A/n: Sorry for not updating in so long but holidays + English portfolio + math project + writers block + 2 new and cool science books = me not updating as often as I should. Now you probably want me to stop here and let you read the chapter. I Present: Drugs, Booze and Acid
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Disclaimer today done by Rikku (Video game)
Rikku: DBZ? Isn't that some kind of machina weapon?
Min: nope, it's an Anime series about a bunch of Super powerful warriors that protect the earth from harm.
Rikku: that's no fun! Besides if you want it so much why don't you just steal it?
Min: Hmm… How do you go about stealing an immensely popular franchise?
Rikku: Hey, Isn't this the part when I pipe in with a 'You don't own it' speech?
Min: Sure whatever * goes back to plotting *
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Chapter 14: Drugs, Booze and Acid
"18, Hun, how do we find Chaos and Panic anyway?"
" Follow the screams"
" There!"
With that, they took off into the air, Krillen carefully guarding the bag at his side. They landed in the courtyard of a small villa, which was currently in the process of burning to the ground. Krillen coughed and waved the smoke away from his face. 18 did nothing.
There, out on the street, Chaos stood, not moving, in perfect stillness, the fires crackling down into stillness. A few weary people poked their heads out of nooks and crannies to stare at the odd sight before them. Chaos looked particularly savage, as he stared at his own hands in wonder, flexing them turning them over, flexing again. Krillen shared a questioning voice with his wife, who simply shrugged. Krillen rather boldly stepped out in front of the demon and cleared his throat.
" I'd like you to come with me to err…" He trailed off; trying to remember the script the Supreme Kai had given him for this situation. 18 rolled her eyes and came to her husband's rescue.
" A place of great order that we need you to disrupt, in order to facilitate our rebellion against the government" She said trying to stop the sarcasm from entering her voice.
The demon did nothing, just simply stood there, staring at his hands. He looked up slowly, a wide grin appearing, showing off his pointed teeth. The laugh started as a chuckle, then evolved into a full-blown riot of mirth.
" Do you know what just happened?" He said.
" No, but if you'd just come with us for one minute" Chaos began to advance on the pair.
They did not move, confident in the knowledge that Chaos couldn't hurt them due to the restraint of demons not to hurt humans. But that tiny worm of panic had laid it's eggs in Krillen's stomach.
From behind them came the other Demon that they sought, Panic. She crawled like some kind of great jungle cat, her tangled red hair falling in front of her purple face only serving to make her look more fierce and savage. Unconsciously Krillen and 18 went back to back in order to face both Demons at once.
"It is... Amazing, Invigorating!" Panic voice. She bared her teeth, pointed like her brothers. They began to circle.
" Like coming alive again" agreed Chaos.
" Listen that's great, but we really need you to . . ." Krillen began to say but chaos stopped him with a blow to the face.
Krillen staggered back and clutched at his cheek almost in shock. Chaos stared at his hand and flexed the fingers again. Krillen spit out some of the blood that had accumulated from his split lip and drew the back of his and across his mouth. He let it fall to his side, and climbed to his feet. 18 calmly surveyed the two. Calmly on the outside that is, inside she was in shock that Chaos could hit Krillen like that.
The Demons advanced on the android and the man. Chaos walked straight up to 18 and stared her in the eye, as if examining her mind.
" Android." He said, as if in dismissal. Panic began to sniff around Krillen. He stood up unnaturally straight, all his muscles tense. Chaos reached out and poked 18 in the chest—hard.
She growled and brought her hand around in a full force slap. It hit and resounded in the fast emptying street for a few seconds. Chaos brought a hand up to his back and purple cheek, which was quickly gaining a green stain. He spat, and a globule of green liquid was projected to the ground where it began to sizzle and eat through the coble stones. He raised his eyes to meet those of the cool Android, and attacked.
Quickly 18 dodged and phased out to reappear behind the demon, delivering a resounding punch to the back of it's head. Chaos staggered and flipped around to kick at 18 before nearly losing his balance. Panic took this opportunity to launch herself at 18 as well, before she was tackled by Krillen. 18 executed a neat handspring to put a mule-kick into Chaos, who flew backwards into a villa that was just beginning to catch fire. Bricks and plaster crumbled around it. Without the support of the walls the ceiling collapsed on top of him.
Krillen, on the other hand was caught in a wrestling match with Panic, who was furiously using her long nails to make deep gashes in Krillen's skin. He was already bleeding from various wounds. The demon, however, seemed to try to avoid his blood as much as possible. Krillen managed to flip her over his shoulder and get up to face her as she came tearing back to attack the former monk. He nearly balked but fell into a defensive stance, before they began to trade blows at a furious pace, most of the demon's going quite wild.
