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: Heyo! It's back to the legends of Kakkhan: Giendonese Saiyan Warrior! I've decided that all the Kakkhan fics are going to be 23, 24, 25 chappies long, for they would be too long otherwise. I may have some trouble with a few fics, maybe this one and the next, in keeping to that fic length, but I don't know. Only the gods of Time, Fate, and Destiny know, and they're not telling. They never do. But I know that if I was going to have a single fic of all three parts, it'd be 60, 70 chapters, and that's a little daunting, even for an avid-fic reader like myself, who happens to like long fics. Right, Allati?
Allati: /Looks up from chips/ Hmm, what? Oh, chappies. Yes. Considering that Kakkhan is immortal, I think that the three parts in the range of 23, 24 chapters each are quite right. But, I think that the third fic is going to be a mite longer than 24 chapters, ne?
You've got a point there Allati. But anyway, that's not what we're here for. What we're here for is the humongous final fight against the Dark Androids.
Allati: Yes. Now do your work and leave me alone. /Returns to chips/
/Pouts/ Well, you don't have to be mean about it! /Turns to story/ /Cracks fingers/ All right, let's get going! On with the story!
Oh, and as a warning, this chapter gets a bit dark. As in pitch-black. You'll see what I mean, when I raise the rating of this fic from PG to PG-13 for once and for all. Hehehe /Looks a mite nervous/ You may be a little disappointed with the fight itself, but oh, well. I'm giving away stuff here.
Anyway, now that that's said and done, enjoy! :)
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Blah = Laniin, untranslated
[Blah] = Laniin, translated
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Previously on Kakkhan: Giendonese Saiyan Warrior,
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 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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Chapter Nineteen: Final Showdown of Darkness
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Kakkhan stood silently over the sleeping Gohan. He shifted his face molecules to see more properly Gohan's face. The demi-Saiyan's red face had tear streaks scratching his cheeks. Kakkhan wondered why this was so. He got his answer by looking in the young mind.
Kakkhan shifted and directed his molecules to the bathroom. There he found the toothpaste and the toothbrush just lying around the broken and rusted sink. Kakkhan understood now something of what the young adult was going through. Kakkhan felt vaguely bad for bringing Gohan here. He should have known that any place touched by the Dark Androids would deeply scar Gohan. But Kakkhan didn't understand that, having been trained on Giendon to be emotionless in battle and on any battleground.
Kakkhan tilted his head molecules as he thought some more. On the other hand, Kakkhan understood perfectly, in a different sense. Having "deserted" Giendon, he had subconsciously designated Janden and the Laniins as strangers to himself. Kakkhan felt an ache in his bones whenever he thought about Giendon, no matter what part of the planet he was thinking about. So yes, he knew more than somewhat what Gohan was going through.
Kakkhan sensed Gohan start in motion the beginnings of the awakening process and drifted back out. He settled in the darkest corner as was his customary place in every corner every time he used the Shadow Body Power Level. Kakkhan called the Shadow Body Power Level, Shabo, to make it easier on himself to say.
The young Legendary Lord watched Gohan wake up and look around, re-orientating himself much better and much more controlled than before, though this time it was more of a resigned reaction than a nervous breakdown as earlier in the day had been.
Gohan had fallen asleep after he had cried out the few tears he had regained from yesterday. He didn't really know how he had that feat, since it took a lot more than only a half-hour of crying. He had thought he had seen a slouching form just beside his bed, but he wasn't sure what it was. But one thing was certain, it hadn't been human.
Gohan looked around. He felt…odd, in a way. He felt something that he hadn't felt in a long time. He felt safe. And if there was a certain thing that Gohan knew for certainty about his world, was that he shouldn't feel safe. At all.
Kakkhan oversaw Gohan look around warily and wished sorely, not for the first time, that he, as an immortal Saiyanling, could control the side effect of making his best friends feel safe. It really made things difficult, especially when Kakkhan didn't want to let the person he was around to know he was even there.
