The Seventh Part
By: Black Beyond--------------------------------------------------
Part 7's here, finally. Ack! No shoot! I don't have much to say, so go on and read. Standard Disclaimers Apply, etc. Lena is mine mine mine mine mine!
So are the villians.
Thank you.
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The next morning, Lena was outside, in her uniform, the second the moon vanished from the dawn's sky.
Vegeta watched her, suspicion in his eyes, as she went through a set of training exercises before taking off, a new vigor in her actions.
After about an hour of that, she turned Super Saiya-jin and flew off with a streak of ki.
Something was too familar about the black on black uniform she wore. Something eeirly familar, and he couldn't place it. That frustrated him so, he forgot to insult Piccolo and Trunks when they came out to spar. Or glare sadisticly at Goten and Kakorotto when they arrivied, or yell at Bulma.
"Vegeta? Hey, Vegeta. Is something up? You're a space case today!" Goku yelled, after asking Vegeta to spar for the fourth time and getting no reply.
"Get the hell away from me, Kakorotto." Vegeta snapped. Like a lightbulb had appeared, his scowl became considerably lighter, and he walked over to Goten, and yanked the boy off the ground by his collar.
Trunks, Goku, and Piccolo stopped to stare.
"You, boy." Vegeta growled. "Where'd the girl get that damned uniform?"
"I d-dunno..."
"TELL ME!"
"She didn't tell me." Goten stuttered. Vegeta dropped him with another growl and began to advance on his son.
"Hey! I don't know either! I didn't ask! She didn't tell! Trunks said, backing away from Vegeta. "She didn't say anything about it! I swear! GOKU SAVE ME!"
The sight of Trunks ducking behind Goku in an attempt to save himself was too much for Piccolo. He began laughing as hard as he could, collapsing to the the ground, tears running out of his eyes.
It was at that time Lena returned. She saw Goten lying in a trembling heap, Trunks hiding behind a startled goku, Vegeta looked ready to kill, and the laughing Namek, and proceeded to follow the said Namek's example.
"What... are... you... doing...." She choked out, inbetween peals of laughter.
She stopped laughing when she too was yanked up by the collar of her uniform.
"Hey! What the f-- put me DOWN, Vegeta! Now!"
"Where'd you get the uniform, Girl?"
"None of your damned business! But me down!"
Vegeta glared at her.
She stopped struggling.
"I don't know his name." She said, after a long silence. "Everyone's afraid of him. One of his soldiers kidnapped me and took me to him. He told me nothing, but gave me my uniform. It was no use fighting, there were thousands of soldiers. Another took me to their leader, I don't know his name. He was surprised that I was a saiya-jin, and after a long disccusion, he promised to let me go. I didn't promise anything." She said, truthfully. "He wants me to be the head of his army. I told him I'd think about it."
Vegeta shook his head and dropped her angrily.
"No names." he repeated. "Can it be..."
"What's wrong, Vegeta?" Goku asked, as Vegeta let off a string of painful sounding oaths.
"Hanukil. Stronger than Freiza, stronger than Cell. Feared throughout the universe. He doesn't kill... he tortures."
Trunks stared at Lena.
"Why didn't you tell me?"
"Because if I did, you'd want to go with me when I went to tell the big guy up there 'no way'. And he'd kill you. He doesn't seem to like male saiya-jin."
"Damn right he doesn't, and what he hates more is people saying no to him." Vegeta said sulkily. "He got up into a fight with my father once, and managed somehow, to come out worse. Granted, Father couldn't walk or talk for a long time, but that made Hanukil leave the saiya-jin race alone. But he hates us."
Goku stiffled a chuckle.
Lena sent Vegeta a disapproving look.
"Well, The Snake seemed to like me, thank you very much. Not that I liked him, god, what a creep, but the point is, you're afraid of him!"
Piccolo stopped laughing abruptly.
"If you were smart, Arrogant Female, you would be too." Vegeta sneered. Trunks stiffled the gasp that his father actually 'admited' he was afraid of someone.
"You're one to call me arrogant, Vegeta." There was a scathing mirth in her tone, that chilled them all. "Really, I'm not the one who still can't come to terms that's someone's better than he is!"
"You're the bloodsucker!"
"You're the fucking idiot!"
Vegeta growled and made a move to attack her, but Goku jumped between them.
"Chill out, you two. Stop fighting. Vegeta, really, this guys can't be all that bad!"
"Hmprh!"
"Lena, why fight Vegeta? It's like fighting yourself."
"Why you..." Lena began.
Like a winter blast hit her, she froze, staring into the space, tears welling in her eyes as she watched something invisible, and it looked like she was going to start crying but then started laughing. She fell her her knees, and her laugh became an almost obsession.
