Journey of the Mind



Goku looked at Mari.

"What do you mean?"

"I will tell you back at the place we were originally going to tell." Goku nodded.

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Lady Onra was running. She was in a black void. She was calling out for help. But no one was answering. She finally stopped and fell to her knees. Tears streaked down her face.

"Why are you crying?" Lady Onra looked to where the voice had come. It was the boy who had asked her about her name. She hadn't paid much attention to him before. He had dark brown hair eyes. He was pale, but not too pale.

"Who . . . who are you?"

"My name is Kenji."

"Where are we?"

"We are in the one place that you can never out run."

"What do you mean Kenji?" Kenji laughed alittle.

"Do you remember anything."

"What do you mean?"

"Don't you know what was happening before you came here?" Lady Onra thought for a moment.

"The others! That woman! I have to get back! I have to help them fight!" Lady Onra stood up and looked around.

"Why?"

"What?!" Lady Onra looked at Kenji.

"Why should you go back? You know what the taboos are."

"How . . . how do you . . . "

"Do I what? Know about the taboos? I know everything about you."

"You're not Kenji! You're that Riki person the woman told me about! You're just trying to get to know my weaknesses and then attack. Well it's not going to work!" Kenji chuckled and looked at Lady Onra.

"Iie I am not Riki."

"Then how do you know?"

"Because . . . I am a guide. Sent by your source of power." Lady Onra took a few steps back. She shook her head slowly.

"Sent by my source of power?" Kenji nodded.

"Yes, I was created by it. Like you Lady Onra." Lady Onra shook her head in terror.

"Iie! I was not created! I am a-"

"A what? You are different than the others. They don't have to stay by those gates and guard their power. They don't have any taboos that they can't break. No limits! Are you sure that you are even one of them?" Lady Onra took several more steps back.

"Why are you doing this to me Kenji?!" Kenji took a few steps towards her.

"Because! You have already broken 7 taboos! There is only one taboo that you have not broken!" Lady Onra then became defensive.

"What are you talking about! I only broke 6 of them!"

"Think back to before you left! Think hard!"

"Who are you to talk to me like that! I am like the others! I have taboos because my source of power controls everything! I have power over it! I did not agree to have you created! But if you tell the truth then you will never have the right to speak to me like that! If you know so many taboos that I have broken then you must know why I broke them! Then you know that I had every right to break them! And who made those taboos! I didn't! Now tell me how to get out of here! Or I will break the eighth and finally taboo!" Kenji smiled.

"No you wouldn't. You know the price. Besides, there is only one way out and that is if Piper or Riki awakens you. We are in your mind. Deep in your mind." Lady Onra looked Kenji over.

"If it is my mind then I can get out of it!" Lady Onra turned her back to Kenji and started to walk off.

"Lady Onra!" Lady Onra turned around to look at Kenji.

"What do you want?"

"How do you feel about the Sayian Kakarot?" Kenji cocked his head a bit.

"What do you mean Kenji?"

"You act different around him. Before you ever met him you acted like Amaya. Then you became weak." Lady Onra looked hard at Kenji.

"Acted like Amaya? What do you mean?" Kenji gave alittle chuckle.

"You acted like the others, with the exception of Mari. Then you met that man and you acted like a lost girl." Lady Onra looked at the ground and thought for a moment.

"He was like the father I never had. Everyone I have ever met is always depending on me. With him . . . with Goku . . . I could depend on him. I could rest. I had no responsibility at all. It was a peacefulness that I had never had before. I had always wondered why families stick together. What love is? Goku . . . he is the only family that I have ever know. He acted like a father would. Or atleast what I had seen from most fathers. He loved me for who I am. He didn't expect me to change. He was always worried. And Chichi . . . she was starting to act like a mother to me . . . but for Goku . . . it was right away. For the first time in my entire life . . . " Lady Onra thought for a moment. 'Life? To have a life means that I had to be born . . . and that I will die. But I'm . . .' Lady Onra sighed. "For the first time in my entire being I was able to have a feeling. Love. I was starting to love him like a daughter." Lady Onra looked at Kenji with a look of wanting for someone to understand on her face. Of sorrow and pain, of confusion. "Is it possible?" Kenji took a moment to answer.

"Is is possible . . . to love someone? Yes . . . I know it is. I too love. There is someone who I fell in love with the first time I ever saw her. It was long ago. I was never able to tell her how I felt. I thought she was the most beautiful thing in all the universe. But then one day . . . she disappeared. And I was never able to find her. No matter how hard I looked. I loved her like there was no tomorrow. Now, I wish that I had been able to tell her how I felt. I still feel the same. This man . . . he is now your family. Amaya, Lady Onra, whatever you want to be called, you deserve to have a family. After all you have been through." Lady Onra wiped a single tear from her face.

"Arigatou." She whispered this. Kenji could barely hear her. Kenji opened his mouth to say something. Suddenly Kenji started to fade. Lady Onra reached out to Kenji. But he seemed to go back into the dark. Like Lady Onra was moving back. She started to run towards him. "Kenji! Kenji! Where are you going?! Come back! Come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't want to be alone! Don't leave me!" She heard his voice slightly.

"Lady Onra . . . " It faded. More tears. After a few moments she stopped.

"I am Amaya. I have broken 7 of the 8 devout taboos.
I was never to let mortals have the ability to change their destiny.
I was never to allow anyone who came to learn of there destiny to live.
I was never to leave those gates.
I was never to allow mortals to feed off my power.
I was never to fight.
I was never to train anyone.
I was never to allow anyone to know who I really am.

But I did all those. I let the dragon balls exist. I left the gates after my fight with Tomiko. I let the Sayians feed off my power. I fought them. I trained them. I even allowed them to know who I really am. I was going to tell the warriors of Earth. I battled with Mari. But I don't know who I let live who came to learn of their destiny. There is only one taboo that is not broken. But . . . I must break if what I think is true." Lady Onra put her hands over her face and cried into them. "I have become weak!"

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Piper carried Lady Onra. She was walking down a fancy hallway. It was the one in her dream. But no one was there. Finally after walking for awhile down this giant hallway she came to a room. The hallway just became bigger really. Until it was a room. The room was in a circle. There were four giant statues of red dragons. They were each at a pillar. At the end of the room there were stairs. Only there steps though. And they were in a half circle. On top off the stairs, on the platform they lead up to, there was a giant double door. It was a bright cream brown color. Beside it was two pillars. But on the door there was a symbol right in the center. It was like those curved brackets that had the points. There were two of them. The points faced inward. They were spaced apart. And each curved bracket was cut in two. Cut at the point and space apart alittle. The brackets were a golden yellow. In between the brackets was a bright blue tear drop. On top in between the rackets were three green circles. It was the same on the bottom. The tear drop was right on the crack were the doors would come apart. Piper injected that needle into Lady Onra again and threw her in front of the doors.

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Hey! This is Bulma. Mari shows up and tells us the truth. Lady Onra has a run in with Riki she would prefer not to have. Piper leaves Riki and Lady Onra to fulfill and new mission. But what is a shocker is the truth! I'll need to sit down for this one!