Kakkhan: Giendonese Saiyan Warrior
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball/Z/GT, but I do own Janden, the Laniins, the other races not including Human, the planet Giendon, a few techniques, the unfamiliar languages, and a handful of other things that are my creation alone.
A/n: Ehhh, who am I again? This time I'm SP, right? No? Yes? Eh? Can't hear you! Ah, who cares? Let's just get on with the fic.
Allati: /Pops up/ I agree.
SP: Oh it's you again.
Allati: Yep! Now let's go, let's go, let's go!
SP: Go ahead, parrot.
Allati: /pouts/ Hmpf. Start Chapter! /Turns to SP and starts quarreling with her/
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Blah = Laniin, untranslated
[Blah] = Laniin, translated
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Previously on Kakkhan: Giendonese Saiyan Warrior,
All too soon, Gohan stood in front of the chaotic remnants of what had once been a gloriously huge domed building labeled Capsule Corps. Gohan still wasn't thinking, but as he looked around the rubbish, he spotted a hand and part of an arm poking out of it. Gohan sighed and trekked over. Kneeling, he dug around the rocks, not wanting to touch the hand or arm. But the rocks kept filling in his hole, blocking whatever sight Gohan might have had of the person's clothes below.
Patiently, Gohan kept tunneling. Frustration dotted his features as the little rocks evaded his firm control and kept jumping back on in. Finally, Gohan simply grabbed the cold flesh and yanked out the human within. He turned the corpse over and stared dully at the surprised features of Son Chichi.
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Chapter Eighteen: Gohan's Grief
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Gohan didn't do anything. He simply kneeled over his mother's body, numbly accepting her death as the work of the Dark Androids, even if Gohan had been fighting the twins. Then another thought occurred to him. What if this had been the work of that person in his dreams? His look-alike?
Gohan said aloud, "Was it you who did this?"
Kakkhan sighed. He had been expecting this. He walked up beside Gohan and looked at the face of Chichi himself. "No. But it was my fault."
Gohan grunted. Kakkhan tensed himself in preparation for Gohan to do something the demi-Saiyan would probably regret later. Gohan bowed his head and wept inside. He had run out of tears crying for Yamcha and the others, so he couldn't cry on the outside for his mother. How ironic. He cried out all his tears for people he didn't even know all that well, except for Piccolo, and now when it came for the big occasion, Gohan was all out.
Suddenly Gohan jumped the gun and leapt at Kakkhan. Kakkhan swept his arm up and blocked Gohan's punch. Gohan then brought his knees up to gut Kakkhan in the stomach. The pureblooded Saiyan blocked that too. Gohan growled in frustration and combated on. Punch, punch, kick, punch, roundhouse, punch, left hook, right uppercut, kick, double-handed swipe down, ki blast, punch, a dodged kick, another Masenko, and a karate chop. Kakkhan blocked or ducked them all.
Gohan threw another Masenko, which Kakkhan deflected. Gohan gnashed his teeth together in angry disappointment and thrust a punch at Kakkhan. Kakkhan, this time, smacked him away into another crater, deepening that crater by three kilometers. Gohan breathed heavily and lay still.
Kakkhan walked to the end of the crater and watched his past self. He hoped that Gohan would be able to get over his anger at his future self for the deaths of Chichi, Bulma, and unborn baby Trunks. While it was Kakkhan's fault for their deaths, it was evident that Gohan was taking it a little too personally against Kakkhan. Especially after the "older" Saiyan had just said sorry. Looked like it was Kakkhan's turn this time.
Kakkhan took a deep breath and exhaled it. He sat on the edge of the crater and slid into light meditation. He breathed in and out, in… and… out… in… and… out…
Gohan wearily opened his eyes at the sound of regulated breathing. He saw his double meditating and looking so much like Piccolo-san that Gohan wanted to cry. Of course, he couldn't.
Gohan groaned and turned his head. His stomach heaved and he vomited onto the dirt next to him. He had seen too much death today. And he was likely to see much more tomorrow.
Finished, Gohan put his back on the ground. He looked at the sky again and found that the blue was gone, replaced by sad gray clouds hoping to rain. Gohan squinted at the sky and then closed his eyes. Almost immediately a raindrop fell in the middle of his forehead. Gohan relaxed and let the rain come.
Kakkhan didn't stir as the rain splattered onto him. He continued to meditate, ignoring everything around him and yet aware of everything at the same time. He diligently kept up his activity, even as Gohan finally heaved his body out of the crater and climbed up the seven-kilometer crater. Kakkhan kept his eyes closed even as a weary Gohan staggered to his feet and stood crookedly, his torso out of proportion to the rest of his body.
Kakkhan only opened his eyes as he sensed Gohan bend down toward him. He solidified a ki shield to support Gohan before the younger demi-Saiyan could fall. Gohan, not knowing where the support came from, but not caring either, leaned almost all of his weight on it. Kakkhan closed his eyes again. Gohan noticed and sagged again. This time his feet did come off the ground, resting Gohan on his elbow entirely on the air above Kakkhan.
