Chapter Twelve: Ryoko Regains Control
No. Ryoko stood at first staring at the destruction in front of her. She had regained control of her body, only to realise that she was too late to stop herself from doing wrong. No. She fell to her knees. She was in a field. Wearing her space pirate cat suit. With a burnt crater in front of her. It was the remains of the party she heard earlier. A couple of dome shaped houses stood behind it, it looks like they only just survived the blast, although they were burned and crumbling. Ryoko realised she was to blame. That voice that told her to destroy. It was the terrifyingly familiar voice that belonged to Kagato.
"Kagato!" She shouted. He had used her again. But how? Tenchi had destroyed him! It made no sense. Ryoko cried. Tears rolled silently down her face falling to the ground. She was so confused. She remembered seeing a man. Those dark eyes burning into her. Familiar dark eyes. The name. Vegeta. Prince Vegeta. It was so familiar. Maybe he was the one to trigger it off, maybe he is the cause of this? All she knew was that she had to go back. She had to get rid of him. But who was he, why did he seem so familiar. Vegeta? It made no sense to her she had never heard of him. Never met him.
She stood up and wiped away her tears. Maybe no one was hurt? It could have been an empty party? But whoever heard of an empty party. She remembered hearing laughter. Could it have been Kagato's laughter. Ryoko remembered hearing laughter but she was unsure where it had come form.
Ryoko was about to fly back when something moved. What was it? Had someone survived?
A boy got up from the rubble. He had golden hair and blue eyes. He wore a blue shirt and his white trousers were cover in dirt. Soon another stirred. He was a young man also with golden hair, only he was wearing a suit. He pulled off his broken glasses and threw them to the floor. Two more rose up, other young men, younger than the previous, both had golden hair that was sticking up high. One was wearing a purple shirt with a white vest over the top and the other wore a brown suit. A woman got up, she had short blonde hair, but it was not like the men, her hair seemed more natural. A bald man with three eyes stumbled up. His head was bleeding, and in his arms he held what appeared to be a china doll, with a white face and rosy cheeks.
"Is everyone alright?" The young boy who first stood up asked.
"Chao-tsue is hurt badly, and I'm slightly injured" The bald man replied.
"Krillin's hurt too." The girl answered. One of the young men, the one in the brown suit, shouted, "Pan's down!" The older looking young man turned around and picked up a young girl wearing a orange bandana.
"Alright, Gohan, take Pan, Eighteen take Krillin and Tien take Chao-Tsue. Go indoors and see if everyone else is ok." The boy ordered.
Ryoko walked forward. The remaining three people stood ready to fight her.
"Wait!" Ryoko yelled, "Please I.. I mean no harm!"
"Yeah right, what was that all about then?" The young man in the brown suit retaliated angrily.
"Look, I don't know what just happened. I need help. I don't know where I am."
"Dad, I don't think we can trust her" The man in the purple top said to the small boy.
The boy looked at Ryoko, he stared at her for a second. Ryoko was scared, confused and upset. Who were these people?