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Epilogue
"WHAT IS YOUR WISH?" the dragon boomed.
"I wish for all Earth and its people to be brought back and restored." Goku replied.
The dragon's eyes flicked to a ruby red; "IT IS DONE." He said.
"AND YOUR SECOND WISH?"
"It's all yours Gohan." Goku said to his son.
"Thanks dad." Gohan replied with a faint smile on his lips.
Gohan walked up to the dragon's enormous form and looked into its eyes.
"I wish to bring back the half elvish, half Monakota they call Trinity." He said sternly.
"THIS CANNOT BE DONE."
Gohan was taken back, "What?" he asked, "How? How is that possible?"
"IT HAS BEEN FORBIDDEN OF ME BY THE ONE YOU SEEK HERSELF."
He was in a shock, forbidden by Trinity to come back to the dimension she belonged in? Surely not!
"There must be some mistake, it cannot be!" Gohan argued.
"IT IS TRUE,"
'No!' Gohan thought.
"BUT," the dragon said interrupting his thoughts, "SHE ORDERED FOR ME TO GIVE THIS TO YOU IF YOU EVER SO DESIRED HER COMPANY."
And with that an envelope floated from the sky and landed at Gohan's feet. He slowly bent to pick the letter up then turned away, dismissing the dragon back to his rest.
~*~
Gohan sat on his bed, starring at the envelope he had only just received; a large bump had formed from it containing something round. He slowly turned it over and saw a large piece of wax keeping it closed. Lips had been pressed into the red mixture and S.W.A.K. was written neatly over it in cursive.
He gently broke the seal and took out the piece of paper. It read:
Dear Gohan,
I'm sorry I left you, but I had no choice. Before I passed through to the next dimension, I used my necklace to seal me in this world forever. I send these to you to tell you why and remind you of me.
Gohan, although you may never understand, I do and yet I do not belong in the dimension and planet you call home. I will explain; you grew up in your dimension, throughout childhood you made friends who had once been enemies, you knew the surroundings and the people well. I knew my mother and my father, I knew my planet, my world, but it was all taken away from me. I went to another world and started a new life, but that too was taken away.
Now as you read this, I will be in the dimension after yours, and I will be reunited with my mother, father, and Robert. My power will be greater than before, I will be watching you in my mind, and I will be happy. There is nothing in your world for me; it is not my place. I would not be welcomed by any with the exception of you.
Once more I will say I'm sorry, and Goodbye.
Sincerely, Trinity
PS: Remember me always.
Gohan folded the note again and sighed, he looked back into the envelope. He reached in and with delicate hands and drew out Trinity's necklace with the blue-green stone. He somberly put it on, then he wept.
~*~
Everyone had gathered at Dende's lookout to celebrate the victory of the century. Everyone was happy- everyone, that is, except Gohan. To Gohan, it felt like a funeral, for the victor was not here to receive the praise or feel the joy. It was difficult for him to slip away unnoticed, but when he finally got away, his thoughts wandered to Trinity.
He walked to the edge of the white cement and sat, letting his legs dangle over. He picked up the jewel hanging about his neck and starred at it, thinking, wishing, and remembering. He heard someone behind him, but didn't bother to turn around.
"Gohan," Piccolo's deep voice said, "I want to congratulate you on you victory. It was a marvelous achievement."
"I will not allow this anymore! The battle was not mine, it was Trinity's, the credit belongs to her and her alone, I will not hear it otherwise!" Gohan shouted angrily at his friend still not turning to face him.
Piccolo stood there looking shocked, Gohan had never acted in such a manner before.
"Gohan?" he asked.
"I'm sorry. Forgive me. If you'll excuse me, I have to go do my homework. Can't drop behind in my studies you know." Gohan said hovering in the air.
He flew off in the direction of his house and Piccolo watched until he had disappeared.
"He was quite in love wasn't he?" Goku said coming to stand next to Piccolo.
