Title: Finding the Sun
Author: AznSage
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue.
Pairings: GokuKonzen/KonzenGoku
Rating: PG-13
Note: Goku POV. And yay for me reading most of the original again. Refreshes my memory. Sorta. Not really. Un-beta-ed. Couldn't get a beta for now -.-''
The creature shrieked as the kekkai was released. I could feel his thoughts—of gladness, of freedom, of barely concealed pain, but most of all, of revenge. It, no she, was a giant reptile, finally allowed to be standing on her hind legs to her full height. She gnashed her teeth and roared fiercely, the muscles along her back rippling as she stretched languidly. She wanted blood, and conveniently so, that dragon, Goujun, was right in her line of sight. She would not attack Ten-chan for freeing her, nor would she go for those who seemed to be behind him. She was not stupid, she knew not to bite the hand that frees you.
I turned anxiously towards Goujun to see his reaction. It wasn't really that I cared for what would happen to him, but more out of that childish curiosity building in me to know what this commander would do to deflect an attack from one of my brethren.
But it was then...
Then, that I had noticed it.
"Oi! Stop!" I sprinted away from Konzen, unheeding to the calls of my name and quickly covered the short distance between myself and Goujun. She was big, which made her much slower than me. There was no way I was letting her kill Goujun. Something just told me I couldn't let that happen. "Stop!" I waved my hands with as much energy as I could muster and jumped up and down to try and attract her attention. But she wouldn't, she was still charging towards him, towards us. So I did the only thing I could think of.
I screamed.
"I said..."
"STOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!"
She paused dead in her tracks, a few feet in front of me, covering the rest of the distance and then sniffed me cautiously. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Konzen wanting to move towards me, but Ten-chan kept a hand on him. Glad to know someone had enough confidence in me and wasn't so stubborn as to ignore that fact.
I patted her gently on the head as she leaned down towards me, though I had to stand on my tippy toes to do so. "It's okay...we won't hurt you. We weren't the ones to have made you stay here." Idly, I wondered why exactly I was bothering to even protect someone I barely knew.
"Goku!" Konzen ran over, obviously quite annoyed that I had once again ignored his commands. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He glared at the creature, daring it to even try and sniff him.
"It's okay, that's only Konzen, he wouldn't hurt a fly." I smiled at her, then turned back to Konzen and grinned sheepishly. "Sorry Konzen, but..." I thumbed at Goujun behind me. "He doesn't really deserve being the end of her misdirected rage."
Konzen just sighed at me and put a hand to his head, obviously having an imminent headache from my antics. "Whatever. Just...stop wasting time."
I ran after him as he started to move away from Goujun and the creature by him. Ten-chan and Ken nii-chan had started to surround him so figure out what to do. He stood proudly but made no move to resist. He knew when he was outnumbered.
I looked at Konzen sullenly. Was he still mad? From what anyway? It's just so hard to understand what's going on in that mind of his. But still, he just stood there with his eyes closed, waiting.
Snatches of the conversation occurring right by me seeped through the screams of my brethren in my head and I turned to look at what they were going to do with Goujun.
"We could always bring him along..."
"Tenpou, what the fuck do you think you're doing? We can't bring this shit head along! He'll leak to the higher ups where we are and what we're doing!"
"Kenren, I understand your concern but I don't think he is one to consider betraying us. He has more honor than that."
"Kenren Taisho, if it pleases you to know that I am not going to betray you, then I will swear it by my family's name. Think of it as a debt I owe your little friend for saving me."
"Besides, Kenren, I highly doubt that Goujun is even here for the purpose of protecting Tenkai." He adjusted the glasses on his nose calmly before looking up again. "No man at this level of power is seeking to be a dog for the military. He must have an ulterior motive for trying to stop us at here and at this level of danger as well. Besides, why else would he kill that guard?"
"Perceptive as always, Tenpou Gensui." His facial expression never shifted once, always remaining passive. "Very well, if it pleases you to know..."
However, his sentence was cut off by the sound of many men coming towards us. The sheer amount of them set off my senses. I wasn't even close with any of them, but the numbers were just so great...that I could feel it all. That urgency. That dangerous urgency that men held when something unknown to them was coming. No, not something unknown, the end of it all.
