The Little Mermaid
By: Freewater
Disclaimers: I do not own DBZ or The Little Mermaid despite how cool that would be. Please don't sue you will only receive two cats that are VERY annoying and pee everywhere!
Warnings: None that I can think of, aside from the fact that Bulma will not be found in this fic. Swearing.
Pairings: Gh-Tr (It can be Mirai Gohan and Mirai Trunks if you want since this is just a fairy tail fic and there are no real specifics on the characters aside from Trunks' long hair. Just use your imagination! ^_^)
Rating: pg-13
Archive: Sure, anything's good! No permission required just make sure ya tall me first.^_^
Feedback: Definitely! Please, yes!! I want to know if I did a good job or not writing this!
Notes: A bunch of these little stars **** Means a change in time or scenery. ''These things here indicate thoughts. Bra is a little older than what she should normally be. She is nine and Trunks is sixteen. Gohan is eighteen and Goten is also nine.
Mermaid: Trunks
Prince: Gohan
King of the sea: Vegeta (duh)
Sea Witch: Cell (Their both creepy and weird looking)
Two Eels: Cell juniors
Sebastian: Krillin
Flounder: Flounder will just be the Turtle that hangs out with Master Roshi since he is cowardly. I would have made him Goten, but he's Gohans little brother and therefore will remain on land. I know that turtles need air to breath but lets just pretend that this one doesn't.
Most Trusted Advisor to Gohan: Yamcha
Seagull: Master Roshi (their both nuts! Nuff said.)
Dog: Icarus (I know that Icarus is supposed to be a dragon, but I'm keeping him a dog)
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Continually swimming deeper and deeper into the ongoing darkness of the ocean and farther away from the light, Trunks felt his heart break just a little more every time the octopus would stretch out his tentacles and recoil them to push them further down. Down and far away from Gohan. Where he could never reach him.
He just wouldn't stop. He had his prize and he wasn't letting go for anything. Cell's grip on Trunks' arm was starting to cut off the circulation as they sped down into the depths of the ocean. And no matter how much he struggled or pleaded, he just wouldn't stop.
"It isn't fair! You cheated!!" He accused while still trying to get Cell to take his hands off of him as he was dragged away from the yacht. "If it weren't for you then he would have kissed me a long time ago!!"
"In case you've forgotten, boy," He spat. "We never discussed the rules that *I* had to go by in our deal!" He said in annoyance before suddenly smirking as he slowed down in order to get a good look at the teen behind him.
"You really should read things before you sign them." He said before pulling him close, wrapping an arm and a black tentacle around his waist to ensure that he couldn't move. "Because now you're mine." He whispered seductively.
Trunks' breath suddenly hitched in fear, and he became *very* aware of how Cell was holding onto him. "Let go of me!!" He cried out while trying to struggle away, but his grip on his wrist and waist only tightened.
"Stop trying to escape you little brat!" He shouted in anger while starting to drag him away again. "You'll only make this harder on yourself--"
"CELL STOP!!" Vegeta yelled at the top of his lungs as he appeared from seemingly nowhere, pointing his Trident directly at Cells' face threateningly while Krillin gave the octopus an icy stare from where he sat on his shoulder. Turtle had also come, but was hiding behind some coral, waiting to see if there was anything he could do to help.
Trunks looked at the face of his father in a mixture of relief and fear. Fear that he'd been caught and relief that he was actually seeing his father again. He didn't even get a chance to call out to him though as Cell's two eels quickly came out from nowhere and grabbed him by his arms before swimming off with him.
"Father!" He cried out.
"Be silent, Boy." Cell barked, before returning his gaze to the very pissed off looking King Vegeta, and smiling. "And how are you this evening?" He asked politely, as if he wasn't about to cart the merman's only son off and use him for blackmail and *other* purposes.
"Let. Him. Go." Vegeta demanded coldly, pointing the blade of his trident at Cell's face with the ugliest sneer he could manage
"Forget it, Vegeta, he's mine now!" The octopus spat while pulling out the glowing contract for him to see. "We made a deal. He belongs to me now." He said, as Vegeta looked at it and read Trunks' name with a shocked face.
"Father, I'm sorry! I didn't mean for this to happen! I didn't know it would go this far!" Trunks called out before one of the eels reached out and held his mouth shut. He was trying to at least apologise to his father while he had the chance to, at least that way he wouldn't hate him for being so stupid as to even sign the thing.
Vegeta wasn't listening though. He was *not* going to let this freak take his son away! He quickly raised his trident and powered it up all the way before blasting the paper he was holding with all the power he could summon.
Cell actually put it out in front of him to act as a shield as the blast hit, pushing him backwards until he hit the rocks, laughing menacingly at the shocked look on Vegeta's face. How could it have not worked? His trident should've destroyed that thing without a problem!
"You see? This contract is completely legal! Nothing can break it! Even you!" Cell laughed, swimming on up to where he was still floating. "Of course I could always make a deal with you." He whispered threateningly before quickly swimming back over to where his eels still held Trunks.
"I bet you would give anything to have me set your son free." He said, running a finger under Trunks' chin affectionately. He turned his head away in disgust, so he didn't see the mixture of shock and fear that was on his father's face, knowing what Cell meant.
He chuckled, flicking his wrist as the two Cell jr. eels let go of their prisoner as he (with a startled cry) was pulled down to the ocean floor before his tail connected with the dirt. A small whirlwind quickly surrounded his body, and when he tried to call out for help, no sound came. He was mute again.