As Gohan searched around for him, Kakkhan shifted again. Gohan was thrown off guard a bit as his reading senses were scrambled. While Gohan tried to reorganize those aforementioned senses, Kakkhan slowly floated from his corner to the ripped open wall he had come through to bring Gohan here. He almost solidified, but InuYasha's lunge across the floor directed his attention from that.
Kakkhan followed the inu akuma's trajectory and realized the sarcastic demon wanted to be followed. Casting a backwards look at the furled-forehead Gohan, Kakkhan turned away and chased after the retreating akuma.
At one point, the Legendary Lord solidified as he raced around a corner. He skidded smoothly to a stop in front of the growling inu in front of him. Kakkhan accepted the growl for what it really was and grunted a greeting back.
'Hello, InuYasha. And why are you here?' Kakkhan questioned, crossing his arms.
It snarled a curse of which Kakkhan ignored and tapped his foot impatiently. InuYasha took the hint and spoke without cursing, a feat in itself for the inu.
'You know why I'm here. You have to finish this job quickly. If you take any longer than today at helping your half-Saiyan ward defeat the Dark Androids of this timeline, the whole balance of this Time will be knocked out of sorts. You as the Legendary Lord know that is not a desirable thing.'
Kakkhan nodded curtly. 'Yes. I do know. Believe me, it was not on my agenda to have Gohan get a nervous breakdown simply because I made a calculative error in the location.'
InuYasha snorted in slight amusement at Kakkhan's exasperated choice of words and word order. Kakkhan glared at the inu as he waited for the akuma's laughing fit to die down. When it had, Kakkhan continued.
'Now tell me why you're here, and not my Guardian.'
InuYasha then shuffled Its paws in embarrassment, another feat in itself for the inu akuma. It didn't take offense at Kakkhan's emphasis on you're because it was not good for InuYasha's image to be sent on a mission like this like, well, like a dog.
'Ah, well. Dammit, it's a complicated matter. I'm sure you, you (censored), wouldn't want to be bored by the trivial details. So I'm just going to give you the (censored) big picture here.'
InuYasha shuffled Its paws again. Kakkhan noticed again that the paws were unnaturally large for an inu, a telltale sign of the akuma at first sight. Another obvious two were that forked tail and the fact that InuYasha even talked. It took a slightly deeper breath and started.
'I'm here to tell your (censored) ward about his duty in the future.'
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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.
Gohan's eyes were drawn to the grotesquely overlarge details ensuing each other on the inu's body. The nostrils with their noisy flaring of each reeking breath, the sleekly anorexic body, the enlarged paws and claws, the dominantly ruby eyes, the rectangular circled head, and the saber-toothed tiger fangs poking out of the corners of the inu's mouth. Gohan almost missed, however, the forked tail lashing in every direction behind the busily disproportional body of the dog standing beside the calm twin of Gohan, Saiyan Warrior.
Gohan managed not to totally freak out at the sight. He failed in his reaction when his own twin bespoke the demon's freakiness by saying, 'InuYasha, you may speak now. But beware, no swearing.'
InuYasha snarled. The snarl was more than a little frightening, but that was not what made the hairs on Gohan's neck rise. It was both the fact that Gohan's lookalike was completely unaffected by it, and that Gohan actually understood the growl.
'Hey, I can't help my lousy vocabulary. I've had a d—uh, awfully long lifetime, and you're influenced by many things, mostly mortals with more primitive language than I have.' InuYasha hastily corrected Itself at a warning glance from the Friend of all Akumas. It continued in a gentler voice to Gohan.
'So you're the one. Hmm, you don't look so good. Then again, your…guardian doesn't quite look his part either, so I…guess you'll do.'
Gohan watched wide-eyed as InuYasha struggled to keep Itself from saying the words that his double so wanted the inu to not say. Speaking of the double, he seemed to be satisfied with the efforts of the akuma. He said nothing at all, but his eyes did go over to the akuma whenever Inu was about to say a swearword. But besides that, he didn't say a thing.
Gohan wished he would. It would be such a relief, because then Gohan could say this was a dream. But no, he knew this was no dream.
