No he lThe Unholy Blackblood Mist

Chapter 9: Finally!

Summary of story so far: Garlic comes to the SM dimension, uses special black water mist to control everyone, but Serena and the outers are unaffected. Serena goes to DBZ world and starts training. In DBZ dimension Lunarians had different power than in SM dimension and Serena begins to tap into it but she goes about it the wrong way. Talc tries to sneak into the DBZ world and kidnap Serena but he hadn't counted on her being so powerful, she transforms and nearly kills him. Talc tries to brainwash her with an extra concentrated bottle of blackblood mist but Vegeta gets there right on time and sends him back to the SM dimension.

A few answers to a few reviews. Vegeta and Bulma aren't married, he just lives with them because he has no where else to go, and she likes Yamcha (I always thought they were good together anyway.) I'm not saying Lunarians are stronger than Saiyans, but in my story the Lunarians were big when the Saiyans were just a young species so at the time they were stronger but Saiyans have come a long way since then. Lunarians just have a different power.

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Serena awoke in a circle surrounded by people and she was naked. 'Geeze, you'd think I'd stop having these dreams after I graduated from high school.'

Then she noticed there was something different about these people, and she didn't feel ashamed being naked around them. They stretched out as far as she could see, even past the curves of the Moon she was on. She knew immediately that these were Lunarians.

As they spoke to her their mouths didn't move, it was more like they were speaking in her mind.

'Welcome Moon Princess.'

'We have been watching you since you arrived in this dimension.'

'We were quite amazed to see a living Lunarian, let alone a Lunarian princess.'

'We have learned much about you since you have arrived here, why you are here, who you are, what is happening in your dimension.'

'You were sent here to be kept safe and even taught how to defend your home; this is what we have come to you to do.'

'There is much you do not know about your race, much you must know in order to help your loved ones.

'The warriors of Earth have made you stronger by their understanding of strength but there is much they do not understand about Lunarian strength.

'If you continue to train with them in their methods you will surely perish.

'Have you ever heard of an evil Lunarian?

'There are none

'Not because it is not possible for Lunarians to be come evil,

'But because Lunarians cannot survive the power of evil, power of hate, power of rage

'As your power grows through these things you have felt your body suffer, not because your body is not capable of holding this amount of power and more, but because you raised your power through rage and hate

'You will die if you continue this way

'Those that have helped you to get your power in this way cannot be blamed; they were not capable of understanding the power of a Lunarian.

'The power of a Lunarian is from love, and compassion

'This power is stronger than any other.

'Lunarian royalty are made with more ability than any other Lunarian to love, which makes them more powerful

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"I'm glad to see you awake, you gave us all a scare," Kami said as he leaned over Serena holding a wet cloth to her forehead. "That was a close one."

Serena sat up and held her pounding head, she felt like she had been run over buy a hundred Beryls, Pharaoh 90s, and Chaos demons all in a row.

"How long have I been out?" she managed to cackle through her dried up throat.

"About a month now," he answered calmly.

"What?! That means I only have two months left here, I don't know if I'll be ready."

"Rest now dear, you're still a little weak," he whispered to her, trying to calm her down.

"Where is Vegeta?" she demanded.

"Rest," was all he answered as he poured a hot liquid down her Throat.

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"So, she's finally awake?" Bulma asked when he had closed the door.

"Yes, but not a happy camper…she's resting again now."

"Well who would be!" She exclaimed. "Between your and my analysis of that vile that Talc guy tried to drop on her, she's got a bigger problem than we thought. Not only does it have the ability to mutate genes, according to you it's just about the most evil thing of all evils ever."

"Yes, but her problem is our problem as well, when he's done with her dimension, he'll come here. Not only that, with the addition of this 'blackblood' into the Black Water Mist, I don't know of any way of counter attacking it, it may just be impossible." Kami said tuning greener than he already was.

"So we're doomed?"

Kami shrugged off Bulma's cryptic question. "She asked about Vegeta…have you heard from him yet?"

"Nope, still haven't seen him since the day he brought her in here, I wonder where he could be."

"Yes, I wonder how she will react when she finds out he has gone."

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Serena sat by the window at Capsule Corps and watched the world go by. She had been training with Goku for about a month and she had one to go. She had been making great leaps and bounds as far as technique and developing attacks but she didn't understand how she was supposed to transform the way her Lunarian ancestors had told her. Nothing she tried worked.

