DISCLAIMER: I have less than 20 minutes to come up with this… and since it's not a huge chapter I'll lay off with the huge disclaimers and just say that I don't own DBZ and Vegeta and any Saiyajin except the ones I invent myself but then again I can't legally call them Saiyajin because that race is most definitely copyrighted and I can't think up an adequate name for them because every time I visualise them all I think is 'Saiyajin' and nothing else so I'm caught in a catch 22 which sucks and I will stop here because I can't think of anything else to say!
Author Note: OK so I sorta lied… this bit ISNT the flashback it's a little
interlude before I cross the big time bridge to Year 737 (because I can't be
bothered writing five years in temporal order…) So I opted to close the gap faster by jumping five years and
putting some sorta important stuff in the flashbacks. Can't you feel the excitement crackle? Especially because certain chapters are looming. Yes folks, I estimate about three more
chapters will close the huge space between here and the other nine or so
chapters I have already written (with an open bit so I can continue as
planned…). And yes I do flex my citrus muscles… I will update tomorrow
because this chapter is so short and I have nearly completed the next one so
why wait huh?? ^_^ Oh yeah.. an if you don't remember….
~ Is my character… ~
:: Is me!! ::
"Is normal speech dialogue"
Is my characters narration etc….. oh and a new one.
THIS IS A SUN TALKING…… really.
Whatever next.
Voices (In One's Head) by `InSaNe`/Schizophrenic Eggplant
Part 3: Chapter 13 - Dawn of Darkness.
A WEEK LATER, THE DAWN OF PRINCE VEGETA'S RECOGNITION CEREMONY: Year - 732.
My vision swirls with vivid dreams of roaring fire and chunks of ice, feeling their blistering heat and numbing cold. I must have over-thought that little poem, as war rages between the two elements in their extreme temperatures. I'm caught in the middle, able to gauge when either two elemental combatants weaken or gain the upper hand. By all rights the proud fire that burns brightly and rages almost ceaselessly should be melting the unrelenting ice in its fury, but the ice is colder than what it lets on, and barely liquefies as a huge mass of it tumbles down in chunks the size of small planets. The falling pieces avoid me as I stand amidst the flames, now smouldering with a sixteenth of their former brightness, and they slowly fizzle out leaving only a few small ones flickering. I shiver in this overbalance of extensive cold, and I feel completely empty. I hear a 'whoosh', look up, see white, feel a chill slicing into the centre of my being, then a dull thud, then red, and lastly vertigo-inducing darkness.
I suddenly snap awake and shake my head to shoo the darkness away. I blink a few times to rid my vision of its murkiness. After a few minutes, my mind feels clear. Too clear, empty even, which isn't exactly a bad sign. One of the suns pokes its golden-red head over the horizon, colouring the skies with a purple and pink tinge, staining the occasional puff of cloud blood red, and I greet it like an old friend.
"First Bringer of Light to Vegetasei, how do you fare?" I receive a dull glow in reply.
"It is only the beginning of your journey! Why so tired?" The sun speaks to me through its hazy radiance.
MY TIME BRINGING LIGHT AND LIFE TO THIS PLANET IS NUMBERED. I CAN FEEL IT WITHIN MY CORE, SOMETHING IS NOT RIGHT. NOT RIGHT AT ALL.
I sigh.. It's going to be one of those days where the vibes are all wrong. If the sun is depressed, it would most definitely reflect rays that will affect those that walk under it. A great day for a ceremony, I don't think.
"First Sun of Vegetasei, do you know what it is? Are you going to die..?"
I DO NOT KNOW. I DO NOT WISH TO THINK ON IT ANY MORE, NOW LEAVE ME TO MY SOLITUDE.
I guess sun's don't make very good conversationalists. They prefer the distance, and burn those who try to get too close.
:: You were talking to a SUN?!?!? ::~ Newsflash: I created it at some time or another, but sun's tend to think they are forged from nothing but gaseous compounds. Who do they think ignites it? And why am I having this conversation with you? Don't sneak up like that again! ~
:: So what did Mr. Happy Sunshine have to say? ::~ It's not happy at all… ~
Reluctantly I relay to her the brief exchange of communication between myself and Vegetasei's largest life-giving star. On an issue like this, I know her inquisitive and persistent nature will get the better of her, and right now I'm not in the mood for argument.
:: Interesting, Very interesting. Wow, I had no idea suns get queasy feelings too when they know something's amiss. ::
~ What exactly IS amiss?? ~
:: She has a right to know. But I cannot tell her. Part of me wants to blurt it out, I was never good at keeping secrets, but I can, in my own way, foresee the outcome: that she will try to avoid it happening, which probably will not work, but just in case it does, the big picture would be altered too early. I've weighed up the pro's and con's within my mind, and my insight tells me to remain silent, so silent I shall be… But on the other hand, it feels that in a way I have almost won her trust, I've assisted her when she has requested it, I haven't let her down. Deep, deep down, I Know it will not be the same again between us for a long, LONG time after it happens. Five years. It seems a while, but in this universe time travels at a different, more swifter pace, although when I'm here and can see through her eyes, it feels normal. The only thing I can do is leave subtle hints, and hope she can cotton on to them. The next hint isn't for a long time yet, and it's a fairly obvious one, probably not my doing either… if only there's a way to avoid the one known as— ::
BOOOOONG! Some sort of gong resounds throughout the still morning, which doesn't turn out to be that still after all, as the sky begins to teem with life, as does the ground below me.
:: Shit!! Is it that time already? Arrgh!!! Why didn't you let me know? I haven't finished my clairvoyant poem… ::
~ Is that all you're worried about? You have another four hours anyway. ~
:: Phew!! OK I'll go work on it.
:: And with that, I am left alone for
the meantime. Grinning in anticipation
of the next ten hours or so, I disengage myself from my lofty perch and make
myself ready for the ceremony.
Next Chapter: It's quite a long chapter this time. Interaction between Vegeta and my character. And someone may get a name… the suspense is building… can't you feel it? :p