A/N: Oh bugger just read the fic. At this point I really have no idea what genre it goes in, so don't sue me for getting it in the wrong one. Disclaimer today done by Nynaeve al' mera. Same book as the last two 'claimers. Come on people Guess!!!!
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Min: Please.
Nynaeve * tugs on braid * all right but only for that wool headed sheepherder. That boy has an ego the size of Andor, I swear.
Min: You do realize that he's conquered half the continent.
Nynaeve: Oh be quiet
Min: Meep! Okay
Nynaeve: Min doesn't own anything related to DBZ but her fictions. She does own a picture of a heron marked sword. Thank you.
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Chapter 4: Musings
Back down on the planet, in a city now suspended in a perpetual aura of depression, in a hospital not so different from any other sat a very, very confused woman.
" Is some one please going to tell me what is going on?" Said a very drugged, extremely hurt police officer known to most people as Sarah Stromsburg. Nurses hurried by her little enclosure, occasionally glancing at the officer's prone form on the hospital bed.
She couldn't help it. She had one hell of a headache. It felt like…. Almost like she had been flung out of a police cruiser at a very high speed and been dragged across wet pavement. With a shock she realized that she had been. It was practically a miracle that she hadn't died. As a matter of fact, not one person had died in that entire chase. She frowned. Sure there were serious injuries, some quite extensive, but with a 4 car pileup? You expect one or two casualties. But not a single life was lost die to the actions of the criminals that they pursued.
They were the other cause of her headache. They weren't human, she was sure of that. How else could they know so much about her? And, why had they not just killed her, or thrown her body into the river? They were convicted criminals, and She was the only one who could give a positive ID on the perps. It was all too confusing.
A smiling nurse came into the little curtained off area that made up Sarah's hospital room. She was holding a Tray. The things on that tray reminded Sarah vaguely of ancient torture instruments. Sarah suddenly did not trust smiling women holding large stainless steel trays.
" Miss, I would like you to roll over onto your side so I can clean your wounds more thoroughly" the nurse said, picking up various instruments of medicine. Sarah complied, grunting. This was going to be a long day. "Oh dear there seems to be quite a bit of gravel in here. This may take a while. If your Morphine starts to wear out, tell me, but I may not be allowed to administer you more for several hours." Correction. A very, very long day.
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"A Plague of What?"
"Discourtesy. Rudeness" Dende replied in face of his friend's skepticism.
" I'm sorry, but I don't think that you can get plagues of discourtesy. Rats? Sure, Locusts? Even better. Even a plague of Teenage fan girls. But Discourtesy? You have got to be joking Dende." Gohan looked at his guardian Friend.
" I am quite serious Gohan. I want you to go down to Canada to find out about it" Said Dende, using his I'm-your-god-get-used-to-it voice.
"Wait a minute, Canada? Dende, is there something that you aren't telling me? Anyway, shouldn't we be trying to get rid of depression down in Satan city?" Gohan asked. " I don't know about you but I don't think that a that thing running around is a good idea, especially with what Videl told me earlier, about its… effect…. On me". Realization suddenly dawned on the Demi-sayain's face. " You think that there is another one don't you."
Dende only nodded. " I think that they might be the ancient demons of sin, escaped their prison" He was about to continue, when, Videl conveniently happened to fall through the unlocked door.
" Dende. What are you talking about? What demons might these be? Are they what made Gohan sick?" Videl asked, brushing herself off and going to sit on the side of Gohan's bed like it was a perfectly ordinary thing for someone to fall through a door and then join in the conversation. Her eyes dared Dende to say something. He gulped.
"Let me tell you a story…
When the world and the universe first spawned life – gods included, People were happy. There was no war, no law, and absolutely nothing that had remotely to do with an internal or external value system had been created. People did pretty much what they pleased. There was no control.
