A/n: Hey would you look at that! I got another one done! Thanks to Nightelf and dragon_game for reviewing. Nightelf wins the trip to her home city for correctly guessing that Rincewind comes from Disk world! Dragon_game wins err, the standard consolation prize of a giant cookie. Also I want to thank them for being the only person to say " The wheel of time" for my other chappies! For that you get another cookie! (I'm so creative eh?)
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Disclaimer today done by Luwee Wu (or Louis Wu, depends on how well you can slur your speech ~_^) (book)
Wu: You don't work for the government right?
Min: Not the last time I checked!
Wu: Okay, then when are your going to let the puppeteer, Speaker-to-animals and I go??
Min: as Soon as you do my disclaimer!
Wu: You don't own Dragon ball Z, it's characters, or a General Products hull.
Min: Okay! You're free to go, as soon as the puppeteer uncurls!
Wu: That might take a while . . .
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Chapter 13: Inhibitions
It was a feeling akin to physical pain
Her whole body ached with it, from the writhing pit of her abdomen to the burning of her flesh, her trembling fingers, to the pounding drum that inhabited her skull. A tiny part of Videl told her that these feelings were wrong, unnatural, that her body should not be rebelling against her this way. Her hands throbbed from the pounding she had given the impenetrable walls of her prison
However, the rest of her only knew the desire that consumed her skin, the trembling, painful need to have him touch her. Scenarios ran though her mind unbidden. She began to shake and tremble, wrapped up in a little ball. Hoping to find release from the torment that was building within her. The only thing it seemed that could stop it was Gohan, and that tiny untouched part of Videl's mind knew that she wasn't ready for that, no matter how much her body told her she should.
There was knock on the door.
She opened her eyes, staring at the steel edifice. The shiny knob turned, and the door opened a crack. She leapt for the crack, trying to claw it open, her hands, already injured gaining new scrapes from which they bled, tearing them on the sharp metal edges of the door. An invisible field pushed her back, and she stumbled back into the room, tripping on a rug.
From the door entered Bulma and the Supreme Kai, The door closed behind them. Videl began to tremble again. She needed to be touched, by anyone, but she was afraid of what would happen if they did.
" Don't worry Videl, Were here to help you " Bulma said in her cheerful voice. Several Chairs appeared in the room, and the supreme Kai sat down in one, and Bulma in the other. Videl sat down on the cot that was in her room, and curled her legs up underneath her. The tiny sane corner of her head watched warily to what her lust wracked body would do. She didn't really think she could trust it at this point.
" I think that one of the demons has gotten a hold on your mind, and you transferred that hold to Gohan." The Kai stated simply. Videl began to tremble even more with the effort of holding herself back.
"It's okay Hun, we'll find away to fix you and Gohan' Bulma said comfortingly. At the mention of Gohan's name she let out a long groan, and sweat was beginning to pour down her back and chest, drenching her white shirt. " What is it you want dear?" Bulma asked kindly.
" Him." Videl moaned out. Bulma shot a nasty glare at the Supreme Kai, who took the hint and left the room. They weren't sure whom it was she was talking about, but it was best not to take chances. Videl stared longingly at the closing door. Bulma looked at her with sympathetic eyes, and pulled out a small syringe filled with a pale blue liquid.
" Sorry, I have to do this Hun, but we all want you to get better." Bulma got up and leaned forward over Videl to seize hold of her arm in order to inject the serum. Videl grabbed the front of Bulma's dress and yanked her in, Planting a kiss straight on the woman's lips. Bulma opened her eyes in shock, and jerked away, a piece of her dress being left behind.
Videl realized what she had done and scrambled away and hid behind the cot, screaming
" OHMYGODI'MSOSORRYBULMA" over and over again. Bulma sprinted for the door and jerked it open and dashed out, slamming it behind her, breathing heavily. Bulma clutched at her chest, then crossed her arms over in order to cover up the obvious rip in her dress.
"What?" She asked, glaring at the assembled mass of gods and warriors before her.
" Did you inject the serum?" Asked Dende. Bulma looked at her empty hands and chuckled nervously.
"I kind of might have left the syringe in there, without having it previously emptied into her bloodstream." She said, inching away from the glares and stares at the men around her, then dashed of to find Vegeta.
" Sure, she's less likely to attack a woman my ass" She grumbled under her breath.
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" Goku!!!"
Goku groaned and cracked open one eye to the blinding sun.
" What is it King Kai, can't it wait 10 minutes?"
" No! Why did you leave your son to gather the dragon balls without you? You have to go get them now!"
Goku groaned and rolled over to see Chi chi sleeping peacefully beside him on the grass. He stared at her face, relishing in how beautiful he thought she was. She frowned in her sleep, reaching out for the warmth that was supposed to be residing beside her. Goku gave her a peck on the cheek and scribbled a short note on a scrap of paper napkin that he had left over from some restaurant or another. He placed it in her hand, and she unconsciously brought it to her chest.
