BlackBlood Mist

Chapter 10

Shi

Summary of story so far: Garlic takes over SM dimension; Serena goes to DBZ dimension and is trained. She and Vegeta fall in love on accident while he is training her, but he's afraid of love so he leaves. Serena trains with Goku and she finally transforms into her Super-Lunarian form. Now, Sailor Pluto comes to pick her up so she can beat Garlic and save her world, but she finds out from Kami that the blackblood mist Garlic Jr. uses to transform all her friends into zombie/vampires is the blood of Solarites, an evil ancient enemy to Lunarians. The only way for Serena to counteract the blood's effect is to give up her life, cleanse the blood with her own.

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"All of it?" Serena asked feeling sickly.

"All of it," Kami replied.

"That is out of the question," Sailor Pluto said firmly.

"Yeah," Goku added quickly with a glance to his friend, "there has to be another way that will keep Serena alive."

"I'm afraid that's the only way," Kami said shakily. He saw that everyone was completely against his solution, but it was the only way he saw…even if it meant the young princesses life, it would save thousands of lives in that dimension and this one. "I know it seems harsh, but just think. Garlic Jr. is immortal; she can kill him and can bring him to the brink of death only so many times. Those people, turned demons, will follow him until they are cleansed. There is no way to heal any of them with out healing all of them. Serena has to sleep at one time or another and they will attack. Eventually they will take control and they will come to this dimension and attack."

Krillian gulped loudly, he didn't like the sound of an army of those guys coming again.

"It is still impossible. It is imperative that Princess Serenity remain alive in order for our future to continue," Setsuna said.

"Couldn't you just wish Serena back with the dragon balls?" Gohan asked.

"There are no dragon balls in that dimension, and ours are not powerful enough to reach it. It's the only way."

"No," Sailor Pluto said.

"He's right Setsuna, that's what I have to do," Serena said calmly.

"But Princess…."

"No, Setsuna. You said for yourself you cannot see the future of our world anymore. Now that Mamoru is dead, there will not be a Crystal Tokyo; I can't be queen without my prince. All that's important now is making sure that there is a future for our world. I will not be so selfish to deny thousands of people life in this dimension and ours, for my own sake. I've made my decision and you must obey me and allow me to do this.

Setsuna looked into her Princess's eyes. She nodded slowly and bowed her head. She was so proud of her princess she felt like crying. Serena was always doing this for the people she loved…now it seemed it would be the last time she sacrificed herself for all of them.

The Z fighters were all speechless, ashamed, and even angry. Goku hated the fact that his friend was going to die and there was nothing he could do about it, worse of all…it was for his world and he couldn't protect it. Though he understood why she was the one that had to do it, he would gladly take her place.

"Say your goodbyes, Princess," Setsuna said, sounding old.

She bravely faced her friends, perhaps it was because she was in a somber mood from deciding she would die, or because she was really getting stronger in spirit, but she didn't cry. She went to each one, hugging them, and smiling at them, assuring that she would be fine, though they all knew she was going to meet her death.

Once she had said goodbye to everyone Sailor Pluto told them to all step back. She opened the purple vortex to their world and the two stepped in and disappeared into the darkness.

Almost immediately after the portal disappeared the fighters waiting on Kami's lookout felt a high energy level approaching them at a insanely fast pace.

Once he reached them out of breath he yelled; "Where is she?"

"You're too late," Piccolo growled. Not only did he not like the guy for nearly letting Serena get killed when Talc came, he wasn't in the mood to deal with anyone. Here he had just sent a child off to die, while he sat around and hoped she would be successful in saving his world, which meant dying. All this to avoid a fight, and he felt weak and helpless. They let her go to her go to her death to save their own miserable lives.

"I have to get to her. She can't win this battle on her own."

Krillin wasn't in the mood for Vegeta either; he had the same thoughts as Piccolo. "There's nothing you can do about it, Vegeta, why should you care anways?"

"I'm sorry Vegeta, but Sailor Pluto is the only one with the powers to go through to that dimension, besides you couldn't survive in the atmosphere and you would age incredibly quickly."

"If there was anything we could do, I would have done it long ago, I don't want her to die either," Goku said sadly.

"You are all fools. I can save her, I have to help her," Vegeta didn't care they didn't like him, nor that they didn't believe him in this situation. He had to get to her, that was all he cared about.

Bulma still had red puffy eyes from her parting with Serena and realizing the young girl was off to her death, now those eyes stared wide at Vegeta. She never thought in a thousand years he could show those emotions. She could tell, if the others couldn't, that Vegeta was in love with Serena, and was serous about helping her.

"I can get you there, Vegeta," Bulma said loudly.

Vegeta's eyes lit up, "How, Woman? I demand you tell me right away."

Bulma ignored his rudeness and continued, she hoped she wouldn't regret this, "When Serena arrived to this dimension I had huge inspiration to figure out dimensional travel. So my mind got spinning and I saw how easy it is. Ever since then I've been working on a machine that will be able to go to different dimensions. I'm almost done, I could finish today in fact, and since the energy from the portal Sailor Pluto opened is so strong in this area still, I could log on the signatures of their dimension to this machine."

"Amazing!"

"Sounds risky."

"I'll do it," Vegeta said with no thought in the matter.

"Don't be so hasty, you'd still die as soon as you got there, if it works in the first place," Kami added.

"Then we'll just have to use the dragon balls to wish me immortal," Vegeta said with a smirk.

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All the dragon balls had been gathered and Bulma had finished the last touches to her dimension hopper.

Although, Bulma was nervous about Vegeta being immortal and what he would do with the power it was worth it to her. Serena had touched all their lives so much; she deserved to have the one she loved with her when she died. She even kind of wished he stopped her from killing herself, even if it meant her world being attacked.

Everyone gathered to call the Eternal Dragon.

Kami summoned the Shenlong (sp?) Dragon. The sky turned black and lightening crashed around them in the lookout. The long snake-like dragon appeared before them with a roar. He then looked to Kami, "What wish do you desire?"

Kami looked away from the dragon to Vegeta and yelled to him over the crashing thunder, "What do you plan to do to stop Garlic Jr. and save Serena?"

Vegeta looked at Kami calmly, "You wouldn't understand old man, it's something known only by Lunarians and a small sect of Saiyans learned in the ancient way."

Kami nodded and smirked to Vegeta, "If you are so positive you will be successful do you mind if I make that the conditions to your immortality?"

Vegeta smirked back.

"I don't have all day, what do you desire my master?" It asked Kami again.

"I wish that Vegeta would be immortal as long as Serena lives, or until he comes back to this dimension."

The dragon's eyes flashed. Vegeta began to glow in a white light. He started to laugh like a maniac.

"It is done, goodbye," the dragon said as he left to rest for a year. The dragon balls stopped glowing, turned to stone, and blasted off in to seven different directions to be placed on opposite sides of the earth.

All eyes were on Vegeta as he stopped glowing, they weren't sure this was the best idea ever, they hoped they had made the right choice. He closed his eyes and turned Super-Saiyan.

Then he turned to Bulma, "Strap me in."



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Well, what do you think? Good bad? Review and tell me what you think. If you have questions feel free to ask! Sorry it keeps on taking me so long, I'm just nearing the end and I always have trouble ending fics cause I hate for them to be over and stuff. (

Shi ~shigal5@aol.com