"Gods," She gasped.
Trunks immediatly went to her side, and he watched her laugh for a few minutes. There wasn't really any reason for her to laugh, but she couldn't stop.
"She's hysterical." Vegeta said, his voice full of mirth, disgust, and could it be-- a winge of worry? "Get Bulma."
Goten nodded, hurrying into the compound. Trunks cradled the girl in his arms, trying to rush her. Finally, her laughter dissolved into tears, and she clutched Trunk's shirt, crying.
"Why am I here?" She sobbed. "Going to die anyway..."
Vegeta took off, as Goku, Piccolo, and Trunks watched her cry, at a loss what to do.
"What happened?!" Bulma shrieked, running at them. She took Lena from Trunk's embrace and shook her.
"Lena!" She shouted. "Snap out of it! Lena!" With a crack, she slapped the girl. Lena shook her head, staring like she'd been knocked from a daze.
"Wha... oh... gods... death..." SHe moaned, before darkness, not for the first time in her life, claimed her vision.
Bulam stared at the unconscious girl in her arms, before looking up to the Z warriors, speaking soundlessly.
"Mother, what happened?" Trunks asked. "She just..."
"Goku, let's get her inside. I think she's fainted-- but she's... drained..."
"Drained?"
"She's right. All of Lena's ki has disappeared."
Lena awoke almost an hour later. AT first she refused to open her eyes and feigned sleep, deciding there was nothing cowardly in the move, and it was a good way to hear things.
"What's wrong with her, Okaa-san?"
"I don't know. All of her ki-- just poof!"
"Do you think it had something to do with Hanu-whatever?"
"Kakorotto, you *idiot*, I'll bet my life on it!"
Lena fought to keep the smile of her face. Now that she actually thought about it, Vegeta really was like her, in more ways than one. And he wasn't so bad, either.
But this wasn't about Hanukil. Quite the opposite.
"D'you think it could possibly be because, oh, I don't know... ALL OF YOU HAPPENED TO LOOSE YOUR KI ALSO?!"
Vegeta, Goten, Trunks, and Goku all stared at her. Piccolo threw his hands up in the air and walked away muttering about 'crazy monkeys'.
"She's right." Goten said, after a minute. "Why didn't we notice? I mean, it's ONLY OUR KI!" He slapped himself in the face. Trunks looked almost accusingly at his father, who looked shocked as he too realized it.
"A whole hour." Goku muttered. "A whole goddamn hour and we didn't notice. What was I thinking?"
"Nothing, Kakorotto, and that's your main problem! That first fight must have let your brains go flying out of your head!" Vegeta yelled, looking pissed off at the world.
Which, let's face it, was his normal expression.
Bulma and Chichi began to giggle at the image.
Lena rolled her eyes and sat up.
"The reason you didn't feel it, Vegeta, before you starting ranting about that, is... well, feel the air around you." She said simply, reachign out herself with her senses.
Negative moon waves.
She could feel the shock that went through the saiya-jins as they realized the complications of the fact.
"It can't be!" Vegeta yelled. "How?!"
Goku just sat down. Just sat down. The fact eh couldn't fight was a shock.
"My guess is Mr. Hanukil, or whatever his name is, is trying funny business." Trunks's pose was ridgid in anger. "He wants to make us sweat."
"Does he know about the human Z warriors?" Chichi asked. "Krillin, Tienshinhan, Piccolo, and Chao-tsu?"
"Who're Teinshinhan and Chao-tsu?" Lena asked.
"Two of us you haven't met. They're training somewhere in the mountians." Vegeta said absently. "Probably not. They're not the strongest idiots in the world, but they could take out a bit of his armies. He'd've found a way to take them out to, and Baldy and Piccolo are still in one peice."
"What a sec, who's Teinshinhan and Chao-tsu?"
"And of course, Vegeta, you're leaving out the fact that if your idiot bad guy tries to attack, the earth can kiss it's life goodbye."
"Would someone please explain to me what and who you're talking about." the voice of vemon easily cut through the rest of the conversation and they all turned to Lena, who looked less than happy as she stood up.
"That's right, you haven't met them, have you?" Trunks said.
"BINGO!" Lena yelled.
"Chao-tsu is kind of weak and looks like a china doll. Tienshinhan is Chao-tsu's gaurdian in a way. He's stronger, and has a technique of spliting into three." Goten said quickly.
Lena nodded.
Two more? It's funny, they never mentioned them before. Why now? If they're human, they shouldn't be very strong. Strong for humans, but nowhere near our league.
The negative moon waves lower our physical powers. It's a smart tactic, but sometimes brains can win where brawn doesn't...
