bit affected when he opened the portal to some other dimension. She figured he had given up. But she didn't see the vile he had pulled out of his pocket with his bloodied up hands, she didn't know that he was planning to poison her and try to change her.
"Get Garlic Jr. out of my dimension and fix what you have done," she said in an uncaring tone.
"Of course your majesty, I am lowly scum and I misjudged the power of the future Queen of the world. I will be leaving now."
Serena still didn't act as if she cared in anyway what he said, she just watched him with an uncaring glare.
Talc turned to the portal that was between them to the side of the clearing that was smeared with his blood. His beautiful features were all distorted in pain.
She watched him go with disgust. Just as he reached the portal he prepared his arm to throw the vile at her, she didn't notice this. Right as he was about to contaminate her a gigantic ball of energy crashed into his once regal body. The vile fell from his hand and he was pushed into the portal destroying it after he went through.
Serena turned her uncaring eyes to the person who had saved her no emotion shown when she saw Vegeta glowing in his majestic golden glow.
The two stared at each other for awhile. A thousand thoughts went through his head. He had seen the end of the battle. When he had woken up and found no Serena and a note claming to be from Pluto he had gone nuts and searched the entire forest for her. He had come in time to see her transformation. At first he was proud to see her beating this strange creature so maliciously, then it hit him how horribly wrong it was for her to act that way, he had done this to her, he had made her this way, it was something so completely against her nature that he had force upon her.
As he looked into her cold, uncaring, silver eyes he hid his confusion. He should be happy she was able to take care of herself, which was what he had meant to do when he set out in training her, Piccolo had even known that was what he was going to do when he backed Vegeta training her. So why was it so wrong? He thought back to the caring person she had always been to him, always urging him to feel. She made him feel so much of what he had to conclude was love...and he had turned her into an uncaring monster. And what had that demon meant? He called her a princess?
Finally she opened her mouth to speak; he leaned urgently closer to hear what she had to say. Her voice was cold and sounded as if it came from another person. "I feel so empty."
'Empty,' it was the exact definition of his life since he was taken away from his mother all those years ago. He had been forced to change by his father and the other Saiyan monsters, and now that was what he had become in every action, he had lost his mother because of it, and now he had done the same thing to Serena, they had done to him. He didn't want to loose her too.
She looked at him for a second more then her eyes closed and Vegeta knew what was coming. He flew to her and caught her before she reached the ground. Now, back to her golden haired, blue eyed self, she opened her eyes with her body aching in pain.
"You came..." she whispered painfully.
"Why did he call you a princess?" he hadn't meant to ask her that, and he absolutely did not mean to sound so angry with her. He wanted to tell her that he was glad she was ok, that he had been so scared when he had woken up and found her gone, that he was sorry for pushing her against her nature...but he couldn't force the words out.
Her pained form looked up at him, sadly. He wasn't supposed to find out that way...even though Kami had told her not to tell Vegeta, after spending so much time with him she would have in a second. She trusted him with her life, and all her secrets.
"I'm sorry that I didn't tell you, Vegeta, I am the Moon Princess where I come from, the last Lunarian Princess..." Her voice was coming out in pained gasps, and it was becoming harder and harder for her to speak.
"You lied to me."
He hadn't meant to say it, he knew he was only saying it because he was mad at himself for allowing her to get hurt. He was mad at himself for caring about her so much that he had become so scared for her. He could care less she had lied to him, he trusted her enough to know she had a reason for not telling him. He loved her...
"Vegeta, I'm sorry...I...I love you!" She stammered, fighting to speak through all the pain her body was going through, this unnatural pain.
"You shouldn't waste you energy speaking, you need to rest."
And he wanted to kill himself more than ever.
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Phew! How about that! SIX MONTHS!!!!! WOW that sure took forever!
K, well I'm going to go and work on the next chapter so it gets out sooner than six months....i still can't believe I've been that bad....
~Shi