'All right, mortal, this is what I'm here for. I'm going to tell you what those…dreams…of yours are about.'
Gohan's attention was trapped at those words. He had been having these recurring dreams for the past two days, ever since he had gotten his necklace actually, about going through a big tunnel of light to a single spot of darkness caged in light. Gohan, in his dream, always wanted to go past the cage of light into the darkness. But right when Gohan was about to step into it, something with tremendous force always pulled him away. But not before Gohan saw the reflection of himself inside looking out at him.
That was always when Gohan woke up.
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Gohan strode purposefully through the tattered and torn streets. He could feel the heat explosions from the Dark Androids' ki blasts, but neither quickened his pace nor slowed down. If what the inu, InuYasha, had said about his future was true, then there was no rush.
He rounded a corner and halted calmly. There they were. The Dark Androids. Shooting still intact buildings into rubble just for the fun of it, no less.
Dark 18 looked to her side and looked again. She grinned evilly and tapped her brother on the shoulder.
"Hey 17, guess who's back? Our favorite toy." She smirked. Dark 17 looked in the direction of her nod and grinned himself.
"Heh, heh, heh. Well, this is really going to make our day complete. Why don't we give him a special welcome?" he replied. Dark 18 nodded again.
Without warning, they dived away from their ki blasting and shot to within a few feet of Gohan, who was still standing there as calmly as if he had not noticed that they had arrived. Dark 17 frowned at the lack of reaction he was getting from the young warrior. He was not used to getting nothing out of Gohan, he was used to seeing anger, fear, and hate wrinkling the face of one so young as Gohan, but not today! No, there was nothing there, not even resignation, though there were suspicious signs of tear streaks on his face, as if he had been crying. The streaks were offset by the strong look of unemotion set firmly on his face. The combination of streaks and unemotion actually made a rather dashing figure of heroism, if you really cared to look loosely at the picture. (Anybody wanna make fan art now? Hehe, ya can if you want. LOL)
Dark 18 also noticed, but as she was not a romantic, she just tossed it out of her mind and got ready for a fight. This was going to be fun. She let herself fall into an offensive fighting stance, noting only distantly when her brother did the same. Gohan still stood there, calm, unmoving, and unemotional.
They stood there like this for several minutes, neither moving. Gohan, however, was doing more than just stand there and be calm. He was making a journey.
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As depicted so many times before, Gohan was surrounded by light. This, InuYasha had told him, was his mind. It was odd, for Gohan had always surmised that the inside of one's head would be dark, brooding. But no, not his. It was all white, thankfully in varying shades and one shade changing into another all the time. It was very interesting to watch one shade of white go into another, and another, and yet another. But Gohan didn't have the time to be light watching now. He had a mission to accomplish (hehe a BIG political pun on G. W. Bush in my beloved country of America just now. Joke actually not funny, I'm sure) and was not going to dawdle in its completion. (Heeheehee)
Gohan struck out in any general direction, knowing that the single spot of darkness with Its cage of light would bring Itself to him no matter where he went. He just had to be aimless in his stroll through his own mind.
Sure enough, Gohan soon found himself facing the orb of slow moving darkness encased in light that so haunted his dreams. InuYasha had told him that this ball of darkness was there for a reason. It would not tell him what that reason was, nor what the darkness represented. All Gohan knew was that he was supposed to step past the enclosure of light into the darkness and let It…use…him. Gohan would know when he was supposed to step out of the darkness, but again, InuYasha would not tell him how he would know. Gohan felt a slight tremble of fear at stepping into the darkness, but he repressed it as soon as it came. InuYasha had told him that it was…err…natural to resist the idea first, all mortals did when faced with this darkness. But Gohan was supposed to let the darkness take care of him and Gohan was, indeed, on a mission.
Gohan took a deep breath as he stepped the third-to-last final step. He stopped here for no other reason than having a sense of déjà vu, before the feeling came.