Gohan bent his head down to the ground in a moment of shame and muttered quickly, "Sorry."
Kakkhan didn't respond. Gohan sighed again and closed his eyes as well. Only to be startled awake by a brusque voice, "C'mon Gohan, let's get you healed up for tomorrow's battles." Gohan looked at the fighter standing up and brushing his clothes clean of the dusty blood and other such gross details. Then he looked at what he was standing on. To his surprise, he could faintly see a gold outline under his arm. Gohan stared at it, fascinated by all the shifting shades of gold and bronze yellow he could see in there. Bouncing on the shield, Gohan winced as he got a re-definition of the word "solid".
Kakkhan's mouth quivered in a spectral ghost of a smirk and he turned his head to hide it from Gohan. He spotted the shadow of an akuma darting away from his sight and sobered down. He remembered what he was here for, and resolved to do it before long. Before the chibis started to wonder where he went again, before Bulma and Chichi started to worry again, before all of the Z-senshi got into an uproar. Kakkhan shook his head at the retreating shadow of InuYasha. But what was InuYasha doing here, and not Lotto?
Gohan inadvertently interrupted Kakkhan's musings by groaning at the sharp pain suddenly felt in his back during stretching. Kakkhan turned to his friend to see what was the matter. He managed to catch Gohan as his younger self fell over backwards from trying to stretch his back too fast. Gohan looked up at his rescuer and a faint blush appeared on his cheeks. Kakkhan ignored it and helped him up.
Gohan had to lean on Kakkhan's ki shield again as they moved away from the dreaded downfall of Capsule. Gohan looked back one more time. Realizing that that had been a mistake, Gohan was finally struck with the full effect and meaning of the deaths of his biological mother and his second mother.
Kakkhan looked at Gohan's face when he felt his clone stiffen. He noted that Gohan was breathing a lot more raggedly and his face, normally a pale color, was as milk-white as porcelain. His eyes were wide and his pupils were dilated. Gohan was very good at hiding his emotions, but Kakkhan was enough of an expert at interpreting his own face to see that Gohan was having a nervous breakdown. So Kakkhan did what was quite possibly the most Saiyanly thing to do. The pure knocked out the half.
Carrying Gohan's limp body in his hands like a precious treasure, Kakkhan flew back to Blue Star City. He changed his mind and sidetracked to beyond Ina City to Quebenia City (1). He knew that Gohan and the Z-senshi had failed to save the city quite a long time ago, but perhaps the battle would be so enlaced into Gohan's subconscious that it would be lost. Lost amongst all the other battles forfeited to the Dark Androids over the course of four years.
Kakkhan perched on one building and vaulted off of it as it crumbled further to join its companions on the ground. Kakkhan zoomed onto another and jumped onto a third. From there he landed gracefully on the ground. All three buildings lamented their fates in a loud wailing sonicboom as they stumbled to their knees. They crashed beyond that point onto their faces, forever to lie there still until a planet purger came along and wiped the world of its historical rises, and its even more historical falls.
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Gohan woke up. As usual, he was bouncing up within two minutes out of bed into the oddly placed bathroom adjoining it. While in the bathroom, Gohan cheerfully grabbed a toothbrush and started obliviously piling crusty toothpaste onto it. The demi-Saiyan was thwacked, however, into reality as he saw the dirt and coated grime on the mirror. He stared at the toothbrush held ready in his hand, saw for the first time the toothpaste he had (un-)successfully attempted to put on it, and of the world and its reality. His dream of home, his real home, was shattered once more.
He slumped out of the bathroom, back in what used to be his mundane everyday depression under the oppression of the Dark Androids. Gohan sat on the musty bed and cried, for the lives he hadn't been able to save, and for the lives he would not be able to save, in the future.
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A/n: I was going to explain more in that chapter, but I decided that where I ended it was pretty good. Now I know that that chapter was short, but I really didn't feel like writing the final battle between Gohan and the Dark Androids in the same chapter as when Gohan fought Kakkhan over the family's deaths. I also didn't feel like explaining why InuYasha was there and not Lotto. You'll find that all out next chapter. Or the nextest. Or de one after that. I don't know when I'm going to write it, but we will eventually find out. Don't bug juice me about it.
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Translations:
Akuma: Demon (I'm adopting this translation for demon since it came out of my Japanese book dictionary, and that's more reliable than an online dictionary. So there!)
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SNEAK PREVIEW OF: Final Showdown of Darkness
Gohan finally locked on the source of the unnaturally safe feeling. Although it had gotten weaker for a while, it was back and stronger than ever. As if it was right beside his bed.
Gohan turned his head to the left and saw nothing. To the right, and still nothing. Back to the left. This time Gohan was met by the sight of his mysterious double standing there sturdily, accompanied by an aberrantly large inu.
