I'm so sorry for the long time to update but school has gotten in the
way. I mean really is it possible to get five hours of homework each day? I
hope some one gets a law against it but in the mean time sorry for the long
update time. But here it is the finale of FALL OF A HERO so get your
popcorn and sit cause this chapter is, to me the best.
PART 8
(END GAME)
Terra and Trunks stared at one another for a moment and finally Trunks spoke in almost a whisper.
"Terra I don't think its safe for you anymore. Kuro... he isn't the kind of person you should ever have top know.... neither am I."
Terra stared at Trunks as tears came to her eyes. She hugged his body tightly and sighed. Trunks tried to speak but his mind wouldn't let him. Now that his feeling were back in control how could he kill these innocent people? Trunks knew now that since he had Terra he didn't need revenge, but at the same time Trunks knew Kuro wouldn't allow him to just walk away from him.
Another moment passed and finally Terra broke the silence.
"Trunks, tell me who and what is that man?" She asked as Trunks sat back on the bed and sighed. He couldn't reveal everything to her, she would leave him and then he would become that monster he once was. He was weak and finally he could accept that. He could finally admit that he was weak, not physically for no other warrior in the universe could beat his speed other than Kuro, but mentally, he had to hide his emotions because he was to weak to control them or cope with them, but now that he had Terra it was different.
Trunks shoke his head but Terra urged him on. She pulled him to his feet and gazed into his eyes. The eyes that were once dark grey had somehow turned to a brilliant blue. She smiled and hugged him once more. Secretly, she hoped that he would reveal his past to her but maybe that would be too painful at such a moment. She, too, had realized that his emotions had no fully awoken and that his heart and his mind were twisted and confused.
"Please Trunks, I know it may hurt, the past I mean, but you have to talk about your pain, if not, then you'll fall back into that pit of hate and pain. I don't want that to happen, I need you, I love you, please talk to me." Terra pleaded as Trunks eyes widened, she loved him, finally someone had cared. Trunks nodded slowly in resignation.
"Eight years ago I met him, Kuro Akuma, it was after the android incident, he came and recruited me." Trunks stopped as he remembered the brutal rape by android 18 and cringed at the thought. Terra squeezed him with a hug of reassurance and Trunks continued.
"He trained me and all throughout that training I lost myself. I slowly let my humanity slip away as I became stronger. He is evil Terra, I don't want to hurt anyone anymore, but he might come after you and I couldn't live another day if that happened..." Trunks began but Terra silence him with a kiss.
"No don't talk like that, no matter what happens we will always be together. My heart and your heart are one in the same, death itself can't seperate us. You'll always be with me as long as I love you and I'll always be with you as long as you love me, understand?" Terra smiled as Trunks nodded and hugged her.
"Thank you, Terra, you've undone the years of pain I've felt for so long and I'm very thankful for that." Trunks smiled as Terra sat on the bed and pulled Trunks down next to her.
"I think that today I should stay with you. I mean work can wait, we need to get more aquatinted." Terra smiled
For hours the two set in the room laughing and showing their love for each other. Several hours after lunch, Trunks again felt Kuro's presence. Trunks pulled out his sword quickly and shielded Terra from Kuro's blade.
"Watch it!!" Trunks exploded as Kuro only laughed.
"I see that emotion isn't so foreign to you now is it apprentice?" Kuro grinned as he eyed Terra.
"I also see that she's changed you... I hope you don't think of betraying me Saishuuheiki. I put a lot of time into training you so that you wouldn't have to fear the world..." Kuro paused and looked at Trunks while he spoke and then back to Terra and continued, "I've done nothing but make you who you are and if I'm not mistaken I am responsible for this happiness you have now." Kuro stated and Terra was immediately up protesting his words.
"How dare you! You used him, you made him into a beast, a monster and you come in here saying that his happiness is because you willed it?!" Terra yelled angrily, suprising both men in the room.
Kuro smiled and nodded. This women knew he could kill her before Trunks could do anything but she still had the guts to stand up to him. Kuro smiled even more, she was unique and that's how she had broken Trunks' emotional barrier, she simply made no sense and to his apprentice, sense was all he had and that explained the complete turn around of his young student.
"Come now, we must go and finish what we started... afterwards after its all over and if you're still alive, I'll let you and your lady friend live in peace.... I'll leave this time and never return and I swear it. So do you still think that what I am about to do is meaningless to you young apprentice?" Trunks gasped as he realized Kuro had read his thoughts. This only made Kuro grin.
"I see you've finally understood that I have more than just fighting abilities. Now come lets get this over with." Kuro said as he lept out the window. Trunks began but Terra grabbed him.
"I'm coming to. If you get hurt I want to be there to help you, please." Terra begged and Trunks shook his head.
"Its too dangerous." Trunks began but Terra shook her head to disagree.
"As long as I am with you I can't be harmed, I love you and I need to be with you right now, I don't want him to trick you again and make you into that monster you once were, please...." Terra clasped her hands together and finally Trunks gave in.
"Fine, but you must stay back and out of the way." Trunks warned and Terra smiled as he lifted her effortlessly from the ground and flew out to Kuro.
"So we're going to have an audience?" Kuro asked and then continued without a reply. "The more the merrier!" He laughed as he, Trunks and Terra blasted off toward the battle area.
Kuro landed in the midst of a city and shook his head in annoyance. He lifted one hand and sent a massive wave of energy towards one of the skyscrapers annihilating the building and all that dwelled in it.
"Why'd you do that?" Trunks yelled angrily as he pushed Terra behind him. Kuro turned and sighed as he looked from Trunks to the sky.
"Well how else do you suppose we call them here?" Kuro asked as he began to ascend into the air to wait for his opponents. Trunks looked at Terra who nodded as he began to ascend himself into the air next to Kuro.