Lena stared at Bulma until she caught the older woman's eye. She made a quick motion that they should both go outside.
Bulma nodded.
"Listen guys. You discuss this, I need some air." Bulma walked out.
"Me too." Lena said quickly, running after Bulam.
Trunks stared at Goten.
"Did I miss something?"
"What is it?"
Bulma eyed Lena anxiously. She knew very well the teenager had more wheels going in her head than any of the other warriors, and was less concerned about loosing her strength.
"Bulma, is there any metal, any cloth, anything, that deflects the wavelenth that the moon beams are on?" Lena asked.
"Moonbeams travel on the same wavelength as light, Lena. You'd all have to be covered in comlpete darkness."
Lena nodded, thinking.
Fuck. Alright, I'm cool. No cover for the moon thing. Unless...
"Bulma, I need you to do me a very big favor."
"Alright."
"Get Vegeta for me."
"That's it?"
"That's it."
"Alright...." Bulma gave Lena a strange look and went back inside. It was five more minutes before Vegeta emerged, looking very sour.
"What is it, girl?" He snapped.
"When you first came to this planet, you transformed, didn't you?"
Vegeta gave her a hard look.
"Yes."
"Using artificial moonlight." Lena said. "And yet you had complete control of your transformation. Gohan didn't, from I what I heard, and neither did Goku. How did you control the monkey?"
Vegeta hesitated before answering.
"It's a matter of willpower." He said finally. "Kakorotto and his hybrid brats were mere children when they transformed. An adult who has brains should be able to control it."
"Thanks." Lena gave the sky a long look.
"Why?"
"It's none of your concern."
"It is if you're going to transform! You're just a girl! You'd never be a able to control the transformation."
For the first time, Lena looked directly into Vegeta's eyes.
"Don't under-estimate me." She whispered, began walking away into the forestline.
Vegeta cursed.
He'd seen it. In her eyes. It was there, the pain of her decision. She knew there was a good chance she wouldn't be able to control it.
But then he knew that there was no other way. If she could find enough power to generate the moonlight, then she could give them a chance of winning against Hanukil.
And there was something there. Something else. Something he'd only seen in the eyes of dying men.
It was... how could it be...
She knew.
She knew what it was like.
How could she... she was still alive...
That girl. That girl... she knows what it's like... but she's never... has she...
He stared after her, his brow furrowed and his scowl ever deeper.
Lena knew what it was like to die.
She started to run after a while, until she was in the deadlands, where rock and dust stretched for miles, nothing to die, nothing to harm.
She sighed, and sat down against on of the massive columns of stone, ctahcing her breath.
The moonbeams aren't here. They were only concentrated to that one area. Maybe I should go get the guys.
She could feel her strength again, her power to become a saiya-jin was lashing at ehr control as it always did. Everything was okay.
She gathered a handful of ki and concentrated on it, thinking of the moon and only of the moon.
Here goes nothing... Goddess of Luck, may you be with me... Kami knows you've never been kind to me before, I think you owe me this once.
She opened her eyes and threw it upward.
It was magnificent. It lit the sky with brilliance, outshining the noonday sun. it was a gorgeous silver light, like a siren's call.
And then the rush of power.
Nothing could have prepared her for it. Nothing.
It was power, pleasure, and sheer escatsy combined into one powerful slap that hit her all at once with the force of a thousand stars. It was like nothing she'd ever felt before.
It claimed her, and she could feel herself change.
Taller, bigger, more power, gotta have more power, gotta kill, it's there, nothing to kill, gotta go find something to kill...
It was like a voice, screaming at her, telling her what she must do.
No no no no! Gotta stay in control. I'm Lena. I'm strong. I can do this!
But the power. All the sirens couldn't have matched it's call.
Gotta kill, taller bigger stronger, more power, destroy, you know you want to...
NO!
Yes yes yes yes yes. Taller bigger stronger, lots more power, it's there, destroy, must destroy, lots of life.. I FEEL LIFE! Life to destroy. Taller bigger stronger....
Slowly, she could feel herself rise otu of the voice's grip. It seemed like eons before she could see again, and she was in control.
She hadn't moved, but in her fight, the monkey had managed to destroy a lot of the stone mountains near her.
I did it.
"I did it." She said, wonderously. She was a thousand feet tall, and her power...
Gods, why me? I don't want this. Too much power. Too much. Gods, why? Nothing... I'm like God...
She let the moonligth in the sky vanish and forced herself to return human. Somehow her uniform stayed in one peice and she collapsed to the ground, exhausted.
Never again... the earth can die... I'll never do that again...
The siren was back, only this time, it called her to a world of no pain...
And this time, she didn't have the strength to resist.
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