"Shit, Tenpou, we gotta move our asses!" "I guess we should save the reasoning for later, Goujun. Please, you first." Ten-chan's overtly calm manner could put off anyone but Goujun was equally icy back at him. It was a bit disconcerting, since I had not seen Ten-chan so tense for such a long period of time before. It was always just on and off with him. Or he'd at least smile at me to reassure me. But he lacked that now. There was something far sinister lurking beneath him and I just had a feeling that he was about to show us what he was truly capable of.
"C'mon, kid, there's no way we're letting you at the end. You and Konzen can be escorted off first." Ken nii-chan gently pushed me towards the awaiting hallway that led to the South Gate of Tenkai. "The sooner you're outta here, the less trouble there may be. Hell, if we're lucky, they won't even notice you're gone."
"Wait a moment, Kenren." Ten-chan grabbed Ken nii-chan a bit roughly to catch his attention and swerved him around with one fluid movement. "Goku stays with me. Bring Konzen down with Goujun first. I need to use Goku to stop the guards and leave a mess in Tenkai like I said I would." Ken nii- chan opened his mouth to protest, but it was cut short by the pointed look sent to him from Ten-chan. "Trust me on this one, Kenren."
Ken nii-chan just dropped his shoulders and submitted to it. "I just don't think Konzen there will like that idea very much. But I'll just tell him someone else is bringing Goku down. Maybe he'll believe that." He clamped his arms on Ten-chan's shoulders, one on each, and strained a smile at him. "Just be careful."
"Have I ever been?" Ten-chan answered in jest. "Don't worry, I'll see you on the other side."
"You better, or I'm going to prematurely charge Tenkai just to get your ass back out."
More clatter outside. The call of soldiers to their general. It was time to separate.
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Just go now." He patted Ken nii-chan twice heartily on the back and turned back around. "Come on, Goku, we have some work ahead of us."
I nodded at him and hugged Ken nii-chan's leg tightly, and then hugged the other one. "The second one's for Konzen, so be sure to send him that message, okay?"
Ken nii-chan ruffled my hair and said "Sure kid." Then ran off in the direction towards the darkness, where Konzen was already awaiting him with some of his soldiers. I saw Konzen make some angry remarks at Ken nii-chan and then flat out refuse to go with him.
He started to stomp in my direction. "You stupid monkey! What the hell do you think you're doing, staying here?! It's dangerous, just let Tenpou handle it, he knows what he's doing! You'll just get in the way!" You'll just get hurt. I heard that second part of Konzen in my head again, begging me not to go. The intensity of it was starting to hurt my head.
"Please, Konzen." Ten-chan turned to him and solemnly stared at him. "I don't ask for much. But I absolutely need Goku here. Right. Now."
"Yeah Konzen!" I struck up my courage to try and convince him, there seemed no other way to do this. "I can help protect you guys! Let me! I can't just let these guys beat you up because of me! I'm already causing trouble for all of you now! Just please please please let me help Ten-chan!"
"Alright, alright! Geez, kid, you always talk a lot."
I smiled back at him. A combination of the talking and smiling innocently always seemed to work on Konzen. "I promise I'll find you later. I promise I won't get hurt. And I promise to bring Ten-chan back with me."
"And I promise I'll bring him to you if it costs me every bone in my body."
Konzen stared at the two of us angrily. There was obviously no way that he could bring us back with him now. There were too many guards. I could see him contemplating the decision of just dragging our bodies down with him from Tenkai but that wasn't really an option.
"Konzen, there are things that must be done and only Goku and I can do this. Please understand." The guards were approaching faster now, they were ready to attack us at any moment now. I could hear their weapons being hoisted into the ready position. They were passing the slaughter of guards that had occurred before...hopefully that would slow them a bit, there were quite a bit of bodies after all.
"Konzen, what's it going to take to convince you that he'll be okay?"
Konzen sighed. I could see that he knew that there was no other choice but to let us fight them. Or whatever plan Ten-chan had in mind.
"Fine, I'll let him stay with you, but only because it's you Tenpou. If it were anyone else..."
Ten-chan chuckled at that comment. "Yeah, yeah, I get it Konzen. Now just go or you may get hit in the attack."
"And you," he pointed at me to emphasize his point. "Keep. In. Touch." He gave me that look that pretty much said all that he meant. He was only going to go as far as our link would allow. And he wanted in on the action the whole time so that he knew I would be alright.
I nodded at him and smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry, Konzen, I'll remember."