Goku straightened up and stared into the wind, two hands pressed to his forehead. He brightened up when he felt the ki of his son. It was slightly off though, but Goku shrugged it off as a distortion made by the dragon balls.
He disappeared.
It was too bad that he missed the other Ki in the area
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He reappeared.
Goku looked around and saw that he was on top of an office building. About 4 meters to his left, sat Goten, surrounded by Dragon balls. He appeared to be playing with them, arranging them from 1 to 7, then backwards, then by odd numbers, then by even.
" Hey Goten! I see you found them all! Good boy!" Goku exclaimed and started to move towards his son.
" Stop Dad." Goten's voice had an odd tremor to it. He looked up at Goku and stared straight into his eyes.
Goku stopped dead in his tracks, though he wasn't sure why.
" How could you have done that to me Father." Goten said, still staring.
" Done what Goten?" Goku asked nervously. Something didn't feel right.
" You abandoned me Father, you left me alone to do the job that you yourself could have done so easily. I could have been Hurt. I could have died because of your selfishness." He said, with the harsh tone of an adult, coming from the child-like pitch of his voice.
" But Goten, I knew that you could handle yourself!" Goku said, still unable to move.
" That's a lie. You don't love me. You never have. I hate you father! I hate you! You were never there for me," The child almost screamed
" But . . ."
"No more Buts! No more lies! It's my turn to take what I need!" Goten's voice was accusing in it's furry. Goku felt tears well up unbidden in his eyes.
" Goten!"
" Shut up! I don't need to hear you any more!" Goku found that his throat was constricted as well as his body. He tried to plead with his son with his eyes, begging for him for forgiveness. Goten turned away and raised his arms to the sky,
" Eternal Dragon! I summon you! SHENRON!"
A burst of ethereal golden light burst from the dragon balls that surrounded the child swirling into a great golden cloud that writhed and shaped it's self into a golden glowing dragon. The skies darkened and purple clouds swirled across the blackened Firmament. Bolts of lightning arched from the sky, deadly in their beautiful dance.
The dragon began to defuse from the light it's great coils filling the sky, golden whiskers radiating from its great green head. The red eyes pulsed and it opened its great mouth
"I CANNOT GRANT WISHES TO THOSE NOT IN THEIR TRUE FORM. CHANGE AND I SHALL GRANT YOUR WISH" The voice echoed across the city. Goku gaped at the great dragon, shocked that his son had summoned it, That his son even knew how to summon it. Goku then stared in a kind of transient horror as the image of his son began to blur and fade, which then twisted and writhed to show a little girl, her blonde tresses tangled and dirty, her eyes wild and murderous.
" I Wish For the Bonds that bind myself, and those of my brothers and sisters, to do no violence to be dissolved" She screamed over the wind. The dragon's eyes flashed, and then it hesitated a moment before replying
"YOUR WISH HAS BEEN GRANTED. WHAT IS YOUR SECOND WISH"
" I wish for you to give me ultimate power over all of my brothers and sisters!"
The dragon hesitated again.
"I CANNOT GRANT THAT WISH." The girl frowned in frustration
" Why Not! I demand to know why!"
"DEMONIC LAW STATES THAT NO DEMON MAY GAIN MORE POWER OVER ANOTHER. THE COLLECTIVE WILL OF THE DEMONS IS MORE POWERFULL THAN MYSELF. I CANNOT GRANT THAT WISH"
" Damnation to bloody demonic Law!" she screamed into the storm
"YOUR WISH HAS BEEN GRANTED"
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It was like an earthquake in the manner that it radiated out from its epicenter. It radiated over each of the demons in turn, and instantly they all felt the effects of their freedom. Limbs were flexed, and new muscles stretched out.
That's when it started.
Like the punch line to some kind of giant cosmic joke, each demon let out their own destructive laugh, a release from the bonds of their creation. From deep bellowing bass to a high keening chuckle, a rich and throaty growl to a half hearted sobbing chuckle, they laughed and laughed.
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Piccolo covered his green ears with his hands and yelling in pain as the destructive laugh of the demonic host reached his sensitive namekian hearing. He dropped from the sky and fell to his knees, before ripping off his ears and dashing to the lookout.
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Suian clutched at her chest in the center of King Kai's perfectly groomed lawn, beneath the perfectly blue sky. She fell to her knees and cried out, aquamarine tears spilling from her eyes, clenched shut, as a grimace of pain attacked her normally solid and comforting face. Her hair came out of its tight bindings.
It felt as though some one was pulling hot wires though her heart, cutting into it and trying to drag it out of her chest. Steaming iron bands seemed to constrict around her head, leaving pulsing streaks all over her body that burned and throbbed.
She let out another scream as a fresh spasm of pain wracked her. She fell to her side and curled up in a little ball, sobbing and screaming alternately as the pain came and went.
