Battling Destiny

Pain. It surged through her body. She could feel it eating away at her. Destiny had rejected her and now, now she suffered the price of asking destiny to forgive her. How could she be so naïve? She of all beings should know that destiny does not forgive, nor does it ever forget! It was not kind to those unworthy, and she had just proven herself unworthy. Lady Onra felt a comforting presence near her. Somehow it soothed the pain destiny was inflicting upon her. She heard distant voices as her mind drifted away.

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Goku glared at Riki.

"How could you do this to her?!" The man demanded. Riki smirked.

"I didn't do anything. Destiny rejected her. She tried to regain her power, but she failed." Riki laughed. "I don't know why she would want to fight. I am the future!" Goku almost transformed into a super sayian. Riki smirked as he reached back into his mind and pulled out another power, once more twisting reality.

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Piper kicked Mari. So far, only Goku was not with the unconscious group. Riki had wanted to deal with him personally. Piper smirked to herself before glaring at the goddess at her feet. The walls around them changed into a swirling vortex. Piper laughed as Riki appeared with Goku. They were in a giant cavern. Riki and Goku were at the edge of a huge bottomless lake. On the other side of the lake were gates. The Gates of Destiny. And Lady Onra was halfway push out of the doors. Piper looked over her shoulder as she heard several groans. 'Well, about time these mortals woke.'

"Father!" Gohan yelled as he stood up quickly. A wave of dizziness washed over him but he brushed it off. Soon, the other warriors were up and ready to fight. Mari slowly opened her eyes and saw her companion, Lady Onra. She leapt to her feet and tried to run to her but stopped dead in her tracks when she saw the lake.

"Iie." She whispered. "The Lake of Death."

"What are you waiting for!" Piccolo yelled. Mari looked back at him, somewhat broken.

"Not even I can cross that lake. It sucks the energy right out of you. Then, the souls of the damned come from the depths of hell and pull you down into a underwater prison. You can't even fly over it."

"Got that right! No one can cross that!" Riki laughed. "The only way to get Amaya back is if I chose to change reality again!" Mari glared at Riki.

"You! You are the one that took her! You killed the others!" Mari felt her power increase.

"No." Goku called out. "I want to fight him."

"Kakarot! What makes you say that only you can fight him?!" Vegeta demanded. Goku didn't even look at him.

"Because he hurt my daughter." Goku transformed into a Super Sayian.

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She felt it. That amazing power surged through her mind. He was close! Lady Onra pushed through her mind, trying to find him. Oh, he was so close.

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Piper watched in amusement as Goku flew at Riki and Riki disappeared. The sayian would appear behind him and attack. Riki would once more disappear. She almost laughed. She knew what was going on. Riki was testing his power. He never really had a chance to fight with all his power. She glared over at Mari. The goddess was trying to find a way to Amaya. Her eyes wandered over to Lady Onra and she sneered.

"Why?! Why are you doing this to Onra?!" Goku shouted as he backed away from Riki alittle. Riki smiled.

"Piper, would you like to fill them in, or shall I?" Piper smirked.

"Either way is fine with me, koi." Riki floated away from Goku alittle.

"Well, I think I'll tell it. Thousands of years ago, Piper and I went to the Gates of Destiny. It took us three years to get there."

FLASHBACK

Piper stood with Riki. He wore the same clothes but Piper wore an elegant turquoise dress. She smiled at Riki.

"Riki, we're here, we're finally here!" She cried. Riki smiled at her lovingly. The two lovers grasped each other's hands as they passed through a dense fog. Finally, after what seemed like an eternity, the fog cleared.

"Who dares to enter this sacred land?!" A strong female voice called out. "Who dares to trespass? Who is it that dares to seek Destiny?!" A beautiful woman stepped out into their sight. She had long sky blue hair. It went alittle farther than her waist. Her bangs were longer on the right side and covered up her left eye. All you could see was her right eye. And that was because there was a part in her bangs that was above the right eye so it was able to show. Her eye color was an intense blue. It was darker than the hair color. There was a small tint of turquoise. The eye color was more intense than Lady Onra's. She had peal earrings that were in the shape of a tear drop. Her shirt was styled like a bathrobe almost. But the martial was soft and silky. It was wrapped like a bathrobe. The shirt was red and the ribbon that was like a cored for a bathrobe was a gold color. The sleeves were a white silk and they were see through. The outlining on the shirt was gold. She had two gold bracelets on each wrist. She had black tight pants and gold boots that came up to her knees. The laces on the boots were gold too. In her hands there was a staff. The staff was gold. A giant heart like shape was on top and a blood red gem in it and on the top of the heart. Six huge rings, three on each side. Inside there were metal vines. There was some elegant carvings into the heart shape along with some gems. On the bottom there was a red ruby. At the staff it was large but narrowed into a point, almost like a upside down tear drop. The woman glared at the lovers with intense hate. "No one may come here to seek the knowledge of their Destiny! Not even Tomiko, the Queen of the Gods! As Amaya, the Goddess of Destiny, Guardian of the Gates of Destiny, it is my duty to execute you!" Amaya lifted up her staff. Her sleeves fell back down her arms as she raised her eyes to the staff. She twirled it in the air quickly, soon it was just a blur. "Destructive," She stopped the spin and slammed the staff down to the ground in front of her. She glared at the lovers through the blood red gem. "Destiny!!!!" Piper and Riki felt time stand still for the two. They fall back onto the ground and jerked around violently. Blood dripped from their eyes, noses, and mouths. Their fleshed burned as it was ripped apart. Amaya turned her back to them and moved back to standing in front of the gates. The screams had silenced themselves and Amaya waited in a deadly silence. Soon, her eyes snapped open and her head jerked up. "Iie!" She yelled as a portal formed in front of her. She soon slipped into the portal. Piper lifted her head up the best she could.