With that, he gave a curt nod to both of us and ran off in the direction that Ken nii-chan did, down that hallway, and into the darkness.
"Are you ready, Goku?" I nodded. "Good, then here's what we're going to do. I'm going to release all the creatures. You are going to communicate with them and tell them to rip apart as much as Tenkai as they can for revenge. Tell the ones that cannot fight or are too young to head down the way we did to go to Earth. Okay?"
I nodded and began. It was difficult to project my mind and thoughts through all their screaming and their agony. But it was going to be over soon. It was hard just soothing them and promising them revenge and freedom, they wanted to see action that this was going to be true.
"Ten-chan, could you start releasing some of them?"
"You have them under control already?" He looked stunned that I had worked so fast.
I shook my head. "Not exactly, but they'll at least listen a bit. They just wanna see that we're not lying. Besides, there are so many of them that you'll need to start now if you want to leave before the...massacre."
"Is it really going to be that serious?"
"Some of them are really angry and they're not going to hold back. Death or freedom this time, there's no going back to being trapped like this."
"Alright, if you say so, then I'll do it." He ran besides the creatures and started to release the kekkai with his own celestial powers.
And just in time too. The guards had just made their way down towards us and were shocked to see two of us still in this room. Orders were shouted down to kill us, but they were too slow.
There were at least two or three of them already running towards them. The rest were slowly being freed, setting up a charge against the guards and ripping through the architecture like it was paper. I could see the smaller ones scampering off in the direction of the dark corridor. Their parents were yelling for me to get out of there as well with Ten-chan. Our job here was done. It was their turn now.
"Ten-chan, let's go! We don't have much time!"
"I know! The walls are going to collapse on this prison soon! The entire will be shaken up by it soon! Let's go!"
We ran towards the exit as fast as we could, the walls shaking, barely holding. The prison was going to collapse soon from the amount of damage my brethren were doing. The screams of the soldiers grew louder and louder. The creatures called to me to tell me to run faster to get out of danger, but there really was no way. Ten-chan and I could only run so fast.
So before we even knew it, we were slung on the backs of one of the larger creatures. You could tell it was still young by its unworn teeth, but it was still large enough to carry a human adult. It gurgled at Tenpou happily and then told me that he would take us where we needed to be.
Before we knew it, we were at the South Gate. The celestial soldiers under Ten-chan that were still there had been slowly leading groups of the creatures down back to Earth.
"Gensui!"
Ten-chan jumped off the creature smoothly and greeted his remaining men, noting how many were left here. "We have to leave as soon as possible. Eventually, they'll send troops down to Earth too and they'll use every exit they have to try and surround us somewhere."
"We will be quick about it, Gensui. We have only two more groups and then every being will have been secured. You can leave with the last group if you wish, Gensui."
"Bring Goku down first. He has done well and I'm sure Konzen would love to see his face again. He doesn't take separation well."
"Yes, Gensui." The soldier bowed quickly before leading me to the group that was about to leave now.
"But Ten-chan, we promised Konzen that we'd be there together! What would Ken nii-chan say if I went back and I wasn't with you?"
"He'll understand. Just go."
"Ten-chan!"
"Goku..."
"No! I'm staying with you!" I broke from the soldier's hold and ran to his side. "There's no way I'm leaving you here! Especially when those creatures only listen to me! What happens if they go so nuts that they forgot you helped them? Then you'd get hurt too!"
He sighed and patted my head, stooping down to my level and then smiling at me that infinitely calm smile. "Alright then, if it makes you feel better that you stay here, then you'll stay here. Let's just get these guys through faster."
I nodded at him and we waited patiently before the two of us transported down with the last group. There was that dizzying feeling again, from being transported by magic from Tenkai to Earth. When I opened my eyes, we were there, amongst a whole group of people, waiting patiently for their Gensui.
And of course, Konzen, who immediately ran to my side when he saw that I was amongst the last group.
"Damnit! I should've figured you guys would be the last to leave! Made me worry for no reason too! And you didn't keep the connection like I told you to! Baka saru!" He bent down and pulled at my cheeks to emphasize his point and I flailed around to get him to stop.
"Ah! Konzen, not in front of everyone! And I'm sorry I forgot! Speaking to all those creatures is really really hard! Ah! Konzen! Stop!"
He let me go and stood at his full height, crossing his arms over his chest and glaring at me. "Fine. Just don't think too hard...you may snap your mind."
