Never Doubt the Silver Ball
It was the most horrid dream that he had ever had. He didn't even remember nodding off. The sun was still out.
He had never been so scared by a dream before. He looked around the empty room and was glad that it was empty. He was still shaking. He tried to control it but the images of the dreams still twirled in his head and made the shaking increase.
"I'm not like that anymore," he whispered.
He had dreamt of the times when he had thought it was best to be alone. Dreamt of the times when he destroyed friends and foes alike and thought that his life was complete.
"I am not like that anymore," he said louder as if he was trying to convince himself.
Soyna had appeared in the dream and he banished her, or at least tried too. She didn't say anything to him. She just transformed into a full ape, not the half ape that she transformed into their last fight, with red fur and she tried to crush him.
She was determined to kill him and was doing a pretty good job in the dream.
The ape roared at him, "You will not destroy my family!"
"They are my family too!" He yelled back.
The ape laughed. "You don't deserve it!" She laughed as she attacked him.
He fought her and he soon was on the verge of loosing. He was being crushed by her foot. "You are to selfish."
"I am not like that anymore," he whispered again as he rubbed his chest.
Soyna.
The only one that he thought truly understood him. The only one that he thought he was akin too. The only one that truly acted like a Saiyian. He sighed deeply. He guessed that was the problem after all.
She was too much like a Saiyian to ever forgive him. He could not forgive himself, how could he expect her to accept him once again.
.......
Goten had been frantic, looking for Cyrus only to find him and Benot playing video games in his room. After yesterday, with being unable to find him for a couple of hours, he had gotten worried and he thought that he took off again. He was acting a little distant from them, but he didn't seem so angry anymore.
He was just glad that he was okay and he didn't look so mad at him. Soyna was another handful to deal with. She disappeared into the training room and was training! Training! Her skin still ached when he touched her but she was training, if you could call her clumsy and slow movements training. She couldn't seem to control her movements and her slow stretches and jumps, seemed almost comical, but he had learned his lesson and refrained from laughing.
He spent a good twenty minutes trying to convince her to stop her training and come back inside.
"I am not ready to stop," she said simply and looked at him with her legs spread wide apart and her arms folded over her chest.
"But Soyna," he said "I am sure Cyrus has some more questions."
"You'll know where I will be then," she said and turned from him. A far from graceful turn, her feet ended up under her and she fell on her butt. She gave out a loud frustrated scream and slammed her fists into the floor, leaving nice dents. A glare was directed at him. "Why did you have to cut off my tail?"
He was about to say that he didn't have a choice when he saw the glisten of tears in her eyes. She quickly looked away from him and clumsily stood up again and began her familiar warm up routine, even if it was not as polished as it was once.
He moved in front of her and saw her stubbornly try to turn away from him. He grabbed her and pulled her close to him, despite her protests and angry yell. "Let me go."
He shook his head. "Nope," he said. "We are going to go for a walk outside. No protesting, and we are going to get you to relax. Training, never truly relaxes you."
"I won't go."
"I will be there to catch you. Or did you forget that part?" he said in a stern tone. "Damn it. You don't have to do anything alone anymore. Don't you remember that? How long have I been there for you?"
She was silent but no longer looked angry.
"Ready to go?"
She sighed and nodded.
He smiled. Sometimes, it was the only way he could get her to listen to him.
........
Vegeta frowned heavily as Crystal grabbed his hand. She never came near him and suddenly she was attached to his side. She grinned at him as she pushed her hair out of her face. She really needed to get it cut. "Will you walk me to the library?"
Why was she asking him? He had no idea where the library was and didn't really care to know either.
"I have some stuff to do for school. Will you?" She said and looked at him as if he would actually do it.
"Grandma usually did that stuff with me," she said with a touch of sadness in her voice. "Please."
He frowned deeper.
"Great!" she said as if he said yes. "Let me get my bag and we can go."
She bounded off. Did he say yes? He looked around; no one else was around to take her to the library. Damn it. He was not a nursemaid.
