CHAPER TWENTY-SEVEN: Pay the piper-my jury stands, my judgement calls
Miko felt pain shoot through her like millions of stabbing needles of the white-hot variety. She sucked at the air, trying to breath
Tien felt his eyes widen at what he had just done. Forgetting for the tiniest moment what she had done he started towards her, meaning to help her up and apologise. The look on her face stopped him, she had come back from her dazed trance
She got up slowly, holding her ribs
"How dare I?" she said in a fatal voice, there was a line of blue blood running down from the corner of her mouth, he suddenly remembered part of the dream, the part with steely eyes and a dagger, and blood
"I'll tell you how dare I" she took a slow but purposeful step towards him
"You" she hissed, raising a hand to point, right at his heart
"You stole my life from me, you ruined it, you made me care for you, you made this so much harder than it has to be, you caused me more pain than this whole world put together" her voice was a deadly hiss
"You, you, you. You made me the way I am. You stole my attention, attention I could have given to the one person in this world who loves me without a reason, all you care about is this earth. I never had to stay here, I never had to be with you, you were so dam sweet, you killed my resolve and every time I put my plan into action you made it crumble, you planted the seed of mistrust in me in others, you destroyed my whole world" he was backing away, fear ruling his motions, he did not know why the others had not heard him, then it hit him like a sledgehammer to the gut
"What did you do with the others!" he yelled, she narrowed her eyes, undaunted
"I gave up my freedom for you, and you repay me by reading my only friend, that book was the only thing keeping me sane!" suddenly a thin line of ki shot out from her finger, heading straight for his heart. He ducked, the fatal blast burned the skin on the back of his neck and pierced through the wall, to carry on for miles. He jumped to his feet, readying a blast of his own. She did not flinch as he shot it at her; she simply batted it away. Watching him through her terrifying eyes, he was suddenly angry again
"How could you?! I cared about you! I would have died to protect you! You put me though hell! And for what! A game you will cheat to win at!!" he screamed at her, she did not move, still staring at him. He turned and left the room, his body suddenly obeying his every angry command.
Miko sank to the floor again. She heard the door slam and felt Tien leave. She had asked Yamcha, Chou zu and Master Roshi to give her some time alone with Tien. She suddenly found tears in her eyes, giving in to the immeasurable grief she let it come. The dam burst and all her pain, all her hurt came pouring out through her eyes and mouth as she wailed and cried. She ran out of tears and began smashing things.
Gohan blinked as he felt a really weird ki surge, he looked at his father who nodded, he blurred out of sight
Miko was busy destroying Master Roshi's house, smashing anything in sight, she had already sliced her wrists by putting her fists through the windows and various glass ware. She was in the process of turning the wall into dust when the might super saijin turned up
Goku's eyes widened at what he saw, there was blue blood smeared everywhere and debris littered the floor, the lounge was in ruins with piece of what had once been walls and furniture everywhere. He followed the blood trail around an over turned table to find Miko smashing the mantle. He wrapped his arms around her, inning her blue soaked arms to her sides
Tien landed on the white tiles, he could feel Miko's ki going haywire, at this point he was too angry to care, he had run out of tears of his own and simply stared expressionlessly at Dende as the young guardian stepped up to him. He shoved the book into the namek's hands and took off. He needed to be alone.
She screamed and wailed and shrieked, tears streaming down her face, he took her wrists carefully and saw that both were bleeding freely and full of glass,
Self-inflicted.
He held her by the lower arms and wrapped his arms around her again. She kicked and thrashed, he knew she had lost a lot of blood, there were cuts all over her arms and her clothing was torn. It took all his will power just to keep holding onto her. But her fury could not sustain her forever and eventually she dissolved into sobs, still struggling weakly.
He held onto her until she stopped, he knew she had lost too much blood to wait. He teleported to Satan city and the nearest hospital. She never stopped crying, and never once did an articulate word come out of her mouth, by the time he handed her over to the nurses she was hysterical and they quickly sedated her.
Dende opened the book, pretty sure he knew what was in it
"Let me kill, let me kill, taste the blood! Gloriousness lies in death, kill, kill, kill!!"
"Time to kill, let me twist the world, let me tear it apart, kill, blood, the sweet taste of death" phrases such as theses were scrawled all over the first ten pages in various coloured inks in spidery, almost sinister seeming handwriting. Then he came to Miko's clumsy, child like handwriting
"Today I found out I am an alien. It hasn't sunk in yet and I have to be strong for Sheme, this changes everything, my whole life was a lie, gods, how much bad luck do I deserve? Gods save me, what am supposed to do? I got plucked off the ground by some huge tri clops an hauled to some huge mansion and they tell me I have to save their sorry asses, gods, I can't handle this, but what about Sheme? Gods what about him? I can't tell him, he wouldn't understand what it means, I am an alien! It isn't right, it can't be right, can it?"
Then after a few pages describing pretty much what she did he rest of that day it cut into the spidery handwriting again
"The fools, think they can outwit me, how dare they! No matter, this leads to more fun, more hurt, more pain, the delicious taste of pain, how I long for it's taste, I could take my pick of them right now but I will take my time, let them believe I will help them, let them think I am good, let them think I am the pure hearted little angel they all adore. I do not even have a heart, they found me today, what an opportunity! Ooooh, the joy of pain! I can't wait, I shall dig out their hearts piece by piece then set them on fire, ahhh, blood, it tastes so good!"
