A/N: EVERYONE! COMMEND COSMICTWILIGHT! SHE HAS HER AUTHOR ALERTS BACK!!! :P See, she uses her author's alerts... Unlike some people... I hope you like this chapter for in it we meet our new villain! How will Pan and our new fighters make fun of him? Umm, incase no one read my bio page after I next update Ethereal Messengers, which will be a while, i'm quite stuck, I will be going on hiatus. I will be writing several chapters and maybe updating here and there so use your AAs! My friend said they way I included songs into my story was "Unique" (Whatever Em). What do you guys think? I'd love your feedback.
WARNING: A bit of swearing.
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Without You
Chapter 7: Manifestation
"Remember your promise Pan!"
"Yeah, I will Trunks,"
"Great. I'm looking forward to fighting you again!"
"Uh... Yeah, me too,"
"Heh, don't get too excited,"
"Sorry..."
"No worries. One thing, don't forget me, okay?"
"What?... I'll never forget you Trunks..."
Pan growled and shot upwards to her new found annoyance. He laughed evilly and fled.
"GET BACK HERE!" Pan cried.
To her surprise he circled down onto a damp rooftop from the previous night's rain.
"What's with him? Doing what Pan says... Villains these day..." Neko scoffed rolling her eyes.
"What do you want?" Pan asked sternly as she landed a few feet away from her new enemy.
"I want you Son Pan,"
"EW! Do you realize how wrong that sounds Pan? He wants you," Neko cried.
"Shut up Neko... Just shut up," Jak said.
Pan grinned. "Why is this?" she asked.
"You offend me deeply,"
"Heh, that's nice. What's your name old man?"
"My name?" he asked, seemingly ignoring the 'old man' remark. "Clifford,"
He outstretched his hand.
"Oh!" Neko cried. "I know you!"
"You do?" Pan asked.
"Yes, it's Clifford," she looked at Pan as if she had been in a hole for all her life unaware of what happened in the world. "You know... Clifford... The big red dog,"
"Er... Neko...?" Felix asked. "You are so... dumb,"
"You are not my sister, you are not my sister, you are NOT my sister..." Jak chanted.
"I AM NOT CLIFFORD THE BIG RED DOG! DO I LOOK LIKE A DOG?"
Pan snorted, Felix tried not to laugh Jak lightly sniggered and Neko observed him closely.
"Well... You sort of do... An ugly dog maybe. Take off your hood," she ordered.
Clifford smiled then slowly took it off.
"Gross..." Pan scoffed.
Neko looked as if she was about to vomit.
"Put the hood... Back on..." Pan ordered.
His skin wrinkled up in a smile revealing both several holes and black teeth. He licked his dry, cracked lips.
"Put it away!" Neko commanded.
Clifford's face curled up in what seemed like a big grin. His skin only just stretching across his face.
"Son Pan, let's get this over with,"
"What?" Pan asked rudely.
"Your death fool," Clifford scoffed.
"OH! Your death, okay,"
"No, your death,"
"Your making it sound like i'm going to murder you, just accept that you are going to die, okay?"
"No. You don't understand... YOU will be dieing,"
"Uh huh, sure..."
"Cut it out you insolent Saiyan!"
"Okay... You're right, let's get this over with,"
Neko started to sniffle. "Come back alive Pan," she said while waving a handkerchief for some strange reason.
Pan shook her head in pity for her friends lack of intellect and turned to face Clifford properly. "Bring it, punk,"
Clifford laughed evilly and floated into the air. Pan stood in an attacking stance, ready for battle.
"Pan, you can't ever let that Old Kai better you, okay?"
"Um... Okay... Why?"
"Because... I don't like him,"
"Uncle Goten!"
"Okay, okay, just promise me you won't lose a battle to anyone while you're gone, okay?"
"No prob,"
"Excellent, now how about some ice cream?"
"Yeah,"
"Sweet, let's go,"
"Let's go Clifford!"
Pan smiled. 'I won't let you down Uncle Goten,'.
"Let's," Clifford agreed.
Pan shot forward and stumbled as Clifford disappeared. Evil imp-like laughs could be heard in the distance.
"Not me, my... Friends," Clifford teased.
"You have friends? You're kidding, right?" Neko asked.
"Shut up Neko," Jak said.
"Behold!" Clifford shouted upraising his arms. "My mechanical minions!"
From the dark depths of the city below the tall building they were hovering above came mechanical, small creatures.
"Mechanical minions? They are more like midgets," Neko pointed out.
Pan snorted. "Yeah, we'll kick their arses,"
"We sure will," Felix agreed.
"We'll see," In an instant Clifford disappeared from sight and left our new fighters to fight his mechanical midg... I mean, minions.