But he found himself walking beside his granddaughter to this library place. She hardly spoke to him, which as fine by him, it meant that he didn't need to talk as well. She just seemed content with him walking along side her and he felt a little bit of tension leave him as well.
He felt a lot of tension leave him as he watched her pour over books and walk around the maze of books as if she knew where she was going.
He seated himself away from her and some friends that joined her at a table. He didn't need to hear them talking, even though he did strain his ears to listen in. He didn't realize that two hours had passed and she came up to him, telling him that it was time to go.
He just nodded and walked beside her on the way home. She wasn't like the other grandchildren. They all wanted to fly. They all wanted to be quick about it. She just was not like that. She was so different from everyone else.
If she didn't look so much like Trunks, he would have thought that Pan had cheated on him. She sure didn't behave like one of the family.
She waved him off and said that she was going over to see her aunty Bra and Cousin Violet. He found himself watching her as she went. Such a change. She used to be so scared of him that she would always hide behind the legs of -well- anyone just to avoid him.
Now she was grabbing his hand and asking to go for walks. There was no more fear in her voice of in her actions. He wished he knew why this change occurred.
He sighed as his eyes wandered over the compound and stopped on a frozen figure.
Soyna.
............
He didn't want to think of her.
Brennen sighed heavily as he found himself thinking of her again. He had worked really hard to get those thoughts of her out of his head and even had a really good girlfriend now and what was he doing? Pining over a girl that he never had or has a chance at.
He thought of those two boys.
He saw them from time to time at school sporting event now. His girlfriends little brother was in he same class and he was able to see how well they were doing that way. OF course, he had to stop himself from cheering for them as they put the ball in the hoop or the puck in the net.
It was hard.
He never knew if she went to those events because he purposely would only look at the playing field. He did not want to per chance run into her or the family. He did once but it was only Junior. He was kind enough to him.
He remembered the scar across the boy's cheek. That was the boy that she was pregnant with when Benot lay dying in her arms.
He still had nightmares about that horrible day.
He still remembered her words and they haunted his dreams and his friends! So called friends! Well Mart was his friend but he did not like to talk with him all that much anymore. He still worked at CC. He had long quit that job a long time ago and even though he hated his current job, it was better than seeing people connected to her. Especially when he began to understand that his boss, Trunks, was her father.
The scar.
Did he say that his own grandfather did that to him?
He spoke it like it was not a big deal at all.
Something bad was happening again. He knew it. He hoped that he wasn't going to get sucked into it this time. He barely survived the last time.
.....
Oh. This was bad! Real bad!
Goten thought that Vegeta wouldn't be out, but there he was, looking right at them. He finally got her to relax somewhat and here she was, all tensed up again and he could feel the energy already crackling on her skin.
Her eyes almost glowed!
Vegeta just stood there. Still. As if he were waiting her next move.
She wasn't calm enough to see him yet. She still talked as if she were going to kill him the next time that she saw him. This was not good. She needed much more time to cool off. He had to separate them before they attacked each other again. Dende only knew what would happen next!
..........
Cyrus heard his brother's controller drop to the floor as he stood up abruptly. Benot almost ran to the window and of course he followed.
He had never seen him like this before. He was shaking as he was looking out the window at a picture. Well, it wasn't a picture but everyone sure was still. Vegeta was standing as if he were waiting for Soyna to make her move. Goten was tensed and ready to hold back mom, and mom looked as if she were frozen in place.
Then Benot whispered under his breath, more to himself that it was meant for him to hear. "I should never doubt the silver ball."
They were going to fight!
He ran away from his brother and out the door and stopped in the middle of them. It was the fastest that he had ever ran in his life, he was sure of it. His chest hurt and his whole body was shaking but he stood there and yelled at them. "Don't!"
He could feel their eyes on him. They didn't move though. They just stood there!
That was when Benot stumbled out of the door and ran beside him and grabbed his shoulder and started to drag him back.