The entries reverted back to Miko's handwriting for possibly a month of entries, then followed many, many highly detailed and very gruesome pictures of tortures and death and suffering, anything the mind could imagine and more, these followed throughout the book, the pictures gradually growing more and more to resemble the various Z fighters. There was a rather deranged, unhinge patch in which she was in the time chamber, little was said about it really, nothing at all about her time with Piccolo, then he came to something much worse
"The time has come. I have him wrapped around my fingers, his heart before me on a plate, time to execute stage one"
Then back to the pages of scribbled homicidal notes. Then back to Miko's handwriting
"Oh God, What am I doing? I think I'm falling for the three eyed bastard! He's messing with my head! I know it, I can't let him in, what if it's some sick mind game? What can I do? Gods, save me. This just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse. I don't know what to do, What the bloody hell am I to do? I can't let him in, he might hurt me, but Gods I want him, so much. It's like he's seducing me without realising it. I can almost taste him, but it will make it harder in the end if I get attached. My head is such a mess, what am I supposed to do?"
Her words were true and sincere and many of the pages were stained with what he assumed where tears, as he read through he came to a much more terrifying section
"He has ruined my plan, well if I can't take them al I'll take just him, he cannot take my control from me. I won't let him, he can't make me happy, I can't get attached. I will hurt him so badly, then I will kill them all, one way or another, it could have been so much easier one everyone but he had to be so bloody sweet natured, sickly sweet too sweet, foul. The sweetest thing about him is his blood, how I long to take it from him. Seduce him, make him my toy, then destroy him, ahh his blood would be so sweet when mixed with fear and pain ahhh, so innocent, so pure" you could almost see her sifting for the right word
"So sweet"
The entries ended there. There were a few more scribbles and quite a few pictures, all featuring Tien, himself, Chou zu and Piccolo, one or two had Vegeta in the back ground and what could have been Goku and Gohan. He closed the book and sighed. Piccolo was standing behind him. The tall man could not read well enough to understand her scrawl at the speed with which Dende whipped through it
"So she is evil then" Dende shook his head
"I don't know Piccolo, this diary finished a while before today, we don't know if she has changed or not, and I may still be able to heal her mind if the corruption does not run to her soul, she could have changed"
"And if she hasn't?"
"Then there is only one option"
Miko awoke with pain over most of her top half, she opened her eyes to see Goku sitting on a chair beside her, she realised she was on a bed, she blinked a few times and realised no one else was in the room. His chin was resting on his folded hands and he was watching her levelly, an expression she had never seen on him, she suddenly realised how much her wrists hurt and that they were heavily bandaged.
"You gave me quite a scare there Miko" she turned her head away her eyes burning and sore
"What happened to drive you so crazy?" she said nothing
"Answer me" he ordered her
"I am insane, that's what" she hissed at him dangerously, he narrowed his eyes at her, the kind of expression he wore before a serious battle, she somehow knew it.
Goku thought carefully, no one else had been at Kame house or they would have stopped her, he had a feeling this had a lot to do with Tien but he doubted any ordinary fight would send Miko so crazy, she was always the level headed one, with the forever placid and rarely angry personality, occasionally she got made but not mad like this. He studied her carefully
"What did he do?" he suddenly had the thought that perhaps things had gone farther than she wanted, but he was certain Tien would never force anything on Miko, almost, Tien acted pretty strange around her sometimes, possessive and angry, only on occasion but enough. She tried unsuccessfully to pulled back the covers over her, he helped her, pulling them down to her waist, she lifted up the shirt of the hospital gown to reveal the heavy bruising to her ribs
"That" she said. Goku gaped
"In training?" she shook her head
"We never spar" Goku knew Miko was a strong fighter but in over all power anyone of the Z fighters was at least double her strength, not to mention saijin strength. She would have had to have been off guard for such a move to get past her defences, she never left an opening, you had to make them, and take a fair beating in the process.
"Why?" Miko closed her eyes
"Go away you brainless excuse for a primate" she could tell immediately he did not even understand her words. She scowled and sighed, trying to sleep, if it would make him go away then he dreams would be worth it.
Tien was sitting on a skyscraper, the same one he had found Miko next to all those weeks ago, of course to her it would have been almost two years ago. He was thinking, trying to find a reason she could be so cold. Her heart, her mind, her soul were ice, ice you could not melt with all the heat in the world, he wondered how he did not see it before. He gave up with the only thing he could think of; she was evil.
Miko slipped into the cool night air with her blue stained coat wrapped around her. She shed the bandages and shot away.
* Tien sat next to Gohan. The kid placed a hand on his shoulder. He did not look up
"Hey, don't beat yourself up, none of us knew"
Miko heard a silent landing and did not move
"You were sent here to kill me" she said quietly, Piccolo said nothing
"I just have one favour to ask"
"Go ahead" his voice was unusually gentle
"Fulfil your promise" he nodded to her back and stepped forward, she was looking out at the huge full moon as it rose out above the horizon. He raised his hand
"Wait" he paused, she turned around and pulled out two envelopes
"Give them to their owners" she said quietly. Piccolo nodded and took the small rectangular squares and slipped them into his shirt
"Dende can heal your mind" she shook her head
"No he can't"
Miko turned back to face the rising moon
"It's beautiful" she whispered
"I always loved the moon, and the night that came with it, I think that's what I'll miss most, in hell" she said softly. There was a swishing sound and a searing pain tore through her chest. She fell without a sound, her eyes closing and her mouth slightly open. For a brief second she enjoyed the most peaceful eternity of her life.
