Pawsy: More disclaimers…again…I don't anything and everything DBZ, Akira Toriyama does. I don't own Zephyr, Fangsire does. I do own everything and everyone else. That's about it…thanks for putting up with me…
Blood Fest
"This sucks," the group looks over at Recoome, "well, it does." Cell lets out a sigh and leans against the wall.
"They help us become alive again, kidnap your family, and cage us all like dogs. What's the point!?" the android groans in frustration, "I don't get it!" Piccolo shrugs off the tension and stares into his cell. Lucky me… Joining him are Puipui, Ginyu, and… The namek now realizes there is another figure curled tightly in the corner.
He's a tall, middle-aged looking man. He has black hair with silver strips running through it; it grows wildly on his head with edges horribly trimmed. Two jackal-like ears press against his head in fear. Two cattails, one orange with brown stripes and one brown with orange stripes, coil by his side. He's pulled his knees close to him and has most of his face buried in his crossed arms. Only silver blue eyes can be seen, rimmed with crystal tears. Piccolo approaches the stranger.
"Who are you?" the namek inquires. The man looks up, tears flowing down his pale cheeks.
"No…" he mutters and buries his entire face in his arms, sobbing uncontrollably, "Nooo…!" Piccolo backs away from the man, deciding it best to leave him alone. Everyone looks up when they hear the doors open.
"Let go of me, dammit!" a voice growls.
"Take him to Cell Seven!" Hawk barks. The guards shove a man in. His usually sky blue skin looks dull in the dimmed room. He has pointed ears and jagged brown hair on his head. A matching brown tail, thick and bushy like a wolf's, bristles in anger. He's thrown into Cell Seven and collides into Burter.
"Hey, watch it!" the dark blue alien snarls. The man crawls off of him with an animal like growl growing in his throat. Ginyu looks directly across to see the newcomer. It can't be…
"D…Dyu?" he manages to speak out. The alien swivels around to see his former enemy residing in the cage across from him.
"Ginyu? What in hell? I heard you were dead!"
"I was…" the alien mutters.
"Send those two to Cell Eight!" A four-legged, tiger sized creature is shoved along. It's gray fur blends into the surroundings except for their green blue paws. Their white claws grind on the rocky floor as it painfully stumbles, due to apparently to losing a fight, down the narrow strip between the cages. A jagged sky blue mane with red-orange tips extends down their lengthened necks. Two pairs of yellow eyes glow in the darkness, complementing their red irises and cat slit pupils. Small, sleek ears, a blunt muzzle, black cat nose, and two elongated fangs protruding from their mouths complete the double-headed duo. A head, neck, and two legs on each side and attached in the middle, the brothers are shoved into the prison.
"Duoasim and Twodya are here too?" asks Ginyu. Dyu turns his gaze away from him.
"All of my gang are here, just like your force, I'm guessing," the dog tailed man growls.
"Cell Six!" A young man with thick, yellow-orange hair is forced into his cage. He has a weasel-like muzzle with two long canines breaking through. His weasel ears are pressed against his head in submission. His tail, a cattish tail that puffs out on the end, swings by his side in agitation. The two wings on his back are bloody since he's been 'clipped.'
"Long time, no see, Wairel," says Zarbon, who is also residing in Six.
"I hate them…" the newcomer whines. Another figure is brought in. No one was paying attention, so they don't know where he is going.
He has black hair that is pulled back into a small ponytail. His human-like face has yellow eyes with slit pupils and fanged jaws. His two hands, one like a human's and the other is claws, grasp onto the bars. The lower half of his body is a snake's with mahogany skin on the bottom and green scales covering the top. His upper torso is different with green skin on his arms and face with mahogany scales on his cheeks.
"Sinistar…" mutters Ginyu. Another, the largest of the new group, follows the snake being. He has a lion like muzzle the length of a coyote's and bushy, yellow-green hair, though his body is covered in yellow brown fur. Two pointed ears curve down on the sides of his face. He has clawed hands and clawed paws for feet to match.
"Lioyote…the whole gang…"
"There's one more…" Dyu snaps. Ginyu stares at the blue alien strangely.
"But who…"
"Send her to Cell Three!" Ginyu pales as realization hits.
"She shouldn't have been caught…" Dyu lets out a sad sigh. The cage door opens and a young female is thrown before Ginyu. She looks like a feminine version of Dyu, except she has light blue skin. Her flowing golden yellow hair covers her face while her matching tail coils beside her. Ginyu quickly rushes to help her. Please be okay… He lifts her up, her light brown eyes catching his red ones.
