A/N: Ok, sorry this one took so long but I had to decide how I wanted to go about what I wanted to happen. Did that make any sense? Never mind, I know what I was trying to say. At any rate, I was kind of going for action in this one. Um, just so ya'll know I don't do action.
Priceless Jewels
Chapter 20-The Encounter

"Saetan? Saetan?! Here drink this," the world was spinning and some one was trying to choke him with something. He snarled, inhaling some of the liquid in the process. The world snapped into sharp focus as he sat up coughing to get the stuff out of his lungs. He was on a couch in the Keep's library and Geoffrey was thumping him on the back.

"Enough! Where's Bulma? What did she mean by…?" he trailed off grabbing his throbbing head.

"She stayed long enough to help get you to a couch, leave me a healing brew recipe and then she left to help this Cassandra person. I don't know what she meant SaDiablo; you're just going to have to get her to explain when she gets back."

"Yes, we're going to have to discuss some things when she gets back. In fact holding a general council of war would be a wonderful idea. What? I don't want it," he tried to wave away the tonic Geoffrey had made with Bulma's recipe.

"Drink it, or I'll tell Bulma that you're being a recalcitrant patient and then she can dose you.

"You wouldn't dar- you would! You evil… Fine," he growled grabbing the glass and taking a sip. It was good. It flowed over his tongue like mountain water, with a light forest scent. She'd gotten her talent for healing brews from her grandmother. Jaenelle. She was the only daughter I ever had. Just what did Bulma mean by- He shook his head to clear his thoughts when he realized that Geoffrey was speaking again.

"By the way, she said she wanted you completely rested by the time she got back. She said she'd explain some things to everyone when she did."

"Lucky us." Oh Witch Child be careful. I couldn't stand to loose anyone else. Not another queen, and never another daughter. Please come back to us…

~The Hell Run~

"WHERE DID THESE THINGS COME FROM?!" Krillin screamed as the cone of fire that shot past him, directly where his chest used to be.

"I'm not sure!" But I have a pretty good idea. Shen's thoughts were grim as he blocked a kick with his knee and slammed his forearm into the monstrous being's mere inches before it reached his face. He channeled some of his ki interweaving it with raw energy from his jewel into his fist, and just as the demon was swinging his wicked looking blade around, uppercut it. The demonic creature arced through the sky, but before it could slow its momentum it slammed into a hard surface, through it. It was buried beneath what remained of the mountain. Shen eyes narrowed. It wasn't dead, but it wasn't coming back out anytime soon. He turned his attention to the warlord princes he had brought to this place…and stared.

"A better question than that," Krillin began conversationally as he dodged a creature's attack, "is, WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE THINGS?!" Krillin jabbed his fist into the side of the creature whose short spear he had just dodged. The fiend howled and backhanded him, flinging him into the sky. He crashed into Vegeta, sending them both sprawling on the ground.

Vegeta shoved the smaller man off of him and created a ki blast with his fist, with every intention of killing the little fool who had interrupted his battle. Fortunately for Krillin he sensed another presence behind him and abruptly spun around releasing the energy he had gathered directly into the attacking devil's face, taking off its head in a red shower. He turned his head to the side to look back at Krillin and snarl over his shoulder, "I'll deal with you later!" Vegeta launched himself into the sky, trailing blue light as he smashed into another monster that was about to attack Goku while he was being held in a chokehold by a large green-scaled beast. The monster raised his clawed hand to strike the younger saiyan when the other one was no longer there to do so. The prince was enraged and he gathered his energy again, this time to aim it at the creature's back since his attack on the last creature propelled him past the struggling fighter and fiend.

"BIG BANG!"

Glowing blue-white energy struck the demon directly in its back, leaving a patch of scalded red skin beneath where its heavy scales had once protected it. The unexpected pain caused it to loosen its hold a bit. A bit was enough. Goku placed two fingers to his forehead and used the instant transmission to teleport out of the thing's grasp and reappear above its head. He brought his hands together and summoned his own bit of ki, slamming his golden fists into the back of the demon's neck. The monster went crashing into the ground, a crater forming where it impacted. It slowly struggled to rise… and collapsed.

"Hey, thanks Vegeta! I guess I owe you now huh?" Goku cheerfully called to the angry prince.

"You owe me nothing. I was only protecting my own interests. Just remember Kakarott, I'm the one who's going to kill you and no one else!" The two nodded slightly at each other in understanding, the years of rivalry and respect reflecting in two pairs of Ebony eyes before they both grinned evilly and flung themselves once more into the fray.

Piccolo rolled his eyes as he listened to Vegeta's ever-ready excuse for saving Goku's ass. Even though Goku was the only other of left of his kind, of course he couldn't possibly be even the slightest bit fond of the younger saiyan. Piccolo snorted softly before ramming his foot into the stomach of the beast that had circled in on him. He whirled around suddenly, and got knocked back by an energy blast.


A/N: Well that was a crap chapter. I am sooo sorry. * sweatdrops* This was even worse than my first shot at the lemony part, you know the one I didn't post cause it was that bad and I replaced it with the one you've read. o_O All I have to say is "I tried" *Goes to bed and pulls covers over head muttering something about flying black squirrels and three headed piranhas who eat mayo and say 'Bowwow man'. *

Another A/N: (Do I ever shut up?) Also I would like it to be known that while my original version of this chapter did not have thanks for reviews they did not go unnoticed. I would have put reviews in but my friend who has the attention span of a three year old threatened to ripened raspberry my room. ~_~ So I was forced to hurriedly finish up the fic and post it as it was. The chapter itself remains untouched and you may feel free to laugh at it. I know I did.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Thanks for Reviews~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Ryukai: Hope you're not too dissapointed with this chapter. I was kind of using it as a practice for the action that comes later. ~_~ I need it, lol. Thanks for the review!

Empress Sarah-sama: Well your adrenaline is safe from me since it was because of graduation. I had mine last week so I can sympathize. thanks for reviewing. And btw, the main villain attacked Cassandra 'cause I'm giving them all another reason to be more on their guard. I'll try and clear things up in the next chapter when everyone will hopefully be gathered.

Bulma: Hey, thanks for the reviews. Again a general sorry for the defunctifiedness of this chapter, it will be better again soon.

Sailor Purgatory: Thanks for the reviewing, I hope you recover from the little kids. ^_^

Grimsister: Yeah, that would upset the boyos to say the least. Alright, you come from the side and hit her over the head with the notebook containing her story and I'll tie her to a computer chair. So HA! Then she can't escape her fate to write more on her fanfic, BWAHAHAHA!! Ok I think I'm finished. Thanks for the reviews as always mama. Character wastes 5 hours trying to write a fic and only gets 1 1/4 page, half of which gets lost when they try to save it to a stupid disk! (there was no bitterness in that statement by the way)Lol.