"Toranksu!" Vegeta tried to swim over to get him out, knowing that he was being changed into one of the dreaded seaweed creatures that the octopus kept in his den, but Cell was able cut him off in a flash.
"Let's make a deal." He sneered, venom dripping from his voice with what he had in mind.
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"Gohan, what are you doing!?!?" Yamcha called out, as he watched his prince from the yacht row out to sea in a lifeboat.
"Yamcha, I lost him once and I'm not going to lose him again!!" Gohan called back, still rowing while not looking at him. He would drop dead before losing his love to that freak after finally getting him back! He quickly double checked to make sure the spear gun he had was still loaded. That thing was going to pay for what it was doing to Trunks and for what it did to him and Goten *that* was for certain!
Suddenly he stopped rowing as the water around him changed into a sort of bright and golden colour. 'Maybe they're down there.'
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"Well? Do we have a deal or not?" Cell demanded, becoming impatient with Vegeta's hesitation with signing the glowing contract.
'It's either sign the damn thing, and get Toranksu changed back in exchange for my kingdom, or he stays this way for the rest of his life.' He thought, knowing the answer he would give even if he didn't run the conditions through his head. 'It's my fault he ran to this bastard anyway. I hope this will be apology enough for you, boy.' He silently raised his trident, and without regret, signed his own name in the place of his son's.
"It's done!" Cell laughed out, watching as the whirlwind that held Trunks disappeared as he was freed from the spell and changed back into his normal size. Trunks then looked over just in time to see the small whirlwind that held him shoot off to where his father still floated before wrapping around him, connecting him to the ocean floor, and changing him into a seaweed creature a lot faster than it was doing for him.
"Father, no!" He cried out while trying to swim over and help as fast as he could. Krillin could only watch complete shock, unable to believe that this was happening. Cell was really going win.
Just as Trunks made it over to his father's side, he was so small that his trident fell to the floor and his crown surrounded his whole body. He was too late, Vegeta had changed.
"F-father?" He asked as he looked down at him and the tiny creature that was his father looked back up at him. "Majesty?" Turtle also asked, coming out of his hiding spot to see the strange form his king was in.
Cell slowly glided over, practically hypnotised at the sight of the trident and golden crown, just begging to be taken. "It's all mine." He hissed, reaching a hand down to pick up the items.
"You bastard. Stay away!" Trunks cried out in a rage as he quickly tried to put him in a headlock. He couldn't let him steal his father's things! He had to try and fix this! But Cell was still too strong for him, and all he had to do was reach out one of his tentacles to pry him off and hold him down, using two more to take the crown and trident before taking them into his hands and pointing the blade end at the lavender haired prince.
"Don't fuck around with me, you stupid brat!" He roared at the sneering teen. "I will not hesitate to kill you if you try something like that–ahhh!" He cried out in pain as a spear grazed his arm and just missed hitting Trunks.
He looked up to see what had done that just to see Gohan in the water with a gun in his hand! He was trying to save him!
'God dammit I missed!' He silently cursed himself as he squinted at the forms below that were blurry to him due to the water. At least he could make out that Trunks was alright.
Vegeta quickly turned his slimy neck up to the human floating around in the water. He recognised him immediately from the statue he destroyed in Toranksu's old cave, and was shocked to see that he was actually *helping* them! A human in love with a mermaid? Will wonders never cease?
"Gohan get out of here!" Trunks called out in a panic as Cell quickly sent his eels off to get him, pissed off at being attacked by the bastard.
Quickly seeing the two blurry black eels headed his way and realising how much he needed a breath of air, Gohan swam to the surface as fast as he could. There were more spears up there and at this point he could use them!
Just as he broke to the surface and grabbed onto his boat, the two Cell jr. eels had grabbed onto his legs and pulled him under. He didn't even get a chance to take in a proper breath much less grab at a spear! He kicked and struggled against them, but no matter what he did they wouldn't drop him. And he was losing oxygen fast!
Krillen and Turtle immediately swam up to help him, knowing that he was the only chance they had of stopping Cell. "Hold on we're coming!" Turtle cried out before chomping onto one of the eels as hard as he could, almost braking its skin and listening with satisfaction as it screamed in pain before quickly letting go to inspect his wounded tail.
Krillin quickly pinched at the other eel's face on every spot he could get access to, almost cutting out one of its eyes in the process. It also cried out in pain before giving up and dropping the human, deciding that he wasn't worth it and letting Gohan go to swim back to the surface.
Cell wasn't about to give him up yet though as he powered up his new trident with a sadistic look on his face. "Say goodbye to your lover boy." He said to Trunks as he pointed it and prepared to shoot.
The lavender haired teen immediately paled in pure horror. "No!" He cried out before swimming over and punching him square in the face, knocking off his aim and blasting his eels instead, destroying them. They didn't even see what hit them.
"My babies!" He cried out in the shock that he'd hit them. Trunks used the distraction to swim to the surface where Gohan was.
"My poor little babies." He said sadly as he gently picked up and cradled their ashes before quickly turning his enraged eyes back to the escaping young prince. All he saw was a blood red as he stared in the boy's direction. That little fucker had killed his babies! He *was* going to suffer for that!