"Love?" the Nemak asked, "With who?"
"Well isn't it obvious?"
Piccolo just turned to him waiting for an answer.
"Well Trinity of course!" Goku said.
Piccolo just snorted and walked back in the building.
~*~
Around midnight:
Piccolo walked into a cave panting having just finished his training. He wiped the sweat off his brow and sat leaning against the rock wall. Suddenly he became very drowsy, his eyes heavy, and he fell into a deep sleep full of hallucinations, then the visions left him and he was unconscious....
~*~
Piccolo awoke to find himself in a garden.
He stood and looked around, there were many trees, all cherry trees and in full bloom. A few of the small buds strayed from the branch and floated gracefully to the ground. He turned around as he heard a noise, singing, and the trickling of a small brook.
Piccolo followed the sound, making out words as he got closer, "When the cherry trees begin to bloom, meet me here in my lonely room, we'll find a passion filled fantasy, and this time you will stay with me. All the misery that we knew before, stays away when you're at my door, my heart will sing with every tender touch, and, oh, you'll love me twice as much."
As the song ended, he came to a clearing. A small stream of water flowed from the ground. A young girl wearing a simple white dress and flowing brown hair lied on a flat rock beside the brook, her head laying on her arm and her free hand playing gently with the water.
She turned to face Piccolo and stood, showing her face, and, of course, it was Trinity. ~A/N: was that just too obvious? ~ He looked sternly at her, not very surprised, or if he was, he didn't show it.
"Hello Piccolo." she said softly.
"What is this?" he asked roughly, "Where am I? Is this a dream?"
"It is, in a way." She replied.
"In which way would that be?"
"In a dream, things are not real. The places you go and the people you see are just figments of your imagination, here, everything is most definitely real. Your body is not physical however, neither is mine. You are unconscious in a cave, I am unconscious in the next dimension, it is obvious that we are not as real as this place."
"What is this place? How did we get here?"
"I brought you here. This not Earth, it is a place I have created. It has a purpose like everything else; its purpose is to serve me and me alone. I brought you here, so that you may hear what I have wanted to tell you for so long."
"Then I suppose I have no choice but to listen." He replied folding his arms.
"You know Piccolo, in my dimension, I loved you, and when I found you were real, my love only grew. Until I realized something; something that changed me. Every year Robert would take me to a secret garden full of cherry trees to see them bloom. It was our tradition to spend the day together in our little paradise with no people, no distractions. These trees, when they are not in bloom, people see no beauty or purpose, they are different from their wondrous surroundings and ugly compared to the other flowers, but when they bloom, they are the most honored and awed. You and I are not very different from these trees. They look at us and judge us quickly. 'He's different', 'She's a nobody', but when we bloomed and showed our true power we were awed by someone. But the wonder passed, and once again we are called different, ugly, nothing special, that no one who isn't paid much attention. Earth is a golden world, a planet with good people, good places, good powers, but you see Piccolo, unlike the golden people of the planet, we are looked at as black against the gold, the opposite of them and their precious world. We are black strangers in a golden world. So you see Piccolo, I now realize that we are exactly alike, and my love for you has vanished. I also saw that you could not love anyone in that way, I guess that's also a reason you attracted me, because no one else could take you, I felt that you were mine. But now I see you are no one's and it was foolish for me to feel as I did. And now Piccolo, I will leave you, and when the first light rises from the horizon, you will awake and remember every detail. Until then, think of what I said and enjoy your surroundings while you can, because after we both leave, it will die and vanish, and never again shall anyone set foot on it." Trinity's slim figure had begun to vanish, Piccolo noticed, as if she were fading away.
"Tell Gohan I said hello." She said with a withering voice, then she vanished, never to be seen by living eyes again.
~*~
And to never be written about again. Good bye my audience, good bye Trinity, good bye my black strangers in your golden world. *Takes a deep bow, then fades away*
Disclaimer: I don't own DBZ
Epilogue
"WHAT IS YOUR WISH?" the dragon boomed.