His voice had taken that unreadable quality and I rubbed my cheeks sorely. "I'll be good, Konzen. I promise."
He just turned, not facing me again.
"Alright people." Ten-chan was back at the head of this ordeal. "We need somewhere to hide and to plan our attack. But seeing as how we're not really from around here, it's a bit difficult to do something like that."
"We could always just crash at some town and maybe they'll bow at our feet because of our deity status." Ken nii-chan suggested, while taking out a cigarette to smoke on now that the coast was clear and everyone was safe and within his sight.
"No, I don't want to involve civilians. When they find us, they'll flatten that town. It won't do for us to seem like the harbinger of death."
"We could always hide at my father's palace." We all turned at that voice. Goujun...was helping us?
End Part XIII
Hey! I bet you all thought I was dead! Well, seeing as how summer is here now, I can update! Wheeeeee! The next part won't take very long to finish, probably. As always, thanks to reviews from Ashen Skies (Goujun's actions will be completely explain when they are not in a dangerous place. As for the kekkai thing, I was just making a generic statement about Tenpou randomly picking one of the creatures to use. I made Goku angsty because that's when his mind is fighting with Seiten for control, which will be important later, not now =P The kow-towing I just wanted to use to show the direness of the situation, as in how far Tenpou is willing to go to carry this out. Didn't really mean for OOC-ness .;), gallatica (Goku can still be cute while still kicking ass XD And yes, Goujun is now part of the action! Homura will have to go bye bye for a while now since it's not his part to play right now), Tyath (Thank you! =D), BlueJadeAL (Glad you like! =D), UltraM2000 (Goujun is sort of with them. It's complicated XD Things will be explained though), Bakasaru Boi (Wow you actually went and reviewed the chapters before! /is grateful/ Ahhh I'll be evil again because I always leave it at a cliffhanger), Chaos Eve (Glad you like! =D), and Gingko (Ahhh comments like that won't hurt my feelings =D Thank you very much for the comments! =D).
Yup, I'll be back soon with another chapter before I go on vacation.
Author: AznSage
Disclaimer: Don't own, don't sue.
Pairings: GokuKonzen/KonzenGoku
Rating: PG-13
Note: Goku POV. And yay for me reading most of the original again. Refreshes my memory. Sorta. Not really. Un-beta-ed. Couldn't get a beta for now -.-''
The creature shrieked as the kekkai was released. I could feel his thoughts—of gladness, of freedom, of barely concealed pain, but most of all, of revenge. It, no she, was a giant reptile, finally allowed to be standing on her hind legs to her full height. She gnashed her teeth and roared fiercely, the muscles along her back rippling as she stretched languidly. She wanted blood, and conveniently so, that dragon, Goujun, was right in her line of sight. She would not attack Ten-chan for freeing her, nor would she go for those who seemed to be behind him. She was not stupid, she knew not to bite the hand that frees you.
I turned anxiously towards Goujun to see his reaction. It wasn't really that I cared for what would happen to him, but more out of that childish curiosity building in me to know what this commander would do to deflect an attack from one of my brethren.
But it was then...
Then, that I had noticed it.
"Oi! Stop!" I sprinted away from Konzen, unheeding to the calls of my name and quickly covered the short distance between myself and Goujun. She was big, which made her much slower than me. There was no way I was letting her kill Goujun. Something just told me I couldn't let that happen. "Stop!" I waved my hands with as much energy as I could muster and jumped up and down to try and attract her attention. But she wouldn't, she was still charging towards him, towards us. So I did the only thing I could think of.
I screamed.
"I said..."
"STOOOOOOOOOOP!!!!!"
She paused dead in her tracks, a few feet in front of me, covering the rest of the distance and then sniffed me cautiously. Out of the corner of my eye, I saw Konzen wanting to move towards me, but Ten-chan kept a hand on him. Glad to know someone had enough confidence in me and wasn't so stubborn as to ignore that fact.
I patted her gently on the head as she leaned down towards me, though I had to stand on my tippy toes to do so. "It's okay...we won't hurt you. We weren't the ones to have made you stay here." Idly, I wondered why exactly I was bothering to even protect someone I barely knew.
"Goku!" Konzen ran over, obviously quite annoyed that I had once again ignored his commands. "What the hell do you think you're doing?!" He glared at the creature, daring it to even try and sniff him.
"It's okay, that's only Konzen, he wouldn't hurt a fly." I smiled at her, then turned back to Konzen and grinned sheepishly. "Sorry Konzen, but..." I thumbed at Goujun behind me. "He doesn't really deserve being the end of her misdirected rage."
Konzen just sighed at me and put a hand to his head, obviously having an imminent headache from my antics. "Whatever. Just...stop wasting time."
I ran after him as he started to move away from Goujun and the creature by him. Ten-chan and Ken nii-chan had started to surround him so figure out what to do. He stood proudly but made no move to resist. He knew when he was outnumbered.
I looked at Konzen sullenly. Was he still mad? From what anyway? It's just so hard to understand what's going on in that mind of his. But still, he just stood there with his eyes closed, waiting.
Snatches of the conversation occurring right by me seeped through the screams of my brethren in my head and I turned to look at what they were going to do with Goujun.
"We could always bring him along..."
"Tenpou, what the fuck do you think you're doing? We can't bring this shit head along! He'll leak to the higher ups where we are and what we're doing!"
"Kenren, I understand your concern but I don't think he is one to consider betraying us. He has more honor than that."
"Kenren Taisho, if it pleases you to know that I am not going to betray you, then I will swear it by my family's name. Think of it as a debt I owe your little friend for saving me."
"Besides, Kenren, I highly doubt that Goujun is even here for the purpose of protecting Tenkai." He adjusted the glasses on his nose calmly before looking up again. "No man at this level of power is seeking to be a dog for the military. He must have an ulterior motive for trying to stop us at here and at this level of danger as well. Besides, why else would he kill that guard?"
"Perceptive as always, Tenpou Gensui." His facial expression never shifted once, always remaining passive. "Very well, if it pleases you to know..."
However, his sentence was cut off by the sound of many men coming towards us. The sheer amount of them set off my senses. I wasn't even close with any of them, but the numbers were just so great...that I could feel it all. That urgency. That dangerous urgency that men held when something unknown to them was coming. No, not something unknown, the end of it all.
"Shit, Tenpou, we gotta move our asses!" "I guess we should save the reasoning for later, Goujun. Please, you first." Ten-chan's overtly calm manner could put off anyone but Goujun was equally icy back at him. It was a bit disconcerting, since I had not seen Ten-chan so tense for such a long period of time before. It was always just on and off with him. Or he'd at least smile at me to reassure me. But he lacked that now. There was something far sinister lurking beneath him and I just had a feeling that he was about to show us what he was truly capable of.
"C'mon, kid, there's no way we're letting you at the end. You and Konzen can be escorted off first." Ken nii-chan gently pushed me towards the awaiting hallway that led to the South Gate of Tenkai. "The sooner you're outta here, the less trouble there may be. Hell, if we're lucky, they won't even notice you're gone."
"Wait a moment, Kenren." Ten-chan grabbed Ken nii-chan a bit roughly to catch his attention and swerved him around with one fluid movement. "Goku stays with me. Bring Konzen down with Goujun first. I need to use Goku to stop the guards and leave a mess in Tenkai like I said I would." Ken nii- chan opened his mouth to protest, but it was cut short by the pointed look sent to him from Ten-chan. "Trust me on this one, Kenren."
Ken nii-chan just dropped his shoulders and submitted to it. "I just don't think Konzen there will like that idea very much. But I'll just tell him someone else is bringing Goku down. Maybe he'll believe that." He clamped his arms on Ten-chan's shoulders, one on each, and strained a smile at him. "Just be careful."
"Have I ever been?" Ten-chan answered in jest. "Don't worry, I'll see you on the other side."
"You better, or I'm going to prematurely charge Tenkai just to get your ass back out."
More clatter outside. The call of soldiers to their general. It was time to separate.
"Don't worry, I know what I'm doing. Just go now." He patted Ken nii-chan twice heartily on the back and turned back around. "Come on, Goku, we have some work ahead of us."
I nodded at him and hugged Ken nii-chan's leg tightly, and then hugged the other one. "The second one's for Konzen, so be sure to send him that message, okay?"
Ken nii-chan ruffled my hair and said "Sure kid." Then ran off in the direction towards the darkness, where Konzen was already awaiting him with some of his soldiers. I saw Konzen make some angry remarks at Ken nii-chan and then flat out refuse to go with him.