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REVIEWER'S RESPONSES:
Nooka: NO! Must...not...lose...plot!!! Must find it again!!! Well, at least I did better in updating this time around, ne? Not so long this time! YES!!!! I wish you luck with GSS. I'm getting tired of you not updating!!!! /Glares/
/Takes pen and dictionary/Starts writing in "self-androidalization" and its definition/Writes in origin as "coined by TheShadowPanther" /Grins/ Now I have my own word! /Looks down at dictionary in lap/ Not to mention a seriously messed up dictionary. Oh well! /Shrugs and grins/
Trunks' Brat Baby: =P Yeah, poor Gohan. Poor Kakkhan, having to deal with Gohan. LOL! Thanks for saying it was an excellent chap! It's reviewers like all of you, including the flamers (yes them!!!), that make me feel good as an authoress. /Hugs Brat Baby/ BYE!!
Hiaburi: Yeah, a trilogy. /Grinz ruefully/ Plot puppies sure do abound with Kakkhan, eh? Oh, well. I updated soon! /Smiles proudly/
SSJ5 Tigger: Naughty SSJ5! /Banishes SSJ5 into far corner of Tigger's mind where she came from/ There! /Wipes hands/ Yeah, Gohan lost most/all of his friends in two-three days. LOL I'm harsh on Gohan lately aren't I? Must stop that. /Grinz evilly/
O.O Did you just call Cell a pleasant person? O.O I think he's a jerk. But seeing what he did for you just now, I'll have to rethink that...
NOT. =)
SS2 Megami-sama: LOL Poor Falcon, Tobi, and Yuki. I'm keeping Kyoku, yeah, even though he may be so good at inspiring that he hurts, just like my muses. /Sighs/ Yeah, he's even inspired me already! So far it's just a plot puppy rambling around in my head, but it involves Videl (Yes, the Satan Slut, but not romantically hehe), Gohan, Goten, Trunks, uh... well, you'll find out if and when I finally finish either Vigilante Angel or Kakkhan and I can get started on my getting longer list of stories waiting to be posted up. I've even got a few typed up already. LOL. /Sweatdrops as she eyes list/ Yeah.
/Grabs box of badges and cackles maniacally/
Allati: /Coughs lightly as pushes SP out of picture/ Yeah.
SP in background: /Glowers at muse/
Shea Loner: Hey, if evil cliffies keep you reading, so be it! /Grinz playfully/ Yeah, I suppose the time-skipping was confusing, but hey! I'm here to answer questions any time you have them. So ask already!!!!
Subway Saiyan: You know, that's a good question. I really don't know. I guess that Gohan figured out how to locate the androids by the way in which thousands of ki got wiped out each day in different areas. I don't know. /Shrugs/ Thanks for the thought-food! /Holds up chopsticks and digs in/ Hey! This is really good! /Continues to eat/ Here's the next one! Thanks for the compliments, I loved the review! You made my day along with the other reviewers! /Iz happy/
simba-rulz: Ten Gohans, huh? Not bad an idea, but that doesn't belong in the Kakkhan plot so far. Sorry!
I think I joined the fanlisting, but I'm not sure. Did I get in? DidIdidIdidIdidIdidIdidIdidIdidI? /Imitating Amber's review/ LOL!
Are two Gohans in this fic enough for the no Gohans in Vigilante Angel? Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuhuh? /Imitating Goten-chan this time/ LOL! =D
Sugarylicious! /Salutes Amber-chan/ Bye Simba!!!! /Waves to human-as-a-neko Simba/
DBZ Chick1: I updated! I'll be around, as soon as I finish school at last! (Meaning I won't read/review your stories until JUNE!!!!!!!!!! O.O;) KEEP WRITING!!!!
ShadowObscurity: HEY! THE FIRST ONE TO UPDATE! YAY!!!! /Hugs Obscurity/ Hey! Don't thank me for cheering you up! Thank yourself for being a constant reviewer!!! Don't give up on your writing, just write it whenever you feel like writing and update it whenever you feeling like updating it. That's the key to being a writer, yes, even one on demand and on serious deadlines (like me, sigh), and if you just do that, you'll be fine!! Writing isn't really about the reviews anyway, it's about you writing for yourself, no matter if you have people reading and enjoying (or flaming [P) your stories. True, it's really heartening to have people write appreciative reviews, but it's really all about yourself. If you don't enjoy writing a story, don't write it. Delete it, even. Maybe even start over, if you really feel that strongly about a story. Listen to yourself and write what you want.
/Looks at paragraph/ Was that a speech I just wrote? /Smiles sheepishly/
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Thanks to Nooka, subway saiyan, Trunks' Brat Baby, SSJ5 Tigger, SS2 Megami-sama, Hiaburi, Shea Loner, DBZ Chick1, ShadowObscurity and simbarulz for their reviews!
I have only two weeks to go for school and tomorrow, the 22nd is my b-day, just in case nobody reads my bio. I CAN'T WAIT!!! Sweet 15, here I come!!!! ?Chases after #15, AASN muses and Falcon's muse Kyoko chasing afterwards/
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X' Ia horon kai 'N, (2)
TheShadowPanther and Allati, from AASN
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(1. Quebenia: A more than slightly portmanteau word of Quebec and queen. A portmanteau word is a combination of two words.)(2. X' Ia horon kai 'N: The Language of Akumas for "see you soon". Pronounced "Chi ee-ah ho-rhone kai ngh.")
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