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Dragon Ball ; The Missing Chapters

Cell Jr. Saga

Chapter II- The Sole Survivor
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It was a wonderful evening. The stars hung in the sky, shining and sparkling in perfect harmony with the moon. They had just gotten out of the theater no more than two minutes ago, the couple now strolled down the street together in eachother's arms.

She was resting her head against her male freind's body as they walked listlessly down the sidewalk, when they passed by the dark alleyway.

"Huh? Did you hear that?" the boy asked his freind, stopping. "Hear what?" she asked, her ears trying to pick up what her boyfrenid's had. Then she heard it too, she heard the faint hissing sound of a strained voice, originating from the bleak depths of the alley. The boy slowly edged his way closer to the alley, his female companion backed off and leaned uneasily against a nearby lampost. "Help...me..." the voice hissed again. The girl nervously bit her lip as her freind slowly crouched down to the alley floor, peering into the darkness, trying to see the origin of the pained voice.

Before the boy could make another move, a long, dark blue object sped out from the darkness, a needle-like appendage on it's tip plunged itself deep into the boy's body. The girl clutched the lampost harder now in fear, too terrified to make a sound. The boy desperatley tried to wrench the object out of his torso, his breaths gurgling in his internal bleeding which the needle-like object caused. Then, the boy's skin began to sink, as if all the flesh in his body was being drained from him. The tube-like object widened and thinned in rythmned beats, like it was eating the boy alive. The needle finally withdrew itself from the boy, leaving the boy's body to fall lifelessly to the ground, nothing left but skin and bones.

Before the terrified girl could utter a sound, a large black figure shot out from the darkness, darted behind her, and a large, pale-blue hand clasped itself over her mouth. "Scream and I'll absorb you through your eye." the figure threatened, the same blood-drenched needle was hovering over her left eye. The girl looked at the needle and traced it's origin, to which she found it was actually the tail of a large creature, the same creature that was holding her. The girl slowly nodded, and the creature relaxed his grip over her mouth. When she saw the face of the creature, her face went white with shock.

"C-C-C-Cell?"

The creature's lip curled into a mean grin. "B-b-b-but..Mr. Satan...he killed you...he killed you.." the girl stammered. The creature only shook it's head. "No, I'm not Cell. But you're pretty close." The monster hissed in a deep voice.

True, the creature looked like the DNA-experiment monster Cell, the one who had held the sinister "Cell Games" that killed the legendary martial artist Son Gokou. But instead of where Cell should have green skin, this creature's skin was a dark blue. "You see, I am one of the seven of Cell's offspring." the creature said, a dominant insidious tone lying in his voice.

Instantly, the girl's memory jarred. She remembered watching the horiffic "Cell Games" on the television, with Cell producing seven blue creatures like himself, except they were in the form of children. "But...you were killed..." the girl squeaked "by...by..that Gohan...that Gohan kid..."

At the sound of the name Gohan, the creature's grip on her tightened feircely. "Yes," the creature snarled "Gohan did kill my six siblings." The girl looked at him with wide, petrified eyes. "However, like Cell, I too have an organ inside my brain that allows me to regenerate lost limbs. Hell, I can even regenerate my whole body, just as long as that organ survives." the creature hissed into the girl's ear. "When Gohan mercilessly killed my siblings, he failed to notice that my special organ was still intact, even when he was fighting Cell." the creature continued. "I generated myself an eye and a few feet from my organ, and scurried away from the battlefeild. After a few years of hiding, I regained enough strength to regenerate my whole body, including my tail." the creature chuckled in a sinister tone.

"Well," the creature said, gripping the girl even harder, "Any last requests before I make you a part of me?" The girl, still gagged by the creature's hand, managed a weak nod. The monster released the girl again, and let her speak. "Just tell me...what are you going to do?" she asked feebly.

The monster smirked. "What am I going to do?" he asked himself the girl's question. "I'll tell you what I'm going to do."

"In order for Cell to become 'perfect,'" the creature said, "he had to absorb two androids. Ever since Cell's defeat at the hands of Son Gohan, I've longed for revenge against him. But I realize that my power, great as it is, is no match against his. Then I began to wonder if I too could become 'perfect'."

"So.. so what are you going to do then?" the girl asked weakly.

"I know of seven magic spheres called 'Dragon Balls', that spawn a mighty dragon God that can grant any wish, that is, if you can find all seven." The monster continued. "Using them, I'll ask the dragon God if I too can become perfect."

"B..but that could take years!" the girl squeaked through the monster's hand. "I know. That's why I'll travel to New Namek, and use the larger, better Dragon Balls there." the creature smirked. "The larger they are, the easier they'll be to find."

"You're really one of Cell's children. Only the offspring of Cell can be as sinister as you." the girl sneered. The creature only gave a half-hearted laugh. "Yes, I know. That's why I call myself 'Cell Junior.'" the monster said, letting his tail slide down her body, its needle-like tip poking at her back. "Relax now," Cell said, "and maybe this won't hurt as much as it should."

The girl's body jolted when the tail plunged itself into her body.

-End...for now...

Next Chapter: The Brutal Duel on a Lonely Planet
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The Asylum's note:

Heh, this keeps gettin' better and better, don't it?

-The Asylum(SSJCanadian)
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