"G…Ginyu…?" she stutters.
"Taysa…it is you…" A smile spreads across the woman's face as she embraces her old lover. Ginyu pulls her forward to kiss her back.
"Hey, hey, hey, hey, HEY! LEAVE MY SISTER ALONE!!!" Dyu screeches, suddenly hating the cage separation between them.
"Shut the hell up! You've got two more," Hawk snarls. Two more guards come in.
"Which to where, sir?" asks a brisk voice.
"The pink dude to Cell Five," Hawk hesitates for a moment, "and the little purple man to Cell Four." The guards strictly obey and drag the two newcomers to their 'home.'
"Wonderful," Android 17 mutters, "we've got some new friends." The being is thrown in. No one really reacts except for Babidi.
"Damn it! I have to share this prison with that…kai!" he snarls. Shin, or the Supreme Kai, can't believe it.
"Babidi! You're dead!"
"Not anymore, rat kai, but I think you should be!"
"Really?" Shin rises to his feet, "are you challenging me?" The wizard doesn't reply , but steps back nervously.
"Guess not," Android 17 laughs. Lioyote, being in the same cell, watches them argue and snarls at them slightly.
"Shuttup in there!" Kid Buu snarls from the cage across them. Hawk stands at the door, quickly getting annoyed by the various conversations carrying on in the dungeon. Finally he places his hand over a panel by the door.
"LIGHTS OUT!!" He slams down on a switch and everything goes black.
What the…what is that… Goku stirs slightly and opens his eyes. Silence rings from the room as everyone has at last fallen asleep, but that's not what has caught his attention. Light. A bright light shines above from a small opening. He gets up from his spot and heads over to the source of the light. Placing his hands on the opening, he pulls himself up on his toes and peers out. The moon…it's the moon… It hits him.
"It's the outside!" he cheers quietly. How he longs to be out there with his family, free from this imprisonment. A gust of wind flushes air into the cell. Goku deeply breathes the taste of freedom in, but stops. Something about the scent…taste is wrong. It's stained with a coppery, sweaty taste and smells of fear…and hate. His eyes narrow to help focus in the darkness. It's then he notices it. An arena. Towering walls encase a large arena and their prison is built into one of the walls. Goku looks over at the other cells and estimates that Cells Two, Three, and Four are also linked to the arena.
"But what are we doing at an arena?" He steps down onto the ground again, "I don't get it." There is a reason we were brought here…and I don't think it's a good one…
"Well," a voice growls. The twins look to each other and then back to the speaker.
"Well," Eagle starts, "things are going as planned. We have a total of forty-three including our champion captured, leaving thirteen left to catch."
"And we'll be right back on it once you give us the ok!" Hawk says, "Zephyr already after the rage beast."
"Hmm…I see…" a figure paces the floor, "will everything be ready on time?"
"Of course, sir," Eagle shifts slightly. Standing gets uncomfortable after awhile.
"Well, then, let's not waste anymore time. I want you to after a certain wizard…"
"But I thought we already got him," Hawk whines but is quickly cut off by a sword pressing against his throat.
"Not that one, you idiot! For starters, these are another two and they are brothers like yourselves…only without being twins…" the figure removes the sword allowing Hawk to let out a tremendous sigh of relief, "after that, get that other saiyan or the cat. They're close by." The figure stares out a large window and onto the arena below. "Those are your orders."
"Yes sir!" the twins chime and run out, leaving the being to his thoughts. A sinful smile spreads across his lips.
"I predict a great game this year. One that will blow them out of the water," the figure lets out a hate filled laugh.
Blood. It's everywhere. The sky, ground, even the walls are dyed the color of the life substance. Goku quickly opens his eyes to see everyone captured lined against a wall, in the arena, himself included. A man paces in front of them a short distance away. Hawk, Eagle, and Zephyr are watching from a stand, cheering loudly. Suddenly, their voices are drowned by a thousand others screaming and cheering as well. Shapeless figures spread like smoke across the stadium until they fill the stands.
"What's going on?" he says aloud. The man stops pacing and looks at the group before turning away. Goku looks at the others, fear glazing their eyes. The man is suddenly in front of Chichi.
"Chichi…?" Goku stutters. A smile appears on the shadowed man. In seconds, he plunges a knife into the raven-haired mother's heart.
