T childConsciousness of the Heart Chapter Six

A New Sayain *************************************************************

"Dad, if Pepper isn't wearing the tracker, how will we find her?" Gohan asked suddenly.

"If Radditz takes over, his Ki signature will show, and we can track him down that way.

"But if it doesn't show?" Gohan asked.

"Then we report back to Yemma and tell him that Radditz is on the loosed without a body." Goku assured.

"How do you know Radditz's signature will be the same?" Gohan asked.

Goku looked at him blankly and grinned.

Gohan sighed, he was just going to have to run on hope, his father was running short on answers. *************************************************************

Pepper walked down the sidewalk slowly, she had a lot on her mind, like say, a certain ghost!

"I'm loosing it." Pepper muttered.

'Stop talking out loud, people will really think you're insane." Radditz warned, the last thing he needed was for her to draw attention, if anyone caught him, it would be the end.

Pepper cringed as she felt a wave of disgust and what resembled fear cross through her.

'Find a new hiding place!' Radditz ordered.

"You know, you'd make a great king." Pepper muttered.

Radditz never answered but Pepper finally understood how alone it felt to be dead. She had struck a cord in Radditz and it wouldn't be the first. *************************************************************

"I don't know officer." Pepper's mother said for the second time.

"Do you have any idea where your daughter might be headed?" The officer asked.

"I don't know." She said again.

"Miss. Do you know anything about your daughter, anything at all?" The female officer asked with a hint of sarcasm.

"She has no where to go, we don't have any living relatives." Pepper's mom said nastily glaring at the officer.

"I hope we find her, and for her sake, I hope you never do." The woman snapped and stood up.

"Did you have to talk like that?" The male officer asked when they were climbing into the cruiser.

"That woman is a bitch and never deserved to have a daughter." The woman snapped and slammed the folder closed. She hated parents like that, it reminded her of her own mother.

"Drop me off at the bus station, I want to check it out." The woman said. *************************************************************

"I am Officer Sano, I'm looking for a missing girl, have you seen her?" The young woman asked holding up a picture of a young girl.

"Yeah, sure did hon, she bought a ticket to Lemon Park." The woman behind the ticket counter said with a warm smile.

"May I please have a ticket for Lemon Park?' Officer Sano asked smiling.

"Sure thing hon." The woman said ringing up the ticket.

"Thank-you." Sano said and waved.

"Have a good trip hon." The woman called after her.

Sano grinned and pulled out a silver cellular phone.

Dialing in the number she shouted in joy, "I've got a lead!"

"Ears!" Came the solitary reply on the other end of the phone.

"Sorry!" Sano apologized sheepishly.

"I am assigned to another case, the two murders we were talking about." Officer Itsuki said dully.

"Yeah, where was that again?" Sano asked.

"In a town called Lemon Park." Itsuki said.

"Oh." Was all Sano could say.

"Be careful Sakura." The man said over the phone.

"Hey, since when have we been on a first name basis?" Sano asked.

"Since you started saying 'oh'" Itsuki replied.

"Oh." Sano said out of sarcasm and hung up before he could say anything else.

"Lemon Park." Sano said slowly, sitting down in the bench thinking deeply. *************************************************************

"What happened to my body?" Pepper shouted alarmed.

'In order for you and I to work together, you have my Sayain blood, and strength.' Radditz said.

"You mutanized me." Pepper yelled.

'Shut-up you idiot!' Radditz yelled.

'I couldn't stand your weakness any longer so I decided to give you some of my finer traits.' Radditz yelled.

Pepper faintly felt her lips twitch into a small smirk.

She never smirked.

"I'm going crazy, and I'm changing into an alien." Pepper said.

'You were crazy, and you are the alien.' Radditz pointed out.

"I don't like this anymore, it has gone on long enough." Pepper stated exasperated.

"I want to be sane again." She groaned.

But she would never get her body back without a fight, her blood was already morphing and new desires were kicking in.

Radditz had no intent of sharing, she would just be pushed into a deep oblivion. *************************************************************

"I felt something." Goku said and took off.

The new Ki was different, not the same as the old Radditz, it was mixed with something else.

"Dad, we can't fly anymore." Gohan yelled alarmed.

"What?" Goku asked.

"There are people outside." Gohan argued.

"I guess I could instant transmission over." Goku said.

"Just be sure there isn't anybody around to see us appear out of thin air." Gohan warned. *************************************************************

Pepper felt strong arms grab her and shove her aside. She was no longer in her world, she was somewhere else, viewing from a backroom in her mind. *************************************************************

The girl once known as Pepper, is now 5' 6", with long spiky black hair all most reaching her knees, her dark brown eyes have grown smaller and blacker, settling into a deep coal, her arms and legs have begun to tone up, and her stomach is as hard as a rock.

But there is no Pepper anymore, this time it's different.

He is Radditz, the last sayain left that still dreams of his home, the first to escape hell, and the only sayain that will finally defeat Kakorot.

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