"As soon as this is over you swear to leave?" Trunks asked as he came within feet of Kuro. The man turned and smirked.
"Of course, my foolish apprentice, when have I ever lied to you?" Kuro asked as he turned sharply in the opposite direction. Trunks looked over his shoulder and saw five figures approaching. As the figures got closer Trunks could make out the face of one of them, it was himself.
The five fighters stopped in front of Kuro and Trunks and looked at the damage caused. Shock, confusion and anger rose upon the fighters faces and then one of them began to speak.
"Why did you do this these people have done nothing to you?!" It was Goku. Trunks had began to remember each of them, Vegeta his father whom he had never met was floating a few feet from Goku, Piccolo the Namekian was there, There was another whom looked like Gohan but younger and last there was him. The Trunks of that time who was much older stared back at his couterpart in total confusion.
"Ah, you must be Goku! It is a pleasure to finally meet you." Kuro bowed as he smirked. Trunks on the other hand only could stare at his older self. His eyes then cut back to Terra who was safely hiding behind some ruble.
"Where's Gohan?" The older Trunks asked as he regained himself and began powering up. Kuro grinned and pointed to his apprentice.
"He took care of him last night. That fool's in another dimension." Kuro grinned as Goku gasped in anger.
"GOHAN!!!!" Goku yelled as he turned towards Trunks with pure anger. The older Trunks calmed Goku down and then spoke.
"I won't let this world be haunted by anymore evil. The people of Earth have felt enough pain and suffering. You two will die." He vowed as Trunks unconsciously moved back. Kuro on the other hand only laughed.
"No, fool it is you who will pay!! For what you did to me so many years ago! They were my family and you killed them both!!!" Kuro yelled as he erupted with power. The older Trunks thought for a moment and then a look of understanding appeared on his face.
"You're that freak the andriods raised." He stated as Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and the other young warrior took fighting stances.
"Yes, it is me Kuro and now I'll geet my revenge for the years of pain I've felt because of you." Kuro grinned as Trunks only floated backwards more.
Trunks was in shock. Everything from his meeting to Kuro to the rigorous training, it was all in the name of Kuro's revenge, not his own. Trunks felt betrayed and at the same time he understood.
Kuro turned slightly to Trunks who was still registering everything and spoke.
"This is my apprentice, I trained him into what he is today, the perfect killer though he has lost his main asset he is still unrealistically powerful. We'll kill you and then I'll let him do with this place whatever he wants!" Kuro laughed. Trunks on the other hand was confused he didn't want to do anything with the planet, he just wanted to be with Terra in peace.
The older Trunks along with Vegeta and Goku attacked Kuro while Piccolo stared Trunks down.
"So you think that you can get away with killing Gohan, uh?" Piccolo asked as Trunks looked at the ground for Terra who was still hiding. He sighed in relief and then face Piccolo.
"I don't want to fight you, I'm sorry for what I've done." Trunks said, but Piccolo roared in anger.
"DAMN YOU!!! We can't revive him and you think that 'sorry' will fix everything?" Piccolo yelled as he powered up. Trunks nodded answering Piccolo's question.
"I can do nothing more than that, you have to be satisfied." Trunks spoke sadly.
Terra had been watching everything and saw that someone was sneaking up behind Trunks. Shock prevented her from speaking so she continued to watch.
Piccolo began to move foward and Trunks pulled out his blade as a warning sign to Piccolo.
"Please I don't want to have to use this. Stay back please." Trunks begged as he looked down once again for Terra and saw a look of horror on her face.
Terra looked straight into Trunks' eyes and screamed.
"Trunks behind you!!!" Immediately Trunks turned and performed the Mukizu Shuumatsu on the fighter and pinned him into the side of a building. Piccolo yelled in shock causing Goku and the others to look up from they're fight and watch in horror.
"GOTEN NOT YOU TOO!!!" Goku yelled as Trunks' eyes widened realizing that the young man was another of Goku's sons. He pulled his bloody blade out of Goten's chest and turned to the others in shock.
"I didn't mean to it was an accident." Trunks spoke as the older Trunks yelled loudly as he powered up even more. Vegeta and Goku did the same as well as Piccolo.
Trunks looked at the four warriors and then to Kuro who waited for them to finish. Trunks shook his head in confusion and flew back to Terra.
"Don't worry, Trunks, we can explain it wasn't your fault, we can make them see you're not a monster, don't worry, calm down please." Terra begged and Trunks slowly began to regain his sanity.
"See I told you he was dangerous." Kuro grinned. Trunks looked up at him with disgust.
"No... I'm not a killer... not anymore... I just want to be left alone, please!!" Trunks begged to four fighters who had finished reaching their full power.
"We can't let someone who's been contaminated by the evil of the androids live here." Goku said with his eyes closed. His power level in level three of Super Saiyan was much greater than anything Trunks had ever felt. Goku then appeared right in front of Trunks.
Trunks fell backwards and began to shake. Not even his speed was capable of contending with Goku's. Terra ran to Trunks' side and wrapped her arms around his shoulders.
"Please, stop, he didn't mean to kill Gohan or you're other son, Kuro tricked him, please you can't...." Terra began but Goku ignored her.
"He may have been tricked but we can't take that chance, if you are honestly good, please forgive me. We can't let any risks like yourself survive." Goku said as he lifted his palm and energy began to circle his hand.
"Terra get out of here. Please go." Trunks yelled as Terra shook her head.
"I'm staying with you no matter what." She protested. Trunks nodded and then squeezed her hand. Kuro had been watching and used this chance to take Vegeta out permanently.
"Nenshou Batsuro!!!" Kuro yelled as Vegeta's body sliced in half. The older Trunks turned saw this and yelled in pure anger as he rushed at Kuro who was ready and the two began to zip across the sky causing massive explosions throughout the entire city and sky.
