A/n: The squeamish should look away; this story is PG-13 for a reason. This chapter has a lot of blood, not so much gore, and is really quite dark. I had to inject minor humorous comments, or go mad. The winner of the last contest is Dragon_game, congrats, and your jell-o should arrive as soon as I finish taking over the world. Oh, and in case you were wondering, I had intended Rikku from FFX, but then I got X-2 the day after the chapter was finished :p I present: Hell in Heaven
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The number 0 today brings disclaimer to you: If you believe in nothing, you believe in everything!
So therefore, if you believe that I do not own Dragon ball Z, then, of course according to Logic, I don't own the show. Infinity Paradoxes only work when you start dealing with void and the infinite expanse of Space and the Universe. What were you thinking?
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Chapter 15: Hell in Heaven
She only whimpered slightly as the needle struck her arm. A small bead of blood dripped out near the insertion site. She shifted and started to squeeze the plunger. It took all of her will power not to rip it out. But she steadily applied pressure, watching the amount of blue liquid drain into her bloodstream. Her arm started to feel numb and cool, a sensation, which spread to the rest of her body. Her fingers met with resistance. All the liquid was gone. She moved her lips soundlessly, and let the needle fall from her fingers, before she collapsed to the floor. Blood began to pour freely from the small hole, dripping onto the floor, the beads rolling of her porcelain skin, leaving dark red tracks across it. The drops fell with a soft plink. Her eyes stared sightlessly from their sockets, and her mouth still moved without uttering any noise.
Her body was so numb, so cold, like she had lost all her arms and legs, and was just a mind floating in the darkness. Her hand reached out feebly for the door. She twitched her fingers as the needle rolled away from her body, trailing some of her blood. It came to a rest with a tiny clink by the door. That clink managed to echo around the stainless walls of the room. Videl's eyes allowed themselves to close, and her lips stopped their movement. She let her hands come to rest, and all she knew was black.
Drip.
Drip
Drip.
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Now the girl was fading too, almost as if she was dead. The boy was ling gone from her consciousness, a thought that seriously annoyed her. She fixed her hair again and sniffled her nose. This was not going to her plan at all! She hiccoughed and sighed. It looked like she was going to have to waste some of her power on a Teleportation spell. She made a little annoyed harrumph and snapped her fingers. She reappeared in a dark room, the lights dimmed. There on the floor was the girl, in a white t-shirt and spandex shorts, her eyes facing the door, one arm outstretched, reaching for a small cylindrical object. A small pool of blood had formed by her arm.
Lust took one disgusted look at the cot and waved her hand over it. The cot became a red plush lounger, velvet and silks draped over it. A bowl full of fruit, grapes and strawberries, sat on an exquisitely carved end table. Other foods, and a few glasses of dark red wine sat at the end of the bed. Another wave produced a sweating young man who bowed to her and started to offer her strawberries from the bowl. She lay down and the man began to massage her back, while she feasted on the berries, dipped in chocolate and whipped cream. She gently sipped her wine and set her self to watch the girl before her.
She didn't do much, but eventually a tiny moan escaped her lips. The blood from her arm had soaked her shirt. Lust had a scantily clad young woman bandage her arm.
" Darling, I thought you would never wake up!" Videl opened her eyes slightly, finding only grey. A flash of sequins and way too much pink flesh got her attention. She turned her head and saw the luxurious drapes, and the shapely leg hanging over the edge of some red plush creation. Her eyes looked upwards and saw several young men feeding very shapely woman strawberries.
She felt like she had gotten beaten up, every muscle in her body was sore and unresponsive. The most she could manage to do was part her cracked lips to accept s a little water from the woman wearing next to nothing. She moved gracefully, her every movement designed to be pleasing to the eye.
" Now what did you do to yourself you silly girl? I mean you have really messed up my plans for you. I don't like it when my plans get interfered with."
Videl found she could not answer, only groan. She managed to mover her arm slightly.
" No answers hmm? Well we are just going to have to fix that won't we boys?" She swung her legs over the edge of her bed, and walked, slowly, in seductive swaying steps. She raised her hand and Videl's body came up on it's own and levitated in front of her. Lust used her long, delicate fingers to push up her chin until their eyes were level. Videl gathered her courage and tried to look her straight in the eye with defiance. But she just… couldn't. It was like her spark had died somewhere; She could not get worked up over anything. She settled for a lifeless stare.