Goku had looked at her like she was crazy when she tried to explain her dream so he could help her figure it out. He didn't understand the difference in fighting with love and fighting for the ones you loved.

When Piccolo heard of her dream he suggested she meditate and hope the answers would come…the meditation didn't work though. All she got out of it was cramped legs.

Vegeta was always in the back of her mind. She just couldn't stop thinking of him. Why had she been so dumb as to tell him of her feelings? She loved him, true, but he didn't love her and now she caused him to leave her. "Why do I always mess things up? I should have kept my big mouth shut," she thought out loud.

It had been two months since she had last seen him, last touched him. Every morning she woke up and searched for his ki signature. Where ever he was he didn't want to be found… The more she thought about it the more it drove her crazy. Why couldn't she just forget about him? Every time she tried she would just be reminded of the way he held her after she had first transformed, the kisses she had received on two occasions. She was going nuts.

Then there was her training with Goku and Gohan. She had grown to love them as brothers in this short time she had been with them. She was equal with Gohan, he was just about super Saiyan and she was possibly close to Goku if she could only transform. Goku and she were almost exactly alike in their mannerisms innocence to the hate in the world around them. There were often times when the two of them would be talking at dinner and they would just laugh for hours at something only they could find funny. She was a lot like Gohan in the way she fought only out of necessity and not through simple love of fighting, though they could both enjoy a good spar.

One thing that was bothering her about her training with Goku was that she could tell Goku was bored. He went super Saiyan when they were fighting so that he would be stronger than her and she could have a goal of matching his strength, but he seemed bored. It was like she could never challenge him, when he loved challenges. Not even Gohan and she teamed up seemed to give him much enjoyment.

Serena loved making them happy. Here he was doing all this for her out of the goodness of his heart and she just felt bad when he couldn't enjoy the spars.

"Serena breaks over." Gohan said coming up behind her and startling her so that she jumped ten feet in the air.

"Okay, no prob. bob."

Serena followed him out behind the Son house where Goku was waiting for them to resume training. He smiled like a little child. 'Always happy to spar,' Serena thought. 'Though not as happy as he should be,' she added sadly.

"Let's power up!" Goku said eagerly.

All three of them burst into flame, so to speak, as the powered up. Serena watched Goku as he made the transformation to Super Saiyan. 'Just like Vegeta,' she thought sending another wave of sadness through her body. 'Stop thinking about him, you may be dead in a month, he doesn't feel the same about you so get over it!'

Serena and Gohan lunged at Goku, then Serena took the advantage of Gohan attacking his father to gather up a ki blast. "Ka me ha me ha!" she yelled tossing her silver blast into him. He deflected it with his hand without even turning around to look at it. Serena was used to this however and lunged at him, seeing her ki blasts wouldn't work on this day.

After ten minutes of straight sparing, Serena gave Gohan the signal to start their secret strategy. For the past week they had been planning this to get Goku, they just hoped it would work.

As they prepared Goku had no idea what was coming. All of a sudden Gohan grabbed his hands behind his back with one hand and put his other around his father's neck. While he was doing this Serena turned herself into a giant Ki blast and spun like a ball into his chest. Goku howled in pain and shook himself free from his son's hands. He took advantage of his son's closeness to send a ki filled punch into his face, knocking him over. He then went to the dizzy Serena and kicked her in her back sending her into Gohan. The two were out, and Goku was more then happy to take a break.

"That was great you two!" Goku said as he sat down next to them on the ground. "The only problem is you let your guard down afterwards, and Serena couldn't defend herself if she tried."

"It was supposed to take you out," Gohan said panting.

"Oh really?" Goku said almost apologetically putting his hand behind his head. "You shouldn't count on things in battle… Anyway, who's idea was it?"

"When I showed Gohan how I could surround myself in my ki without hurting myself he thought of the teaming up part, I was sure it would work."

"Well it was fun even if it didn't work," Goku said enthusiastically, "ready to continue, I can't wait to see what else you two have up your sleeves."

Serena and Gohan exchanged looks, they didn't have anything else, plus they were tired.