Tien felt a weak flicker of ki flare up for a second then snuff out completely, he sighed and took off
"The flame flickers
The light goes out I am left Alone in the dark"
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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: My crimson ocean-blue blood
Tien sat on the large grey building, the metal version of the lookout essentially. His knees were drawn up to his chin and his hand holding onto the opened letter before his feet. He lifted it to read
"Tien
If you are reading this then I am already gone. I always was mad, strangest thing is I feel as much hurt as you do. I did love you, though I could never admit it for fear of what such an admittance would make my darker side do to you, trust me, what I had planned was worse by far. It's ironic that it should end this way, just when I was beginning to heal. I had it coming I guess. I will you all my worldly possessions and wish you a wonderful life, with a person who deserves you
If I had a heart it would be yours
Miko"
Tien folded the page with tears streaming down his face, what had he done? ~~~~~~~~
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Loose ends-the pain of loss and regrets
Telling Sheme that his sister was dead was the hardest thing Piccolo had ever done. Tien had disappeared somewhere and had not been seen for a few days, and because of his promise Piccolo had to do it. He still remembered the kid's face
"Kid"
"Yeah? Who you"
"My name is Piccolo"
"Hi"
"Listen"
"Ok"
"You need to know something
"What is it?"
"It's" he paused
"Your sister"
"What about her? Is she mad at me or something?"
"No"
"Then what?"
"She's, she's dead"
Piccolo closed his eyes, he was staying at Capsule Corp, his promise bound him to
"Piccolo, you probably know me better than anyone"
"I'd say so"
"Then promise me something"
"Shoot"
"We both know that one of these days I will die, either because my wits snap and I kill myself or because one of you does, so promise me two things"
"Shoot"
"Take care of Sheme, I don't care who he ends up with, make sure he becomes a better person than I was, and if I die, you kill me"
"Why?"
"Because I want you to, now promise" he reluctantly nodded.
Bulma sighed as she watched Sheme's tear streaked face; the boy had not stopped crying for three days. There was always a tear making its way down his cheek. Bulma fought tears; however terrible they told her Miko was she had grown attached to the girl, as had everyone else. They were burying Miko tomorrow. Next to her parents. Bulma had yet the to see to the headstone. She could think of nothing to put on it. She realised now that no one except Sheme and until right before she died Tien, that Miko would call a friend or a loved one of any kind. She turned to Sheme again
"Sheme?" he looked at her through sad, tearful green eyes
"What would you say describes Miko the best?" he thought, the tears actually pausing for a second or two. He frowned in concentration, then looked back up
"The one with many faces, who knew us better than we knew ourselves" Bulma blinked, it was rather astute for a seven year old, though Sheme was no ordinary seven year old.
*
Sheme did not cry as Bulma handed him the small pot of ashes, at his request they had burned Miko instead, incinerating her body with a single blast. He blinked a few times, he knew Miko did not like to cry, and he wanted to be just like her. He stepped to the edge of the seaside cliff that had once been his home as a toddler and a baby. He was now eight, he had turned eight two days after Miko died, no one had told him how she died but he did not want to know. He sighed and opened the pot, there was a thud and he looked up to see Tien. He almost managed a smile, Tien also could not manage a grin
"You know she was so proud of you" Tien whispered, Sheme blinked
"She was?"
"Yeah, you were the best thing in her life, all she ever thought about was how to make things better for you" Sheme really did smile now
"She looked after me since I was a little baby"
Tien placed a hand on the kid's shoulder. He had a feeling what Sheme was about to do anyway. The boy stepped right up to the edge and with a whispered word of goodbye threw the fragile pot as high as he could into the air. Tien sent a small blast of ki after it. The china shattered with a sound that somehow reminded him of Miko's laugh. Silken black dust swirled in an updraft and scattered above them.
