The Unholy Blackblood Mist
Chapter 10 – Time to go Home
Shi
Summary: Garlic Jr. took over the SM dimension, don't you hate it when that happens? Then Serena goes to the DBZ dimension where she trains and finds out more secrets about her race and their role in this dimension, including a powerful transformation that Lunarians in this dimension possessed. Vegeta and her became close and he trained her to use her rage to become powerful which is deadly for Lunarians, which complicated things between them. So now Serena trained with Goku and found her true Lunarian potential, now it's almost time to go back home and defeat Garlic…but where's Vegeta?
For the first part of the story remember that Vegeta's mother was a kind Saiyan who had learned from the teachings of the peaceful Lunarians, and she committed suicide when Vegeta had the cruelty of a Saiyan warrior beat into him when he was three. I understand it's hard to remember everything since it takes me so long to update. ^_^"
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Vegeta stared out at the expanse of stars surrounding him. How long had he been there he didn't know, he didn't know what he was even doing there, he just sat and stared. He had been sitting there for around a month now. He ate some and slept some but all of it seemed to be the same.
When she came to him he just figured she had come to take him to his death, which was the reason he held no guard against her.
"How long do you plan to sit here and mope, my son?" she asked in a kindly voice.
Vegeta only stared defiantly at the woman he had loved and wronged so dearly.
"Do not think of the past in that manner, none of it was your fault."
"Yes it was," he finally spoke, "you loved me and I killed you."
"I love you and you didn't kill me, I chose to leave in order to cause you no more pain."
He looked amazed. "You were the only joy in my life, the only comfort, the only love, and I allowed them to separate me from you. I chose to forget all you taught me about love and peace, in order to placate them."
"You have not lost, nor given up all I taught you while you were a young man…you simply placed it inside yourself in a place you have not looked for a long time, a place you're afraid to go anymore."
"I'm not afraid of anything."
"Oh don't you take that barbaric Saiyan tone with me, my son. You are more man than to say you cannot fear." He closed his mouth and looked at her defiantly. She continued.
"You're afraid of showing the people in your life that you care for them, because you've been alone for so long you don't think this will last. You're afraid to find the true power within yourself, because if you do you're afraid you will have nothing left to strive for. Any you are afraid of Serenity."
"She lied to me."
"So what if she did. You're going to let that little thing get in the way of someone you care for so much? So what if she is a princess, you're a prince. That has nothing to do with why you're running from her now."
"I'm not running-"
"You're afraid that you will hurt her."
"I knowingly put her in danger by forcing her against her nature. That was one thing I did remember from you: Lunarians cannot fight from hate."
"That's right. Now, do you remember how it is they do fight? How were they so powerful?"
"I don't remember."
"Yes you do, my son."
"I don't know! Can't you just leave it at that? You know, why don't you just tell me?"
"You just don't want to say it, you're scared of it because you know that you are capable of the same power because of my blood and teachings in you."
He paused for a little while letting what she said sink in, then continued. "I've gone to far the other way to ever be capable to return to the ways of…"
"Love! Love, why can't you just say it?"
"OK, love. I'm not capable of love." He said it even when he wanted it.
His mother reached down and cradled his head in her arms, he didn't resist, and all of a sudden he felt like that little boy again, the boy he once was.
"You can love, you do love, and you're afraid of love." He didn't answer her he just stayed frozen; amazed at the feelings he was feeling. Ones he had forgotten people were capable of. He was feeling emotions that his father had convinced him were weak, but he was so frightened of them he didn't see how they could be weak.
His mother continued stroking his hair; he closed his eyes and tried to relax as she whispered comforting words to him.
"Now you know you're the only one that can show her the way."
"What about Kakorott? He has an abundance of love."
"This is true, but he cannot teach her like you can. He has tapped into his love power to fight, but he does not understand the multitude love power has."
"What are you saying?"