Chi Chi came running out of the house and ran to Gohan. "Gohan! My baby! Are you alright?" she said cradling him in her arms. "You should be ashamed of yourself Goku! I saw that punch you gave him, it was dirty!"

"Mom, I'm alright! He's hit me harder then that before."

"I'm sorry, ha ha. I just couldn't control myself, the attack they gave me kinda knocked my good sense out of my head for a second, and I just wanted to get even."

"That's not excuse; you should be able to keep control of yourself. That's it no more training these two for the day."

"But mom-" "But Chi Chi!" Goku and Gohan said at once.

"No buts! We can't have Serena getting hurt again so she can't go home and save her world!"

"I'll be ok Chi Chi, he just knocked me off my feet, it didn't hurt," she lied. "I need the practice if I'm going to beat Garlic Jr."

Chi Chi turned to Serena and smiled, she really liked Serena, she reminded her of all the things she loved about Goku. "Ok, you can train with Goku, Serena, Gohan has to sit it out. Goku, you'd better be careful with her!" she said in a threatening tone.

"Yes Chi Chi!" Goku piped.

"Ah mom, that's not fair!" Gohan whined.

"I don't want to hear it young man, if you complain anymore you have to come in and do homework instead of getting to watch."

He shut his mouth immediately and pasted an innocent look on his face.

"That's better, now I'm going to go finish dinner," with that Chi Chi stomped back to the house.

"Ok Gohan, sorry but you have to stand to the side," Goku said apologetically.

"I know," Gohan sighed, he was used to dealing with his mother's over protectiveness. He walked to the side and leaned against a tree with his arms crossed.

"Ok, Serena. Let's power up and do a bit more before dinner, let's work up an appitite," Goku said even as his stomach was growling.

"Ok," Serena said. She looked at him as he turned Super Saiyan again. 'I just want to give him a good fight, I know that's what he wants more than anything. Let's try it one more time.'

Serena closed her eyes and concentrated. She thought of all the people she loved, her friends from home, Mamo-chan, her mother, her friends from the DBZ dimension, Vegeta…she started to glow with a white light and her energy grew rapidly. She had gotten this far before but it had never been able to transform from it. She kept on thinking of all these people she loved and after a bit her power stopped growing and she was stuck at the same level she always got to.

Then her thoughts moved to the very first time she meditated and was sent back into the body of the Lunarian warrior, she had been in him when he transformed. She had felt his fear of the heartless creatures that wanted to kill all Lunarians. She felt his love for his fellow beings. Then there was that other love, the love that had confused her at first, the love for the Solarites. That was it! The Lunarians loved the Solarites as one would love a brother that went rebellious and bad. That was how they were able to fight them. Because they loved them.

Serena then focused on her love for Goku, she wanted to be able to fight him because she loved him and knew that he loved to fight, she wanted to make him happy by becoming stronger.

That was when it happened. Focusing on her love for the person she was battling caused her to transform.

Goku and Gohan watched her in amazement and fear as she went thorough her transformation. Her hair turned a glowing white that glittered with silver sparkles. A crescent moon symbol appeared at her forehead that shown with such a bright light that it hurt their eyes to look at it. When she opened her eyes they saw that they now glowed silver, and were compassionate and showed true love.

"Dad!" Gohan's voice shook with fear. Not only of the fear of the immense power she was radiating, but of the fear for Serena's life, what if she couldn't handle the power this time and it killed her.

"I know, Gohan," Super Saiyan Goku said with equal amount of concern in his voice. He had never felt a power like her's before. It seemed like an endless amount of energy came from the girl he had come to love as a sister standing right in front of him. His power was just as strong but this power was different than anything he had ever felt, even with his travel around the universe. It was love power.

The now transformed Lunarian smiled at the gaping mouths of Goku and Gohan. "Don't just stand there and stare, it's time you had the spar you desire so greatly."

When he saw that she was ok and not flipping out from her increase in power, Goku smiled happily, this would be great.

He threw a small but powerful ki blast at her and smiled even wider when it bounced off her.

Gohan could not move during the entire battle. He still couldn't believe this was the same girl that had run around in a sailor outfit with a short skirt, little wings, and shooting butterflies out of a stick only a few months ago.

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Yay! It wasn't Six months this time!!!

See ya next time, school started again, but I'm going to try and do this and school this time. K, bye!!! Happy new years!

Shi
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