Sheme and Tien stayed after everyone else had left. Sitting in the same spot she died, though neither of them knew this. Both was feeling pain, one guilt, betrayal, and grief, another, just grief. Sheme turned to Tien and hugged him
"Miko really loved you" Tien blinked
"She told me one day, she said she loved you as much as she loved me" Tien almost smiled
"Thanks kid" though it only made him feel worse; Miko never lied to Sheme
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CHAPTER THIRTY: Judgement day
Miko again found herself before the red man. He had spent a long time examining her soul, unable to decide whether it was good or evil
"You have certainly done some terrible things young woman" he told her sternly
"Yet you have so much love, for only two people though"
"One" she corrected
"Hmm, you have suffered much, your heart is twisted and corrupt, but so sad, so lonely, could the evil run this deep?" she shrugged
"I'm dead now, does it matter, just send me to hell so I can pay my dues"
King Yamma searched her mind for signs of trickery, there was definitely a lot of guilt in her, guilt not for her actions, but the pain they caused, he also saw the damage in her mind, damage that had caused many of her actions, and he also saw her need to punish herself, it was almost as if all this darkness should not belong to some one with such love and humility, she was highly empathic, but ignored her sixth sense completely, she was definitely the most difficult case he had ever come across. He wandered what to do when King Kai's voice reverberated inside his head
"King Yamma! Have you made your judgement, can I train her? Hurry it up, I've never had a female student"
"King Kai you know as well as I do even if she is not judged evil she has done nothing to deserve your training, she does not deserve to keep her body, it showed when she did not fade, only her astro self came to the dimension. I have seen her once before now, and this time she is well and truly dead"
Miko blinked as the red man spoke to no one
"The only hope?" she supposed it was a god thing
"Well, who would wish her back, it was the Z fighters"
"No I cannot heal her"
"I doubt the Supreme Kai will, he is a legend"
"I see" the red man turned back to her
"You are judged good, you will travel to king Kai's planet and train with him, perhaps in time your deeds will be forgiven by the fates, you have done much evil, but your heart itself is purer than what warrants hell" Miko scowled
"What makes you think I want to train, my ki would be no higher than a hundred thousand, every Z fighter has at least double that, and that is after two years of training. It has risen so slowly it is not worth it, and what would I use it for?" King Yamma sighed
"It is am honour to train with King Kai" she shrugged
"Whatever, but there is no way I am running for a year to get to his dam planet" He smiled
"If you are quick you should get there in an other world day" she shrugged
"How long is that?"
"About the same as twelve earth hours" She turned and strode out of h check in station. He smiled to himself; King Kai would have his hands full with her.
King Kai fidgeted, unable to wait for his newest student; from what he had sense from the thoughts of the Z fighters she was hot, and he had never had a female student. He had also seen her potential and the various depths of her abilities, she would be a highly interesting pupil, that was if she was willing to let him teach her, he had a feeling she would be a lot like Piccolo. He had sensed some strange telepathic powers radiating from her, it was what had turned Tien's usually gentle nature to a much more erratic and sometimes violent person. He knew it was to do with her twin but it was not helping anyone, least of all Miko. He never would have expected Tien to hit Miko outside of training, or to turn on Yamcha even with Miko's distractions, it demonstrated how powerful her influences were, whether she realised it or not.
Miko was busy strolling along snake way. She had been running for a few hours and was bored. She was a rather lazy person by nature, but so controlled of herself it never came through, but up here her layers of acting and self-discipline had been stripped away, revealing her core personality, to a point, she was in fierce control of what she was and who she wanted to be. She blinked as a small palace came into view in the distance, she was hungry and bored so she figured that she could find something else to do other than walk or run. She shot forward at a fast jog and stopped by the large door
Princess Snake looked up, there was a presence outside, it did not feel like a male but it was deliciously devilish none the less, She stood up as a young woman with long green hair entered, she blinked, suddenly jealous, the woman was beautiful, incredibly so, and this annoyed her, she did not like to share the spotlight.
Miko blinked at the blue woman before her. She was picking up a lot of evil in her, almost as much as herself, she smirked, she could tell just by the body language just what was going through her head
"Welcome, I am Princess Snake" She smiled, layering her acting skills, glad to find she still had them
"Hello, I am Queen Nokia of the lunar solar system of Harco" She spoke in a perfect sultry Latino accent, rolling her r's and pronouncing the word "harco" almost in a whisper, "harco" was in fact a brand name she had posed for many times.
Princess Snake frowned
"I have never heard of such a system" The woman smiled
"Not many have" Princess snake was getting more jealous every minute, she had not had a visitor since Goku and now she was sure this woman was stealing them all. Her fangs extended and her hair frizzed slightly
"You stole my spotlight" she hissed, lunging forwards. What she didn't expect was the way the woman calmly sidestepped her and smirked
"You are so predictable" Miko sent a ki blast through the roof of what was melting into a long red and pink chamber, dripping with green acid. She shot through and landed on the back of a giant snake.
"Great" she said to herself as she sprinted up to the head, sending a ki blast into an eye on her way. There was a scream as she sprang off the nose and into the air. Below her was a giant snake, writhing around on the platform on the side of snake way. She grinned to herself as she descended, the snake would not follow if it could not see. She took off at a gallop
King Kai shifted excitedly in his chair, she would be here within the hour, he had a training programme ready for her, specifically designed for a woman.
Miko found she had run out of snake. In the distance she could see a tiny spec she assumed was King Kai's planet. She smirked and took a leap. High above the small dot she smiled as the otherworldly air rushed past her and the gravity of the planet clawed at her. Pulling her downwards. She landed with a thud that left dents on the ground. She blinked and found her knees weak.
King Kai stepped outside to see a hot girl moving slowly around
"Getting used to the gravity I see" he said. She swung around and scowled
"So this is the famous King Kai" she said disdainfully. He frowned as her movements loosened up, she had gotten used to the gravity pretty quickly.
"Welcome, I am very pleased to see you have come, shall we get started?" she shrugged
"Whatever"
Two minutes later Miko dropped bubbles at King Kai's feet. The blue man was gaping
"You adapt quickly" she smirked
"What's next"
"GREGORY!!"