His mother smiled on him as if he were a little boy, "Vegeta, just as you have made a special place for her in your heart, she has done the same. Plus my training with you gives you more insight; you know how to use a Saiyan's love to fight.. Kakorott may have love, but he still fights with rage."
"I'm not ready to be able to her any good, I'll never be able to fight out of pure love as you once taught me."
"Stop being scared my son. It'll take time but you do need to get to her before it's too late, she doesn't have much time left here…and if you don't help her in time she may not survive the battle ahead of her."
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The time had come. Serena sat in the Capsule Corps kitchen nervously munching her cereal. Goku and her had made great strides, they both grew stronger through their training in the last month, Gohan as well; he had become the youngest Super Saiyan ever. She had been so proud of him.
She had thought of Vegeta at the time Gohan had transformed, and how angry he would be when he found out Goku's son was a super Saiyan already. But thinking about him only made her sad. After a days training, she often flew around the world searching for him, there was never any sign of him. Either he was hiding his ki, so as not to be found, or he wasn't on this planet anymore. Whichever it was she was confused as to why he had left. Didn't he understand how much he had come to mean to her? He had to have felt the same about her; didn't any of those kisses mean anything to him? They meant everything to her.
But today was the appointed time for Sailor Pluto to come for her and take her back for the fight. She had to leave and forget all about the spiky haired Saiyan that had changed everything about her life. The fight meant life or death, slavery or freedom. She closed her eyes and mentally calmed herself down. She knew she had the means to face whatever she had to face to save her world, even if she had to do it along. They were counting on her and she wouldn't let her nerves distract her.
Bluma walked into the kitchen to fetch Serena. "Everyone's outside waiting to go to Kami's."
Serena smiled up at her with fake readiness, the fact that didn't escape Bulma. "Hey kid, don't look so glum…you can handle that pipsqueak Garlic."
"It's not him I'm thinking about Bulma…it's Vegeta."
Bulma nodded with a small smile on her face, the fact that this girl had fallen for Vegeta surprised her every time she heard about it. During the last month Serena had confided in Bulma all that had happened while she and Vegeta had trained. Bulma had been astonished when she learned what had gone on between the two.
"I just wish I could have told him how I felt for him before it was too late, I wish I could see him right now and tell him. I wish I could have known my feelings back then so we could have worked something out, but I was just so confused back then…with Mamoru being so recently dead…but when I found out Vegeta had left I knew…I just knew I needed him."
"That's a lot of 'I wishes,' hun. I know Vegeta more than anyone else here does, he's not the one for you, he's too messed up, he left for goodness sake! Please Serena, go back to your world, save it, and forget about him, he'll only cause you pain." She paused for a minute before going on, almost as if she didn't want to say what she was about to say. "I'd love for you two to be happy together, but there is just no love in that man. There was a time when Yamcha and I were separated for a little while, and I thought I had fallen for Vegeta…hell, I imagined that he felt something for me, but when I let him know how I felt he just laughed in my face…believe me Serena, you're lucky that he left and that now you're leaving so you don't have to go through that."
Serena looked wide-eyed at Bluma. Bulma and Vegeta…she just couldn't believe those two could ever get along. The more she thought about it the more she knew she had to agree with Bulma, she had to go and forget about him…he was the one who left, why was she trying so hard to hold onto him when he wasn't even there?
"You're right, Bulma," she said sadly, "It's more important that I save my world."
Bulma smiled at Serena as she pulled her into a hug, "Let's get going, kid, everyone's waiting."
They walked outside and Serena was surrounded by her newfound friends. She soon grew too busy saying goodbye to them to think about having to forget about Vegeta.
After saying goodbyes they flew her to Kami's house. He greeted her warmly, with a heavy heart. He had to tell her what he had discovered about the Blackwater mist Garlic Jr. was using. Pluto would have already discovered that spreading the water of life didn't work against his new and improved Blackblood mist. He had discovered the stuff Garlic was using was blood from a legendary Solarite, and evil race that had met it's end millions of years ago due to it's own evil causes, not much was known on what killed them…but they were evil and powerful, and their blood was powerful. He'd wait until Pluto arrived before he told them that it was impossible to stop Garlic when he had this evil on his side. He had been spending many sleepless weeks trying to find a way to stop Garlic, but it wasn't looking good at all.