Goku jumped into the air to help the older Trunks as Piccolo kept his eye on Trunks.
Trunks shook his head and hugged Terra.
"I'm so sorry, Terra, this is all my fault please don't hate me. Trunks begged as Terra shook her head.
"I could never hate you I love you too much Trunks." She sobbed and returned the hug.
"I love you too Terra." Trunks cried. Trunks opened his eyes and then looked up as a massive energy wave rocketed toward himself and Terra.
"No." Trunks whispered as Terra too, noticed the ball of energy. Trunks tried to get Terra out of the way but as soon as he stood to his feet the energy wave exploded.
In the sky Kuro laughed as he had watched the older Trunks' attack barely miss him and collide with the ground below.
"You almost had me, but I won't be that easy to kill Trunks!!" Kuro laughed as the older Trunks, pulled out a sword and dashed at Kuro.
Goku and Piccolo had watched the energy attack hit Trunks and Terra and both men believed that the attacked killed them both and so they flew higher into the sky to help fight Kuro. As the two flew closer to the clouds Kuro was sent hurling towards the ground below. The impact he made casued a huge crater. The older Trunks appeared next to Goku with tears in his eyes over the lose of his father and began to send countless energy waves towards the crater destroying and even larger portion of the city.
The older Trunks stopped and tried to take deep breathes. His father and both of his best friends were dead, it was almost just like fighting the androids again. Goku had seen the pain in the warrior's eyes and tried to consol him but couldn't for his loss was just as great.
"That monster!" Piccolo growled as he closed his eyes to fight back any tears. The older Trunks and Goku couldn't fight the tears back as they fell continuously.
Slowly, the ruble began to move as a figure reached his hand out and struggled to free himself from the debris.
"Someones still alive down there." Goku noted as he felt a power level below.
"Get ready." the older Trunks ordered as the figure erupted from the debris and flew onto flatter ground ready to continue the unfinished fight.
"I thought you killed him Trunks?" Goku asked but the older Trunks shook his head. Kuro was smiling for he had just survived his rival's strongest attack.
"I see that you're losing you touch!" Kuro yelled from below as Trunks, Goku, and Piccolo landed on the ground and glared at Kuro with pure hatred.
Just as the fight was going to begin again the ground beneath the fighters began to shake. Then an eruption occured and Trunks pulled himself and Terra out of the ruble. Trunks laid her down on the ground and shook her.
"Terra wake up please.... please Terra... I need you.....I'm....I'm weak... Don't be.... don't be...." Trunks began to cry and hug Terra's limp body.
Kuro and the other fighters looked at the scene and then back to each other.
"Well I think you three should be joining her." Kuro laughed as he attacked. The older Trunks and Goku both attacked Kuro as Piccolo looked at the younger Trunks as he held Terra's body.
"If you ask me this is what you deserve." Piccolo called out and Trunks immediately stopped crying. He half turned to Piccolo and shook his head.
"I never deserved this!" Trunks yelled in agony. Moments after, Kuro and the other two fighters parted and then continued their battle. Trunks looked at Terra's body and shook his head sadly.
"I only wanted.... to be happy.... why must I suffer? Why is it that I must be the one to constantly feel pain? Why can't my life be normal?" Trunks asked as tears streamed his face and he began to recall his time spent with Terra.
~~~~~Flashbacks~~~~~
"You're handsome and you're not like all the others, I just hoped that maybe this time it could..." Terra laughed uneasily as her cheeks turned redder, if it were possible and her smiled widened. Trunks laid back against the tree and nodded in compliance with the answer.
Then when he found out about how she was raped-
"I know its insane, but everyone deserves a second chance... if he were punished, he would have never had a chance at life, who am I to take away another person's chance at life?" Terra asked
"If everyone got revenge on one another there would be constant fighting. And why must I be weak for thinking that everyone can change?" Terra asked
Then when he had killed Gohan she still had stuck by him-
"Trunks, don't worry, we can just hide their bodies and no one has to know..." Terra started
"Trunks, I understand.... but I don't agree with you. Hurting others isn't right. What you did tonight was wrong ... but its in the past now. Its time to move on, together we can move on." Terra stood by his side and hugged his arm hard.
"You don't have to hurt anymore and neither do I. We can live together and be happy. No more sadness, no more hurt, just happiness, just the two of us." Terra whispered softly as she slowly pulled him to the bed.
And finally when she told him that she loved him-
"I don't want that to happen, I need you, I love you"
~~~~Flashbacks Ends~~~~
Trunks' eyes slowly began to glow.
"I never deserved pain.... or....love..... destiny hates me....." He stated as he stood to his feet. Kuro, Goku, Piccolo and the other Trunks watched him as his power began to rise rapidly. Trunks reached level two of Super Saiyan and his eyes began to turn blood red.
"Who did this?" Trunks asked in a whisper as Goku and Piccolo remained quiet. Kuro thought for a moment and then begun to laugh.
"My apprentice, I know how it happened! This fool tried to hit me with his attack and it missed and hit the two of you!" Kuro grinned believing that would cause his apprentice to lose it, but that never happened. Instead Trunks faced them as his pupils glowed dark red and placed his hood over his head.
"We are all monsters. Monsters that must be punished. I will never hate you for Terra would never want that. Instead I will give you a second chance. Leave this place now and you will live, but remain and I will kill you all..." Trunks spoke softly as he knelt beside Terra and created a burial place for her.
"I'll give you one minute to leave. This is your only second chance so please take it, your lives are in your own hands, just as Terra would want." Trunks continued as he began to bury his only love. He said a prair and the look up.
Goku and the others hand ignored Trunks' words and continued fighting. Trunks saw this and looked at Terra's grave and sobbed.