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Miko felt pain shoot through her like millions of stabbing needles of the white-hot variety. She sucked at the air, trying to breath
Tien felt his eyes widen at what he had just done. Forgetting for the tiniest moment what she had done he started towards her, meaning to help her up and apologise. The look on her face stopped him, she had come back from her dazed trance
She got up slowly, holding her ribs
"How dare I?" she said in a fatal voice, there was a line of blue blood running down from the corner of her mouth, he suddenly remembered part of the dream, the part with steely eyes and a dagger, and blood
"I'll tell you how dare I" she took a slow but purposeful step towards him
"You" she hissed, raising a hand to point, right at his heart
"You stole my life from me, you ruined it, you made me care for you, you made this so much harder than it has to be, you caused me more pain than this whole world put together" her voice was a deadly hiss
"You, you, you. You made me the way I am. You stole my attention, attention I could have given to the one person in this world who loves me without a reason, all you care about is this earth. I never had to stay here, I never had to be with you, you were so dam sweet, you killed my resolve and every time I put my plan into action you made it crumble, you planted the seed of mistrust in me in others, you destroyed my whole world" he was backing away, fear ruling his motions, he did not know why the others had not heard him, then it hit him like a sledgehammer to the gut
"What did you do with the others!" he yelled, she narrowed her eyes, undaunted
"I gave up my freedom for you, and you repay me by reading my only friend, that book was the only thing keeping me sane!" suddenly a thin line of ki shot out from her finger, heading straight for his heart. He ducked, the fatal blast burned the skin on the back of his neck and pierced through the wall, to carry on for miles. He jumped to his feet, readying a blast of his own. She did not flinch as he shot it at her; she simply batted it away. Watching him through her terrifying eyes, he was suddenly angry again
"How could you?! I cared about you! I would have died to protect you! You put me though hell! And for what! A game you will cheat to win at!!" he screamed at her, she did not move, still staring at him. He turned and left the room, his body suddenly obeying his every angry command.
Miko sank to the floor again. She heard the door slam and felt Tien leave. She had asked Yamcha, Chou zu and Master Roshi to give her some time alone with Tien. She suddenly found tears in her eyes, giving in to the immeasurable grief she let it come. The dam burst and all her pain, all her hurt came pouring out through her eyes and mouth as she wailed and cried. She ran out of tears and began smashing things.
Gohan blinked as he felt a really weird ki surge, he looked at his father who nodded, he blurred out of sight
Miko was busy destroying Master Roshi's house, smashing anything in sight, she had already sliced her wrists by putting her fists through the windows and various glass ware. She was in the process of turning the wall into dust when the might super saijin turned up
Goku's eyes widened at what he saw, there was blue blood smeared everywhere and debris littered the floor, the lounge was in ruins with piece of what had once been walls and furniture everywhere. He followed the blood trail around an over turned table to find Miko smashing the mantle. He wrapped his arms around her, inning her blue soaked arms to her sides
Tien landed on the white tiles, he could feel Miko's ki going haywire, at this point he was too angry to care, he had run out of tears of his own and simply stared expressionlessly at Dende as the young guardian stepped up to him. He shoved the book into the namek's hands and took off. He needed to be alone.
She screamed and wailed and shrieked, tears streaming down her face, he took her wrists carefully and saw that both were bleeding freely and full of glass,
Self-inflicted.
He held her by the lower arms and wrapped his arms around her again. She kicked and thrashed, he knew she had lost a lot of blood, there were cuts all over her arms and her clothing was torn. It took all his will power just to keep holding onto her. But her fury could not sustain her forever and eventually she dissolved into sobs, still struggling weakly.
He held onto her until she stopped, he knew she had lost too much blood to wait. He teleported to Satan city and the nearest hospital. She never stopped crying, and never once did an articulate word come out of her mouth, by the time he handed her over to the nurses she was hysterical and they quickly sedated her.
Dende opened the book, pretty sure he knew what was in it
"Let me kill, let me kill, taste the blood! Gloriousness lies in death, kill, kill, kill!!"
"Time to kill, let me twist the world, let me tear it apart, kill, blood, the sweet taste of death" phrases such as theses were scrawled all over the first ten pages in various coloured inks in spidery, almost sinister seeming handwriting. Then he came to Miko's clumsy, child like handwriting
"Today I found out I am an alien. It hasn't sunk in yet and I have to be strong for Sheme, this changes everything, my whole life was a lie, gods, how much bad luck do I deserve? Gods save me, what am supposed to do? I got plucked off the ground by some huge tri clops an hauled to some huge mansion and they tell me I have to save their sorry asses, gods, I can't handle this, but what about Sheme? Gods what about him? I can't tell him, he wouldn't understand what it means, I am an alien! It isn't right, it can't be right, can it?"
Then after a few pages describing pretty much what she did he rest of that day it cut into the spidery handwriting again
"The fools, think they can outwit me, how dare they! No matter, this leads to more fun, more hurt, more pain, the delicious taste of pain, how I long for it's taste, I could take my pick of them right now but I will take my time, let them believe I will help them, let them think I am good, let them think I am the pure hearted little angel they all adore. I do not even have a heart, they found me today, what an opportunity! Ooooh, the joy of pain! I can't wait, I shall dig out their hearts piece by piece then set them on fire, ahhh, blood, it tastes so good!"