His breathing increased heavily as he inwardly chanted a spell, causing black smoke to erupt out from under him and his size to increase. Turtle and Krillin could only watch as he grew, shaking in complete fear. They were all gonna die.
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When Gohan broke the surface of the water into the dark night, the first thing he did was greedily take in a rather *large* gulp of air, before coughing and sputtering up the water that had made its way into his mouth and nose. He then looked around for his spear gun, but it, as well as the lifeboat and yacht were out of sight, and he became afraid as to where they went. He was all alone in the middle of the ocean.
That is until an angelic voice called out to him. "Gohan!"
He quickly whipped his head around to face the source of the beautiful sound, and could've cried at the sight of his love swimming over to where he floated.
Trunks also looked as if he was about to shed tears as he got closer to his prince before being taken into his strong arms for a most scorching and long awaited kiss. Gohan could feel Trunks' tail at his legs beneath the water as he practically crushed his mouth with his own, but that did nothing to the passion he felt. He didn't care if Trunks wasn't human. He didn't care that he had a tail. He only cared that he was holding him right now.
"Gohan you have to get away from here!" Trunks said, his voice full of worry when the kiss was broken off.
"No! I'm not leaving you alone!" He cried back determinedly, but before another word could be uttered, a strange glow surrounded them in the water, and the whole earth shook.
"What the--?" Was all Gohan could utter before they were separated by a huge golden spike and quickly raised out of the water by a giant sized laughing Cell! His eyes were turned up as he looked at where they both sat on his head, sadistic and cruel intentions in mind for the both of them.
"Jump, Trunks!" Gohan shouted, reaching over and taking his hand before they both dove back into the dark ocean water, coming back up and holding each other close with the fear they felt coursing through them at the sight.
Obviously, he was enormous! And he practically glowed in the dark night with the evil and hatred that was being radiated off of him.
"YOU STUPID, PITIFUL, FOOLS!!" He boomed, raising a black tentacle before moving to crash it down on their heads. Trunks managed to push Gohan out of the way before diving away just as the tentacle hit the water with a force that surely would have killed them both.
Cell however, didn't seem to notice that they escaped as he quickly conjured up a storm a deadly looking storm with Vegeta's trident. "NOW I'M IN CONTROL OF ALL THE OCEAN!! THE WAVES ARE AT MY COMMAND!!" He cried out, getting a natural high off of the power he now held in the palm of his hands, creating several whirlpools and not knowing that he was also stirring up all of the old sunken ships with his magic.
The waves became stronger and harder with Cell's power, and soon Gohan found the he could no longer see Trunks in the almost pitch black area. "Trunks!!" He shouted over the roaring sound of the storm, hoping to at least hear his voice.
The lavender haired and tailed mermaid, did hear him though. To prevent himself from being thrown away into the ocean he latched himself onto a boulder that was sticking out of the water. "Gohan, over here!!" He cried out, waving his hands to try and get his attention, but instead a wave that must've been fifty feet high formed over the human's head and crashed on him with enough force to send him almost to the bottom of the sea and where all the ships were rising.
"Gohan!! No!!" Trunks cried out in pure horror. Unfortunately that caught Cell's attention, and just as he was about to dive in to save him, the octopus raised his trident and blasted the boulder he was sitting on, sending him flying into a giant whirlpool. It was so powerful that the ocean floor was dry, and Trunks was knocked unconscious when he hit the hard ground with a thud.
Cell simply laughed at the limp sight of him as he went back to his storm. He'd deal with the little brat later.
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Gohan's lungs burned for air as he tried without too much luck to swim for the surface, but the underwater current as well as the movement of the previously sunken ships kept him below.
Eventually a rising ship passed directly over his upturned face, and he let out an entire mouthful of air in his shock, but then felt several ropes grazing softly against his face and immediately made a grab for them. He was *not* going to die today!
Finally his hands decided to cooperate and tightly grab onto one of the last few ropes dangling from the ship. He must've been closer to the surface than he thought, because it was only five seconds after he started climbing that his face came above the water and he was finally able to take in some much needed air with a gasp.
Breathing as though he'd just ran a mile, Gohan continued his climb of the old wooden ship, half amazed that it was even able to float. Looking off into the distance, he let out a shocked gasp as the giant form of Cell caught his eyes. 'He's not even that far off!' He thought to himself in amazement as the creature continued to play around with the weather while laughing mercilessly. But then a scary thought occurred to him, and it sent his heart into his throat. 'Where the hell is Trunks?!?'
The question only caused him to climb faster, he needed to find his love before that thing did. Finally making it over the rail and falling onto his side in his exhaustion, Gohan quickly got back to his feet before forcing his burning legs to run to the front of the ship. The wind was strong enough for him to steer it around without the sails up.
Finally making it to the frantically spinning and almost broken wooden steering wheel, he quickly grabbed the handles and had to use almost all of his strength just to hold it steady. Suddenly, while looking ahead into the raging storm, the front beam of the ship caught his eye. It was splintered off at the end, making it razor sharp while still long enough to be used as a weapon.
Looking ahead to make sure that Cell's back was turned, he couldn't help but smirk with his luck. 'I'm not going to let that thing take him away from me.' He thought determinedly as he prepared to steer the front of the ship into Cell's back.
But then he jerked his head downward and started to laugh even harder than before, pointing the trident he held into the water with a murderous look in his eyes. "What the hell is he doing?" He asked himself, praying to God that he was looking at Trunks like that.