The feeling was of warmth emanating from the darkness within the light. It drew him in, as in his dream, and made Gohan feel at home like no other place had. Gohan wanted to go into the darkness, let It overtake him forever and ever, but something made him pause. This wasn't a dream. Nothing would draw him back from the temptation of the orb pulsating softly in front of him. It was just him and the dark. Gohan tilted his head, then shook it, dimly annoyed. He was supposed to do this. Wasn't he?
Without his knowing, Gohan took the last two steps, ending up just inside of the crate of light, and the dark was on him.
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He opened his eyes and panicked. He couldn't see anything, he was in utter and complete darkness! He struggled, twisting this way and that and trying to find a way out of there. All at once, he halted, for the feeling came again. Warmth spread through him and dulled his limbs, his senses, his very mind. The child thought dimly about struggling, but did nothing to stop the darkness from taking his mind, soul, heart, or body. He didn't mind as the darkness spread out and tainted the opalescent shades of white that were his mind, nor did he remotely care when he felt his body moving on its own. The boy didn't even care to know that he was beating the Androids to shreds. The very banes of his existence were now at his mercy, but he didn't care. He was perfectly happy to let the darkness deal with them, even though metal parts spattered everywhere and two metal hearts were in his hands. Not his hands, he corrected himself, the darkness' hands.
He lethargically closed his eyes and viewed no more the destruction of the Dark Androids as he dozed.
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Dark 17 couldn't believe it. How did this pathetic weakling, sniveling just two days ago about the death of his weak friends, get so strong?! He was beating them soundly, almost like a flogging given from a soldier to a civilian! This boy was not human!!!
Duh, he thought to himself as he tried to get Gohan's grip off of his ankle, he's a halfbreed Saiyan. Of course he's not human. But still, this is impossible! He shouldn't be able to beat us so soon after we last defeated him!
Gohan, or what was Gohan, tossed Dark 17 into the air like a rag doll. 17 tried to right himself, but found himself choking out greenish blood instead as a head rammed through his ribs. Dark 18 had followed his helpless ascent into the air with one of her own in a much speedier route, thus catching her brother in the gut with her blonde head. As the Dark Gemini reeled from the collision, Gohan shot up into the air with them. He began to beat on them mindlessly, a rather Saiyan-like smirk gracing his otherwise cold features. The darkness that was controlling Gohan gave the Dark Twins (who were disgracing the name of Dark by destroying everything like sadistic zombies) no mercy, so it was to the relief of the gasping Twins when Dark Gohan (1) let up for a tiny bit. The relief was very short-lived, however, when Dark Gohan again darted into their presence. This time around, though, he was much fiercer, as if he wanted this done with already. This time around, he was breaking the Dark Androids to pieces, literally.
During this dispersion of long overdue justice, four unnamed figures watched from the sidelines in their own respective places. One was lounging languidly on the roof corner of one of the infrequently unbroken buildings there, swinging his leg back and forth absently as he watched the proceedings. The three others were more sensibly keeping their own feet on the ground. Out of these other three, only one was a Humanoid; the two others were animalistic. Both the bestial beings waved forked tails, while the Humanoid with them sported a wavy scythe gleaming in what little light there was in the shadows. One of the animal beings was hatefully pale, and the other was sleekly dark and in a sarcastic mood. Comments could be heard between these two beasts about the state of things around here, and one can be sure that said comments were not positive.
When all was said and done, Dark Gohan calmly floated to the ground, acting as if nothing had happened and he had just come back from a peaceful flight. Pieces of metal clattered to the ground before and after he did, raining metal as he dropped down. The lightlessness of the Dark warrior's eyes slowly disappeared as the true Gohan came to the surface again, bringing all of his emotions with him. Soon the sparkle of life danced in those eyes again, hidden only slightly by confusion and a bit of leftover lethargy.
The four figures on the sidelines stirred as he walked towards them, metal still clanging all around him in its unforeseen descent from the sky (2?). They finally met in a clash of Nature, for Nature never meant for a hybrid Saiyan to meet with two demons, one Horseman, and one Future Immortal, all at once. Of course, Nature never meant for there to be a hybrid Saiyan either, but the rules were severely bent in that case, as they were in this case. For InuYasha, