A/n: I am such a hypocrite…
I know that I said that I wouldn't update until I got 12 reviews… but, I got this chappie done, and I can't stand leaving it on my hard drive to molder and do nothing , so there you go. (plus you gave me such nice reviews…) I've decided that I'll stop making you guess… Happygohangirl you were sooooo close to getting it,
The Answer is: The Wheel Of Time
Any way I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and every one of my reviewers.
Thanks to Happygohangirl and Zarckus for reviewing the last chapter!
Oh ant thirdly, There * may * Just happen to be a lot of profanity in this chapter, which is why my story is rated at pg13
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Disclaimer: Own DbZ do I no, but much would I like to own the show…
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Chapter 5: Predictions
" Hey that's my Egg salad!"
" I didn't see your name on it!"
" Give me
my godamn salad back!"
" Kiss my ass!"
The riot in that grocery store had grown to Epic proportions. Not a single shopper was in a good temper. There was pushing, there was swearing. There was even a minor Tomato crisis. Half the people in the store had barreled out and took to the road, giving a new definition to the term 'Road rage' The other half was currently having fights with it's self and the staff had garrisoned themselves in a stack of orange crates, and were flinging the fruit at any protesters that came near the fortress. One Cashier was stuck on top of a shelf of cereal boxes. Little old ladies started to horde the plum puddings and caned delicacies. Small children were running around quite out of the control of their mothers, peaking up ladies skirts and tearing in to the bulk sour patch kids. The mothers of the sugar high children were engaged in a row of their own over who had taken the last bottle of Strawberry syrup. And in the center was a Teenage boy laughing his head off, a malicious intent in his eye.
That was until a certain Son Gohan stepped in to the scene. He and Videl landed in the once quite parking lot of the grocery store.
"Some thing is wrong Gohan." Videl said at once.
" I'll say, look that guy is double parked!" Videl slapped her forehead at the demi sayian's naivety, and dragged him into the store.
Upon reaching the doors, a man ran out at full speed carrying thirty rolls of toilet paper. The White rolls went flying out of his arms in an explosion of tissue paper.
"Watch wear you're going eh?" the Canadian said, gathering up his sanitary paper.
" I think you ran into us…" Gohan trailed off seeing that the man had already left. " How rude," he said, turning to Videl who had already entered the store.
" You aint seen nothing yet" She said, still in agape of the pandemonium displayed before her. A running shopper was taken down by an errant orange, which hit them right in the back of the head. The shopper whirled around and hurled a bottle of soy Sauce at the wooden construction that held the management and staff. Gohan grabbed a junior shelf stocker that he saw darting for the safety of the open door.
" Could you please tell me where the manager is?" He said, placing a firm hand on the employee's chest, preventing his escape.
" Fruits and Veggies, the big wooden colossus made of orange crates" The boy replied, squirming against Gohan's strong hand.
" Let's go Videl." Gohan said, releasing the shelf stocker, who promptly dashed out of the door and on his way to freedom.
"What are you going to do?" Videl asked curious, dodging a flying head of lettuce.
" I'm going to talk to the manager!" Gohan Exclaimed, " He shouldn't let his store come to this!"
" You mean the man on top of the crates proclaiming dictatorship over the store?" Videl asked dubiously, " Well he was just taken down by some kids on a sugar high" She said, giving a play by play of the store. " We have to find it! The thing causing this disturbance"
" I think that I know how"
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" We have to contact the Kami Of Earth and tell him about the Demons!" Kibito cried
" Dende Probably already knows, but I should warn him any way." Shin Sighed, and walked up to his large servant. " Take us to Kami's look out on earth Kibito"
The two softly disappeared, with flash of light.
Several milliseconds later they reappeared on the long white boulevard that made up Kami's Look out. It appeared to be deserted.
" Dende!"
The little green god scurried out of his chambers to greet the Kai.
" I hope that you have good news concerning these demons that have recently appeared on my planet " Dende said, in a rather abrupt greeting
" I'm Afraid not my friend. Lets go inside for some tea? Shall we?" The Kai replied, steering Dende back towards the doors.
" I'm sorry"
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" Found him!" Gohan cried, opening his eyes. He and Videl had taken refuge in the greeting card isle. Gohan was situated in the middle meditating, using his Ki sensing abilities to locate the demon at fault. Videl was ensuring that no one disturbed him.