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Trunks groaned and slowly opened his heavy eyes before shivering and looking around his cold surroundings. He was on cold hard sand, surrounded but the spinning water of Cell's whirlpool, and if that wasn't enough to scare him then when he looked up just to see the giant glowing octopus monster, looking down at him with his eyes completely transfixed and almost bloodshot with an eery smile on his face and his father's trident pointed right at him, was.
"Oh no!" He cried out fearfully while quickly dragging himself to the water wall.
When he reached his hand into the spinning water though, he couldn't help but recoil it with a cry of pain. The water was moving far too fast for him to even try and get through, and the pressure would most likely kill him in itself if he miraculously did get in.
This whirlpool was obviously designed to keep him inside.
He was stuck.
Cell aimed the trident at him and quickly sent out an electric blast that would have hit him had he not jumped out of the way. And believe me, when you're doing that with tail it's not an easy thing to do.
The black and green octopus obviously didn't want him for his body anymore, now that he had the trident. That and he wanted revenge for the death of his Cell jr's.
"HOLD STILL YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!" He bellowed out as he sent out another blast at him, that only narrowly missed and ended up singing his tail, causing him to cry out in sheer pain and preventing him from moving again.
Trunks lay on the cold hard sand, shivering as freezing water droplets covered his entire body while he held a hand over his wounded tail, waiting for the attack he knew was coming. 'God, Gohan, I'm so sorry I dragged you into all this. I love you so much.' He thought, squeezing his eyes shut and cringing as he waited to die.
Cell raised his trident again, a good feeling that he was going to enjoy this and not knowing about the ship that was closing in on him from behind with Gohan on it, determined to kill him and save his love.
"SO MUCH FOR TRUE LOVE!" He yelled at the tiny form in the whirlpool sadistically as he prepared to bring down the razor sharp trident on him, but before he could get halfway to him, a piercing object stabbed him in the back and right through to his stomach.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He cried out in sheer pain, dropping the trident into the water in shock and causing his storm spell to diminish.
The whirlpool that contained Trunks stopped spinning and the water quickly consumed him. It felt like a giant weight that just dropped on his whole body with the weight and pressure of the water, and he immediately tried to dizzily swim his aching body away from the war zone and find Gohan.
He definitely had to get away from the water, *fast*. Before a shark smelled his cut open tail and thought he was food, *that* was for certain.
Electricity shot through Cell's whole body as he continued to cry out in pain and started to sink back into the ocean with how weak he now felt, so he slowly let out his tentacles to try and grab onto the ship that would keep him afloat, only succeeding in taking it back down with him.
Gohan ran as fast as he could, trying to not get caught by the gray suction cups on his black tentacles as they swarmed his ship and took it under with him. Beams were snapping and the wooden deck below his feet cracked into splinters as he ran for the edge of the ship to make his escape.
Jumping over and diving into the water at a speed he wasn't even aware he could mae, he had to swim and kick as hard as he could to prevent himself from being sucked under with both the ship and the dying monster that held onto it, just to get away once he was under.
His lungs burned for air, but he had to be strong! Just...a little...further...
Finally breaking the surface of the salty water he took in the largest breath of air that his lungs could take in. So large that strangely enough it felt like he choked on it, but only for a moment before he could properly take in the air he needed and swim his tired body away from the still smoking body of Cell's dead corpse, and off to the far away shore.
He tried to stop once to get a good look at his surroundings and see if he could spot Trunks anywhere, but almost sank with the delay, so he pushed on, feeling as if he was about to pass out under the strain of the current and his tired muscles.
'Where is he?' He thought tiredly as he swam, praying that Cell didn't kill him while trying to hold his heart in check at the very thought of it.
Finally feeling the sand beneath his fingers and feet, Gohan tried to get up and walk the rest of the way, panting for air as he dragged himself, but quickly fell to his knees with how weak he was, and was forced to crawl to the shore, passing out on the dry sand once he'd made it. His last thoughts were of his lavender haired love, hoping that he would be able to see him again and that wherever he was, he was safe.
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Vegeta looked up at the bright lights coming from the surface with interest, wondering what was going on up there and if his son was alright, while strangely enough, also hoping for the safety of the human who help him escape before Cell made his big change.
Suddenly, he couldn't help but open his mouth in shock as he watched both his trident as well as his golden crown sink to where he was currently trapped in the muddy ground.
The very second the blade touched the ground next to him, a bright light surrounded him and he changed back into his normal from.
He gasped in shock at the sudden change. 'They must've killed him!' He thought in complete awe, that a human and a mermaid would actually be able to kill the sea sorcerer.
Looking at his hands with interest, and making sure that everything was as it was before, he couldn't help but smirk proudly as he picked up his trident and crown before swimming off to find his boy.
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All the seaweed creatures in Cell's den cringed in fear as they watched the strange ash come upon them, not knowing that they were Cell's ashes. Once they were touched by the substance, they were immediately changed back into their mermaid forms with hundreds of bright and sparkling flashes.
Gasping happily at their luck, they all swam away as fast as their fins would carry them from their former dark and gloomy prison, none of them daring to look back.
To Be Continued................
So what do you all think so far? There is only one other chapter needed before this ends ^^ so if ya want to read it you should press the little purple button below and review! or else no ending chapter will come!!! MWUAHAHAHAH!! *cough* *cough* anyway, sorry it took so long to get this out, and thank you to all who have been reviewing me as well as those who were patient ^_^ bye for now ^_~
By: Freewater
Disclaimers: I do not own DBZ or The Little Mermaid despite how cool that would be. Please don't sue you will only receive two cats that are VERY annoying and pee everywhere!
Warnings: None that I can think of, aside from the fact that Bulma will not be found in this fic. Swearing.
Pairings: Gh-Tr (It can be Mirai Gohan and Mirai Trunks if you want since this is just a fairy tail fic and there are no real specifics on the characters aside from Trunks' long hair. Just use your imagination! ^_^)
Rating: pg-13
Archive: Sure, anything's good! No permission required just make sure ya tall me first.^_^
Feedback: Definitely! Please, yes!! I want to know if I did a good job or not writing this!
Notes: A bunch of these little stars **** Means a change in time or scenery. ''These things here indicate thoughts. Bra is a little older than what she should normally be. She is nine and Trunks is sixteen. Gohan is eighteen and Goten is also nine.
Mermaid: Trunks
Prince: Gohan
King of the sea: Vegeta (duh)
Sea Witch: Cell (Their both creepy and weird looking)
Two Eels: Cell juniors
Sebastian: Krillin
Flounder: Flounder will just be the Turtle that hangs out with Master Roshi since he is cowardly. I would have made him Goten, but he's Gohans little brother and therefore will remain on land. I know that turtles need air to breath but lets just pretend that this one doesn't.
Most Trusted Advisor to Gohan: Yamcha
Seagull: Master Roshi (their both nuts! Nuff said.)
Dog: Icarus (I know that Icarus is supposed to be a dragon, but I'm keeping him a dog)
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Continually swimming deeper and deeper into the ongoing darkness of the ocean and farther away from the light, Trunks felt his heart break just a little more every time the octopus would stretch out his tentacles and recoil them to push them further down. Down and far away from Gohan. Where he could never reach him.
He just wouldn't stop. He had his prize and he wasn't letting go for anything. Cell's grip on Trunks' arm was starting to cut off the circulation as they sped down into the depths of the ocean. And no matter how much he struggled or pleaded, he just wouldn't stop.
"It isn't fair! You cheated!!" He accused while still trying to get Cell to take his hands off of him as he was dragged away from the yacht. "If it weren't for you then he would have kissed me a long time ago!!"
"In case you've forgotten, boy," He spat. "We never discussed the rules that *I* had to go by in our deal!" He said in annoyance before suddenly smirking as he slowed down in order to get a good look at the teen behind him.
"You really should read things before you sign them." He said before pulling him close, wrapping an arm and a black tentacle around his waist to ensure that he couldn't move. "Because now you're mine." He whispered seductively.
Trunks' breath suddenly hitched in fear, and he became *very* aware of how Cell was holding onto him. "Let go of me!!" He cried out while trying to struggle away, but his grip on his wrist and waist only tightened.
"Stop trying to escape you little brat!" He shouted in anger while starting to drag him away again. "You'll only make this harder on yourself--"
"CELL STOP!!" Vegeta yelled at the top of his lungs as he appeared from seemingly nowhere, pointing his Trident directly at Cells' face threateningly while Krillin gave the octopus an icy stare from where he sat on his shoulder. Turtle had also come, but was hiding behind some coral, waiting to see if there was anything he could do to help.
Trunks looked at the face of his father in a mixture of relief and fear. Fear that he'd been caught and relief that he was actually seeing his father again. He didn't even get a chance to call out to him though as Cell's two eels quickly came out from nowhere and grabbed him by his arms before swimming off with him.
"Father!" He cried out.
"Be silent, Boy." Cell barked, before returning his gaze to the very pissed off looking King Vegeta, and smiling. "And how are you this evening?" He asked politely, as if he wasn't about to cart the merman's only son off and use him for blackmail and *other* purposes.
"Let. Him. Go." Vegeta demanded coldly, pointing the blade of his trident at Cell's face with the ugliest sneer he could manage
"Forget it, Vegeta, he's mine now!" The octopus spat while pulling out the glowing contract for him to see. "We made a deal. He belongs to me now." He said, as Vegeta looked at it and read Trunks' name with a shocked face.
"Father, I'm sorry! I didn't mean for this to happen! I didn't know it would go this far!" Trunks called out before one of the eels reached out and held his mouth shut. He was trying to at least apologise to his father while he had the chance to, at least that way he wouldn't hate him for being so stupid as to even sign the thing.
Vegeta wasn't listening though. He was *not* going to let this freak take his son away! He quickly raised his trident and powered it up all the way before blasting the paper he was holding with all the power he could summon.
Cell actually put it out in front of him to act as a shield as the blast hit, pushing him backwards until he hit the rocks, laughing menacingly at the shocked look on Vegeta's face. How could it have not worked? His trident should've destroyed that thing without a problem!
"You see? This contract is completely legal! Nothing can break it! Even you!" Cell laughed, swimming on up to where he was still floating. "Of course I could always make a deal with you." He whispered threateningly before quickly swimming back over to where his eels still held Trunks.
"I bet you would give anything to have me set your son free." He said, running a finger under Trunks' chin affectionately. He turned his head away in disgust, so he didn't see the mixture of shock and fear that was on his father's face, knowing what Cell meant.
He chuckled, flicking his wrist as the two Cell jr. eels let go of their prisoner as he (with a startled cry) was pulled down to the ocean floor before his tail connected with the dirt. A small whirlwind quickly surrounded his body, and when he tried to call out for help, no sound came. He was mute again.
"Toranksu!" Vegeta tried to swim over to get him out, knowing that he was being changed into one of the dreaded seaweed creatures that the octopus kept in his den, but Cell was able cut him off in a flash.
"Let's make a deal." He sneered, venom dripping from his voice with what he had in mind.
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"Gohan, what are you doing!?!?" Yamcha called out, as he watched his prince from the yacht row out to sea in a lifeboat.
"Yamcha, I lost him once and I'm not going to lose him again!!" Gohan called back, still rowing while not looking at him. He would drop dead before losing his love to that freak after finally getting him back! He quickly double checked to make sure the spear gun he had was still loaded. That thing was going to pay for what it was doing to Trunks and for what it did to him and Goten *that* was for certain!
Suddenly he stopped rowing as the water around him changed into a sort of bright and golden colour. 'Maybe they're down there.'
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"Well? Do we have a deal or not?" Cell demanded, becoming impatient with Vegeta's hesitation with signing the glowing contract.
'It's either sign the damn thing, and get Toranksu changed back in exchange for my kingdom, or he stays this way for the rest of his life.' He thought, knowing the answer he would give even if he didn't run the conditions through his head. 'It's my fault he ran to this bastard anyway. I hope this will be apology enough for you, boy.' He silently raised his trident, and without regret, signed his own name in the place of his son's.
"It's done!" Cell laughed out, watching as the whirlwind that held Trunks disappeared as he was freed from the spell and changed back into his normal size. Trunks then looked over just in time to see the small whirlwind that held him shoot off to where his father still floated before wrapping around him, connecting him to the ocean floor, and changing him into a seaweed creature a lot faster than it was doing for him.
"Father, no!" He cried out while trying to swim over and help as fast as he could. Krillin could only watch complete shock, unable to believe that this was happening. Cell was really going win.
Just as Trunks made it over to his father's side, he was so small that his trident fell to the floor and his crown surrounded his whole body. He was too late, Vegeta had changed.
"F-father?" He asked as he looked down at him and the tiny creature that was his father looked back up at him. "Majesty?" Turtle also asked, coming out of his hiding spot to see the strange form his king was in.
Cell slowly glided over, practically hypnotised at the sight of the trident and golden crown, just begging to be taken. "It's all mine." He hissed, reaching a hand down to pick up the items.
"You bastard. Stay away!" Trunks cried out in a rage as he quickly tried to put him in a headlock. He couldn't let him steal his father's things! He had to try and fix this! But Cell was still too strong for him, and all he had to do was reach out one of his tentacles to pry him off and hold him down, using two more to take the crown and trident before taking them into his hands and pointing the blade end at the lavender haired prince.
"Don't fuck around with me, you stupid brat!" He roared at the sneering teen. "I will not hesitate to kill you if you try something like that–ahhh!" He cried out in pain as a spear grazed his arm and just missed hitting Trunks.
He looked up to see what had done that just to see Gohan in the water with a gun in his hand! He was trying to save him!
'God dammit I missed!' He silently cursed himself as he squinted at the forms below that were blurry to him due to the water. At least he could make out that Trunks was alright.
Vegeta quickly turned his slimy neck up to the human floating around in the water. He recognised him immediately from the statue he destroyed in Toranksu's old cave, and was shocked to see that he was actually *helping* them! A human in love with a mermaid? Will wonders never cease?
"Gohan get out of here!" Trunks called out in a panic as Cell quickly sent his eels off to get him, pissed off at being attacked by the bastard.
Quickly seeing the two blurry black eels headed his way and realising how much he needed a breath of air, Gohan swam to the surface as fast as he could. There were more spears up there and at this point he could use them!
Just as he broke to the surface and grabbed onto his boat, the two Cell jr. eels had grabbed onto his legs and pulled him under. He didn't even get a chance to take in a proper breath much less grab at a spear! He kicked and struggled against them, but no matter what he did they wouldn't drop him. And he was losing oxygen fast!
Krillen and Turtle immediately swam up to help him, knowing that he was the only chance they had of stopping Cell. "Hold on we're coming!" Turtle cried out before chomping onto one of the eels as hard as he could, almost braking its skin and listening with satisfaction as it screamed in pain before quickly letting go to inspect his wounded tail.
Krillin quickly pinched at the other eel's face on every spot he could get access to, almost cutting out one of its eyes in the process. It also cried out in pain before giving up and dropping the human, deciding that he wasn't worth it and letting Gohan go to swim back to the surface.
Cell wasn't about to give him up yet though as he powered up his new trident with a sadistic look on his face. "Say goodbye to your lover boy." He said to Trunks as he pointed it and prepared to shoot.
The lavender haired teen immediately paled in pure horror. "No!" He cried out before swimming over and punching him square in the face, knocking off his aim and blasting his eels instead, destroying them. They didn't even see what hit them.
"My babies!" He cried out in the shock that he'd hit them. Trunks used the distraction to swim to the surface where Gohan was.
"My poor little babies." He said sadly as he gently picked up and cradled their ashes before quickly turning his enraged eyes back to the escaping young prince. All he saw was a blood red as he stared in the boy's direction. That little fucker had killed his babies! He *was* going to suffer for that!