" Tell me why you are this way."
She moaned and mumbled: " Serum made by Bulma". She couldn't even muster up the defiance to lie any more. She was just so tired, so very tired.
" Where is this Bulma?"
" Here on the lookout."
" Why do you deny your feelings for the boy?"
" Because… Because I don't want to change I don't want him to change for me. I don't want anything to change. "
" Humph. Pathetic. You expect me to believe a washed up reason such as that? You girl will give me a show, whether you want to or not. Why? That's what I want. And what I desire is mine. Always." She let Videl drop, and then turned away, " Pathetic Humans. Do they really think some kind of drug is enough to keep me out? I'm part of them, every last one."
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" I hear voices. Coming from Videl's room"
" That's impossible Woman. There's no one in there with her. Now are you going to administer that fool treatment, or are you so incompetent that I have to knock the brat out first before you can sick her with that damn needle?"
" Shut up Vegeta. I don't see you coming up with a miracle anti lust Demon drug!"
"Just open the damn door Onna."
Bulma opened the door. She thought she saw a flash of Lavish silks and fruit, and a very seductively dressed woman before the room was back to its regular stainless steel. The First thing she noticed was Videl dropping to the floor. The second was the sizeable pool of blood she fell into. The third was the sensation of crushing a syringe under her foot.
A very Empty syringe.
" Oh My Kami! Vegeta, she used all of it!" Bulma covered her mouth in horror, dropping her medical bag to the floor. Dende rushed in and knelt by Videl, gently turning her over, checking her pulse and examining her body for wounds. The obvious source of all the blood came from a point on her arm. There was a large fan of dried blood on it.
" Blood and Bloody Ashes woman! {1} why in hell would you leave a full Syringe of the stuff when you told me she only needed 10 ml?"
" I thought I would Spill!" She cried. Dende began to work his healing magic, ridding the excess toxin from her body. A small crystal bottle appeared and began to fill with the blue substance, tinted slightly with red.
Videl's eyes fluttered open and she screamed. " WHO THE HELL ARE YOU! WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE?"
" Videl! Honey, we were so worried about you! Just calm down!" Bulma tried to reason with her.
" Videl? I don't really know who I am and at this point I don't really care. All I want to know is what is going on here?"
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Oh yes. Revenge is sweet. The creature looked up from the bloodied corpse of Fear. Acid ran down from its mouth and burned the street below. It was… bigger somehow. Yet in ways it was more complete. The more of the keeper's purpose it fulfilled, the more complete it became. It wiped the blood from its mouth with the back of its hideous hand. The demon before it dissipated into a cloud of dark motes that dissolved into the wind.
People peeked out of their doors to see a large dark splotch in the dirt, little runnels in the road where the creature's blood had spilled. There were still a few dark patches here and there, eating their way through walls and rocks, faintly hissing, with invisible clouds of Hydrogen gas dissipating into the air.
They saw the creature in their midst and pointed and whispered behind their hands. Children clutched at their mother's skirts. One man gathered up the courage and walked up to the demonic creature. He began to speak and wave his arms, trying to banish the beast. Its long, forked tongue flicked out and lapped some of the acid blood off his chin.
Then the man kicked the demon with his foot. His first and last mistake. Instantly the keeper crawled up the leg to the man's head where he twisted his neck around 180 degrees. He dropped to the ground, dead. The crowd took a step back before the first child began to cry. Then the pandemonium started, people running and screaming for their lives. The combination of the recently diseased Fear demon and this new horror was just too much for the people. The keeper launched its self into the air and molded wings out of its flesh.
One Target down, with many more to go. Its journey had only begun
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" ALL right! That is IT! No more self pity! If I'm to save the World's sorry ass once again, I Can't very well stand around here doing bloody nothing can I?"
King kai cowered. This woman was going to be the second death of him; he could feel it in his bones. She was up and ranting, probably still feeling the after affects of the Alcohol. She crossed her arms and stared down at the Kai.
" You're useless. I'm going to have to find a better way to get out of this hell in heaven." She twitched her nose, and then concentrated. 10 seconds later, she disappeared.