He started to stomp in my direction. "You stupid monkey! What the hell do you think you're doing, staying here?! It's dangerous, just let Tenpou handle it, he knows what he's doing! You'll just get in the way!" You'll just get hurt. I heard that second part of Konzen in my head again, begging me not to go. The intensity of it was starting to hurt my head.
"Please, Konzen." Ten-chan turned to him and solemnly stared at him. "I don't ask for much. But I absolutely need Goku here. Right. Now."
"Yeah Konzen!" I struck up my courage to try and convince him, there seemed no other way to do this. "I can help protect you guys! Let me! I can't just let these guys beat you up because of me! I'm already causing trouble for all of you now! Just please please please let me help Ten-chan!"
"Alright, alright! Geez, kid, you always talk a lot."
I smiled back at him. A combination of the talking and smiling innocently always seemed to work on Konzen. "I promise I'll find you later. I promise I won't get hurt. And I promise to bring Ten-chan back with me."
"And I promise I'll bring him to you if it costs me every bone in my body."
Konzen stared at the two of us angrily. There was obviously no way that he could bring us back with him now. There were too many guards. I could see him contemplating the decision of just dragging our bodies down with him from Tenkai but that wasn't really an option.
"Konzen, there are things that must be done and only Goku and I can do this. Please understand." The guards were approaching faster now, they were ready to attack us at any moment now. I could hear their weapons being hoisted into the ready position. They were passing the slaughter of guards that had occurred before...hopefully that would slow them a bit, there were quite a bit of bodies after all.
"Konzen, what's it going to take to convince you that he'll be okay?"
Konzen sighed. I could see that he knew that there was no other choice but to let us fight them. Or whatever plan Ten-chan had in mind.
"Fine, I'll let him stay with you, but only because it's you Tenpou. If it were anyone else..."
Ten-chan chuckled at that comment. "Yeah, yeah, I get it Konzen. Now just go or you may get hit in the attack."
"And you," he pointed at me to emphasize his point. "Keep. In. Touch." He gave me that look that pretty much said all that he meant. He was only going to go as far as our link would allow. And he wanted in on the action the whole time so that he knew I would be alright.
I nodded at him and smiled reassuringly. "Don't worry, Konzen, I'll remember."
With that, he gave a curt nod to both of us and ran off in the direction that Ken nii-chan did, down that hallway, and into the darkness.
"Are you ready, Goku?" I nodded. "Good, then here's what we're going to do. I'm going to release all the creatures. You are going to communicate with them and tell them to rip apart as much as Tenkai as they can for revenge. Tell the ones that cannot fight or are too young to head down the way we did to go to Earth. Okay?"
I nodded and began. It was difficult to project my mind and thoughts through all their screaming and their agony. But it was going to be over soon. It was hard just soothing them and promising them revenge and freedom, they wanted to see action that this was going to be true.
"Ten-chan, could you start releasing some of them?"
"You have them under control already?" He looked stunned that I had worked so fast.
I shook my head. "Not exactly, but they'll at least listen a bit. They just wanna see that we're not lying. Besides, there are so many of them that you'll need to start now if you want to leave before the...massacre."
"Is it really going to be that serious?"
"Some of them are really angry and they're not going to hold back. Death or freedom this time, there's no going back to being trapped like this."
"Alright, if you say so, then I'll do it." He ran besides the creatures and started to release the kekkai with his own celestial powers.
And just in time too. The guards had just made their way down towards us and were shocked to see two of us still in this room. Orders were shouted down to kill us, but they were too slow.
There were at least two or three of them already running towards them. The rest were slowly being freed, setting up a charge against the guards and ripping through the architecture like it was paper. I could see the smaller ones scampering off in the direction of the dark corridor. Their parents were yelling for me to get out of there as well with Ten-chan. Our job here was done. It was their turn now.
"Ten-chan, let's go! We don't have much time!"
"I know! The walls are going to collapse on this prison soon! The entire will be shaken up by it soon! Let's go!"
We ran towards the exit as fast as we could, the walls shaking, barely holding. The prison was going to collapse soon from the amount of damage my brethren were doing. The screams of the soldiers grew louder and louder. The creatures called to me to tell me to run faster to get out of danger, but there really was no way. Ten-chan and I could only run so fast.
