Chapter 5: "Dreams & Revelations"

"Mom! Get some warm blankets and sheets! Dad! You take the baby...I'm going to get the first aid kit! Let's move!!" ordered my mother as she scrambled around the house looking for ways to help my condition. I, on the other hand was just fighting to stay alive. For countless minutes the pain seemed excruciating and unbearable! The poison seemed to have gotten much stronger than before. As it continued to spread throughout the rest of my body, I only felt my hopes for survival diminish even more...because for the first time in my whole entire life... I was scared. Scared that I would never go back to my own timeline and see my mother's face again.... scared that I wouldn't live to save my world from those monstrous androids! Scared - for my life. And I wasn't the only one struggling either. Besides my grandparents and my young mother, Vegeta was also struggling to keep it together. I could tell that he was hurting for me, but at that point and time...I couldn't have cared less! To me, Vegeta had already blown his chance with trying to be a father figure to me, and if he felt guilty now? Then good! Let him suffer! He deserved every bit of it!!*~ "Grr..... How much longer before we can get some darned service down here!? I mean Really!!" Vegeta argued. He was becoming quite anxious and frightened for my life...but I didn't care. Not now, not ever! *cough* *cough* *gag!* I began coughing and choking constantly, I wasn't able to control it. I felt my sweat slowly begin to trickle down the sides of my face and on my forehead. (and all the ladyz say?...Eww! (lol))*~ I didn't even know it, but at that point and time I began saying things that I didn't even know I wuz saying! As if I was talking in my sleep or something. "No! Stop!..... stay away!.....keep away from me!!..........NO!!!!!!......GRR!!!" I began to scream and shout! My grandparents rushed down and tried to hold me steady, but I continued to struggle. "Let Me GO!!" I'd yell. I didn't even know that i was resisting my own grandparents! Who were actually trying to help me!! "T. Trunks?" The fear in my father's eyes was the worst it had ever been. "Hurry Bulma! I don't know how much longer we can contain this young lad!" yelled my grandpa. "Oh dear," said my grandma as she also tried to strap me back down. "......FOUND IT!" answered my mother. Just then, she came storming down the stairs with the first aid kit in one hand, and a needle in the other! I looked up to see a very faded and fuzzy figure of my mother standing before me. The last thing I vaguely heard my mother say was not very clear, it sounded very blurred... "Now Trunks sweetie? This may sting a bit, but it will help ease the pain." She then injected me with the penicilllin that would keep me settled - for a while. I grunted as the needle slowly began to be compressed into one of my arm muscles. (ouchie.)*~ I suddenly became very calm, but I continued to groan. My mother put a damp cloth on my forehead, held my hand, and stayed with me the rest of the way. (awwww!*~) About an hour went by, and my mother had fallen asleep by my side. I wanted to fall asleep, but I was afraid that I might've never gotten up again! Vegeta was sitting on a couch diagonally across from me. Suddenly he got up and said. "Something else has to be wrong with you.... and I'm going to find out myself!" He then walked over to me placed his hand on my shoulder and closed his eyes. I knew what he was planning on doing, he was going to enter my mind and see if he could see what battles I was facing in my thoughts. I started to groan again. "......just relax." he said. It wasn't long before we both drifted off into another world, MY world. ........................................ Inside my mind, I felt as if I were in my physical body. The only difference was that I was in perfect condition! "What's the problem boy, what are you so afraid of?.......is it me?" I turned my head to the right and saw Vegeta standing there. "You? A problem?? No way! You're a perefect angel!" I said in sarcasm. "I didn't come here to be mocked boy! I'm here to help you!" he answered. "YOU want to help ME! shh...that's a good one!" I answered. "You'd do anything BUT help me! Insult me maybe, but HELP? I doubt that." "Look! You can believe what you want to believe! But as for your life, it seems to be running short on you! So you can let me help you, or you can DIE! How does that sound?!" answered Vegeta in a very distraught tone. As much as I didn't want to admit it.... he was right. "Why are you looking to help me now! It's not as if you cared before? What makes this time so different!?" I yelled back. "Do you want me to SPELL it out for YOU?? You're going to DIE! How many different ways would you like me to say that!!" "You don't know that for sure.... and even if I was, up to now...I STILL don't see why YOU'D care!" I replied. My father just stood there speechless for a second, and then answered softly: "........ how could you not know." "How could I not know what!?" I argued back. "That you care about me?....that you love me?? Is that it? No, of course not! Because you already made it pretty clear to me that you HAVE NO SON! Isn't that right Vegeta!!?? Isn't it!!!????" I was almost in tears. Vegeta said nothing, and just then at that exact moment something strange happened to me. I felt a horrible pain in my stomach as if someone had punched me!? "Err...." I fell to my knees with my hands hugging my stomach. Vegeta took one step toward me, but I stopped him by sticking my hand out toward him and saying......."STOP! Leave me alone....I, er....d...don't need your h- help!!" "You are being FOOLISH!" he answered. "Can't you see that you are the one killing yourself! Where is your saiyajin pride!" "Is that what's bothering you?" I asked. "Well I hate to disappoint you, but I don't have any! Because I am not a SAIYAJIN!" "Then what are you!!!???" he yelled back. "Nothing - to you! ........... ERrrrrr!!" I then fell to the ground in even more pain. "You don't even know what I think about you! Do you see now what you are doing to yourself!! How you're killing yourself!!!! I won't stand here and watch this anymore!!!!!" he answered. "Then leave!" I said. "These are my dreams, and MY revelations! No one is asking you to be here. Pain is a part of my life, all I could do is accept it...embrace it!" I said. "ENOUGH!! We're going home! Now c'mon!!" "What's the point, there's nothing more out there for me, as there is in here." I answered. "So that's it, huh! You're just going to give up on life!?!" asked Vegeta. "Why not...... it gave up on me!" Vegeta couldn't believe what his son was saying. "No..... you're wrong!" he answered back. "Huh?" I was surprised to hear that Vegeta was even still listening to me, never-mind actually caring about what I was saying! "The ONLY person who gave up on anything was yourself! So life gets tough sometimes...Big Deal! Welcome to the world! I probably wasn't much help to you when it came to being a father...and for that I'm sorry. But you can't just run away from your problems! The only person who has the power to change his own destiny is him-SELF! I might have stressed that too much when I would talk to you...but that was my mistake not yours! Don't beat yourself up about it! You don't see me going around moping around because Kakarrot is stronger than me, do you? NO! That's because I know that one- day that I will be the successor! But it starts with ME TRUNKS!!! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!!!??!!" he finished. "Who WAS THIS MAN???????!!!!!!!!" I thought. This couldn't be Vegeta!! I didn't think that It was possible for him to talk in such depth that he would actually get THROUGH TO ME!!!????? "Now are you coming? Or not!?" he asked again in a softer tone of voice. "........um.. yes." I replied. "..Yes I am." As we began walking towards the door which lead to my recovery and back to reality, I said to him....... ".......and thank you Vegeta, thank you - father."*~ "Well, I see you've returned to your old self again." said my father with a grin. Then we returned home. When I awoke, my mother jumped on me and gave me a great big hug! "Oh Trunks! I thought I had lost You!!!!!" she said with teary eyes.*~ "It's good to be back," I replied. My father and I then exchanged looks. For once I was happy, I understood him now, and I knew that I always would.*~ .......................... About 2 more hours went by. All were asleep except for Vegeta. I was resting, though he thought I was asleep as well. He then got up and gently put his hand on my head. He was glad I was ok. As soon as he left, I slightly opened my eyes and quietly said......"........I love you too, otusan."*~ ----------------End of Pt. 5-------------