"I'm so sorry... I'm so sorry." He cried as his blood red eyes glowed from beneath his hood as he unsheathed the Saishuuheiki from its sheath and looked to the sky. It had begun to rain violently, just as it had the night 18 had raped him. One last tear fell and then Trunks dashed towards Piccolo with even more speed than before and sliced him in half and then destroyed his body.
Goku and the other Trunks saw this and then Kuro laughed.
"I told you he's dangerous. Now its time to use my full power, using only seventy percent on you fools tied you're strength. Isn't that just so disappointing to know?" Kuro grinned as he used his ultra speed and knocked the two warriors to the ground. Trunks watched Kuro do this and shook his head.
"Tenrai Zansatsu!" Trunks called as he pierced Goku with the attack and then destroyed the body just as he did with Piccolo.
"Good, now let me handle this one." Kuro grinned as he moved to finished the other Trunks off. Trunks used his speed and rammed Kuro through several buildings and then turned to the other version of himself.
"Your attack killed her... you call me a monster but you kill an innocent human being... but ion a way no ones innocent... neither are you or anyone on this planet or any other. You all are responsible for her death. Because you all have happiness and that happiness comes at a price to me and only me, for destiny has decreed that if you all have happiness I must suffer. That's the conclusion I've come to. While you celebrated the defeat of the androids, I was being brutally beaten and abused by them. I can never have peace but because you have destroyed my only chance at it, I will destroy everything you hold dear, but you won't be around to suffer that pain, only I should have to feel such pain, only me." Trunks concluded and then disappeared
"Tenrai Satsu!" Trunks yelled as he dived from the sky and slammed his sword upon the head of his counter-part sliccing him in half perfectly and then blasting his remains into oblivion.
Kuro blasted out of the ruble and then looked at his apprentice and yelled.
"He was for me to kill you twit!" Kuro yelled as he rammed Trunks into a building. Trunks kick Kuro off of him and shook his head.
"No, his life was decided once he remained here past the deadline I had set. I warned him the anyone that stayed here would die and so he has." Trunks stated and then looked at Kuro.
"So you think you're going to kill me!? Fool you're in over your head!"
"No, it is you who is in over his head... I thank you for taking me away from that hell in which I live but, I must punish you for your quest for revenge is what killed her. I love her now and forever and if I let you live I'll be betraying my love for her... I know its hard to understand but you must die." Trunks stated as his eyes turned back to their normal blue color.
Kuro growled and then attacked his apprentice who attacked as well.
At first glance one would believe that the fight was evenly matched but truthfully Trunks was losing. Kuro's attack's were much faster than Trunks' and Kuro was much more skilled than Trunks as well.
"I see that my apprentice has gotten much faster! I'm surprised... and all this time I thought that woman had weakened you. It's quite the opposite! You're much faster and your emotions are accessible!" Kuro laughed as he used the Tenrai Satsu on Trunks.
Trunks jumped out of the way of the attack just before it could do any harm and then performed a Mukizu Shuumatsu, but Kuro deflected the attack and then sent a tirade of energy waves at Trunks knocking him off balance and throwing him into building ruble.
"This is a move I never showed you and rivals that of the Tenrai Zansatsu! The Garyoutensei or Finishing Touch." Kuro grinned as his blade became surrounded with energy and then extended four more feet in length.
"You die here apprentice!!" Kuro dashed at Trunks and then six images of himself appeared as he neared Trunks.
"You see the Garyoutensei uses after images to create multiples of the user. Also it is impossible to tell which one is the true form of the user and so death comes to the opponent before he knows which one to fight!" Kuro laughed as the seven Kuro's surrounded Trunks and then attacked.
Trunks dodged most of the blows but was pierced in his chest by on of the multiples' blades.
"Yes my apprentice each of us are as real as it gets but if you do get lucky and kill one of us, chances are its the decoy and that death won't affect any of us as long as it isn't the real me that is." Each of the Kuro's stated as they all laughed and then got into another attack position.
"Now my apprentice we shall kill you. Prepare yourself for the Kyuukyoku Tenrai Zansatsu! It's the same as a normal Tenrai Zansatsu but you see the Tenrai Zansatsu attacks five times at the same time giving it the name of Divine Massacre, sense there are seven of us, our combined Tenrai Zansatsu becomes the Kyuukyoku Tenrai Zansatsu or Ultimate Divine Massacre, which means you're going to be hit at least thirty-five times in one instant!" The Kuros laughed as Trunks stood to his feet.
"I will not lose Kuro, you have signed you're own death by showing me the Sokushi Satsu." Trunks spoke as he sheathed his Saishuuheiki.
"Fool, you must have extreme emotion to activate such an attack, though we're furious right now our anger and hate still isn't strong enough! You're still controlling you're emotions there's no way you could possibly use the attack!"
"For Terra I will." Trunks said quietly as the seven Kuros became angry.
"FOOL!!! We were mistaken in thinking you were worth being called our prodigy! You're no better than those other weaklings! They've fallen to my blade and now so shall you!!! KYUUKYOKU TENRAI ZANSATSU!!!" The Kuros all phased out of sight.
"Terra... this is for you... love..." Trunks whispered as the closed his eyes. Then when he felt the Kuros rushing towards him Trunks slammed left foot in front of him and spun around while unsheathing his sword at the same time.
As the Kuros rushed at Trunks each one saw that he was performing the Sokushi Satsu perfectly.
"NO THAT ISN'T POSSIBLE!!!" They yelled simultaneously as the force of the attack obliterated the entire city and everything in it.
When the eruption stopped Trunks looked around and let a single tear fall.
"That was for you Terra...." Trunks spoke as he pulled out Kuro's portal machine and then shook his head.
"I must keep my word. I told him I would destroy everything dear to him and that would be this planet and everyone on it." Trunks said as he opened a portal high in the sky and flew up to it. Then he began to create a massive ball of energy above himself and the portal and throw it at the Earth.