"CHI-CHI!!" Goku screams and tries to move, only to realize he can't. The blade is removed as his mate falls to the ground. She moves only enough to see her husband's face.
"Go…ku…" she shudders slightly before dying.
"Oh, Chichi…" the saiyan sobs but no tears are released. The figure jerks his head around ninety degrees. Goku shifts his sight and sees his two sons, side-by-side, in the being's view. No, don't… He looks back at the man, who raises his hands. A bow and arrow appear in his hands.
"Leave them alone!" once again Goku tries to move but finds himself frozen on the spot. Drawing the arrow, it pulls back on the bow.
"Gohan! Goten!" The arrow shoots forward and sears through both the boys' necks. In seconds, they are dead.
"NOO!!" The figure drops the bow, which disappears in thin air, and stalks on. It stops before Krillen. An axe forms in its hands.
"Krillen! Run away!" Goku cries in vain. Raising the blade, the axe is then plunged into the man's head. A heavy flow of red dominates the black hair on his head.
"KRILLEN!!" just like that, his friend since childhood is dead. The man moves again before stopping in front of Vegeta.
"Vegeta…" The man pulls out his bloody knife from before. Goku watches as it extends into a bloody sword.
"Vegeta, move. Run! Run, dammit! Get away!" the saiyan prince stays in his place as the man appears directly before him, "RUUN!!" The sword is plunged Vegeta's stomach.
"No!!" The sword is removed, bloodier than before. The man walks on before stopping in front of…Goku! Everyone is gone now, his or her bloody body lying dead on the ground. It's just the red eyed, shadowed figure and him, standing in his place. A smile appears exposing the thousand fangs in the man's mouth.
"Goodbye, Goku," it hisses and lifts up an axe.
"NOOOOOO…"
"…OOOOOOO!!!"
"GOKU!!!" Cell tries to awaken the struggling saiyan.
"No! Don't! Why are you doing this?!" he continues to wail. Finally, Goku feels a blow dealt to his face as he jumps awake. Cell, Cooler, and Recoome are staring down at him, while those who are able to see into the cage are staring at him. Beads of sweat line his brow as he breathes deeply.
"A dream…" Cell stares at him strangely.
"What?" the android snares.
"It was just a dream…a nightmare…" Goku falls back and buries his face into his arms. He was never one afraid to show his emotions, "but it felt so reeeeaaal." Fear for his family and friends surges throughout his body. Fear, alone, is present. Goku's other cellmates stare.
"Strange…" Cooler mutters. The front door slides open.
"Oh great, more people," Frieza mutters in his Cell. A female is brought in. Her long yellow hair is messed up from a previous battle. Her tail coils around her waist, customary to saiyan ways. Nappa sees her and rushes to cage door. The woman looks up and sees him, tears threatening to break loose.
"Nappa?"
"It's me, Manista…" he says softly. Tears flow from her blue eyes.
"Nappa!" She breaks away from the guards and tries for the doors. In seconds, she is intercepted and is dragged to her group. To his sorrow, two cells separate them and not much can be seen through rock walls. The saiyan sadly steps back and collapses onto the ground.
"Old lover, Nappa?" King Piccolo smirks.
"Old lover? She's my wife!" the namek falls silent. Vegeta stares from his prison in shock..
"You never said you were married!"
"Of course not! I never trusted Frieza that much and I didn't want that bastard to kill her!"
"The bastard is tired of listening to your mindless drivel, so shut it!" the lizard-like alien snaps. Another door is opened as a person is shoved into Vegeta. The two collide into the ground.
"That's much better," Frieza mutters.
"Get off me!" Vegeta snarls. The creature removes himself from the ground. A large feline that walks on two legs would be the quickest way to describe him. Too add, a flock of navy blue hair covers over his entire left eye and ends at his cheek. His fur is a bronze yellow color except for the various brown stripes that cover his body, and his ears and the tip of his bushy tail. His whiskers pick up the slightest movement around him. He wears only black jeans and light gray sash around his waist. He places a clawed hand on the wall to help support his eight-foot tall body up.
"A cat?" Vegeta mutters, "We're just meeting new people aren't we?" The saiyan prince stalks off to a corner of the cell while Gohan approaches the feline.
"Uh, hi, my name is Gohan. Who are you?" The cat looks down at the demi-saiyan.
"Verg," his voice has a slight growl in it.
"Well, nice to meet you." Verg turns his head away and walks over to a corner; he leans against it and closes his eyes, escaping to a silent world.