"I wish for all Earth and its people to be brought back and restored." Goku replied.
The dragon's eyes flicked to a ruby red; "IT IS DONE." He said.
"AND YOUR SECOND WISH?"
"It's all yours Gohan." Goku said to his son.
"Thanks dad." Gohan replied with a faint smile on his lips.
Gohan walked up to the dragon's enormous form and looked into its eyes.
"I wish to bring back the half elvish, half Monakota they call Trinity." He said sternly.
"THIS CANNOT BE DONE."
Gohan was taken back, "What?" he asked, "How? How is that possible?"
"IT HAS BEEN FORBIDDEN OF ME BY THE ONE YOU SEEK HERSELF."
He was in a shock, forbidden by Trinity to come back to the dimension she belonged in? Surely not!
"There must be some mistake, it cannot be!" Gohan argued.
"IT IS TRUE,"
'No!' Gohan thought.
"BUT," the dragon said interrupting his thoughts, "SHE ORDERED FOR ME TO GIVE THIS TO YOU IF YOU EVER SO DESIRED HER COMPANY."
And with that an envelope floated from the sky and landed at Gohan's feet. He slowly bent to pick the letter up then turned away, dismissing the dragon back to his rest.
~*~
Gohan sat on his bed, starring at the envelope he had only just received; a large bump had formed from it containing something round. He slowly turned it over and saw a large piece of wax keeping it closed. Lips had been pressed into the red mixture and S.W.A.K. was written neatly over it in cursive.
He gently broke the seal and took out the piece of paper. It read:
Dear Gohan,
I'm sorry I left you, but I had no choice. Before I passed through to the next dimension, I used my necklace to seal me in this world forever. I send these to you to tell you why and remind you of me.
Gohan, although you may never understand, I do and yet I do not belong in the dimension and planet you call home. I will explain; you grew up in your dimension, throughout childhood you made friends who had once been enemies, you knew the surroundings and the people well. I knew my mother and my father, I knew my planet, my world, but it was all taken away from me. I went to another world and started a new life, but that too was taken away.
Now as you read this, I will be in the dimension after yours, and I will be reunited with my mother, father, and Robert. My power will be greater than before, I will be watching you in my mind, and I will be happy. There is nothing in your world for me; it is not my place. I would not be welcomed by any with the exception of you.
Once more I will say I'm sorry, and Goodbye.
Sincerely, Trinity
PS: Remember me always.
Gohan folded the note again and sighed, he looked back into the envelope. He reached in and with delicate hands and drew out Trinity's necklace with the blue-green stone. He somberly put it on, then he wept.
~*~
Everyone had gathered at Dende's lookout to celebrate the victory of the century. Everyone was happy- everyone, that is, except Gohan. To Gohan, it felt like a funeral, for the victor was not here to receive the praise or feel the joy. It was difficult for him to slip away unnoticed, but when he finally got away, his thoughts wandered to Trinity.
He walked to the edge of the white cement and sat, letting his legs dangle over. He picked up the jewel hanging about his neck and starred at it, thinking, wishing, and remembering. He heard someone behind him, but didn't bother to turn around.
"Gohan," Piccolo's deep voice said, "I want to congratulate you on you victory. It was a marvelous achievement."
"I will not allow this anymore! The battle was not mine, it was Trinity's, the credit belongs to her and her alone, I will not hear it otherwise!" Gohan shouted angrily at his friend still not turning to face him.
Piccolo stood there looking shocked, Gohan had never acted in such a manner before.
"Gohan?" he asked.
"I'm sorry. Forgive me. If you'll excuse me, I have to go do my homework. Can't drop behind in my studies you know." Gohan said hovering in the air.
He flew off in the direction of his house and Piccolo watched until he had disappeared.
"He was quite in love wasn't he?" Goku said coming to stand next to Piccolo.
