"M... Mizu...?" he choked out.
The woman turned to look over her shoulder, and gasped.
"Frieza!" she spun around to face him. "Is it really you?"
"It's me." Frieza nodded, lowering himself to the ground.
"I can't believe it..." Mizu was now crying. "Frieza!" she ran towards him, and wrapped her arms around him.
"...." Frieza wrapped his arms around her, and then closed him eyes... and sighed. "God, it's been lonely without you." he whispered. "I love you."
"Frieza..." the tears were racing uncontrollably out of Mizu's eyes. "I love you, too. You have no idea how painful it's been to live without you."
"Then why did you leave in the first place?" Frieza asked. He pushed her away from his body so he could look her in the eye, but he didn't let go of her. "I woke up one morning and you were gone. You didn't even leave a note."
"I know..." Mizu looked away.
"Well are you going to tell me?!" Frieza protested. "Come on! I spent fifteen years wondering what I could've done to make you so mad, you wanted to leave without even saying goodbye!"
"No!" Mizu looked at him. Into his eyes. "It's nothing like that." she put her hand on his face. "You've done nothing to anger me - or hurt me."
"So why did you leave?" Frieza looked at her. "I don't get it."
Mizu looked at the ground, and back at him.
"Remember when Mokoto came? To kill you because of you killed his family?"
"Yeah. What about it?" Frieza asked.
"Remember how... he came round when you were out, and I was at the palace alone? And when you came back you found him trying to kill me?"
"Yes. I remember." Frieza smirked. "And I remember how scared he got when I started fighting him." he shook his head. "Why didn't you let me finish him off? I know he promised to stay away from us, but it was obvious that as soon as I died he'd come for y -"
"That doesn't matter." Mizu interrupted him. "Do you know why he was trying to kill me?"
"..." now that he thought about it, Frieza didn't. "No..." he mumbled. "To get at me?"
"No." Mizu shook her head. "It was because he was afraid."
"Afraid?" Frieza repeated.
"Yes. He realized that you and I were a couple..." Mizu began. "And he could sense that I hadn't committed any sins, whereas he knew you had."
"So?"
"So..." Mizu began. "Legend has it that when good bears a child to evil, never the other way around, the child will be The Black Hope. A creature that will send all sinners to Hell - they can't even be wished back." she explained. "The Black Hope will banish all sinners from the planet it was born upon... until there are no sinners left. Then, it dies... leaving behind a world of purity, peace and harmony. A paradise." she closed her eyes. "A few weeks after Mokoto came, I found out I was pregnant. I knew I would give birth to The Black Hope. And I knew the baby would kill you. I had no choice but to leave, and birth her on a different planet."
Frieza stared at her in disbelief.
"I have a child?!?!"
"Yes." Mizu nodded. "You have a daughter. Her name is Lavender and she's fifteen years old." she smiled. "She has your mother's eyes, y'know."
"How could you not tell me?!?!" Frieza demanded. "It's just a stupid legend!!"
"Just a stupid legend?!" Mizu gestured towards the riot around them. "Look at this place! Do you know why Heaven and Hell have escaped?!"
"... No..." Frieza shook his head.
"The Black Hope couldn't complete her task!" Mizu protested. "And as a punishment, this has happened..." she shook her head and looked at the ground. "I knew you'd want to train her had you met her. And I tried so hard to keep her from growing strong on this planet, too. Because if she became strong enough to transform, she'd become strong enough to become that creature... But it happened anyway. And now look! This planet is dying!"
She looked at Frieza. "We have to do something!!"
"Why?" Frieza asked. "It's just one planet."
"Frieza, every single person in Heaven and Hell is here!" Mizu protested. "Think about it! All the planets you've destroyed... all the planets Vegeta has... and all your other workers! There must be hundreds of thousands - if not MILLIONS of planets loose!! If this riot continues this planet will be gone in a couple of hours, and then the riot will spread! Pretty soon the whole universe will be in danger!!"
"Okay, okay, I see your point. We're all screwed." Frieza smirked.
"FRIEZA!!"
"Well what do you want me to do?!" Frieza protested. "Round them all up and tell them to go back to Hell?!"
"I don't know..." Mizu ran her hands through her hair. "But we have to do something! We can't stay here! All of us - we have to go back!"
"No way!!" Frieza shook his head. "I'm not going back to Hell!"
"We all have to go back to where we came from. Somehow..." Mizu said.
Frieza pulled her to him.
"And leave you again? Are you insane?! It'd bad enough being there anyway, let alone being there by myself!"
"I know..." Mizu rested her head against his chest. "Heaven's been horrible without you... but we're two different people. We only belong together in the mortal world. It's the way it's meant to be."
"....." Frieza closed his eyes. "... Fine... if that's what you want..."