"Not the polite type, huh?" Dyu retorts. Gohan ignores his comment.
"So they just keep bringing people in," Cell laughs, "it's pointless." Goku finally gets over his small panic attack and rises onto his feet again.
"Not entirely…" he paces a bit, "there is a reason…"
"Oh really, what's that?" Goku looks over at the android.
"Look, there's light," Cell walks over to the spot and peers out the sliver of a window that Goku did last night, "it's an arena. See?"
"But what's the point?" the android is cut off by a loud wailing from Cell Three. The man in the corner, the one Piccolo spoke too, is laying on the floor sobbing continuously.
"Who cares?! Who cares?! Who fucking cares?! They don't! They never care! They just watch us and laugh! It's all a game! It's all just a fucking game!!!" Taysa tries to offer him comfort but the man shoves her away, "Don't get attached to me! You hear me! Don't care! You'll only get hurt if you care!!" With a whine, he curls up in a small ball and whimpers tears. Silence echoes in the room from the others.
"I said it before," Recoome sighs, "this sucks."
Zephyr slices through another bush. I swear, couldn't the guy try to hide in a desert?! Another plant is butchered. Noooo! He just had to head for the woods! The man's blood boils even more since he's the one forced to go after the creature.
"I don't even know if he came through here!" He quickly stops at the body of a dead animal. Reaching down, he places his hand into the partially eaten carcass. The flesh is still warm.
"So he's around here…and near by too. Wouldn't just abandon a meal, of course," Zephyr looks down at the corpse again and excitedly smiles, "at least he left the heart!" He tears the hunk of meat out and bites into it.
"The best part of any meal," he says through a full mouth. A rustle in the bushes catches his attention. He jumps away as a knife plunges into a tree.
"Bastard!" Zephyr quickly runs after the fading figure.
"I wonder if he got those other two," Gohan looks up.
"What's that?" The cat's tail twitches slightly as he thinks.
"When I was captured, I overheard those twins mentioning about two wizards, brothers undoubtedly, and how they needed to go back and get them," Verg opens his eyes to view his surroundings again, "they were after them originally but they saw me and decided to get me then while I was there." The door opens again. "Sounds like they were caught."
"Cell Three," Eagle tells the guard, who then forces the figure along. The cell door opens and the being is shoved in.
"Go to Hell!" the person yells.
"Been there already," Eagle laughs and leaves the room. Gohan looks across the room to see the newcomer.
"That looks like no 'brother'," he says. Her grayish-blue hair is thick and ends at her shoulders. The two gray wolf ears on her head are forward in an attentive pose; her golden eyes narrow in fury. Her lower arms are covered in gray fur except for the underside and her fingers, which are a coyote yellow. Her anthro-like hands grasp at the bars as her claws slowly scrape against the metal. Her paws, or feet, are gray with yellow underside. A wolf/coyote tail swings slowly; it is gray with a gray-blue underside. The rest of her body resembles that of a young woman.
"Hellish little imp!" she snarls. The woman looks over her shoulder to see the rest of the group staring at her. She lets out a small grunt.
"The name's Blayke, if you must know," she looks out towards the door again, "I was caught by the damned fox tail."
"As was most of us," Piccolo says. She looks silently over her should and sees Taysa and Ginyu close to one another. A deep growl rumbles in her throat before she quickly turns her attention away to another member.
"And what the hell are you?" Puipui realizes she's talking to him.
"What do you mean?" She comes close to him.
"What do you mean, 'what do you mean?' Look at you! You look like you had helium pumped into the back of your head!" The alien glares in shock at her.
"Why you little bitch!"
"That's Miss Bitch to you," she smirks. In fury, he charges forward and strikes out at her. She moves out of the way, grabs his arm, and sinks her fanged teeth into it.
"Yeaaah!" he screams out and jerks his arm away from her. She laps the blood on her jaws.
"Looks like shit and tastes like it too," she says. Verg bursts out laughing from the cell across theirs. Grasping at his arm, Puipui glares at the canine mix; she deviously smiles back.
"Welcome to hell," she says and sits down in a corner. The man from before looks away from them and sits in silence. A door opens again.
"Oh good, now what?" Jeice says. Hawk jumps into the room with a smile.
"Good news everyone!" he cheers, "We're almost ready!" With that, he runs out of the room.
"Ready? For what?" Kabito asks aloud.
"Three more 'friends' for you guys!" Hawk smiles. The first figure in catches the androids attention.