"That takes care of that..." Trunks spoke as he drifted into the portal and the energy ball collided with the planet.
END
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PART 8
(END GAME)
Terra and Trunks stared at one another for a moment and finally Trunks spoke in almost a whisper.
"Terra I don't think its safe for you anymore. Kuro... he isn't the kind of person you should ever have top know.... neither am I."
Terra stared at Trunks as tears came to her eyes. She hugged his body tightly and sighed. Trunks tried to speak but his mind wouldn't let him. Now that his feeling were back in control how could he kill these innocent people? Trunks knew now that since he had Terra he didn't need revenge, but at the same time Trunks knew Kuro wouldn't allow him to just walk away from him.
Another moment passed and finally Terra broke the silence.
"Trunks, tell me who and what is that man?" She asked as Trunks sat back on the bed and sighed. He couldn't reveal everything to her, she would leave him and then he would become that monster he once was. He was weak and finally he could accept that. He could finally admit that he was weak, not physically for no other warrior in the universe could beat his speed other than Kuro, but mentally, he had to hide his emotions because he was to weak to control them or cope with them, but now that he had Terra it was different.
Trunks shoke his head but Terra urged him on. She pulled him to his feet and gazed into his eyes. The eyes that were once dark grey had somehow turned to a brilliant blue. She smiled and hugged him once more. Secretly, she hoped that he would reveal his past to her but maybe that would be too painful at such a moment. She, too, had realized that his emotions had no fully awoken and that his heart and his mind were twisted and confused.
"Please Trunks, I know it may hurt, the past I mean, but you have to talk about your pain, if not, then you'll fall back into that pit of hate and pain. I don't want that to happen, I need you, I love you, please talk to me." Terra pleaded as Trunks eyes widened, she loved him, finally someone had cared. Trunks nodded slowly in resignation.
"Eight years ago I met him, Kuro Akuma, it was after the android incident, he came and recruited me." Trunks stopped as he remembered the brutal rape by android 18 and cringed at the thought. Terra squeezed him with a hug of reassurance and Trunks continued.
"He trained me and all throughout that training I lost myself. I slowly let my humanity slip away as I became stronger. He is evil Terra, I don't want to hurt anyone anymore, but he might come after you and I couldn't live another day if that happened..." Trunks began but Terra silence him with a kiss.
"No don't talk like that, no matter what happens we will always be together. My heart and your heart are one in the same, death itself can't seperate us. You'll always be with me as long as I love you and I'll always be with you as long as you love me, understand?" Terra smiled as Trunks nodded and hugged her.
"Thank you, Terra, you've undone the years of pain I've felt for so long and I'm very thankful for that." Trunks smiled as Terra sat on the bed and pulled Trunks down next to her.
"I think that today I should stay with you. I mean work can wait, we need to get more aquatinted." Terra smiled
For hours the two set in the room laughing and showing their love for each other. Several hours after lunch, Trunks again felt Kuro's presence. Trunks pulled out his sword quickly and shielded Terra from Kuro's blade.
"Watch it!!" Trunks exploded as Kuro only laughed.
"I see that emotion isn't so foreign to you now is it apprentice?" Kuro grinned as he eyed Terra.
"I also see that she's changed you... I hope you don't think of betraying me Saishuuheiki. I put a lot of time into training you so that you wouldn't have to fear the world..." Kuro paused and looked at Trunks while he spoke and then back to Terra and continued, "I've done nothing but make you who you are and if I'm not mistaken I am responsible for this happiness you have now." Kuro stated and Terra was immediately up protesting his words.
"How dare you! You used him, you made him into a beast, a monster and you come in here saying that his happiness is because you willed it?!" Terra yelled angrily, suprising both men in the room.
Kuro smiled and nodded. This women knew he could kill her before Trunks could do anything but she still had the guts to stand up to him. Kuro smiled even more, she was unique and that's how she had broken Trunks' emotional barrier, she simply made no sense and to his apprentice, sense was all he had and that explained the complete turn around of his young student.
"Come now, we must go and finish what we started... afterwards after its all over and if you're still alive, I'll let you and your lady friend live in peace.... I'll leave this time and never return and I swear it. So do you still think that what I am about to do is meaningless to you young apprentice?" Trunks gasped as he realized Kuro had read his thoughts. This only made Kuro grin.
"I see you've finally understood that I have more than just fighting abilities. Now come lets get this over with." Kuro said as he lept out the window. Trunks began but Terra grabbed him.
"I'm coming to. If you get hurt I want to be there to help you, please." Terra begged and Trunks shook his head.
"Its too dangerous." Trunks began but Terra shook her head to disagree.
"As long as I am with you I can't be harmed, I love you and I need to be with you right now, I don't want him to trick you again and make you into that monster you once were, please...." Terra clasped her hands together and finally Trunks gave in.
"Fine, but you must stay back and out of the way." Trunks warned and Terra smiled as he lifted her effortlessly from the ground and flew out to Kuro.
"So we're going to have an audience?" Kuro asked and then continued without a reply. "The more the merrier!" He laughed as he, Trunks and Terra blasted off toward the battle area.
Kuro landed in the midst of a city and shook his head in annoyance. He lifted one hand and sent a massive wave of energy towards one of the skyscrapers annihilating the building and all that dwelled in it.
"Why'd you do that?" Trunks yelled angrily as he pushed Terra behind him. Kuro turned and sighed as he looked from Trunks to the sky.
"Well how else do you suppose we call them here?" Kuro asked as he began to ascend into the air to wait for his opponents. Trunks looked at Terra who nodded as he began to ascend himself into the air next to Kuro.
"As soon as this is over you swear to leave?" Trunks asked as he came within feet of Kuro. The man turned and smirked.