His breathing increased heavily as he inwardly chanted a spell, causing black smoke to erupt out from under him and his size to increase. Turtle and Krillin could only watch as he grew, shaking in complete fear. They were all gonna die.
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When Gohan broke the surface of the water into the dark night, the first thing he did was greedily take in a rather *large* gulp of air, before coughing and sputtering up the water that had made its way into his mouth and nose. He then looked around for his spear gun, but it, as well as the lifeboat and yacht were out of sight, and he became afraid as to where they went. He was all alone in the middle of the ocean.
That is until an angelic voice called out to him. "Gohan!"
He quickly whipped his head around to face the source of the beautiful sound, and could've cried at the sight of his love swimming over to where he floated.
Trunks also looked as if he was about to shed tears as he got closer to his prince before being taken into his strong arms for a most scorching and long awaited kiss. Gohan could feel Trunks' tail at his legs beneath the water as he practically crushed his mouth with his own, but that did nothing to the passion he felt. He didn't care if Trunks wasn't human. He didn't care that he had a tail. He only cared that he was holding him right now.
"Gohan you have to get away from here!" Trunks said, his voice full of worry when the kiss was broken off.
"No! I'm not leaving you alone!" He cried back determinedly, but before another word could be uttered, a strange glow surrounded them in the water, and the whole earth shook.
"What the--?" Was all Gohan could utter before they were separated by a huge golden spike and quickly raised out of the water by a giant sized laughing Cell! His eyes were turned up as he looked at where they both sat on his head, sadistic and cruel intentions in mind for the both of them.
"Jump, Trunks!" Gohan shouted, reaching over and taking his hand before they both dove back into the dark ocean water, coming back up and holding each other close with the fear they felt coursing through them at the sight.
Obviously, he was enormous! And he practically glowed in the dark night with the evil and hatred that was being radiated off of him.
"YOU STUPID, PITIFUL, FOOLS!!" He boomed, raising a black tentacle before moving to crash it down on their heads. Trunks managed to push Gohan out of the way before diving away just as the tentacle hit the water with a force that surely would have killed them both.
Cell however, didn't seem to notice that they escaped as he quickly conjured up a storm a deadly looking storm with Vegeta's trident. "NOW I'M IN CONTROL OF ALL THE OCEAN!! THE WAVES ARE AT MY COMMAND!!" He cried out, getting a natural high off of the power he now held in the palm of his hands, creating several whirlpools and not knowing that he was also stirring up all of the old sunken ships with his magic.
The waves became stronger and harder with Cell's power, and soon Gohan found the he could no longer see Trunks in the almost pitch black area. "Trunks!!" He shouted over the roaring sound of the storm, hoping to at least hear his voice.
The lavender haired and tailed mermaid, did hear him though. To prevent himself from being thrown away into the ocean he latched himself onto a boulder that was sticking out of the water. "Gohan, over here!!" He cried out, waving his hands to try and get his attention, but instead a wave that must've been fifty feet high formed over the human's head and crashed on him with enough force to send him almost to the bottom of the sea and where all the ships were rising.
"Gohan!! No!!" Trunks cried out in pure horror. Unfortunately that caught Cell's attention, and just as he was about to dive in to save him, the octopus raised his trident and blasted the boulder he was sitting on, sending him flying into a giant whirlpool. It was so powerful that the ocean floor was dry, and Trunks was knocked unconscious when he hit the hard ground with a thud.
Cell simply laughed at the limp sight of him as he went back to his storm. He'd deal with the little brat later.
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Gohan's lungs burned for air as he tried without too much luck to swim for the surface, but the underwater current as well as the movement of the previously sunken ships kept him below.
Eventually a rising ship passed directly over his upturned face, and he let out an entire mouthful of air in his shock, but then felt several ropes grazing softly against his face and immediately made a grab for them. He was *not* going to die today!
Finally his hands decided to cooperate and tightly grab onto one of the last few ropes dangling from the ship. He must've been closer to the surface than he thought, because it was only five seconds after he started climbing that his face came above the water and he was finally able to take in some much needed air with a gasp.
Breathing as though he'd just ran a mile, Gohan continued his climb of the old wooden ship, half amazed that it was even able to float. Looking off into the distance, he let out a shocked gasp as the giant form of Cell caught his eyes. 'He's not even that far off!' He thought to himself in amazement as the creature continued to play around with the weather while laughing mercilessly. But then a scary thought occurred to him, and it sent his heart into his throat. 'Where the hell is Trunks?!?'
The question only caused him to climb faster, he needed to find his love before that thing did. Finally making it over the rail and falling onto his side in his exhaustion, Gohan quickly got back to his feet before forcing his burning legs to run to the front of the ship. The wind was strong enough for him to steer it around without the sails up.
Finally making it to the frantically spinning and almost broken wooden steering wheel, he quickly grabbed the handles and had to use almost all of his strength just to hold it steady. Suddenly, while looking ahead into the raging storm, the front beam of the ship caught his eye. It was splintered off at the end, making it razor sharp while still long enough to be used as a weapon.
Looking ahead to make sure that Cell's back was turned, he couldn't help but smirk with his luck. 'I'm not going to let that thing take him away from me.' He thought determinedly as he prepared to steer the front of the ship into Cell's back.