"Sixteen!" Seventeen calls out. The large machine is moved into the prison with Burter, Dyu, Gohan, Verg, and Vegeta, also known as Cell Seven.
"Yeah, we rebuilt him. Cool, huh? He's even more willing to fight, now that we've messed with him," Hawk mutters, "bring in the other two!"
"Why would anyone want to entrap so many people?" Shin asks.
"Who really gives a damn?" Babidi mutters.
"I do!"
"Why? It's not anyone you know. Most of your friends are dead." The kai tries to ignore the comment and continues to focus on the newcomers.
"Think of it this way," Radditz says from across the room, "It's probably no one important."
"Damn it! Let me go!" a voice calls out.
"Whoever it is doesn't want to come in," Seventeen laughs. Babidi stares at the cage door from the back of the room. No…it can't be… A guard shoves the struggling creature in. Just like Verg, this time it's a giant dog. A large black jackal to be exact. His appearance, from the pointed snout, to the tipped ears, to the small tail, resembles that of Egyptian culture. The canine struggles constantly, his deep green eyes burning intensely. The guard grabs him to keep him from running while it awaits orders. The canine looks down at the ground in defeat before letting his eyes wander into the cages. A surprised expression forms on his face.
"Is that you, Babidi?" the small wizard doesn't reply. A smile quickly forms on the canine's black muzzle.
"Why it is you!" the dog laughs, "Well, well, well, long time, no see, eh, runt?" Babidi walks up straight to the cage doors.
"Shut the hell up, Anarin!"
"Didn't think I'd find you here. My surprise. Tell me, I'm curious! Did the foxies catch you or," the hellish grin broadens on the jackal's muzzle, "did your father hand you over?"
"You fuck!" Babidi snarls at the laughing canine. Anarin then lets out a yelp after kick in the side.
"Never could quit, could you?" a low voice inquires. Now beside Anarin is another jackal. He's a little taller and has thick bangs growing on his forehead. Fur is also thick on his ears and short tail.
"Leave me alone, Anonavon," Anarin growls.
"Now, little brother, where is the fun in that?" Anonavon is shoved forward to his destined cage. A small shove in the pack signals Anarin to move.
"See you later, runt," the dog snarls. Babidi seethes in his spot as the canine is put into spot.
"Aaww…why didn't you tell us about your little friend?" Seventeen laughs. The wizard doesn't reply. No point in even trying to argue with the android. Why does he have to be here?
"Man…" Recoome looks at the walls, "this sucks."
"SHUT UP!!" everyone shouts.
"So what's left?" The twins look at the figure.
"Well, sir, we have the Dead Sight gang, the tykstan, and finally, Zephyr's promised kilatara," Eagle says proudly. The person chuckles slightly and pushes back part of his thick light orange hair.
"Well, then, this should be interesting. With all these fighters, makes you wonder if our previous champion can still hold his title."
"You mean you think he might lose?" Hawk asks.
"It's a chance," the creature says, his lion tail dangling at his legs, "after all, that Goku definitely has a record." The twins look at each other and then back to the figure. Hawk pulls up a memo pad.
"Note to self, change all bets from Gauge to Goku," he puts the pad away, "man, I could've been losing a fortune!"
"Now, don't you have other things to be doing?"
"Yes sir!" The twins run out of the room. Once the twins are gone from view, the figure stalks over to survey the arena again. It's then that a guard comes in, panic written all over his face.
"Odlaven, sir!"
"What is it?" the man snarls.
"Them! We found some still around? What do we do?"
"Calm down, calm down!" the guard slowly resumes normal breathing, "exactly how many are there?"
"About one or two, I think," the guard says.
"Then don't panic!" Odlaven draws out a knife, "if we don't go after them, they might leave us alone. And with most of their people gone, they might go after them. Understand?" The guard nods.
"Yes sir, I'll tell the others," the guard starts for the door.
"Don't bother. I'll tell them. You just…" Odlaven looks over at the guard, "stay here." He chucks a knife at the guard and it connects with the creature's heart. The being slumps onto the ground as Odlaven walks past the dying helper.
"The last thing I need…" he steps down on the guard and crushes its ribcage, "is panic."
Zephyr looks across the wooded terrain from the top of a large tree. The sun is setting casting a low glow over his figure. In each hand is a sword and his mind swirls with anger. He hates that this hunt has gone on for this long…but no more.
"Tomorrow…" he says, "tomorrow, you are mine…"
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End Chapter 2