Jak shot forwards to punch the mechanical midget then withdrew in great pain.
"Ow! My hand! What did you do you cu-"
At that instant Felix had shot a small green collection of energy at a midget interrupting Jak's pathetic swearing rant.
"I rock," Felix said bluntly. He winked at Neko.
Competitively, Pan outstretched her arm and pointed her finger at her enemy. She shot a golden stream of energy at the minion and managed to collect several others with it, their remains lying on the roof. She smiled with a deep sense of satisfaction at her accomplishment. She glared at Felix, daring him to do better.
"You think you are good, don't you?"
"I know i'm good,"
They laughed together.
"Ready? One... Two... THREE!"
-#-#-
"Oh my god! Oh my god! Oh my god!"
"I think she's... Hyperventilating," Bulla said staring at Chi Chi in deep sympathy. Her gaze swapped to Videl who was incessantly patting her cheeks.
"Talk about obsessed, right mum? Mum?"
Bulma was ironically biting her nails and rocking backwards and forwards in her chair.
"What are we gonna do? What are we gonna do? WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?!?" she chanted.
"I don't know! Um... have some chocolate!" Trunks suggested in hope that it would stop his mother from ruining her nails and then complaining afterwards.
He turned back to the computer screen where on it was Pan competitively slaughtering her mechanical enemies with Felix. They hadn't seemed to notice everyone was watching them. Trunks started to bite his fingernails. He woke up from his daydream and looked at his nails in disgust. he threw his hand aside and sighed as her stared at Pan and her new friends on the unnecessarily oversized computer screen.
"Well we are obviously going to have to do something, get a ship ready or something Bulma, we need to get there now," Gohan said.
"A ship? That would be too slow, we need Kakarot, but because he's not here, we will have to improvise,"
"With what Vegeta?" Goten asked.
"The Kais of course,"
Everyone's face seemed to light up at the clever suggestion the Saiyan prince had made.
"Beats eating chocolate!" Trunks exclaimed.
"Sure does," Bulla agreed. "Okay, here's what we're gonna do. Dad, Trunks, Goten, Gohan, you are in charge of the... Kai thing. Mum, you and me will... Monitor... The situation. Chi Chi, Videl... You can make some tea,"
Everyone took their orders from Bulla and went to complete the task they were set by the teenager.
-#-#-
"Is that it?... Too easy,"
Pan nodded in agreement with her friend Felix. She let out a sigh of relief then quickly took it back as she remembered Clifford was still lingering in a dark corner.
"Giru, Giru!"
Giru came flying out of a small nook waving his little robotic arms and legs about frantically.
"Clifford go that way!" he said pointing in the opposite direction to which he was facing.
After following their mechanical buddy they came to an assembly of trees.
"You're not going in there are you?" Neko asked, once again nibbling on Felix's shirt.
"We are Neko, you don't have to come," Pan said teasingly.
"What? No! No way, i'm coming too," Neko replied.
Pan giggled and placed her hands behind her head as she walked into the cluster of trees. She turned around and saw Neko standing all alone. Her legs wobbled and her head turned from side to side in a paranoid manor.
"Hurry up Neko!"
"Yes, hurry, hurry, hurry," Clifford said.
He grabbed Pan by the throat from behind. She twisted clockwise out of his grip and blasted him with her energy. She smiled in contentment as the smoke cleared. To her surprise Clifford stood unharmed in front of her.
"Nice try Son Pan, now witness where the true essence of my race comes from. Our true power!"
He placed his arm out straight and opened his hand. His eyes sparkled in several different colours as his pupils disappeared. His cloak flapped in the sudden gust of wind. It became stronger and knocked each of the warriors to the ground as Clifford recited ancient words from his ancestral race.
"Cut it out, can't you fight us properly?"
Clifford remained silent. He seemed possessed. Pan suddenly felt drowsy.
"What's... Happening?"
Her surroundings became blurry and she slowly fell asleep, dead to the world.
-#-#-
GOHANGIRL711: Clifford... What was I on when I came up with that name? Must've still been going with the humor thing... You know... Clifford the big red dog... From the children's picture books...
GOKU: Well... That was a few months ago...You know I'm getting old and can't remember what you were on...
GOHANGIRL7711: Er... Old? But you're a half pint.
PAN: Yeah, you're smaller than me.
GOKU: Hey! Cut it out!
PAN: ::slowly walks away::
GOHANGIRL7711: HEY! Where are you going...? The oven is that way! ::points to oven::
GOKU: Quick get her!
PAN: Ah, crap... Well GG hopes you enjoyed the chapter and wants you to review, so don't let her down! Ooh! Also she says goodbye until the next time she updates because she is going on hiatus. BYE!
-Love Always GohanGirl7711- Goku & Pan.