The entries reverted back to Miko's handwriting for possibly a month of entries, then followed many, many highly detailed and very gruesome pictures of tortures and death and suffering, anything the mind could imagine and more, these followed throughout the book, the pictures gradually growing more and more to resemble the various Z fighters. There was a rather deranged, unhinge patch in which she was in the time chamber, little was said about it really, nothing at all about her time with Piccolo, then he came to something much worse
"The time has come. I have him wrapped around my fingers, his heart before me on a plate, time to execute stage one"
Then back to the pages of scribbled homicidal notes. Then back to Miko's handwriting
"Oh God, What am I doing? I think I'm falling for the three eyed bastard! He's messing with my head! I know it, I can't let him in, what if it's some sick mind game? What can I do? Gods, save me. This just keeps getting worse and worse and worse and worse. I don't know what to do, What the bloody hell am I to do? I can't let him in, he might hurt me, but Gods I want him, so much. It's like he's seducing me without realising it. I can almost taste him, but it will make it harder in the end if I get attached. My head is such a mess, what am I supposed to do?"
Her words were true and sincere and many of the pages were stained with what he assumed where tears, as he read through he came to a much more terrifying section
"He has ruined my plan, well if I can't take them al I'll take just him, he cannot take my control from me. I won't let him, he can't make me happy, I can't get attached. I will hurt him so badly, then I will kill them all, one way or another, it could have been so much easier one everyone but he had to be so bloody sweet natured, sickly sweet too sweet, foul. The sweetest thing about him is his blood, how I long to take it from him. Seduce him, make him my toy, then destroy him, ahh his blood would be so sweet when mixed with fear and pain ahhh, so innocent, so pure" you could almost see her sifting for the right word
"So sweet"
The entries ended there. There were a few more scribbles and quite a few pictures, all featuring Tien, himself, Chou zu and Piccolo, one or two had Vegeta in the back ground and what could have been Goku and Gohan. He closed the book and sighed. Piccolo was standing behind him. The tall man could not read well enough to understand her scrawl at the speed with which Dende whipped through it
"So she is evil then" Dende shook his head
"I don't know Piccolo, this diary finished a while before today, we don't know if she has changed or not, and I may still be able to heal her mind if the corruption does not run to her soul, she could have changed"
"And if she hasn't?"
"Then there is only one option"
Miko awoke with pain over most of her top half, she opened her eyes to see Goku sitting on a chair beside her, she realised she was on a bed, she blinked a few times and realised no one else was in the room. His chin was resting on his folded hands and he was watching her levelly, an expression she had never seen on him, she suddenly realised how much her wrists hurt and that they were heavily bandaged.
"You gave me quite a scare there Miko" she turned her head away her eyes burning and sore
"What happened to drive you so crazy?" she said nothing
"Answer me" he ordered her
"I am insane, that's what" she hissed at him dangerously, he narrowed his eyes at her, the kind of expression he wore before a serious battle, she somehow knew it.
Goku thought carefully, no one else had been at Kame house or they would have stopped her, he had a feeling this had a lot to do with Tien but he doubted any ordinary fight would send Miko so crazy, she was always the level headed one, with the forever placid and rarely angry personality, occasionally she got made but not mad like this. He studied her carefully
"What did he do?" he suddenly had the thought that perhaps things had gone farther than she wanted, but he was certain Tien would never force anything on Miko, almost, Tien acted pretty strange around her sometimes, possessive and angry, only on occasion but enough. She tried unsuccessfully to pulled back the covers over her, he helped her, pulling them down to her waist, she lifted up the shirt of the hospital gown to reveal the heavy bruising to her ribs
"That" she said. Goku gaped
"In training?" she shook her head
"We never spar" Goku knew Miko was a strong fighter but in over all power anyone of the Z fighters was at least double her strength, not to mention saijin strength. She would have had to have been off guard for such a move to get past her defences, she never left an opening, you had to make them, and take a fair beating in the process.
"Why?" Miko closed her eyes
"Go away you brainless excuse for a primate" she could tell immediately he did not even understand her words. She scowled and sighed, trying to sleep, if it would make him go away then he dreams would be worth it.
Tien was sitting on a skyscraper, the same one he had found Miko next to all those weeks ago, of course to her it would have been almost two years ago. He was thinking, trying to find a reason she could be so cold. Her heart, her mind, her soul were ice, ice you could not melt with all the heat in the world, he wondered how he did not see it before. He gave up with the only thing he could think of; she was evil.
Miko slipped into the cool night air with her blue stained coat wrapped around her. She shed the bandages and shot away.
* Tien sat next to Gohan. The kid placed a hand on his shoulder. He did not look up
"Hey, don't beat yourself up, none of us knew"
Miko heard a silent landing and did not move
"You were sent here to kill me" she said quietly, Piccolo said nothing
"I just have one favour to ask"
"Go ahead" his voice was unusually gentle
"Fulfil your promise" he nodded to her back and stepped forward, she was looking out at the huge full moon as it rose out above the horizon. He raised his hand
"Wait" he paused, she turned around and pulled out two envelopes
"Give them to their owners" she said quietly. Piccolo nodded and took the small rectangular squares and slipped them into his shirt
"Dende can heal your mind" she shook her head
"No he can't"
Miko turned back to face the rising moon
"It's beautiful" she whispered
"I always loved the moon, and the night that came with it, I think that's what I'll miss most, in hell" she said softly. There was a swishing sound and a searing pain tore through her chest. She fell without a sound, her eyes closing and her mouth slightly open. For a brief second she enjoyed the most peaceful eternity of her life.