By then, Serena had lost complete hope that Vegeta would come and say goodbye to her. Yes, things were better this way…she thought sadly, there was not point in him coming with her only to die.
She pushed all thoughts off the subject matter and focused on the tall, green man in front of her. She smirked like Vegeta, this would be great. Without even concentrating she transformed into her ascended Lunarian form and floated effortlessly to Piccolo's eye level.
"I believe you have something of mine, and I want it back."
Piccolo stared at her unworried by her actions, he knew she was capable of kicking his ass into a bloody pulp but he knew she would never do that. "Go ahead and try to take it," he remarked confidently.
Everyone's chatter had ceased as they turned their attention to Piccolo and the glowing Lunarian. Piccolo lowered into a defensive stance, he would defend the stone with his life.
Serena smirked again, and then her expression changed to a huge goofy grin, much like one of Goku's. Instead of attacking, Serena threw her arms around Piccolo and gave him a huge bear hug, and then she kissed him on the cheek making a loud puckering noise.
Laughter roared around them as she reached into the stunned Namekian's pocket and took her silver crystal out.
"Thanks Piccy!" Serena giggled. Piccolo just turned bright red and averted his eyes from everyone else's.
When Serena held the crystal up it began to glow brightly, everyone gasped as it changed form. It turned into a crescent moon and floated into her crescent moon symbol on her forehead.
"Serena, I told you before, that crystal doesn't have any power, you give it the power it has."
"No Piccolo, as a Lunarian Princess this crystal is part of me, before I was too weak so I needed my power separate from me so I could protect my world…now I am strong enough and we no longer need to be separate. It also has the powers of all the Lunarian Queens and Kings in it…I think I'm going to keep it."
Piccolo was speechless, weather it was her in the ascended form that kept him too awestricken to speak or it was his worry that she had become so powerful without a part of her power in him, but he didn't say anything and just nodded to her.
"Well Princess Serenity, I see you have been using your time wisely here…I hope that you can stop the evil that has taken over our world…I can no longer see what the future holds."
"Pluto!" Serena said as she reverted back to her old self and ran to embrace her friend. "You don't look so good, are you alright?"
Pluto's sailor fuku was torn and tattered and there were huge bags under her tired, magenta eyes and bruises all over her arms and legs. She smiled sadly at her princess.
"My Princess, you may have been here for six months, but the day in our world has been the longest I've ever had to endure." She turned to Kami and continued, "As you know, the Water of Life you gave me to spread over my world has no effect on the evil bloodmist Garlic Jr. has spread."
Kami nodded his pale green head. "I can honestly tell you I have no clue on how to stop it, even if you kill Garlic, the people will still be controlled by the black blood mist. Unless…"
"Unless what?!?" Serena and Sailor Pluto questioned urgently at the same time.
Kami looked to Serena and explained to her. "Between Bulma and me analyzing the blood, we found it to belong to an ancient race known as the Solarites. They existed in this dimension around the same time Lunarians did. As legend goes, they were complete opposites; Solarites were comprised of evil and Lunarians of good. So we would need a Lunarian to counter act the Solarite blood."
"Duh Kami! You know I'm Lunarian! We have no worries then! I can kill Garlic, and then I can use my blood to…" She trailed off as she thought about what she was saying, "…say kami….How much of my blood would it take?"
"Exactly Princess, my guess would be it would take all of it…I can see no other way."
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Yep that was kinda a cliffy huh? Sorry! I wanted to end this one so I could start on the next. Sorry I took so long, I have meets and midterms and boyfriend…I know those are horrible excuses… Love you all! Please review or something maybe that will make me go faster…don't' you hate it when authors bribe you like that…but seriously reviews to make you want to write faster.
