Dark Side of the Moon
Ch 3
Vegeta woke up to find himself back in his bedroom. This dreams where becoming weirder and weirder each time.
"What the hell?!" Vegeta nursed a side of his ribs. "This wasn't supposed to happen. It was just a dream for Christ's sake!"
It had been a month since the dreams had started; oddly enough they started where he had left off, as if it was reality. However this was the first time that he awoke to find himself hurt. Serena had improved a great deal since she first came to his 'dreams', but this was ridiculous.
"I'll have a long talk with that chibi onna. This is nuts! and this time she's not walking away form me!" After the first couple of nights she had avoided answering any kind of questions about her, or where she came from, leaving Vegeta just standing there, not giving away more than it was 'necessary' for him to know. But this time Vegeta was willing to beat the answers out of her.
After placing a bandage around his ribs, he walked to the kitchen to get some breakfast.
"Hey Vegeta, what happened to you? You look as if you had a fight with your pillow." Bulma snickered at Vegeta.
"Shut up woman, and bring me my food!"
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-Dream Land-
Vegeta walked determinately to get some answers out of Serena by any means necessary (not to say that he would enjoy every second of it). He had become accustomed to the fog, and the gloomy atmosphere around him. On the contrary, in spite of himself he thought that it kind of suited his mood. He walked confidently through the desolation hearing how his own footsteps clicked on the floor producing echoes that went for what it seem forever into the darkness.
At last he came to a halt, crossing his arms. *I hope that this girl would hurry up* He waited until he heard another pair of footsteps behind him.
"About time you showed up." He snapped.
"You don't have to get your shorts on a bunch. I'm here now, so lets begin with the training." She said coldly.
" Wait a minute chibi onna, you and I have a lot to talk about. And this time you're giving me answers!"
"C'mon Vegeta I thought we talked about these already." She said almost, almost in a whining tone trying to shrug him off.
"No! I talked, you just walked away." He said with a grim expression, motioning with his two fingers as she paced before him. (FD: you know, like walking…ok whatever -_-;;;)
Serena crossed her arms and glared daggers at Vegeta. "Well, and what if I don't want to?"
"Then I'll beat you until you tell me the truth or you're a bloody pulp. You decide." Vegeta smirked hoping that she decided to give a little fight.
Serena could only sigh. She knew very well that Vegeta was capable of doing it, and that he wouldn't even think of it twice before launching against her.
Shaking her head in defeat she sat herself on the floor. "Sit down, this is gonna be a long talk."
"Fine I'm listening." Vegeta leaned onto a 'wall' (FD: hey! where did that appeared from? -_-;;;) and glared at her.
"One thousand years ago I was Princess Serenity of the White Moon Kingdom. We, the Lunarians, were powerful creatures, but my mother decided to rule with love and compassion instead of fear. The Moon Kingdom was the center of what was called the 'Silver Millennium' that consisted in all the planets of the Solar System and my mother ruled over it. I was happy, engaged to Prince Endymion of Earth. All was peace and prosperity until a great evil came and destroyed it, killing all living things on the planet. My mother, Queen Serenity, used all her strength to send my court, Endymion and I to the future Earth and died alone in the Moon from the effort." She remembered all this with bitterness, but her face became calm again. "After a thousand years we where reborn on Earth. Without any memories of what we were then. We lived a normal life, as my mother wanted it until the great evil threatened Earth again. We fought a long and hard battle, against Berryl and Metallia, and I was able to avenge my mother's death." She smirked at this feeling some satisfaction.
"But I thought that all the Lunarians where extinct." Vegeta remembered the legend of the Lunarians. However, they had vanished from the face of the Universe a long time ago.
"And they are, I am the only one left of my race. The Dark Kingdom killed them all." Serena said sadly. " That's how I can lift the curse that the Saiyans have. Anyways, more evils came to the planet, and one by one I was able to defeat them costing me my own life and those of my senshi several times. We where revived by the power of the Silver Crystal, but this takes too much of my own vital power, taking in count that we fight with magic, or gadgets that I use to amplify my powers. My own magic, if I don't use it correctly, can kill me. Go figures." She shrugged.
Vegeta frowned at this. "Weren't the Senshi the ones that you wanted to kill?"
"Yes, they are. Not too long ago a new enemy came to the planet. A shadow that feeds of the hatred and ambition of the people (FD: sounds familiar?) Little by little the planet was taken by the shadow, there was nothing that we could do. My mother told me in a dream that I could get more power coming here to train, I told the senshi that I had to come." She had a far away look remembering the past. Her face hardened. "They thought that I had been infected…taken by the shadow since I wanted the power. They beat me, leaving me nearly dead. Even my Mamo-chan took his time kicking me while I was down." Serena made a fist digging her nails to her soft skin until blood started to run on her hand. "Right after that, Setsuna came and took me here, to the Time Gates. She told me that all the Senshi had been the ones' that where infected. We tried to defeat the shadow on our own, but we where pathetically defeated by it. Ironically we got infected too. Since we are here –she motioned around- time can't touch us, so we are safe of further contamination. However, the 'poison' that is already in me keeps growing little by little. I need to train, and fast, to be able to go back and finish what I started."
"If what you said is true…your senshi where only attacking you because of the shadow, not because they hated you." Vegeta reasoned. (FD: Very OOC)
"Yes, but if you heard me well, you would have heard me say that it only attacks what's already in you. They had started to despise me a long time ago, and took this opportunity to try to kill me. They all hated me for their own reasons, but must of all Rei and Mamoru, they loved each other for ages. Minako wanted to be queen, Ami was tired of only being the brains, she wanted more, and Makoto was tired of my whining (she shrugged). Those are the reasons I know, but there are many more that I don't even think of. It doesn't matter anymore, I'm gonna kill them all. I don't need them to start a new future. A new future that won't enchain me to an already set destiny." She said it more to herself that to Vegeta. Turning to him. "(Chuckle) As you can see, the effects are slowly growing on me, but it doesn't matter. I see clearly now that this was in me all the time, all bottled up, but inside me all the same." She got up. "Well" Serena said dusting herself off "If that's all what you wanted to ask me, I think that we should continue our training."
"Wait. How come I have been waking up hurt?" Vegeta returned to his originally question that has started it all.
"Look at this place Vegeta, this is a part of reality. A place where everything and anything is as real as you want it to be. However at first I brought only your subconscious, but I only can do so much with just your mind (Serena winked at Vegeta) so I had to bring all of you here to the Time Gates. Don't worry I'll go easy on you next time so you don't have to wake up crying." Serena smirked.
Vegeta crossed his arms above his chest and shrugged "Whatever you say, as long as I get what I want, it's all fine with me. I don't mind the beating, I had had worse in my time." Vegeta walked behind Serena suddenly stopping. "There is something that has been nagging me since the beginning, what was with the deal with the chibi onna in white?"
"Oh, that. I thought that it would have 'soften' your heart and help me. Different people need different approaches that one didn't work so I used a different one. Different tastes for different tasters. Now lets get to work, thanks the gods I don't pay you by the hour." She shook her head. With that they started the sparring again.
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