"R . . . . Riki . . ." She whispered. The man was lying on the ground, hanging on only by a thread. Piper looked up at the gates. "T . . . there has to be . . . something that will help . . ." She cried to herself as she dragged her mangled body closer to the gates. Blood trailed behind her as she slowly pulled herself there. Suddenly, the room shook with an inhuman scream. The gates burst open and a violent wind tore at her dress. Piper was so close to the gates. She looked up weakly at the crystal tower inside. A faint smile graced her lips. ". . . . that . . . . that has to help . . ." She gasped as pain surged through her body. Piper used the last of her strength to dragged her body to the tower. Two bloody hands reached up to the crystal and pressed against it.

END FLASHBACK

"That day was the day Tomiko allowed the Dragonballs to exist. Amaya left her post." Riki smirked.

"Because Amaya had left her post and had no intentions of going back, Destiny had called out to anyone it could. It allowed me to see the strings it had long created. And I altered it. I gave Riki life. It was a total accident that we became immortal." Piper laughed. "And now, Riki and I will rule the universe!!!" Goku charged at Riki. The self proclaimed god dodged and struck him down. Goku was up in a matter of second.

"Ka-Ma-" Riki appeared in front of Goku and delivered a kick to his face. Goku dug a tench into the ground as he was thrown back. He forced his head up. Riki held his hans back his head. Lightening formed around them as he laughed. His eyes snapped to the side as he saw the other Z-fighters charging at him. He laughed and motioned for Piper to work. Piper smiled as she appeared in front of the ground and held out her hands. Out of the ground rock hands sprang and grabbed the fighters. Gohan and Krillin tried to blast the hands but to no avail. The warriors were been squeezed as Riki continued his fight with Goku. Riki punched the Sayian in the face and appeared behind him and kicked him in the back before Goku had the chance to fly back. Mari stood in front of Goku.

"No!" She yelled. "You will not hurt another living creature! I am the Goddess of Life! I control yours!" She yelled as she held out her hands. A dark pink ball of Ki formed in her hands. "I am Mari! You will not fight mortals! You will learn what the pain of fighting a God!" She released the ball. It grew bigger and bigger as it flew towards Riki and Piper. Both tried to dodge but it split in half and chased the two. Finally, the blast hit the two. Smoke filled the air as Mari let out the breath she was holding. "Finally." She muttered as she sank to the ground. After a moment of quiet, a wicked laughter filled the air.

"Not quite!" Piper yelled as she appeared in front of the goddess. She delivered a kick to Mari's head and raised her fists in the air. She brought them down on Mari. The goddess fell to the ground crumpled up. Piper laughed and held out her hand towards Goku. She blasted the Sayian into the wall. "Ah." Was the only sound heard from her. Piper fell to the ground with a hole blasted in her stomach. Her blood gushed out into the dark water as Riki stood with his hand towards Piper.

"Don't interfere." He hissed. His cold eyes turned back to Goku with a smirk dancing upon his face. "Well, now, where were we?"

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His screams filled her ears. He was in pain. He was doing this for her? No, he wanted to live with his family! It wasn't right! She had to do something!

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Goku screamed in agony as Riki blasted him again. Riki laughed as Goku fell to the hard ground, barely hanging on. No longer was he a Super Sayian. Riki walked up to him slowly.

"So this is the man that considered himself the father of Amaya?!" Riki sneered. "Pathetic! No foul creature could give life to such a Goddess! Amaya is above you! Never think that she would ever except you! I am the only one worthy enough to look at her!" He roared. Riki raised his hand up once more, ready to destroy Goku. "Farewell, filth!"

"PAPA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"