"I want to stay with you more than anything, honest..." Mizu said.
"... I know."
"But none of us belong here. We have to somehow get everybody back. And that includes the two of us."
"... I know."
"I'll miss you."
".. Look at me." Frieza instructed. Mizu raised her head, and his lips pressed against hers. She closed his eyes and embraced him.
"Let's get out of here." Frieza lifted her up and rubbed his cheek against hers.
"Frieza... we're running out of time... The Earth..."
"The Earth can wait." Frieza's lips made their way down to her neck. "I've not seen you for fifteen years, you think the Earth comes first?"
"... Hm." Mizu laughed. "Alright..."
*surely I don't need to go into detail, you can guess the rest*
~~~
Lavender looked around. This place... she didn't even recognize it! Everyone from Hell was picking fights with everyone in sight. Hell had clearly made them all crazy, filled them with so much rage they were out of control. Buildings on fire, some just blown into pieces... people lying wounded on the ground too weak to get up... the angels were running around frantically trying to stop the sinners, but most of them weren't half as strong as their opponents, and there was more people from Hell anyway.
"This... is too much..." tears escaped her eyes as she couldn't stand to look anymore. All of this, just because of that creature. That.... monster. An angel? What kind of an angel doesn't forgive... and does THIS when she is stopped? This was Doomsday!
"Doomsday..." Lavender started to cry. Vegeta... Goku... Goten.... Bulma... and Trunks... none of them would survive. They didn't stand a chance against all of this. Nobody did. This couldn't be undone. She had learned that in her second form. She remembered what Keppaku had known. There was no way to reverse this. Even if she transformed again, Keppaku would never come again. She had died. If she was to be reborn, good would have to birth evil another child - and on another planet.
"Why..." she fell to her knees, and looked at her hands. Keppaku... oh, if only she'd never transformed. It would've been better if Mokoto had just killed her. That way, he'd go. And all of this...
She clutched her necklace without knowing it. Then, she frowned, and realized what she was holding. The cross.
"God..." she mumbled. She lifted up her head, and glared at the sky. "I HATE YOU!!" she screamed. "Why?! Why must I be the daughter of evil?! Why must I - and everybody else pay for my father's sins?! What do you want from me?! Do you want to kill me?!" she lowered her head, and said quietly.
"If you wanted to kill me... then why didn't you just say? I would've gladly killed myself..." she closed her eyes. "If it meant preventing this..." tears escaped her eyes. "Please, God..." she looked up at the sky. "Please... I'll do anything. I'll get my faith back; I'll go to church; I'll give away my possessions; I'll give away my LIFE!" she pleaded. "If you just prove to me that you exist... make all of this stop..." she closed her eyes. "Please... I beg of you..."
"Lavender!"
"Trunks?!" Lavender turned her head. She saw Trunks and Goku.
"Geez..." Trunks ran towards her. "You don't have a scratch on you."
"Luckily." Lavender replied, getting up. She wiped the tears from her eyes. Trunks noticed this.
"You've been crying?" he asked.
".... Trunks..." Lavender leaned against him. "This is... the end. And it's all because of me."
"Who says it's the end?" Trunks argued. "We'll find a way around it."
"No." Lavender shook her head and looked at him. "This can't be reversed."
"But..."
"We don't stand a chance."
"Hey," Goku came over. "Are you alright?"
"Yeah..." Lavender replied. "Where's Vegeta?"
"Still at Capsule Corps as far as I know." Goku said. "Goten, Chichi and Gohan have gone over there, too. It's safer there." he looked at them.
"You two had better go, too. It's way too dangerous here."
"Don't you think I know that?!" Trunks protested.
"Goku, there's nothing you can do." Lavender told him. "This is the end. Keppaku won't return - and we can't defeat all these guys by ourselves."
"But -"
"Listen," Lavender said. "You two go back to Capsule Corps." she instructed. "Maybe if I find my parents, we'll be able to do something. But there's nothing either of you can do."
"..... Then be careful." Goku said.
"Yeah... be careful..." Trunks nodded. Lavender smiled.
"I will." she ran off. Goku looked at Trunks.
"Come on, let's get back."
~~~
"And that's all that's happened." Vegeta finished filling his father in on what had been going on since he was a kid.
"... Whoa..." King Vegeta rubbed his head. "Christ, I've missed a lot." he looked towards the door. "Woman! Is that drink ready yet?!"
"For the last time, my name is BULMA!!" Bulma yelled back from the kitchen. "And no, it's not ready - and it never will be until you call me by my name!"
"Fine, forget it!" King Vegeta answered back. Vegeta frowned. It annoyed him when his father spoke to Bulma like that, but he didn't say. It would just make the matter worse. Dad had never listened to anyone - especially not him.