"Let me go! They can't fight! They shouldn't fight!" Cyrus yelled. He could see that Crystal was frozen in place, looking back at the two people that she was most afraid of.
You could just feel the tension in the air.
"Mom!" he called to his mom. Hoping that she would break the gaze but she seemed to get angrier as if she was concentrating really hard on how she was going to attack him. "Please, mom."
The please seemed to soften her a bit. Her gaze flitted over to him for a second. It was more to check on him than to listen to him though.
He was about to go into the 'he didn't mean it' speech when Benot let go of him and walked in between them.
"I am tired of this!" Benot yelled at them. "We don't need to fight amongst ourselves!" Benot said and he sure looked angry. "Quit acting like children!"
Vegeta and Soyna's eyes grew wide at him saying that. Goten just blinked and looked stunned. They were all looking at a very angry Benot who was not even realizing that he had powered up at all. His short hair spiked and glistened with energy, he looked as if he were almost ready to transform! Something that he strived so hard to get to, and Cyrus could see that he was on the edge. His anger was going to push him over!
Crystal covered her mouth and looked on worriedly. He was just so stunned.
"NO MORE!" Benot screamed at them. More energy burst from him in the form of light that swirled around him in his familiar bluish-gray aura with flecks of gold though. Oh, he was close. He wasn't even realizing what he was doing!
The adults recovered from Benot's outburst. Soyna walked towards her son. Goten hesitantly followed behind her, as if he wanted her to stop.
Benot watched his mother approach him. "Please mom. Not again. Not anymore. Please," his voice was full of sadness. "I don't want to worry anymore!" The gold fleck in his aura increased.
"Then don't," she said and grabbed her son's shoulder. He smiled but then the aura abruptly vanished and he fell to his knees. He slumped to the ground with a soft moan at her feet. Her other hand was in a fist.
She stepped over him and walked towards the still Vegeta.
He ran to his brother to see if he was okay. He looked to his dad for help, but he was standing there stunned as she stopped right in front of Vegeta.
It was the most horrid dream that he had ever had. He didn't even remember nodding off. The sun was still out.
He had never been so scared by a dream before. He looked around the empty room and was glad that it was empty. He was still shaking. He tried to control it but the images of the dreams still twirled in his head and made the shaking increase.
"I'm not like that anymore," he whispered.
He had dreamt of the times when he had thought it was best to be alone. Dreamt of the times when he destroyed friends and foes alike and thought that his life was complete.
"I am not like that anymore," he said louder as if he was trying to convince himself.
Soyna had appeared in the dream and he banished her, or at least tried too. She didn't say anything to him. She just transformed into a full ape, not the half ape that she transformed into their last fight, with red fur and she tried to crush him.
She was determined to kill him and was doing a pretty good job in the dream.
The ape roared at him, "You will not destroy my family!"
"They are my family too!" He yelled back.
The ape laughed. "You don't deserve it!" She laughed as she attacked him.
He fought her and he soon was on the verge of loosing. He was being crushed by her foot. "You are to selfish."
"I am not like that anymore," he whispered again as he rubbed his chest.
Soyna.
The only one that he thought truly understood him. The only one that he thought he was akin too. The only one that truly acted like a Saiyian. He sighed deeply. He guessed that was the problem after all.
She was too much like a Saiyian to ever forgive him. He could not forgive himself, how could he expect her to accept him once again.
.......
Goten had been frantic, looking for Cyrus only to find him and Benot playing video games in his room. After yesterday, with being unable to find him for a couple of hours, he had gotten worried and he thought that he took off again. He was acting a little distant from them, but he didn't seem so angry anymore.
He was just glad that he was okay and he didn't look so mad at him. Soyna was another handful to deal with. She disappeared into the training room and was training! Training! Her skin still ached when he touched her but she was training, if you could call her clumsy and slow movements training. She couldn't seem to control her movements and her slow stretches and jumps, seemed almost comical, but he had learned his lesson and refrained from laughing.