Chaos began to rise out of the rubble. 18 stood to face him as she casually tucked a piece of hair behind her ear. "Still want to fight?" She said calmly, almost cocky, her tone calculated to send him into a blind rage. He responded by charging once again at her raining blows down on her, most of which she was able to dodge. She punched him in the face, causing him to stagger and fall back into her waiting kick, which knocked him into the air. She phased out and reappeared in time to kick him back to the collapsed villa. A stream of yellow Ki blasts followed.
Meanwhile, Krillen was still fighting Panic, his distress growing every minute. Her presence was causing him to lose focus, and it had nothing to do with the fact she was naked and purple. Her very nature was starting to have it's affect on his mindset. A set of claws raked through and gouged at his eyes. He fell back and screamed in pain.
18 whipped around to her husband's shriek, just in time to see the blood pour down his face. She was about to rush down to help him when icy hands wrapped themselves around her throat. She couldn't hear a heartbeat, or the soft sound of him exhaling or in inhaling. He tightened his grip and she began to choke, grasping at his dark hands, trying to remove them. She managed to cut one and a few drops of acid blood spilled out and burned through her clothes and began to eat away at her mechanically enhanced skin. She would have yelled were it not for the hands constricting her windpipe. She kicked out and caught him in the stomach, causing spittle and blood to fly from his mouth, burning the skin of her face, exposing the metal that lay beneath. Part of her cheek and forehead were exposed. She grit her teeth against the pain, and once again hit the demon, over and over, trying to avoid the caustic acid that made his bodily fluids. She hit him to the ground again and noticed the one thing that could save them.{1}
Krillen held a hand over his bloody face, trying to protect his eyes from another attack. He crouched in a defensive position, fighting the panic and bile rising in his throat. He could feel her circling him, slowly in a lazy spiral, coming in for the kill. He backed up slowly until he felt his foot nudge something that felt like cloth, and crackling energy. The net!
18 dived in and stood at her husband's back, laying a hand on his arm before bending to pick up the ordinary duffle bag. Chaos flew down to join his sister and began advancing with her. He waved his hand and 18 instantly stiffened. Her circuitry was beginning to malfunction, power cells flicking on and off at random intervals, the display in her vision flickering through it's random modes without pattern. The inputs of scent and sight began to mix themselves up. She was seeing scents and could smell the color purple. She was just glad that he hadn't interfered with her motor circuits yet. She gently handed one corner of the net to Krillen. He nodded.
" Pathetic. You really think that mere mortals could really stand up to us?" Chaos
" Nothing will stop our power now!" Panic
They said nothing.
" Defiance? Now?"
Nothing.
" Answer me!"
Nothing.
" Damn you! ANSWER ME!!" He and panic began to charge. 10 feet. 5, 3, 2,
" NOW!" The net was flung. It wrapped its self around their bodies, halting their motion, sealing its edges together around the demons. They clawed and wailed, struggled against the bonds that held them in place. It began to shimmer and solidify, the individual strands expanding and spreading to cover them in a shimmering blue skin. A high keening shriek was heard as the last of the net covered over the two demons and hardened to a solid casing, freezing them in place.
" We've finally caught them." 18 Said calmly. She looked over at krillen.
" 18… My eyes."
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It simply lay there, an inert object. Thin, made of clear glass and metal, filled with a simple looking blue liquid. The liquid was probably immensely complex and a work of sheer genius. Yet that was all it appeared to be. Glass, metal and liquid, easily destroyed by a careless foot or a deliberate hand.
Yet it menaced, and threatened, lured and drove away. For an hour Videl had sat in that corner staring at it. Her body still ached, but her mind was now focused on that simple little object that lay on the floor before her. Her mind still ran on Adrenaline and Lust. She knew perfectly well that the Demon had a hold on her, yet she knew that she couldn't fend it off on will power alone. It gave her the power to give in to her every desire, to get her everything she ever wanted. It was enticing an exotic, to take that power, that power to destroy her inhibitions and take what she wanted. What she so desperately needed at that point.
But she knew that it was wrong, that it was evil, that it was the demon that made her think that way. Then why did it have to feel so good? Her body burned even more fiercely and her abdomen churned and roiled. Her mind was filled with illusions of potential pleasure.
There was still that corner though, that one shining point of rational thought that told her this was all wrong, to take that little syringe and jab it into her arm, and get the demon out of her head. If only her body could listen to that tiny rational part of her mind.
She got up and picked up the syringe, and brought it in a sharp downward arc to—
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`" Damn it woman! I can't hold the brat down forever! If you don't do whatever the hell you it is soon…" growled Vegeta in a semi-empty threat.
" Keep your pants on I've almost got it!" Bulma yelled at the irate prince. Gohan gave another violent jerk in his sleep.