"Of course, my foolish apprentice, when have I ever lied to you?" Kuro asked as he turned sharply in the opposite direction. Trunks looked over his shoulder and saw five figures approaching. As the figures got closer Trunks could make out the face of one of them, it was himself.
The five fighters stopped in front of Kuro and Trunks and looked at the damage caused. Shock, confusion and anger rose upon the fighters faces and then one of them began to speak.
"Why did you do this these people have done nothing to you?!" It was Goku. Trunks had began to remember each of them, Vegeta his father whom he had never met was floating a few feet from Goku, Piccolo the Namekian was there, There was another whom looked like Gohan but younger and last there was him. The Trunks of that time who was much older stared back at his couterpart in total confusion.
"Ah, you must be Goku! It is a pleasure to finally meet you." Kuro bowed as he smirked. Trunks on the other hand only could stare at his older self. His eyes then cut back to Terra who was safely hiding behind some ruble.
"Where's Gohan?" The older Trunks asked as he regained himself and began powering up. Kuro grinned and pointed to his apprentice.
"He took care of him last night. That fool's in another dimension." Kuro grinned as Goku gasped in anger.
"GOHAN!!!!" Goku yelled as he turned towards Trunks with pure anger. The older Trunks calmed Goku down and then spoke.
"I won't let this world be haunted by anymore evil. The people of Earth have felt enough pain and suffering. You two will die." He vowed as Trunks unconsciously moved back. Kuro on the other hand only laughed.
"No, fool it is you who will pay!! For what you did to me so many years ago! They were my family and you killed them both!!!" Kuro yelled as he erupted with power. The older Trunks thought for a moment and then a look of understanding appeared on his face.
"You're that freak the andriods raised." He stated as Goku, Vegeta, Piccolo and the other young warrior took fighting stances.
"Yes, it is me Kuro and now I'll geet my revenge for the years of pain I've felt because of you." Kuro grinned as Trunks only floated backwards more.
Trunks was in shock. Everything from his meeting to Kuro to the rigorous training, it was all in the name of Kuro's revenge, not his own. Trunks felt betrayed and at the same time he understood.
Kuro turned slightly to Trunks who was still registering everything and spoke.
"This is my apprentice, I trained him into what he is today, the perfect killer though he has lost his main asset he is still unrealistically powerful. We'll kill you and then I'll let him do with this place whatever he wants!" Kuro laughed. Trunks on the other hand was confused he didn't want to do anything with the planet, he just wanted to be with Terra in peace.
The older Trunks along with Vegeta and Goku attacked Kuro while Piccolo stared Trunks down.
"So you think that you can get away with killing Gohan, uh?" Piccolo asked as Trunks looked at the ground for Terra who was still hiding. He sighed in relief and then face Piccolo.
"I don't want to fight you, I'm sorry for what I've done." Trunks said, but Piccolo roared in anger.
"DAMN YOU!!! We can't revive him and you think that 'sorry' will fix everything?" Piccolo yelled as he powered up. Trunks nodded answering Piccolo's question.
"I can do nothing more than that, you have to be satisfied." Trunks spoke sadly.
Terra had been watching everything and saw that someone was sneaking up behind Trunks. Shock prevented her from speaking so she continued to watch.
Piccolo began to move foward and Trunks pulled out his blade as a warning sign to Piccolo.
"Please I don't want to have to use this. Stay back please." Trunks begged as he looked down once again for Terra and saw a look of horror on her face.
Terra looked straight into Trunks' eyes and screamed.
"Trunks behind you!!!" Immediately Trunks turned and performed the Mukizu Shuumatsu on the fighter and pinned him into the side of a building. Piccolo yelled in shock causing Goku and the others to look up from they're fight and watch in horror.
"GOTEN NOT YOU TOO!!!" Goku yelled as Trunks' eyes widened realizing that the young man was another of Goku's sons. He pulled his bloody blade out of Goten's chest and turned to the others in shock.
"I didn't mean to it was an accident." Trunks spoke as the older Trunks yelled loudly as he powered up even more. Vegeta and Goku did the same as well as Piccolo.
Trunks looked at the four warriors and then to Kuro who waited for them to finish. Trunks shook his head in confusion and flew back to Terra.
"Don't worry, Trunks, we can explain it wasn't your fault, we can make them see you're not a monster, don't worry, calm down please." Terra begged and Trunks slowly began to regain his sanity.
"See I told you he was dangerous." Kuro grinned. Trunks looked up at him with disgust.
"No... I'm not a killer... not anymore... I just want to be left alone, please!!" Trunks begged to four fighters who had finished reaching their full power.
"We can't let someone who's been contaminated by the evil of the androids live here." Goku said with his eyes closed. His power level in level three of Super Saiyan was much greater than anything Trunks had ever felt. Goku then appeared right in front of Trunks.
Trunks fell backwards and began to shake. Not even his speed was capable of contending with Goku's. Terra ran to Trunks' side and wrapped her arms around his shoulders.
"Please, stop, he didn't mean to kill Gohan or you're other son, Kuro tricked him, please you can't...." Terra began but Goku ignored her.
"He may have been tricked but we can't take that chance, if you are honestly good, please forgive me. We can't let any risks like yourself survive." Goku said as he lifted his palm and energy began to circle his hand.
"Terra get out of here. Please go." Trunks yelled as Terra shook her head.
"I'm staying with you no matter what." She protested. Trunks nodded and then squeezed her hand. Kuro had been watching and used this chance to take Vegeta out permanently.
"Nenshou Batsuro!!!" Kuro yelled as Vegeta's body sliced in half. The older Trunks turned saw this and yelled in pure anger as he rushed at Kuro who was ready and the two began to zip across the sky causing massive explosions throughout the entire city and sky.
Goku jumped into the air to help the older Trunks as Piccolo kept his eye on Trunks.
Trunks shook his head and hugged Terra.