He spent a good twenty minutes trying to convince her to stop her training and come back inside.
"I am not ready to stop," she said simply and looked at him with her legs spread wide apart and her arms folded over her chest.
"But Soyna," he said "I am sure Cyrus has some more questions."
"You'll know where I will be then," she said and turned from him. A far from graceful turn, her feet ended up under her and she fell on her butt. She gave out a loud frustrated scream and slammed her fists into the floor, leaving nice dents. A glare was directed at him. "Why did you have to cut off my tail?"
He was about to say that he didn't have a choice when he saw the glisten of tears in her eyes. She quickly looked away from him and clumsily stood up again and began her familiar warm up routine, even if it was not as polished as it was once.
He moved in front of her and saw her stubbornly try to turn away from him. He grabbed her and pulled her close to him, despite her protests and angry yell. "Let me go."
He shook his head. "Nope," he said. "We are going to go for a walk outside. No protesting, and we are going to get you to relax. Training, never truly relaxes you."
"I won't go."
"I will be there to catch you. Or did you forget that part?" he said in a stern tone. "Damn it. You don't have to do anything alone anymore. Don't you remember that? How long have I been there for you?"
She was silent but no longer looked angry.
"Ready to go?"
She sighed and nodded.
He smiled. Sometimes, it was the only way he could get her to listen to him.
........
Vegeta frowned heavily as Crystal grabbed his hand. She never came near him and suddenly she was attached to his side. She grinned at him as she pushed her hair out of her face. She really needed to get it cut. "Will you walk me to the library?"
Why was she asking him? He had no idea where the library was and didn't really care to know either.
"I have some stuff to do for school. Will you?" She said and looked at him as if he would actually do it.
"Grandma usually did that stuff with me," she said with a touch of sadness in her voice. "Please."
He frowned deeper.
"Great!" she said as if he said yes. "Let me get my bag and we can go."
She bounded off. Did he say yes? He looked around; no one else was around to take her to the library. Damn it. He was not a nursemaid.
But he found himself walking beside his granddaughter to this library place. She hardly spoke to him, which as fine by him, it meant that he didn't need to talk as well. She just seemed content with him walking along side her and he felt a little bit of tension leave him as well.
He felt a lot of tension leave him as he watched her pour over books and walk around the maze of books as if she knew where she was going.
He seated himself away from her and some friends that joined her at a table. He didn't need to hear them talking, even though he did strain his ears to listen in. He didn't realize that two hours had passed and she came up to him, telling him that it was time to go.
He just nodded and walked beside her on the way home. She wasn't like the other grandchildren. They all wanted to fly. They all wanted to be quick about it. She just was not like that. She was so different from everyone else.
If she didn't look so much like Trunks, he would have thought that Pan had cheated on him. She sure didn't behave like one of the family.
She waved him off and said that she was going over to see her aunty Bra and Cousin Violet. He found himself watching her as she went. Such a change. She used to be so scared of him that she would always hide behind the legs of -well- anyone just to avoid him.
Now she was grabbing his hand and asking to go for walks. There was no more fear in her voice of in her actions. He wished he knew why this change occurred.
He sighed as his eyes wandered over the compound and stopped on a frozen figure.
Soyna.
............
He didn't want to think of her.
Brennen sighed heavily as he found himself thinking of her again. He had worked really hard to get those thoughts of her out of his head and even had a really good girlfriend now and what was he doing? Pining over a girl that he never had or has a chance at.
He thought of those two boys.
He saw them from time to time at school sporting event now. His girlfriends little brother was in he same class and he was able to see how well they were doing that way. OF course, he had to stop himself from cheering for them as they put the ball in the hoop or the puck in the net.
It was hard.
He never knew if she went to those events because he purposely would only look at the playing field. He did not want to per chance run into her or the family. He did once but it was only Junior. He was kind enough to him.
He remembered the scar across the boy's cheek. That was the boy that she was pregnant with when Benot lay dying in her arms.
