~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Dreams Of Innocence
Ch.9: Undercover Angels
Gohan's mouth dropped agape as Bulma told him of herself, looking ashamed to reveal her true identity. The blue angel was confident that the little demon wouldn't go tell on his new friend. Hopefully. An internal cringe went through her mind as she thought of the Devil catching her, all because of a little runt Bulma thought she could trust. However, Gohan was taking this all in silently in contemplation of himself. His onyx orbs were absorbing every detail of her mouth, better to understand what she was saying. He nodded now and then to the shaken Archangel, but the young demon stayed silent. As Bulma finished her retelling of the past couple of hours, Gohan stood up, pacing the floor with his wings folded against his back tightly.
"I'm really sorry for not telling you when I met you Gohan, I was truly afraid of what might happen, I didn't really trust you at the time," Her voice was a bit peevish for saying that to him, albeit the truth.
"I completely understand Bulma, but what I don't know is…how are we going to get the angels out of the interrogation hall?" Bulma was shocked to hear that come out of his mouth. Gohan sighed and smiled sheepishly: It was almost as if he was an angel inside a demon's body.
"I always believed it was wrong to kill angels, I think they're truly beautiful and innocent, beings consumed in light, and now I know that's the truth of it all. I just can't understand why Vejita would want to make them soulless beings that could give nothing to anyone…" Gohan explained.
"Perhaps he just doesn't care?"
"Possibly, Vejita doesn't really care about anyone or anything but himself and his pride," Bulma smiled at that thought, an arrogant King with thousands of demons waiting on him, and yelling at them to kill God, but truly none were able to do so.
"What do you propose we do?" Bulma asked the raven-haired demon.
"I think I should try and contact Ranger while you stay here and rejuvenate your transforming powers, hide behind something if someone comes in, although I don't think you'll have any problems, no one comes in here unless they really need to," Bulma wondered about that last statement Gohan made, but passed it off as some unused storage room.
"Alright, and if you can, delay the interrogation as much as possible," Gohan nodded back to her, giving her a comedic salute then flying off, shooting through a dark doorway and leaving the blue Archangel behind.
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Vejita was waiting impatiently in the throne room, whereas Bulma and Gohan had left only half an hour before. The hall had to be clean and sterilized before letting the Angels into it, if they smelled the stench of death, or even a trace of blood, they would immediately begin to fall into depression and die before he could even get a chance to talk to them. It was a tediously long task, but worth the while when you need considerably important info. Such as needing to know where an undercover angel lay hidden. Vejita thought solitarily for a few minutes after telling Yamcha to go and get a report from the clean-up crew about the hall.
Yamcha let himself into the room, looking distracted somehow, Vejita easily noticed. The stupid baka looked as drunk as a haggard-looking demon. But it wasn't from going to the nearby private pub located in the palace, it was from something that had been amazingly stunning, or maybe someone…
"What has so tempted your senses, Yamcha?" This brought the idiot back to hell, if only a little.
"I saw this woman, and she…she is truly beautiful, a demon of erotic differences. Seemingly a royalty, but I can't place her into any category, I met her while coming back to report to you,"
"And what do you have to report?" Vejita didn't seem the least interested in a woman that Yamcha had his eye on, though the baka-yaro did have pretty good taste.
"Only that the crew is going to be right on schedule for the clean up process, and the angels are going to be there within the hour,"
"Perfect," A sexy smirk came from Vejita's face, and he chuckled at the idiot who was still drooling over this 'enchantress'.
Although, the Demon King was rather bewildered to know that a demoness that Yamcha described would attract his attention this far away from his duties, being the devilish womanizer he was. Vejita dismissed the thoughts in his head, and turned away from the baka, starting towards his way to the hall, to check on the procedures there himself.
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Gohan slipped into the hall unnoticed, but was easily seen, and the clean-up crew was shooing him away. Gohan faked a fall that knocked over a large pile of buckets that held blood and guts, decaying over the last few months. The crew began to curse him and he apologized profusely, although he wasn't the least bit sorry for it. That would probably give them an extra 30 min. to set the angels free from the prison. Finding his father, Bardock, Gohan gave him a sneaky smile, and a nod. The father gave him a nod of acknowledgement back.
"Dad, You know where I can find Ranger? My friend's been looking for him late,"
"He's prepping the angels to go into the hall,"
"Do you know when he'll be out?" Gohan seemed a little too concealing about what he was doing.
"In about 15 minutes, why do you ask?"
"No reason dad, but my friend needs to talk to him about 'problems'," the boy stated to his father, winking. Gohan didn't even know what his meaning to the winking was, only that it entitled what his friend wanted to talk about was important enough to keep quiet.
"Oh, All right," The father nodded and turned away, walking out of the corridor and into a nearby chamber, supposedly awaiting orders from Vejita.
Gohan snuck back into the hall, knocking over a pail before anyone could catch him, snickering to himself. The clean-up crew was not having a good day. Making his way to the preparation room, he knocked into a solid wall of muscle. Looking up he gazed into identical black eyes that were icily freezing. The young demon got onto one knee, bowing his head. "Excuse me, my liege," The King nodded, and continued to walk down the hall, as if the engagement hadn't happened.
Gohan then sprinted towards the room Ranger was located in, and turned into the spot to notice a familiar demon looking rather pissed, and the young demon might have known why. As he quietly entered the room, Ranger's gaze upon him was immediately threatening. The brown-eyed demon walked to him expertly, not taking notice of the pained angels on the walls. The 'prep' room was to see if they could get any answers from the angels using devices that weakened their minds, shutting off the telepathic minds to each other. This wasn't done often though, because the procedure was long and was very stressful, not to mention horrid.
"Gohan, did you make a mess in the interrogation hall?"
"Why do you ask?"
"Because Vejita is going to chew my ass out if we don't do this in time!" The statement made Gohan discreetly mad that the 'supposed' angel/demon was so vindictive towards his race.
"Could we talk about this somewhere more private perhaps?"
"Of course, as long as you have an excellent explanation for all of this, Gohan," The brown eyes were no longer harsh, but still deep and penetrating, much like Vejita's-without the iciness.
"Oh, I think this is a good explanation as any, let me lead you to a room, so that I might better explain myself,"
The two 'demons' made their way out of the room and into the hallway, walking towards a pre-decided destination. Neither of them quite like their own, but never-the-less, still trustworthy of each other.
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I hoped you liked it!!!! This was longer than most, a lot was happening, we really need to get up and running with these chapters! I want Bulma and Vejita to meet!
Will Ranger trust Bulma to be who she is? Or will he take her to Vejita in return for safe passage back to heaven?? dun dun dun…
~Forever Dawning