King kai rushed out of his little house, his antennae twitching violently. Nausikaa and Gregory quickly followed him. Bubbles dashed off his perch on the roof to join them.
" Oh My goodness! What's wrong!" King Kai said worry clear in his voice
Suian shuddered as another spasm reached her. She managed to raise her head and answer in panting halting breaths.
"The bonds I placed on the demons are being dissolved" She gasped, and let out another cry of pain.
" They were tied directly to my power. Now I can feel every one BREAKING!" The last word said with another scream. She got to her knees, panting and shuddering violently. She turned her head and vomited onto the grass, and rolled away from the spot.
King Kai approached nervously, and bent down to help Suian up. She swatted his hands away and pushed herself up into a sitting position, before turning her head and emptying the rest of her stomach on to the grass.
" Is there anything I can do?" King Kai asked nervously as Suian heaved herself up and began to rise to her feet.
" No nothing, just get me a cup Tea. With brandy in it. A sizeable splash of brandy" She said, feeling her head again, calmly wiping the vomit from her mouth with the back of her hand. King Kai scurried off and came back few minutes later juggling a teapot, cups, and a bottle of a clear amber liquid that could have passed for brandy in this alternate dimension. He stuck several scalded fingers in his mouth while trying to set up a foldout table with his feet. Gregory kindly flew over and folded the rest of the legs out for him. The tea things barely made it to the tabletop without breakage. He poured the tea, withering under her gaze.
Suian still felt like heaving up her guts, but decided that a person who is displaying their lunch to the world doesn't present the most formidable presence. She gratefully fell onto the chair provided by the courteous little monkey, and seized the tea with both hands, and drank it. Finding it not quite to her liking she added more of the amber liquid and then sipped again. She added a little more, and then decided to dispense with the tea, and go straight to the liquor.
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Sarah walked out of the hospital, ready to get back to her job with the police. She had called Caleb, and he was going to be here to pick her up. The sun was failing fast and it's bright rays shone directly into her eyes. She shaded them with her hand, and then looked with dismay at the degradation of her city.
A few pieces of trash blew by her as Caleb pulled up in a squad car, parking it on the curb. He opened up the door and stepped out, walking to his friend.
" What happened Caleb?" She asked quietly staring at dirty, empty streets. He picked up her one duffel bag and shrugged.
" We don't know. Every since you got put in the hospital, the city started to break down. Crime, Murder, and suicide rates are way up, though we haven't gotten as many the past day or so." He pushed his hair out of his eyes again, and Sarah followed him to the car. He popped the trunk and placed her bag in it. Sarah sat in the passenger side seat and Caleb took the wheel. She was still in too much shock to drive.
They drove in complete silence for about 10 minutes before Sarah spoke.
" Caleb, it might be crazy, but I think that the man I rammed into in that chase is the root of all this. I Got this funny vibe from him, almost a kind if recalcitrant power" Caleb glanced in her direction and frowned
" What kind of medicine did the . . ." Caleb started before he was cut off by Sarah's glare.
" Listen! I'm not on drugs and I'm not crazy! I'm sick and goddamn tired of people not believing me on this okay! I know what I felt then. That guy is the source of all this, mark my words!" Caleb was silent, not sure how to react. He let out a long shaky breath that he didn't know he was holding.
He pulled up next to the station, and turned to face his friend and colleague.
" I . . . I believe you Sarah."
" Thank you."
They stepped out of the car and Caleb went around to the back to grab Sarah's bag. Suddenly the sky began to grow dark and cloudy, almost purple. Lightning crackled in the air, and great wind rose up, scattering papers and bottles. Sarah's brown hair whipped around her face and she tried unsuccessfully to tame it. Above one of the taller office buildings in the city, the lightning cracked more fiercely. There was a great glowing light, which shortly solidified into a gigantic beastly dragon, its whiskers and mane radiating around its head.
Sarah and Caleb stared in wonder as the thing began to speak, though they couldn't understand the words over the roar of wind and rumble of thunder. There was suddenly a flash, and then a few seconds another, then the great dragon disappeared again, leaving a terrible sense of foreboding in its wake.
" I don't like the feeling of this Sarah"
"Neither do I."
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A/n: Hey, another slightly longer chapter! But I managed to pull it off with no more additional sub plots! Go me! The dragon was never actually part of my original plan, but the opportunity was too good to waste (Plus, I find the dragon to be an convenient, easy way out. Need to wrap up a story fast? Call in the Dragon!)
Slightly saddened by the small amount to reviews last chapter, but hey, you take what you get. The first person to tell me where Luwee Wu & co. come from wins a general products #3 hull, guarantied to keep out everything but Visible light! ^_^ Runner up receives a (now traditional) cookie.
Oh, and if I ever get to 50 reviews, then I'll write you all a 50 review special! (It will most likely end up being a song/poem)