~Shi
Chapter 10 – Time to go Home
Shi
Summary: Garlic Jr. took over the SM dimension, don't you hate it when that happens? Then Serena goes to the DBZ dimension where she trains and finds out more secrets about her race and their role in this dimension, including a powerful transformation that Lunarians in this dimension possessed. Vegeta and her became close and he trained her to use her rage to become powerful which is deadly for Lunarians, which complicated things between them. So now Serena trained with Goku and found her true Lunarian potential, now it's almost time to go back home and defeat Garlic…but where's Vegeta?
For the first part of the story remember that Vegeta's mother was a kind Saiyan who had learned from the teachings of the peaceful Lunarians, and she committed suicide when Vegeta had the cruelty of a Saiyan warrior beat into him when he was three. I understand it's hard to remember everything since it takes me so long to update. ^_^"
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Vegeta stared out at the expanse of stars surrounding him. How long had he been there he didn't know, he didn't know what he was even doing there, he just sat and stared. He had been sitting there for around a month now. He ate some and slept some but all of it seemed to be the same.
When she came to him he just figured she had come to take him to his death, which was the reason he held no guard against her.
"How long do you plan to sit here and mope, my son?" she asked in a kindly voice.
Vegeta only stared defiantly at the woman he had loved and wronged so dearly.
"Do not think of the past in that manner, none of it was your fault."
"Yes it was," he finally spoke, "you loved me and I killed you."
"I love you and you didn't kill me, I chose to leave in order to cause you no more pain."
He looked amazed. "You were the only joy in my life, the only comfort, the only love, and I allowed them to separate me from you. I chose to forget all you taught me about love and peace, in order to placate them."
"You have not lost, nor given up all I taught you while you were a young man…you simply placed it inside yourself in a place you have not looked for a long time, a place you're afraid to go anymore."
"I'm not afraid of anything."
"Oh don't you take that barbaric Saiyan tone with me, my son. You are more man than to say you cannot fear." He closed his mouth and looked at her defiantly. She continued.
"You're afraid of showing the people in your life that you care for them, because you've been alone for so long you don't think this will last. You're afraid to find the true power within yourself, because if you do you're afraid you will have nothing left to strive for. Any you are afraid of Serenity."
"She lied to me."
"So what if she did. You're going to let that little thing get in the way of someone you care for so much? So what if she is a princess, you're a prince. That has nothing to do with why you're running from her now."
"I'm not running-"
"You're afraid that you will hurt her."
"I knowingly put her in danger by forcing her against her nature. That was one thing I did remember from you: Lunarians cannot fight from hate."
"That's right. Now, do you remember how it is they do fight? How were they so powerful?"
"I don't remember."
"Yes you do, my son."
"I don't know! Can't you just leave it at that? You know, why don't you just tell me?"
"You just don't want to say it, you're scared of it because you know that you are capable of the same power because of my blood and teachings in you."
He paused for a little while letting what she said sink in, then continued. "I've gone to far the other way to ever be capable to return to the ways of…"
"Love! Love, why can't you just say it?"
"OK, love. I'm not capable of love." He said it even when he wanted it.
His mother reached down and cradled his head in her arms, he didn't resist, and all of a sudden he felt like that little boy again, the boy he once was.
"You can love, you do love, and you're afraid of love." He didn't answer her he just stayed frozen; amazed at the feelings he was feeling. Ones he had forgotten people were capable of. He was feeling emotions that his father had convinced him were weak, but he was so frightened of them he didn't see how they could be weak.
His mother continued stroking his hair; he closed his eyes and tried to relax as she whispered comforting words to him.
"Now you know you're the only one that can show her the way."
"What about Kakorott? He has an abundance of love."
"This is true, but he cannot teach her like you can. He has tapped into his love power to fight, but he does not understand the multitude love power has."
"What are you saying?"