But then he jerked his head downward and started to laugh even harder than before, pointing the trident he held into the water with a murderous look in his eyes. "What the hell is he doing?" He asked himself, praying to God that he was looking at Trunks like that.
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Trunks groaned and slowly opened his heavy eyes before shivering and looking around his cold surroundings. He was on cold hard sand, surrounded but the spinning water of Cell's whirlpool, and if that wasn't enough to scare him then when he looked up just to see the giant glowing octopus monster, looking down at him with his eyes completely transfixed and almost bloodshot with an eery smile on his face and his father's trident pointed right at him, was.
"Oh no!" He cried out fearfully while quickly dragging himself to the water wall.
When he reached his hand into the spinning water though, he couldn't help but recoil it with a cry of pain. The water was moving far too fast for him to even try and get through, and the pressure would most likely kill him in itself if he miraculously did get in.
This whirlpool was obviously designed to keep him inside.
He was stuck.
Cell aimed the trident at him and quickly sent out an electric blast that would have hit him had he not jumped out of the way. And believe me, when you're doing that with tail it's not an easy thing to do.
The black and green octopus obviously didn't want him for his body anymore, now that he had the trident. That and he wanted revenge for the death of his Cell jr's.
"HOLD STILL YOU LITTLE BASTARD!!" He bellowed out as he sent out another blast at him, that only narrowly missed and ended up singing his tail, causing him to cry out in sheer pain and preventing him from moving again.
Trunks lay on the cold hard sand, shivering as freezing water droplets covered his entire body while he held a hand over his wounded tail, waiting for the attack he knew was coming. 'God, Gohan, I'm so sorry I dragged you into all this. I love you so much.' He thought, squeezing his eyes shut and cringing as he waited to die.
Cell raised his trident again, a good feeling that he was going to enjoy this and not knowing about the ship that was closing in on him from behind with Gohan on it, determined to kill him and save his love.
"SO MUCH FOR TRUE LOVE!" He yelled at the tiny form in the whirlpool sadistically as he prepared to bring down the razor sharp trident on him, but before he could get halfway to him, a piercing object stabbed him in the back and right through to his stomach.
"AAAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" He cried out in sheer pain, dropping the trident into the water in shock and causing his storm spell to diminish.
The whirlpool that contained Trunks stopped spinning and the water quickly consumed him. It felt like a giant weight that just dropped on his whole body with the weight and pressure of the water, and he immediately tried to dizzily swim his aching body away from the war zone and find Gohan.
He definitely had to get away from the water, *fast*. Before a shark smelled his cut open tail and thought he was food, *that* was for certain.
Electricity shot through Cell's whole body as he continued to cry out in pain and started to sink back into the ocean with how weak he now felt, so he slowly let out his tentacles to try and grab onto the ship that would keep him afloat, only succeeding in taking it back down with him.
Gohan ran as fast as he could, trying to not get caught by the gray suction cups on his black tentacles as they swarmed his ship and took it under with him. Beams were snapping and the wooden deck below his feet cracked into splinters as he ran for the edge of the ship to make his escape.
Jumping over and diving into the water at a speed he wasn't even aware he could mae, he had to swim and kick as hard as he could to prevent himself from being sucked under with both the ship and the dying monster that held onto it, just to get away once he was under.
His lungs burned for air, but he had to be strong! Just...a little...further...
Finally breaking the surface of the salty water he took in the largest breath of air that his lungs could take in. So large that strangely enough it felt like he choked on it, but only for a moment before he could properly take in the air he needed and swim his tired body away from the still smoking body of Cell's dead corpse, and off to the far away shore.
He tried to stop once to get a good look at his surroundings and see if he could spot Trunks anywhere, but almost sank with the delay, so he pushed on, feeling as if he was about to pass out under the strain of the current and his tired muscles.
'Where is he?' He thought tiredly as he swam, praying that Cell didn't kill him while trying to hold his heart in check at the very thought of it.
Finally feeling the sand beneath his fingers and feet, Gohan tried to get up and walk the rest of the way, panting for air as he dragged himself, but quickly fell to his knees with how weak he was, and was forced to crawl to the shore, passing out on the dry sand once he'd made it. His last thoughts were of his lavender haired love, hoping that he would be able to see him again and that wherever he was, he was safe.
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Vegeta looked up at the bright lights coming from the surface with interest, wondering what was going on up there and if his son was alright, while strangely enough, also hoping for the safety of the human who help him escape before Cell made his big change.
Suddenly, he couldn't help but open his mouth in shock as he watched both his trident as well as his golden crown sink to where he was currently trapped in the muddy ground.
The very second the blade touched the ground next to him, a bright light surrounded him and he changed back into his normal from.
He gasped in shock at the sudden change. 'They must've killed him!' He thought in complete awe, that a human and a mermaid would actually be able to kill the sea sorcerer.
Looking at his hands with interest, and making sure that everything was as it was before, he couldn't help but smirk proudly as he picked up his trident and crown before swimming off to find his boy.
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All the seaweed creatures in Cell's den cringed in fear as they watched the strange ash come upon them, not knowing that they were Cell's ashes. Once they were touched by the substance, they were immediately changed back into their mermaid forms with hundreds of bright and sparkling flashes.
Gasping happily at their luck, they all swam away as fast as their fins would carry them from their former dark and gloomy prison, none of them daring to look back.
To Be Continued................
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