Bulma rolled up her sleeves and gripped the Demi-sayian's arm firmly. Since no tourniquet in the world would help her find a vein she had Vegeta gripping his upper arm. She Had the needle made of a new alloy that had an extremely strong tensile strength. The tip was coated in sharpened diamond in order to allow it to pierce Gohan's skin.
A firm push and the needle was in his arm. Another firm push and the blue liquid was released into his bloodstream. She pulled the needle out and wiped away the thin dribble of blood that escaped, and taped a cotton pad over it. She looked and saw that Gohan's violent movements had subsided, and was now drifting into a more regular sleeping pattern. Vegeta snorted and got up from his position on the floor.
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Lust Still sat on her rock, amusing herself by tinkering with villager's minds. She had indeed felt her demonic bonds breaking, but she didn't much care for physical violence. Mind games always seemed to work as well , if not better for subduing a man. She smirked. The form she had assumed wasn't half bad for that either. Frankly though, she was quite disappointed with the girl's performance. She had expected the sayian to put up a better fight against that big oaf. Now they were just separated and the boy was unconscious. She frowned. Dreams weren't as fun to play with as waking thoughts, so she had spent the past half our increasing her power over the girl.
Then there was a distinct… fading of her power over the boy, as if he was getting farther and farther away from her. But that was impossible! In order for him to feel that far away He would have to be traveling at near the speed of light, and of course, everyone knows according to Einstein that a body cannot possibly accelerate to the speed of light…
Lust twisted her plump lips up into a grimace and pushed herself up from her languorous position. She adjusted the neckline of her dress in order to display the most cleavage possible, then disappeared.
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Goku stared nervously at the murderous little girl that stood before him on the windy building top. So he said the first thing that came to mind
" Who are you and what did you do with Goten?"
" Oh Um me? I'm Denise! And as for Goten, I have absolutely no Idea what your talking about! Is that some kind of rice dish?" She asked sweetly, batting her eyelids at him. She had reverted to her sweet little girl image. Goku's stomach growled at the mention of rice, but he chose to ignore it. {2}
" Now wait! I saw Goten summon the dragon, then turn into you! Now where is my son!"
Deception looked a bit panicky, before calming down. She slipped once more into her Denise persona.
" Dragon? Are you sure, because I didn't see any dragons! You must have been hallucinating mister. Hunger can do that to a person you should probably get something to eat, before you Hallucinate any more." Inwardly Deception winced at the weakness of her story. But that didn't matter. The seeds of doubt had been planted.
" I was sure I saw the dragon. It's kind of a hard thing to miss! You know, large green glowing, with lightning and thunder" Goku looked around uncertainly.
Deception cursed. There was only one way to fix a mind such as this. The only thing she could do would be to knock him out and make him believe that it was all a dream. She walked up to him and jumped up and kicked him in the back of the head. Goku stumbled a bit then turned around and rubbed the sore spot on his head.
" Hey! What did you do that for!" She growled and ran up to punch him in the face. Goku frowned and caught her fist before she could blink.
"Now, I don't belive that you're a little girl any more. I'm going to take you to my friend, and he'll be able to tell me what you are." An unusualy harsh tone entered the warrior's voice. He tucked Deception under his arm and flew off, to her protests.
I hope that you will be alright Goten…
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Suian sat dejectedly on one of the small plastic chairs that King Kai had brought out for her. She stared into her tea cup and swirled it around and around. She grabbed some more of that amber liquid and poured another good dollop in, and drained the cup.
King Kai stared at her worriedly, his hands clasped behind his back. He almost reached out to stop the former ruler from drinking more, but hesitated and let it go. She hiccuped and that hiccup turned into a sob. King Kai edged towards her again as if to comfort her, but hung back due to his overwhelming fear of the woman. Suddenly she pushed over the table and scattered the tea things on the grass. The Amber liquid began to clean the tarnish off a silver teaspoon.
" Damn you Deception! YOU RUINIED MY ONLY CHANCE. I'll Kill you!" She screamed. The others backed away. Nausikaa fell on to her bottom, and stared up in shock as the halo above her head popped off like a lightbulb. She then disappeared with a snap.
" If only it were that easy…"
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{1} I confess. I saw Terminator III last week… There were robots, and there was exposure of metallic body parts. Don't blame me for being bias. As for the whole acid bodily fluids thing, I read somewhere that demons bodily fluids were caustic acid. Not a pleasant experience, on the whole
{2} Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it is possible for a sayian to ignore his stomach! Strange but true
a/n: Okay, no one got that Luwee Wu came from the book 'Ringworld' But that's okay. The First person to guess were Rikku comes from wins erm a lifetime supply of jello, and I'll most likely update sooner rather than later. My, big, giveaway hint is
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So, even though I probably lost all my readers by now: Please review?
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