King Vegeta looked at his son.
"Y'know, she's a lot like your mother, that woman of yours." he said. "She just looks different."
"Mom..." Vegeta mumbled. He'd never met her in his entire life. She'd died in childbirth. Maybe... "Is she here?" he looked at his father.
"I don't know." King Vegeta shrugged. "She didn't come with me." he leaned forward in his seat, opposite Vegeta. "Your mother's an angel."
"An angel?" Vegeta repeated.
"That's right. Flew off to Heaven while I got stuck in Hell."
"We're back!" Goku's voice called.
"Kakarotto?" King Vegeta asked. Vegeta nodded.
"Hi dad!" Goten's voice replied.
"Mom?"
"Right here!" Bulma called. "Where's Lavender?"
"She's not here..." King Vegeta recognized the boy's voice. Trunks. Trunks! What a name!
He and Kakarotto had come to drop off Kakarotto's family. That's when King Vegeta had met his grandson. The kid had the stupidest name he'd heard of, but at least he was strong.
~~~
Lavender flew through the crowds of people. Where were they? Wait... she cold feel her mother's ki! Lavender smiled, and followed it. She saw something standing in the distance. It was her! And... him...
She glared without realising it as she came closer to him. That tyrant. How could she love him? If it wasn't for him being so evil none of this would've happened!
"Mom!" she called.
"That voice..." Mizu said.
"What voice?" Frieza asked.
"Didn't you hear it?" Mizu looked at him. Frieza shook his head.
"No."
"Then maybe I imagined it..." Mizu mumbled. Frieza chuckled, and pulled her into a tighter hug.
"Perhaps you're going crazy." he smirked. "You always were crazy to love me in the first place."
"That's true..." Mizu also smirked.
"Mom!"
"I definitely heard that!" Mizu protested, breaking away from him.
"Me too...." Frieza loosened his grip. Mizu looked around, and smiled.
"Lavender!"
"Huh?!" Frieza followed her eyes. He gasped. "Is that her?"
"Yes." Mizu nodded. Frieza stared at him daughter as she came towards him. Her short lavender hair blowed as she flew. Her emerald eyes sparkled. She was beautiful. But he loved her eyes. He could see his mother in her. Those eyes were hers. He smiled. Maybe she'd live on this way...
"Lavender!" Mizu smiled as her daughter landed in front of them.
"Mom..." Lavender hugged her, crying. "This is horrible... the Earth..."
"We'll fix it." Mizu assured her. "But... let me introduce you to someone."
"I know..." Lavender broke away, and glared at Frieza. "Father."
"Lavender?" Mizu looked at her. "What's the matter with you?"
"Me?! What's the matter with YOU?!" Lavender argued.
"Lav -"
"How can you love him?!" Lavender demanded. Frieza's heart sank. "Well, what did you expect? You're probably the reason her friends are dead. Supposing she's friends with Vegeta? You couldn't expect her to not hate you. She's not her mother, you know."
"Lavender!" Mizu frowned. "Haven't I always told you to forgive?! No matter what, we are all still God's ch -"
"I don't believe in God!" Lavender protested. Mizu stared at her.
"W - What...?" she looked at her. "Then why didn't you say? I wouldn't have forced you."
"... Well to be honest, I only started to loose faith when you died..." Lavender said. "Then Mia... when she died, too... I just didn't care anymore..."
Frieza cleared his throat. He looked at Mizu.
"Now you're debating whether God is real or not? I thought you wanted to get rid of all these people." he said.
"That's right!" Mizu nodded. She looked at Lavender. "Lavender, what did The Black Hope say? Do you have her memories?"
"Yes." Lavender nodded. "This can't be reversed. All I know is that she's supposed to kill all the sinners so that they can't even be wished back... and if she doesn't... this happens..."
"Is that all?" Mizu asked.
"That's all." Lavender told her. "But... what does she mean by "wishing" anyway? Something about a dragon..." she looked at Mizu. "What dragon?"
"You haven't heard of the dragonballs?" Frieza seemed surprised. Lavender frowned in confusion.
"The what?"
"There are seven balls on this planet," Frieza said. "Gather all of them, and you can summon the dragon and make a wish."
"A wish...?" Lavender started to think. Mizu looked at her.
"Lavender?"
"I've got it!" Lavender beamed. "I know how we can undo this!"
"You can wish them all back?" Mizu asked.
"No, that can't be done either." Lavender told her. "But I know something that can be done." she looked at Frieza. "Where are the dragonballs?"
Frieza shrugged.
"My guess would be that Goku and Vegeta have them." he said.
"Good." Lavender smiled. "Come on!" she flew off. Mizu and Frieza looked at each other, and followed her.