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She reappeared.
" Hello Emma."
King Emma looked down and saw the small but imposing blue woman before him. He didn't like the look on her face. She smiled. Correction, He really didn't like the look on her face.
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" LET ME GO!"
" I'm sorry, but if I let you go now, you would fall hundreds of feet to the ground. I don't think that you would like that very much."
" IF you don't let me go right now, I'm going to tell my mother and father that you kidnapped me and they will lock you up for the rest of your life. My mother is a Lawyer and my Father is the chief of Police of Gable city!" She made up on the spot. Deception really hoped that the oaf would buy it and let her go, but she knew that her chances were slim at that point. It looked like she was stuck.
" But I found you on a building in Satan City! If your father is the police chief of Gable city, shouldn't you be there too?" The child really was a puzzle to Goku. It was obvious to him she was lying. After all, you don't often miss your only son turning into a demonic little girl who summoned the eternal Dragon and wished for something about Demonic bonds to be broken.
Deception winced. How was she supposed to know the names of these pathetic Earthling cities? " Oh, my father was on a business trip!"
" Listen. I don't know who or what you are, but it's obvious to me that you are not an 8 year old girl named Denise who happened to summon the eternal dragon, disguised as my Son." Goku said it with a tone of finality that was extremely out of character for him. Truth was, that he was tired and worried for the health of his youngest son Goten. He hadn't been around for much of the kid's life, so he figured her would make it up to him by being a great dad. Heck, he owed it to Gohan too. So he had gotten down to thinking and decided that for once he would take on responsibility for something other than the fate of the world. Well, it would not be fair to say he did it all himself. After all, Chichi had a hand in this too.
Goku sighed, and then looked at the odd kid tucked underneath his arm. She could not be comfortable, but didn't seem to complain about it. Besides, nothing he said would make her stop her blatant lies, something Goku could not really understand. He tuned her out and picked up his speed, hoping that Dende would be able to sort things out.
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It was like someone had turned out all the lights in his head, and everything had been reduced to points of light and dark. Not only that, but his eyes felt like hot pokers. He reached out and found a comforting hand on his arm. His wife moved and helped him get to his feet; He felt her hands tracing the skin of his face, hesitating as they reached his forehead and eyes. She brushed the hair from his face. He heard no gasp, but he felt it. He wanted to reach out and touch her face too, but she backed away from his touch and grasped his hand in one of her own
" How…" He choked up. " How bad is it Hun?" He tried to still his shaking hands. She tightened her grasp on his fingers
" I don't know. It could probably be worse. Can you fly?" He found his feet, and rose unsteadily into the air. " Good. I'll be right back" He heard her footsteps move away, crunching in the gravel. She paused, and there was a muffled thud, then the dragging scraping sound of something heavy in a bag being lifted/dragged off the ground. He heard her grunt. She returned to her side, and placed her shoulder under his arm, and her free arm over his shoulders. She was close enough that he could hear her near silent breathing, and the un- natural rasp of metal against metal when she moved.
"I'm going to take you to Korrin's tower. I hope he still has some Senzu's left." He nodded in reaffirmation. But he almost missed the slight tremor in her voice, the thing that said maybe everything was not going to be okay. He also almost missed the thing she uttered after, in the tiniest of whispers.
" I hope it will be enough."
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{1} This is my Favorite curse from the Wheel of Time (minus the 'Woman' bit). My second is " You light blinded fool!"
A/n: And here I go again with the redundant Author notes. I figure that someone will at least read one of the buggers, so I shall continue. I am really having trouble trying to classify this story into a category, because I find that I absolutely cannot restrict myself to making it just romance, or Just drama, or just this and that. Hey, and I'd also like to know if you think the rating is too low or high. As for a contest, The first person to tell me which culture invented out modern numeral system (you know the one that goes: 0 1 2 3 4 5 as opposed to I II III IV V or one of the various other numbers used throughout time) well, they win 37 (or should I say XXXVII) yellow fruits of their choice, or a big invisible inedible chocolate cake! Oh, and about the long time between updates, I've had a lot of projects and Tests lately. This is what you get for going into the nerd classes.
So, the choice is yours. Review, or miss out on the chance to win a giant invisible inedible chocolate cake!