Now belief is a powerful force. It can create or destroy a god. It can even bring down a nation. People believed that they had a creator, and that he or she was looking down on them. Thus the Kais were born. New Kais spring into existence out of need just in case you were wondering. Anyway, because people could do whatever they wanted, they pretty much ran wild. At first this was a fine and happy arrangement. But as the peoples of each and every species matured and grew, they began to think about things such as violence and war, of possessions and property. Because they believed that this was a real and tangible thing, it became so.
Thus the first demon of sin was created. Others soon followed. They fed off of the evil and horror that they people created and they grew in power. The Kai's tried to destroy them, but they had become part of every living creature. That was until Suian came along.
She was one of the most intelligent kais ever to rule the universe. She thought, that because the demons could not be destroyed, then they would just have to be imprisoned. Each of the demons she cornered and captured, forcing them into kind of a trans-dimensional pocket. A bud universe if you will. Then, after all the demons were confined, she shut the door. Locked it, but didn't throw away the key.
That is when the demon prophecy was made. She knew that they would break free eventually. There were rumours that she knew when. It was when she took the young kai Shin through the door to meet the demons; every one knew she was right. Chaos predicted that they would break free during Shin's Reign as Supreme kai. Some would have kept him from becoming Kai at all but then Majin Buu came and killed all the others. You know that story though." Dende finished his speech.
Gohan and Videl stared in a rapt silence, a thoughtful expression gracing the faces of the two teens. Dende started to fidget a little. Had he made a mistake in telling them? He wondered. :: no:: he decided. A determined look had settled upon their faces.
" So they have broken free then," Gohan said, quietly, heavily.
" How do we get them back?" Videl asked, " Back where thy belong?" Dende sighed heavily.
" I do not know. They cannot be killed. Their power is immense, but quite different then yours. There are rules though. The first being that they cannot directly harm any thing not of the spiritual world."
" But if they can't hurt us, then why are they such a threat?" Gohan asked
" They have powers over the mind and body. They could reach inside your head and force you to hurt someone else. Or they can alter your brain patterns so that you will start acting violently, or start stealing compulsively." Dende answered. " A subtle poison"
Gohan shuddered. He had felt the effects of the demons all to recently. Videl unconsciously pushed a blanket around Gohan's shoulders. Dende smiled briefly to himself. Videl and Gohan commented each other so perfectly. They just didn't realize it yet.
" Then how can thy be captured? How can the even be stopped? If they can control our minds…" Videl said almost to herself.
" If you can directly oppose them, or their nature, then they loose some of their power. Depression must be fought with happiness, Chaos with order, Lust with willpower, Discourtesy with good manners"
" You want me to fight them." Gohan said hollowly. Them memory of despair crept over him again. That feeling of just being looked at depression still lingered deep in his heart. It turned his bones to lead, filled his stomach with sand. Videl could see the hopelessness building in his eyes. :: That first encounter must really have got to him::
" You don't have to decide right away," Dende told him. "But decide soon, before they get a real hold on the world."
"It's alright. I'd better do it; it's just that I'd hoped that we'd get some sort of a break after Majiin Buu. But the world just seems to want to dump everything on me"
"Gohan!! I refuse to hear you just give in like that. There is still hope; besides, you aren't going to do this alone. I'm going with you " Videl decided.
" NO!"
" Why not?"
"Because… I don't want you to get hurt Videl"
" I won't get hurt. Besides, I am not letting you do this alone. Bulging muscles won't do you much good in this fight."
" But what if I… What if one of them makes me hurt you? What if I can't control myself?"
" Gohan you don't understand. This is my chance, to do something that really matters" She shifted so that she grasped both of his hands. " Do you remember what I told you on the way up here?" she asked suddenly. Gohan looked rebellious but calmed.
" I suppose that you're right. I still wish that you were staying here though, where you would be safe from Them" He paused, " Dende what do you expect us to do when we actually get there?"
" Resist."