"I'm so sorry, Terra, this is all my fault please don't hate me. Trunks begged as Terra shook her head.
"I could never hate you I love you too much Trunks." She sobbed and returned the hug.
"I love you too Terra." Trunks cried. Trunks opened his eyes and then looked up as a massive energy wave rocketed toward himself and Terra.
"No." Trunks whispered as Terra too, noticed the ball of energy. Trunks tried to get Terra out of the way but as soon as he stood to his feet the energy wave exploded.
In the sky Kuro laughed as he had watched the older Trunks' attack barely miss him and collide with the ground below.
"You almost had me, but I won't be that easy to kill Trunks!!" Kuro laughed as the older Trunks, pulled out a sword and dashed at Kuro.
Goku and Piccolo had watched the energy attack hit Trunks and Terra and both men believed that the attacked killed them both and so they flew higher into the sky to help fight Kuro. As the two flew closer to the clouds Kuro was sent hurling towards the ground below. The impact he made casued a huge crater. The older Trunks appeared next to Goku with tears in his eyes over the lose of his father and began to send countless energy waves towards the crater destroying and even larger portion of the city.
The older Trunks stopped and tried to take deep breathes. His father and both of his best friends were dead, it was almost just like fighting the androids again. Goku had seen the pain in the warrior's eyes and tried to consol him but couldn't for his loss was just as great.
"That monster!" Piccolo growled as he closed his eyes to fight back any tears. The older Trunks and Goku couldn't fight the tears back as they fell continuously.
Slowly, the ruble began to move as a figure reached his hand out and struggled to free himself from the debris.
"Someones still alive down there." Goku noted as he felt a power level below.
"Get ready." the older Trunks ordered as the figure erupted from the debris and flew onto flatter ground ready to continue the unfinished fight.
"I thought you killed him Trunks?" Goku asked but the older Trunks shook his head. Kuro was smiling for he had just survived his rival's strongest attack.
"I see that you're losing you touch!" Kuro yelled from below as Trunks, Goku, and Piccolo landed on the ground and glared at Kuro with pure hatred.
Just as the fight was going to begin again the ground beneath the fighters began to shake. Then an eruption occured and Trunks pulled himself and Terra out of the ruble. Trunks laid her down on the ground and shook her.
"Terra wake up please.... please Terra... I need you.....I'm....I'm weak... Don't be.... don't be...." Trunks began to cry and hug Terra's limp body.
Kuro and the other fighters looked at the scene and then back to each other.
"Well I think you three should be joining her." Kuro laughed as he attacked. The older Trunks and Goku both attacked Kuro as Piccolo looked at the younger Trunks as he held Terra's body.
"If you ask me this is what you deserve." Piccolo called out and Trunks immediately stopped crying. He half turned to Piccolo and shook his head.
"I never deserved this!" Trunks yelled in agony. Moments after, Kuro and the other two fighters parted and then continued their battle. Trunks looked at Terra's body and shook his head sadly.
"I only wanted.... to be happy.... why must I suffer? Why is it that I must be the one to constantly feel pain? Why can't my life be normal?" Trunks asked as tears streamed his face and he began to recall his time spent with Terra.
~~~~~Flashbacks~~~~~
"You're handsome and you're not like all the others, I just hoped that maybe this time it could..." Terra laughed uneasily as her cheeks turned redder, if it were possible and her smiled widened. Trunks laid back against the tree and nodded in compliance with the answer.
Then when he found out about how she was raped-
"I know its insane, but everyone deserves a second chance... if he were punished, he would have never had a chance at life, who am I to take away another person's chance at life?" Terra asked
"If everyone got revenge on one another there would be constant fighting. And why must I be weak for thinking that everyone can change?" Terra asked
Then when he had killed Gohan she still had stuck by him-
"Trunks, don't worry, we can just hide their bodies and no one has to know..." Terra started
"Trunks, I understand.... but I don't agree with you. Hurting others isn't right. What you did tonight was wrong ... but its in the past now. Its time to move on, together we can move on." Terra stood by his side and hugged his arm hard.
"You don't have to hurt anymore and neither do I. We can live together and be happy. No more sadness, no more hurt, just happiness, just the two of us." Terra whispered softly as she slowly pulled him to the bed.
And finally when she told him that she loved him-
"I don't want that to happen, I need you, I love you"
~~~~Flashbacks Ends~~~~
Trunks' eyes slowly began to glow.
"I never deserved pain.... or....love..... destiny hates me....." He stated as he stood to his feet. Kuro, Goku, Piccolo and the other Trunks watched him as his power began to rise rapidly. Trunks reached level two of Super Saiyan and his eyes began to turn blood red.
"Who did this?" Trunks asked in a whisper as Goku and Piccolo remained quiet. Kuro thought for a moment and then begun to laugh.
"My apprentice, I know how it happened! This fool tried to hit me with his attack and it missed and hit the two of you!" Kuro grinned believing that would cause his apprentice to lose it, but that never happened. Instead Trunks faced them as his pupils glowed dark red and placed his hood over his head.
"We are all monsters. Monsters that must be punished. I will never hate you for Terra would never want that. Instead I will give you a second chance. Leave this place now and you will live, but remain and I will kill you all..." Trunks spoke softly as he knelt beside Terra and created a burial place for her.
"I'll give you one minute to leave. This is your only second chance so please take it, your lives are in your own hands, just as Terra would want." Trunks continued as he began to bury his only love. He said a prair and the look up.
Goku and the others hand ignored Trunks' words and continued fighting. Trunks saw this and looked at Terra's grave and sobbed.
"I'm so sorry... I'm so sorry." He cried as his blood red eyes glowed from beneath his hood as he unsheathed the Saishuuheiki from its sheath and looked to the sky. It had begun to rain violently, just as it had the night 18 had raped him. One last tear fell and then Trunks dashed towards Piccolo with even more speed than before and sliced him in half and then destroyed his body.