"Where?" Videl asked, curious
" Pet Supplies, Isle 8" Gohan replied, stretching. He had to jump out of the way before a shopping cart disemboweled him, then dodge again while it's owner chased it down. The cart caught a corner of Videl's shirt and tore it across the front so that her stomach was partially visible. She shrugged and tore off the bottom of the ribbed piece of fabric so that it wouldn't restrict her movement. Gohan couldn't help but stare at her perfectly toned abs. Her eyes traveled to the large plastic sign over their heads it read:
Isle 6
Greeting cards
Envelopes
She turned her gaze to Gohan.
" 10 minutes to find out that he was two rows over? Great going dork" She said, annoyed. There was something about this place that ticked her off to no end. The two charged through the store, various mutters of apology uttered on Gohan's part, a few annoyed growls from Videl.
" Buzz off" Said Discourtesy.
" No, I'm sorry, but we have as much right to be here as you" Gohan replied politely
" Right, like this is even your planet."
" Excuse me?" Gohan asked in disbelief
" This isn't your planet, you're on of those bloody monkeys" The demon answered. " It's plain on your ugly face. You should go back to your stupid sayian –jinn and play with the rest of the monkeys. You don't belong here"
" I'm sorry but I don't see how that is relevant. I was born on earth and I intend to stay on earth" Gohan replied, still polite.
" Right. Yo momma is so smutty that she musta slept around the whole universe until some horny sayian got her pregnant" Discourtesy smirked
" I'm Afraid that you are mistaken. My mother and father are both honorable people and would never do something like that" A vein was starting to show on Gohan's neck, but he still had amazing self-control. Videl laid a comforting hand on his arm and glared at the demon.
" Oh look your little slut thinks that she can protect you from me? Let me tell you, she's probably been around the block so many times, she has a paper route" The demon's grin grew wider. Videl's eye started to twitch as she looked and saw that her midriff was more exposed than she thought, and she moved as if to hide behind Gohan. But he had moved.
" What did you say?" His voice was deadly calm, as he advanced upon the demon.
"I said that she's like a doorknob..." but he didn't get to finish that sentence, because Gohan had punched him full across the jaw.
The World seemed to go into slow motion. Gohan's fist connected with Discourtesy's jaw with a sickening crunch of splintering bone. Then his knee came up with full force into the demon's groin. An elbow connected at the back of the neck. The demon was out cold, sprawled on the floor
" I think that you broke his jaw" Videl said in a quiet sort of awe.
" Not his Jaw" Gohan said, his teeth bared on a grimace of pain, " My hand" {1}
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There was a large sign up in an underground room. I had 5 boxes with numbers in them. The numbers started at 5 and went down to one. Each of these letters could be lit up at will. The one that was lit read 2.
A Large digital map on the wall showed a small island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. There was a large red glowing ring around it, marking it as the primary target of the users of this room. In large, easy to read letters, the Island was marked 'Kame house'
" What kind of heathen calls their house 'god house' I mean there isn't even a church or anything!" Mused one Air defense Technician, staring at his computer screen. A small blip appeared on his radar.
" We have an incoming to Kame house, moving at a high rate of speed." Reported the technician. " Incoming appears to be about the size of a large man, and is emitting high levels of energy"
" My god! It's a missile! Who gave the firing order?" Cried the superior officer in charge. He didn't get where he was today with out being able to jump to conclusions, often quite quickly. Everyone watched in a sort of silent horror as the blip on the screen moved closer and closer to Kame house. The blip suddenly slowed, then disappeared right over the island.
" Get me some updated satellite readings on that island!" The superior officer barked. " I Want to see how much damage that missile did!"
" Sir! There appears to be no damage sir!"
" Then what was it? Some kind of Bio Weapon?" asked the somewhat slow sergeant
" No Sir! All life on the island present and accounted for Sir!"
" Then it must have been a radar malfunction then! Get some of the tech boys to sort it all out and…" The big man was suddenly silent as 4 radar blips appeared on the screen. One broke off from the other four and started heading east, and off the Radar. The other 3 quickly disappeared off of Radar as well.