He still had nightmares about that horrible day.
He still remembered her words and they haunted his dreams and his friends! So called friends! Well Mart was his friend but he did not like to talk with him all that much anymore. He still worked at CC. He had long quit that job a long time ago and even though he hated his current job, it was better than seeing people connected to her. Especially when he began to understand that his boss, Trunks, was her father.
The scar.
Did he say that his own grandfather did that to him?
He spoke it like it was not a big deal at all.
Something bad was happening again. He knew it. He hoped that he wasn't going to get sucked into it this time. He barely survived the last time.
.....
Oh. This was bad! Real bad!
Goten thought that Vegeta wouldn't be out, but there he was, looking right at them. He finally got her to relax somewhat and here she was, all tensed up again and he could feel the energy already crackling on her skin.
Her eyes almost glowed!
Vegeta just stood there. Still. As if he were waiting her next move.
She wasn't calm enough to see him yet. She still talked as if she were going to kill him the next time that she saw him. This was not good. She needed much more time to cool off. He had to separate them before they attacked each other again. Dende only knew what would happen next!
..........
Cyrus heard his brother's controller drop to the floor as he stood up abruptly. Benot almost ran to the window and of course he followed.
He had never seen him like this before. He was shaking as he was looking out the window at a picture. Well, it wasn't a picture but everyone sure was still. Vegeta was standing as if he were waiting for Soyna to make her move. Goten was tensed and ready to hold back mom, and mom looked as if she were frozen in place.
Then Benot whispered under his breath, more to himself that it was meant for him to hear. "I should never doubt the silver ball."
They were going to fight!
He ran away from his brother and out the door and stopped in the middle of them. It was the fastest that he had ever ran in his life, he was sure of it. His chest hurt and his whole body was shaking but he stood there and yelled at them. "Don't!"
He could feel their eyes on him. They didn't move though. They just stood there!
That was when Benot stumbled out of the door and ran beside him and grabbed his shoulder and started to drag him back.
"Let me go! They can't fight! They shouldn't fight!" Cyrus yelled. He could see that Crystal was frozen in place, looking back at the two people that she was most afraid of.
You could just feel the tension in the air.
"Mom!" he called to his mom. Hoping that she would break the gaze but she seemed to get angrier as if she was concentrating really hard on how she was going to attack him. "Please, mom."
The please seemed to soften her a bit. Her gaze flitted over to him for a second. It was more to check on him than to listen to him though.
He was about to go into the 'he didn't mean it' speech when Benot let go of him and walked in between them.
"I am tired of this!" Benot yelled at them. "We don't need to fight amongst ourselves!" Benot said and he sure looked angry. "Quit acting like children!"
Vegeta and Soyna's eyes grew wide at him saying that. Goten just blinked and looked stunned. They were all looking at a very angry Benot who was not even realizing that he had powered up at all. His short hair spiked and glistened with energy, he looked as if he were almost ready to transform! Something that he strived so hard to get to, and Cyrus could see that he was on the edge. His anger was going to push him over!
Crystal covered her mouth and looked on worriedly. He was just so stunned.
"NO MORE!" Benot screamed at them. More energy burst from him in the form of light that swirled around him in his familiar bluish-gray aura with flecks of gold though. Oh, he was close. He wasn't even realizing what he was doing!
The adults recovered from Benot's outburst. Soyna walked towards her son. Goten hesitantly followed behind her, as if he wanted her to stop.
Benot watched his mother approach him. "Please mom. Not again. Not anymore. Please," his voice was full of sadness. "I don't want to worry anymore!" The gold fleck in his aura increased.
"Then don't," she said and grabbed her son's shoulder. He smiled but then the aura abruptly vanished and he fell to his knees. He slumped to the ground with a soft moan at her feet. Her other hand was in a fist.
She stepped over him and walked towards the still Vegeta.
He ran to his brother to see if he was okay. He looked to his dad for help, but he was standing there stunned as she stopped right in front of Vegeta.