Tien felt a weak flicker of ki flare up for a second then snuff out completely, he sighed and took off
"The flame flickers
The light goes out I am left Alone in the dark"
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CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: My crimson ocean-blue blood
Tien sat on the large grey building, the metal version of the lookout essentially. His knees were drawn up to his chin and his hand holding onto the opened letter before his feet. He lifted it to read
"Tien
If you are reading this then I am already gone. I always was mad, strangest thing is I feel as much hurt as you do. I did love you, though I could never admit it for fear of what such an admittance would make my darker side do to you, trust me, what I had planned was worse by far. It's ironic that it should end this way, just when I was beginning to heal. I had it coming I guess. I will you all my worldly possessions and wish you a wonderful life, with a person who deserves you
If I had a heart it would be yours
Miko"
Tien folded the page with tears streaming down his face, what had he done? ~~~~~~~~
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE Loose ends-the pain of loss and regrets
Telling Sheme that his sister was dead was the hardest thing Piccolo had ever done. Tien had disappeared somewhere and had not been seen for a few days, and because of his promise Piccolo had to do it. He still remembered the kid's face
"Kid"
"Yeah? Who you"
"My name is Piccolo"
"Hi"
"Listen"
"Ok"
"You need to know something
"What is it?"
"It's" he paused
"Your sister"
"What about her? Is she mad at me or something?"
"No"
"Then what?"
"She's, she's dead"
Piccolo closed his eyes, he was staying at Capsule Corp, his promise bound him to
"Piccolo, you probably know me better than anyone"
"I'd say so"
"Then promise me something"
"Shoot"
"We both know that one of these days I will die, either because my wits snap and I kill myself or because one of you does, so promise me two things"
"Shoot"
"Take care of Sheme, I don't care who he ends up with, make sure he becomes a better person than I was, and if I die, you kill me"
"Why?"
"Because I want you to, now promise" he reluctantly nodded.
Bulma sighed as she watched Sheme's tear streaked face; the boy had not stopped crying for three days. There was always a tear making its way down his cheek. Bulma fought tears; however terrible they told her Miko was she had grown attached to the girl, as had everyone else. They were burying Miko tomorrow. Next to her parents. Bulma had yet the to see to the headstone. She could think of nothing to put on it. She realised now that no one except Sheme and until right before she died Tien, that Miko would call a friend or a loved one of any kind. She turned to Sheme again
"Sheme?" he looked at her through sad, tearful green eyes
"What would you say describes Miko the best?" he thought, the tears actually pausing for a second or two. He frowned in concentration, then looked back up
"The one with many faces, who knew us better than we knew ourselves" Bulma blinked, it was rather astute for a seven year old, though Sheme was no ordinary seven year old.
*
Sheme did not cry as Bulma handed him the small pot of ashes, at his request they had burned Miko instead, incinerating her body with a single blast. He blinked a few times, he knew Miko did not like to cry, and he wanted to be just like her. He stepped to the edge of the seaside cliff that had once been his home as a toddler and a baby. He was now eight, he had turned eight two days after Miko died, no one had told him how she died but he did not want to know. He sighed and opened the pot, there was a thud and he looked up to see Tien. He almost managed a smile, Tien also could not manage a grin
"You know she was so proud of you" Tien whispered, Sheme blinked
"She was?"
"Yeah, you were the best thing in her life, all she ever thought about was how to make things better for you" Sheme really did smile now
"She looked after me since I was a little baby"
Tien placed a hand on the kid's shoulder. He had a feeling what Sheme was about to do anyway. The boy stepped right up to the edge and with a whispered word of goodbye threw the fragile pot as high as he could into the air. Tien sent a small blast of ki after it. The china shattered with a sound that somehow reminded him of Miko's laugh. Silken black dust swirled in an updraft and scattered above them.