Goku and the other Trunks saw this and then Kuro laughed.
"I told you he's dangerous. Now its time to use my full power, using only seventy percent on you fools tied you're strength. Isn't that just so disappointing to know?" Kuro grinned as he used his ultra speed and knocked the two warriors to the ground. Trunks watched Kuro do this and shook his head.
"Tenrai Zansatsu!" Trunks called as he pierced Goku with the attack and then destroyed the body just as he did with Piccolo.
"Good, now let me handle this one." Kuro grinned as he moved to finished the other Trunks off. Trunks used his speed and rammed Kuro through several buildings and then turned to the other version of himself.
"Your attack killed her... you call me a monster but you kill an innocent human being... but ion a way no ones innocent... neither are you or anyone on this planet or any other. You all are responsible for her death. Because you all have happiness and that happiness comes at a price to me and only me, for destiny has decreed that if you all have happiness I must suffer. That's the conclusion I've come to. While you celebrated the defeat of the androids, I was being brutally beaten and abused by them. I can never have peace but because you have destroyed my only chance at it, I will destroy everything you hold dear, but you won't be around to suffer that pain, only I should have to feel such pain, only me." Trunks concluded and then disappeared
"Tenrai Satsu!" Trunks yelled as he dived from the sky and slammed his sword upon the head of his counter-part sliccing him in half perfectly and then blasting his remains into oblivion.
Kuro blasted out of the ruble and then looked at his apprentice and yelled.
"He was for me to kill you twit!" Kuro yelled as he rammed Trunks into a building. Trunks kick Kuro off of him and shook his head.
"No, his life was decided once he remained here past the deadline I had set. I warned him the anyone that stayed here would die and so he has." Trunks stated and then looked at Kuro.
"So you think you're going to kill me!? Fool you're in over your head!"
"No, it is you who is in over his head... I thank you for taking me away from that hell in which I live but, I must punish you for your quest for revenge is what killed her. I love her now and forever and if I let you live I'll be betraying my love for her... I know its hard to understand but you must die." Trunks stated as his eyes turned back to their normal blue color.
Kuro growled and then attacked his apprentice who attacked as well.
At first glance one would believe that the fight was evenly matched but truthfully Trunks was losing. Kuro's attack's were much faster than Trunks' and Kuro was much more skilled than Trunks as well.
"I see that my apprentice has gotten much faster! I'm surprised... and all this time I thought that woman had weakened you. It's quite the opposite! You're much faster and your emotions are accessible!" Kuro laughed as he used the Tenrai Satsu on Trunks.
Trunks jumped out of the way of the attack just before it could do any harm and then performed a Mukizu Shuumatsu, but Kuro deflected the attack and then sent a tirade of energy waves at Trunks knocking him off balance and throwing him into building ruble.
"This is a move I never showed you and rivals that of the Tenrai Zansatsu! The Garyoutensei or Finishing Touch." Kuro grinned as his blade became surrounded with energy and then extended four more feet in length.
"You die here apprentice!!" Kuro dashed at Trunks and then six images of himself appeared as he neared Trunks.
"You see the Garyoutensei uses after images to create multiples of the user. Also it is impossible to tell which one is the true form of the user and so death comes to the opponent before he knows which one to fight!" Kuro laughed as the seven Kuro's surrounded Trunks and then attacked.
Trunks dodged most of the blows but was pierced in his chest by on of the multiples' blades.
"Yes my apprentice each of us are as real as it gets but if you do get lucky and kill one of us, chances are its the decoy and that death won't affect any of us as long as it isn't the real me that is." Each of the Kuro's stated as they all laughed and then got into another attack position.
"Now my apprentice we shall kill you. Prepare yourself for the Kyuukyoku Tenrai Zansatsu! It's the same as a normal Tenrai Zansatsu but you see the Tenrai Zansatsu attacks five times at the same time giving it the name of Divine Massacre, sense there are seven of us, our combined Tenrai Zansatsu becomes the Kyuukyoku Tenrai Zansatsu or Ultimate Divine Massacre, which means you're going to be hit at least thirty-five times in one instant!" The Kuros laughed as Trunks stood to his feet.
"I will not lose Kuro, you have signed you're own death by showing me the Sokushi Satsu." Trunks spoke as he sheathed his Saishuuheiki.
"Fool, you must have extreme emotion to activate such an attack, though we're furious right now our anger and hate still isn't strong enough! You're still controlling you're emotions there's no way you could possibly use the attack!"
"For Terra I will." Trunks said quietly as the seven Kuros became angry.
"FOOL!!! We were mistaken in thinking you were worth being called our prodigy! You're no better than those other weaklings! They've fallen to my blade and now so shall you!!! KYUUKYOKU TENRAI ZANSATSU!!!" The Kuros all phased out of sight.
"Terra... this is for you... love..." Trunks whispered as the closed his eyes. Then when he felt the Kuros rushing towards him Trunks slammed left foot in front of him and spun around while unsheathing his sword at the same time.
As the Kuros rushed at Trunks each one saw that he was performing the Sokushi Satsu perfectly.
"NO THAT ISN'T POSSIBLE!!!" They yelled simultaneously as the force of the attack obliterated the entire city and everything in it.
When the eruption stopped Trunks looked around and let a single tear fall.
"That was for you Terra...." Trunks spoke as he pulled out Kuro's portal machine and then shook his head.
"I must keep my word. I told him I would destroy everything dear to him and that would be this planet and everyone on it." Trunks said as he opened a portal high in the sky and flew up to it. Then he began to create a massive ball of energy above himself and the portal and throw it at the Earth.
"That takes care of that..." Trunks spoke as he drifted into the portal and the energy ball collided with the planet.
END
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