His mother smiled on him as if he were a little boy, "Vegeta, just as you have made a special place for her in your heart, she has done the same. Plus my training with you gives you more insight; you know how to use a Saiyan's love to fight.. Kakorott may have love, but he still fights with rage."
"I'm not ready to be able to her any good, I'll never be able to fight out of pure love as you once taught me."
"Stop being scared my son. It'll take time but you do need to get to her before it's too late, she doesn't have much time left here…and if you don't help her in time she may not survive the battle ahead of her."
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The time had come. Serena sat in the Capsule Corps kitchen nervously munching her cereal. Goku and her had made great strides, they both grew stronger through their training in the last month, Gohan as well; he had become the youngest Super Saiyan ever. She had been so proud of him.
She had thought of Vegeta at the time Gohan had transformed, and how angry he would be when he found out Goku's son was a super Saiyan already. But thinking about him only made her sad. After a days training, she often flew around the world searching for him, there was never any sign of him. Either he was hiding his ki, so as not to be found, or he wasn't on this planet anymore. Whichever it was she was confused as to why he had left. Didn't he understand how much he had come to mean to her? He had to have felt the same about her; didn't any of those kisses mean anything to him? They meant everything to her.
But today was the appointed time for Sailor Pluto to come for her and take her back for the fight. She had to leave and forget all about the spiky haired Saiyan that had changed everything about her life. The fight meant life or death, slavery or freedom. She closed her eyes and mentally calmed herself down. She knew she had the means to face whatever she had to face to save her world, even if she had to do it along. They were counting on her and she wouldn't let her nerves distract her.
Bluma walked into the kitchen to fetch Serena. "Everyone's outside waiting to go to Kami's."
Serena smiled up at her with fake readiness, the fact that didn't escape Bulma. "Hey kid, don't look so glum…you can handle that pipsqueak Garlic."
"It's not him I'm thinking about Bulma…it's Vegeta."
Bulma nodded with a small smile on her face, the fact that this girl had fallen for Vegeta surprised her every time she heard about it. During the last month Serena had confided in Bulma all that had happened while she and Vegeta had trained. Bulma had been astonished when she learned what had gone on between the two.
"I just wish I could have told him how I felt for him before it was too late, I wish I could see him right now and tell him. I wish I could have known my feelings back then so we could have worked something out, but I was just so confused back then…with Mamoru being so recently dead…but when I found out Vegeta had left I knew…I just knew I needed him."
"That's a lot of 'I wishes,' hun. I know Vegeta more than anyone else here does, he's not the one for you, he's too messed up, he left for goodness sake! Please Serena, go back to your world, save it, and forget about him, he'll only cause you pain." She paused for a minute before going on, almost as if she didn't want to say what she was about to say. "I'd love for you two to be happy together, but there is just no love in that man. There was a time when Yamcha and I were separated for a little while, and I thought I had fallen for Vegeta…hell, I imagined that he felt something for me, but when I let him know how I felt he just laughed in my face…believe me Serena, you're lucky that he left and that now you're leaving so you don't have to go through that."
Serena looked wide-eyed at Bluma. Bulma and Vegeta…she just couldn't believe those two could ever get along. The more she thought about it the more she knew she had to agree with Bulma, she had to go and forget about him…he was the one who left, why was she trying so hard to hold onto him when he wasn't even there?
"You're right, Bulma," she said sadly, "It's more important that I save my world."
Bulma smiled at Serena as she pulled her into a hug, "Let's get going, kid, everyone's waiting."
They walked outside and Serena was surrounded by her newfound friends. She soon grew too busy saying goodbye to them to think about having to forget about Vegeta.
After saying goodbyes they flew her to Kami's house. He greeted her warmly, with a heavy heart. He had to tell her what he had discovered about the Blackwater mist Garlic Jr. was using. Pluto would have already discovered that spreading the water of life didn't work against his new and improved Blackblood mist. He had discovered the stuff Garlic was using was blood from a legendary Solarite, and evil race that had met it's end millions of years ago due to it's own evil causes, not much was known on what killed them…but they were evil and powerful, and their blood was powerful. He'd wait until Pluto arrived before he told them that it was impossible to stop Garlic when he had this evil on his side. He had been spending many sleepless weeks trying to find a way to stop Garlic, but it wasn't looking good at all.