Sheme and Tien stayed after everyone else had left. Sitting in the same spot she died, though neither of them knew this. Both was feeling pain, one guilt, betrayal, and grief, another, just grief. Sheme turned to Tien and hugged him
"Miko really loved you" Tien blinked
"She told me one day, she said she loved you as much as she loved me" Tien almost smiled
"Thanks kid" though it only made him feel worse; Miko never lied to Sheme
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CHAPTER THIRTY: Judgement day
Miko again found herself before the red man. He had spent a long time examining her soul, unable to decide whether it was good or evil
"You have certainly done some terrible things young woman" he told her sternly
"Yet you have so much love, for only two people though"
"One" she corrected
"Hmm, you have suffered much, your heart is twisted and corrupt, but so sad, so lonely, could the evil run this deep?" she shrugged
"I'm dead now, does it matter, just send me to hell so I can pay my dues"
King Yamma searched her mind for signs of trickery, there was definitely a lot of guilt in her, guilt not for her actions, but the pain they caused, he also saw the damage in her mind, damage that had caused many of her actions, and he also saw her need to punish herself, it was almost as if all this darkness should not belong to some one with such love and humility, she was highly empathic, but ignored her sixth sense completely, she was definitely the most difficult case he had ever come across. He wandered what to do when King Kai's voice reverberated inside his head
"King Yamma! Have you made your judgement, can I train her? Hurry it up, I've never had a female student"
"King Kai you know as well as I do even if she is not judged evil she has done nothing to deserve your training, she does not deserve to keep her body, it showed when she did not fade, only her astro self came to the dimension. I have seen her once before now, and this time she is well and truly dead"
Miko blinked as the red man spoke to no one
"The only hope?" she supposed it was a god thing
"Well, who would wish her back, it was the Z fighters"
"No I cannot heal her"
"I doubt the Supreme Kai will, he is a legend"
"I see" the red man turned back to her
"You are judged good, you will travel to king Kai's planet and train with him, perhaps in time your deeds will be forgiven by the fates, you have done much evil, but your heart itself is purer than what warrants hell" Miko scowled
"What makes you think I want to train, my ki would be no higher than a hundred thousand, every Z fighter has at least double that, and that is after two years of training. It has risen so slowly it is not worth it, and what would I use it for?" King Yamma sighed
"It is am honour to train with King Kai" she shrugged
"Whatever, but there is no way I am running for a year to get to his dam planet" He smiled
"If you are quick you should get there in an other world day" she shrugged
"How long is that?"
"About the same as twelve earth hours" She turned and strode out of h check in station. He smiled to himself; King Kai would have his hands full with her.
King Kai fidgeted, unable to wait for his newest student; from what he had sense from the thoughts of the Z fighters she was hot, and he had never had a female student. He had also seen her potential and the various depths of her abilities, she would be a highly interesting pupil, that was if she was willing to let him teach her, he had a feeling she would be a lot like Piccolo. He had sensed some strange telepathic powers radiating from her, it was what had turned Tien's usually gentle nature to a much more erratic and sometimes violent person. He knew it was to do with her twin but it was not helping anyone, least of all Miko. He never would have expected Tien to hit Miko outside of training, or to turn on Yamcha even with Miko's distractions, it demonstrated how powerful her influences were, whether she realised it or not.
Miko was busy strolling along snake way. She had been running for a few hours and was bored. She was a rather lazy person by nature, but so controlled of herself it never came through, but up here her layers of acting and self-discipline had been stripped away, revealing her core personality, to a point, she was in fierce control of what she was and who she wanted to be. She blinked as a small palace came into view in the distance, she was hungry and bored so she figured that she could find something else to do other than walk or run. She shot forward at a fast jog and stopped by the large door
Princess Snake looked up, there was a presence outside, it did not feel like a male but it was deliciously devilish none the less, She stood up as a young woman with long green hair entered, she blinked, suddenly jealous, the woman was beautiful, incredibly so, and this annoyed her, she did not like to share the spotlight.
Miko blinked at the blue woman before her. She was picking up a lot of evil in her, almost as much as herself, she smirked, she could tell just by the body language just what was going through her head
"Welcome, I am Princess Snake" She smiled, layering her acting skills, glad to find she still had them
"Hello, I am Queen Nokia of the lunar solar system of Harco" She spoke in a perfect sultry Latino accent, rolling her r's and pronouncing the word "harco" almost in a whisper, "harco" was in fact a brand name she had posed for many times.
Princess Snake frowned
"I have never heard of such a system" The woman smiled
"Not many have" Princess snake was getting more jealous every minute, she had not had a visitor since Goku and now she was sure this woman was stealing them all. Her fangs extended and her hair frizzed slightly
"You stole my spotlight" she hissed, lunging forwards. What she didn't expect was the way the woman calmly sidestepped her and smirked
"You are so predictable" Miko sent a ki blast through the roof of what was melting into a long red and pink chamber, dripping with green acid. She shot through and landed on the back of a giant snake.
"Great" she said to herself as she sprinted up to the head, sending a ki blast into an eye on her way. There was a scream as she sprang off the nose and into the air. Below her was a giant snake, writhing around on the platform on the side of snake way. She grinned to herself as she descended, the snake would not follow if it could not see. She took off at a gallop
King Kai shifted excitedly in his chair, she would be here within the hour, he had a training programme ready for her, specifically designed for a woman.
Miko found she had run out of snake. In the distance she could see a tiny spec she assumed was King Kai's planet. She smirked and took a leap. High above the small dot she smiled as the otherworldly air rushed past her and the gravity of the planet clawed at her. Pulling her downwards. She landed with a thud that left dents on the ground. She blinked and found her knees weak.
King Kai stepped outside to see a hot girl moving slowly around
"Getting used to the gravity I see" he said. She swung around and scowled
"So this is the famous King Kai" she said disdainfully. He frowned as her movements loosened up, she had gotten used to the gravity pretty quickly.
"Welcome, I am very pleased to see you have come, shall we get started?" she shrugged
"Whatever"
Two minutes later Miko dropped bubbles at King Kai's feet. The blue man was gaping
"You adapt quickly" she smirked
"What's next"
"GREGORY!!"
Authors note: well long time since I put up one of the more cheesy chapters, quite a dark sort of story isn't it?
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