So before we even knew it, we were slung on the backs of one of the larger creatures. You could tell it was still young by its unworn teeth, but it was still large enough to carry a human adult. It gurgled at Tenpou happily and then told me that he would take us where we needed to be.
Before we knew it, we were at the South Gate. The celestial soldiers under Ten-chan that were still there had been slowly leading groups of the creatures down back to Earth.
"Gensui!"
Ten-chan jumped off the creature smoothly and greeted his remaining men, noting how many were left here. "We have to leave as soon as possible. Eventually, they'll send troops down to Earth too and they'll use every exit they have to try and surround us somewhere."
"We will be quick about it, Gensui. We have only two more groups and then every being will have been secured. You can leave with the last group if you wish, Gensui."
"Bring Goku down first. He has done well and I'm sure Konzen would love to see his face again. He doesn't take separation well."
"Yes, Gensui." The soldier bowed quickly before leading me to the group that was about to leave now.
"But Ten-chan, we promised Konzen that we'd be there together! What would Ken nii-chan say if I went back and I wasn't with you?"
"He'll understand. Just go."
"Ten-chan!"
"Goku..."
"No! I'm staying with you!" I broke from the soldier's hold and ran to his side. "There's no way I'm leaving you here! Especially when those creatures only listen to me! What happens if they go so nuts that they forgot you helped them? Then you'd get hurt too!"
He sighed and patted my head, stooping down to my level and then smiling at me that infinitely calm smile. "Alright then, if it makes you feel better that you stay here, then you'll stay here. Let's just get these guys through faster."
I nodded at him and we waited patiently before the two of us transported down with the last group. There was that dizzying feeling again, from being transported by magic from Tenkai to Earth. When I opened my eyes, we were there, amongst a whole group of people, waiting patiently for their Gensui.
And of course, Konzen, who immediately ran to my side when he saw that I was amongst the last group.
"Damnit! I should've figured you guys would be the last to leave! Made me worry for no reason too! And you didn't keep the connection like I told you to! Baka saru!" He bent down and pulled at my cheeks to emphasize his point and I flailed around to get him to stop.
"Ah! Konzen, not in front of everyone! And I'm sorry I forgot! Speaking to all those creatures is really really hard! Ah! Konzen! Stop!"
He let me go and stood at his full height, crossing his arms over his chest and glaring at me. "Fine. Just don't think too hard...you may snap your mind."
His voice had taken that unreadable quality and I rubbed my cheeks sorely. "I'll be good, Konzen. I promise."
He just turned, not facing me again.
"Alright people." Ten-chan was back at the head of this ordeal. "We need somewhere to hide and to plan our attack. But seeing as how we're not really from around here, it's a bit difficult to do something like that."
"We could always just crash at some town and maybe they'll bow at our feet because of our deity status." Ken nii-chan suggested, while taking out a cigarette to smoke on now that the coast was clear and everyone was safe and within his sight.
"No, I don't want to involve civilians. When they find us, they'll flatten that town. It won't do for us to seem like the harbinger of death."
"We could always hide at my father's palace." We all turned at that voice. Goujun...was helping us?
End Part XIII
Hey! I bet you all thought I was dead! Well, seeing as how summer is here now, I can update! Wheeeeee! The next part won't take very long to finish, probably. As always, thanks to reviews from Ashen Skies (Goujun's actions will be completely explain when they are not in a dangerous place. As for the kekkai thing, I was just making a generic statement about Tenpou randomly picking one of the creatures to use. I made Goku angsty because that's when his mind is fighting with Seiten for control, which will be important later, not now =P The kow-towing I just wanted to use to show the direness of the situation, as in how far Tenpou is willing to go to carry this out. Didn't really mean for OOC-ness .;), gallatica (Goku can still be cute while still kicking ass XD And yes, Goujun is now part of the action! Homura will have to go bye bye for a while now since it's not his part to play right now), Tyath (Thank you! =D), BlueJadeAL (Glad you like! =D), UltraM2000 (Goujun is sort of with them. It's complicated XD Things will be explained though), Bakasaru Boi (Wow you actually went and reviewed the chapters before! /is grateful/ Ahhh I'll be evil again because I always leave it at a cliffhanger), Chaos Eve (Glad you like! =D), and Gingko (Ahhh comments like that won't hurt my feelings =D Thank you very much for the comments! =D).
Yup, I'll be back soon with another chapter before I go on vacation.