By then, Serena had lost complete hope that Vegeta would come and say goodbye to her. Yes, things were better this way…she thought sadly, there was not point in him coming with her only to die.
She pushed all thoughts off the subject matter and focused on the tall, green man in front of her. She smirked like Vegeta, this would be great. Without even concentrating she transformed into her ascended Lunarian form and floated effortlessly to Piccolo's eye level.
"I believe you have something of mine, and I want it back."
Piccolo stared at her unworried by her actions, he knew she was capable of kicking his ass into a bloody pulp but he knew she would never do that. "Go ahead and try to take it," he remarked confidently.
Everyone's chatter had ceased as they turned their attention to Piccolo and the glowing Lunarian. Piccolo lowered into a defensive stance, he would defend the stone with his life.
Serena smirked again, and then her expression changed to a huge goofy grin, much like one of Goku's. Instead of attacking, Serena threw her arms around Piccolo and gave him a huge bear hug, and then she kissed him on the cheek making a loud puckering noise.
Laughter roared around them as she reached into the stunned Namekian's pocket and took her silver crystal out.
"Thanks Piccy!" Serena giggled. Piccolo just turned bright red and averted his eyes from everyone else's.
When Serena held the crystal up it began to glow brightly, everyone gasped as it changed form. It turned into a crescent moon and floated into her crescent moon symbol on her forehead.
"Serena, I told you before, that crystal doesn't have any power, you give it the power it has."
"No Piccolo, as a Lunarian Princess this crystal is part of me, before I was too weak so I needed my power separate from me so I could protect my world…now I am strong enough and we no longer need to be separate. It also has the powers of all the Lunarian Queens and Kings in it…I think I'm going to keep it."
Piccolo was speechless, weather it was her in the ascended form that kept him too awestricken to speak or it was his worry that she had become so powerful without a part of her power in him, but he didn't say anything and just nodded to her.
"Well Princess Serenity, I see you have been using your time wisely here…I hope that you can stop the evil that has taken over our world…I can no longer see what the future holds."
"Pluto!" Serena said as she reverted back to her old self and ran to embrace her friend. "You don't look so good, are you alright?"
Pluto's sailor fuku was torn and tattered and there were huge bags under her tired, magenta eyes and bruises all over her arms and legs. She smiled sadly at her princess.
"My Princess, you may have been here for six months, but the day in our world has been the longest I've ever had to endure." She turned to Kami and continued, "As you know, the Water of Life you gave me to spread over my world has no effect on the evil bloodmist Garlic Jr. has spread."
Kami nodded his pale green head. "I can honestly tell you I have no clue on how to stop it, even if you kill Garlic, the people will still be controlled by the black blood mist. Unless…"
"Unless what?!?" Serena and Sailor Pluto questioned urgently at the same time.
Kami looked to Serena and explained to her. "Between Bulma and me analyzing the blood, we found it to belong to an ancient race known as the Solarites. They existed in this dimension around the same time Lunarians did. As legend goes, they were complete opposites; Solarites were comprised of evil and Lunarians of good. So we would need a Lunarian to counter act the Solarite blood."
"Duh Kami! You know I'm Lunarian! We have no worries then! I can kill Garlic, and then I can use my blood to…" She trailed off as she thought about what she was saying, "…say kami….How much of my blood would it take?"
"Exactly Princess, my guess would be it would take all of it…I can see no other way."
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Yep that was kinda a cliffy huh? Sorry! I wanted to end this one so I could start on the next. Sorry I took so long, I have meets and midterms and boyfriend…I know those are horrible excuses… Love you all! Please review or something maybe that will make me go faster…don't' you hate it when authors bribe you like that…but seriously reviews to make you want to write faster.
~Shi