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"They're… gone"
A wind blew across the long grasses and ruffled the pristine lake. It was unfelt however by the speaker. He was somewhere else. The walls and floor kept shifting their colour and pattern. Everything was less pristine, less well kept since it had last been visited. No one had ever really had a reason before.
Shin stood and surveyed the room that had once held a host of demonic creatures of sin. But they weren't there! It was empty. Silent.
" I don't understand! The door was closed! It was locked when we got here."
" Master, is there perhaps, another way out?" Kibito asked, staring in a combination of wonder and horror at the place he found deep inside his planet.
" No, there is no other way. The only exit or entrance was the door, and the only key I hold in my hands right now"
Not the door…
" What did you say Kibito?"
"Nothing Master, I said nothing"
There was an opening…Oh yes. Quite recent. An explosion. They said I couldn't come. Said that the universe was to clean for me now. Forgotten I was. Lost my power.
"Do you hear that?"
" Yes"
You won't be needed Pestilence, they say. Come with us once we have gained some of the world for corrupting. Then you can come. They say, they say. They will never come back. They leave me here striped of my power and go them selveses. They will never come back. No corruption. None for me…
"How did they get out?" Shin asked quietly
A hole, a crack in the prison. The Planet shook, they were fighting. Almost destroyed the planet. But they pierced it, left a hole in our prison. Cracked it, just enough to tear. Stole my power to do it. They tore open the hole and escaped."Did they say where they were going?"
A planet, close by, very near. North quadrant a pretty blue green one. They said that was where the opener was. The one who cracked it. They wanted to thank him, thank him by consuming the planet. Good base species. Easily affected. Good. Plagues. Oh how I remember the plagues. I watched them…
" I think I've heard what I need to hear, come Kibito, we are going." Kibito and Shin exited the twisted space out in to the distorted hallway. Shin Proceeded to lock the door very carefully, a complex process that took over half an hour. Kibito waited stoically but was burning with questions to ask. Finally the task was done.
" What does this mean? Supreme Kai?"
" I believe that when Majin Buu and Goku were battling on our planet, they damaged it severely. It did take a lot of our powers to mend. When Goku launched his spirit bomb it must have ruptured the demon prison. That in it's self would not have been enough to have damaged the prison on it's own. Several times our planet was pierced through, and there were several other major ruptures of the surface. Considering the power levels of the fighters involved, I'm surprised that they didn't get out sooner." Shin ran his fingers through his Mohawk. " Damit! Kibito, you realize what this means don't you?"
" The demons have escaped. The world is doomed" A dark silence seemed to settle on his words.
" Yes. There was hope of salvation while the prison was whole, but now, even if we did catch them again, we would have no place to hold them!"
" Should we warn the planet, Master?"
" It's too late now Kibito. Besides, do you know how man y blue green planets there are in the West Quadrant?"
" No."
" Of course, how many planets are there that have Son Goku as a resident?"
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Never Mind the planes.
Never mind the poor visibility.
Never mind the fact that the air was getting hard to breath.
They were on a mission.
To destroy their creators, and punish them for a deed done.
Another had been created recently, but it left with hardly a word. It stank of Betrayal.
"Promise"
"Broken"
"The deed was done. But not forgotten"
" The lives of those so long gone rotten"
" An end"
" For some."
" Promise"
" Broken"
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End A/N: This chapter was going to be longer but I'm afraid that I've run into a brick wall.
Sorry this was a bit of filler, but I needed a way to get where I'm going. I also recently realized that readers are NOT telepathic, and might just like to know what's going on once in a while.
Because my review total weighed in at next to nil for my last chapter I have decided that I'm going to be selfish and not update after this until I get at least 12 reviews (total). Yes I know that I am shamelessly begging, but I can't help it! Reviews are like a drug. You get hooked easily :p. I'm going to give two more chances at guessing the book my 'claimers were done by. Please guess! The title is written in my user profile, if any one cares. Thank you and have a nice day. Oh and PLEASE REVIEW