"Love?" the Nemak asked, "With who?"
"Well isn't it obvious?"
Piccolo just turned to him waiting for an answer.
"Well Trinity of course!" Goku said.
Piccolo just snorted and walked back in the building.
~*~
Around midnight:
Piccolo walked into a cave panting having just finished his training. He wiped the sweat off his brow and sat leaning against the rock wall. Suddenly he became very drowsy, his eyes heavy, and he fell into a deep sleep full of hallucinations, then the visions left him and he was unconscious....
~*~
Piccolo awoke to find himself in a garden.
He stood and looked around, there were many trees, all cherry trees and in full bloom. A few of the small buds strayed from the branch and floated gracefully to the ground. He turned around as he heard a noise, singing, and the trickling of a small brook.
Piccolo followed the sound, making out words as he got closer, "When the cherry trees begin to bloom, meet me here in my lonely room, we'll find a passion filled fantasy, and this time you will stay with me. All the misery that we knew before, stays away when you're at my door, my heart will sing with every tender touch, and, oh, you'll love me twice as much."
As the song ended, he came to a clearing. A small stream of water flowed from the ground. A young girl wearing a simple white dress and flowing brown hair lied on a flat rock beside the brook, her head laying on her arm and her free hand playing gently with the water.
She turned to face Piccolo and stood, showing her face, and, of course, it was Trinity. ~A/N: was that just too obvious? ~ He looked sternly at her, not very surprised, or if he was, he didn't show it.
"Hello Piccolo." she said softly.
"What is this?" he asked roughly, "Where am I? Is this a dream?"
"It is, in a way." She replied.
"In which way would that be?"
"In a dream, things are not real. The places you go and the people you see are just figments of your imagination, here, everything is most definitely real. Your body is not physical however, neither is mine. You are unconscious in a cave, I am unconscious in the next dimension, it is obvious that we are not as real as this place."
"What is this place? How did we get here?"
"I brought you here. This not Earth, it is a place I have created. It has a purpose like everything else; its purpose is to serve me and me alone. I brought you here, so that you may hear what I have wanted to tell you for so long."
"Then I suppose I have no choice but to listen." He replied folding his arms.
"You know Piccolo, in my dimension, I loved you, and when I found you were real, my love only grew. Until I realized something; something that changed me. Every year Robert would take me to a secret garden full of cherry trees to see them bloom. It was our tradition to spend the day together in our little paradise with no people, no distractions. These trees, when they are not in bloom, people see no beauty or purpose, they are different from their wondrous surroundings and ugly compared to the other flowers, but when they bloom, they are the most honored and awed. You and I are not very different from these trees. They look at us and judge us quickly. 'He's different', 'She's a nobody', but when we bloomed and showed our true power we were awed by someone. But the wonder passed, and once again we are called different, ugly, nothing special, that no one who isn't paid much attention. Earth is a golden world, a planet with good people, good places, good powers, but you see Piccolo, unlike the golden people of the planet, we are looked at as black against the gold, the opposite of them and their precious world. We are black strangers in a golden world. So you see Piccolo, I now realize that we are exactly alike, and my love for you has vanished. I also saw that you could not love anyone in that way, I guess that's also a reason you attracted me, because no one else could take you, I felt that you were mine. But now I see you are no one's and it was foolish for me to feel as I did. And now Piccolo, I will leave you, and when the first light rises from the horizon, you will awake and remember every detail. Until then, think of what I said and enjoy your surroundings while you can, because after we both leave, it will die and vanish, and never again shall anyone set foot on it." Trinity's slim figure had begun to vanish, Piccolo noticed, as if she were fading away.
"Tell Gohan I said hello." She said with a withering voice, then she vanished, never to be seen by living eyes again.
~*~
And to never be written about again. Good bye my audience, good bye Trinity, good bye my black strangers in your golden world. *Takes a deep bow, then fades away*