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Warnings: confusion, angst, recap.
Losing Innocence
by Taes Willett
Chapter 6
They watched. All of them, the friends and fellows of the young half-Saiyajin called Trunks, they were not dead, but watching. Their bodies would die soon, they knew, but this kid, this boy they'd thought a friend was destroying it all . . .
And finally, they knew. It was not only their world he would destroy, but also their universe. And nothing they could do would stop him . . . they were not . . . strong enough.
He was bone white now, as was his hair. The only remaining colors were his eyes; filling the empty quicksilver with inky black and the deep green of space as the universe he pulled into his very being was absorbed. Stars were hung there, and here, in the physical presence, they winked out. His tears were silent, and filled with grief so profound they, with their not-quite-dead bodies, could feel. Memories crowded one another, his memories . . . reliving themselves through his mind and in theirs.
Mother, father, heart-sister, heart-brother, friend . . . help me. The universe is decaying. It's all ending now, and there's no one here but us . . . no one but the lone boy against the universe, our friend…one. Everything lives as one, and will die as one . . . our voices are one. We shriek, we cry . . .
…but all is lost.
No one to help.
Everything's gone.
Faster and faster the universe drops out of nothingness, and into fields of green . . . space. So it's green after all, is it? Well, we can only watch as He, the only living one who will not die because of this, pulls it all into himself, swallowing it whole.
It's all gone. Everything but us, and Him.
And inside of him, it explodes.
Falling, falling . . . at last we fade . . .
*****
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