"Well I'll be blowed!" The officer said in awe, " The Aliens have finally come for us and are selecting their chosen ones! Then the rest of the world will go up in Fire and Brimstone, and great big Laser beams!" He walked to the middle of the big room " Take Me! I want to go!!" He yelled. Several discrete phone calls were made and the man was dragged off and placed in a comfy room with padded walls. If only they knew, he was approximately 42.67% right. {2}
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" What do you mean, Your Hand?!?" Aided Videl, incredulous. Gohan was practically invincible in terms of ordinary people…
" I Think that he broke a couple of fingers," Gohan said, grimacing. The Demon gave a low groan on the floor
" How?"
" I don't know. Nothing is that hard, gee, do you think that you can get him over my shoulder? We should take it back to the look out, for… observation," Gohan said, examining the broken bones of his hand. Videl picked the unconscious demon off the floor still in disbelief over the events that had transpired
"It's Quite light, I can carry it by myself," Videl said, staring at the thing that could break the hand of her best friend. A small crowd had accumulated around them. People, were staring bemusedly at items in their hands, as if wondering how they got there. A few of the staff poked their heads out of the Orange crate fortress. Some one began to attend to the KO'ed manger of the store. Vague apologies were muttered among the people who happened to be holding others in headlocks
" Lets go"
"Agreed"
With that they exited and took off, leaving the odd store and its inhabitants. Videl was still extremely worried. ::how could that thing break the hand of the strongest person in the world?:: She thought, then shuddered. She suddenly wanted to get as far away from the demon on her shoulder as it was possible to be. She picked up their speed considerably. With silent agreement Gohan did the same, still cradling his injured hand. :: far, far away::
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Far, far away, in a place that everyone went to eventually, but no one was in a hurry to get to, existed a person who would have been a valuable asset to both Gohan and the earth in general.
It was a pity that she happened to be dead at the moment.
Deep in the reaches of Other World, A Kai perked up from her game of Chinese checkers with another of her race. It did not happen to matter that they had been created 400 years apart and that they were both dead. Funny how the world can work like that…
Suian had been dead for over 2000 years, however this had not dulled her senses in the least. As a matter of fact, it had sharpened them beyond the range of most mortal beings. Her senses were especially sharp in the area of Spectral Detection. Many might wonder what this was, and to explain it fully would take several days, however, it could be endeavored to be explained as thus:
Every Being had an essence, a spirit. Depending on the vibrancy a being had in life, the greater the spirit of that person becomes. Also Spectral Beings, those of the supernatural, or others such as Gods, Emitted huge amounts of Spectral Energy. So do demons. Because Demons are made of mostly abstract concepts, Spirit is all that holds them together. However, Spirit is a highly attractive force, so when it does form some thing, it is nearly impossible to break it apart. This is why The Kais had so much trouble trying to destroy the Demons (Coincidentally, this also happens to explain why Discourtesy happened to weigh so little). The Rare talent that was possessed by Suian dealt with detecting those deposits of spectral energy.
" Ye Gods…" She said softly. Several of them around her looked up curiously. She had just felt the energies of the demons far away from their prison, and far to spread out to be called contained. She began to tremble. They had escaped, just like she had predicted. She put her hands on the board and pushed herself up and stared very pointedly to the west…
" Ye Gods…" She said again, "Whom does a God pray to?" She asked quietly
" They can't," Said her opponent, " They can only hope"
" Hope is a feeble thing to hold on to now," She said, still staring
" Then what else my lady?"
He was answered by silence
" Suian?"
" Action, my old friend, There is nothing left now but to act" She finally replied, turning to face the correct direction. She concentrated then disappeared, without a sound.
" Action? I would rather trust to Hope" said the kai's former opponent, " Action is beyond us now, saved for the living. I'd rather trust to Hope.
It's all we've got left"
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End A/N:
{1} for those of you who care, the bones in your hand are supposedly the most painful to break. (I bet you were expecting an explanation as to why…)
{2} I'm sorry I couldn't help it. Keep In mind this number is just an approximation though…
Any way I've decided to average about 2,500 words per chapter. They might end up longer, but never shorter. I would also like to hear your opinion about the number of Demons that I'll feature. So far I believe that I'm going to do 11. Some will be done at the same time, and some individually. I could probably think up way more if you like, but it's going to be hard to get less, but I could probably cut it down to 9. Anyway review and tell me what you think Thanks!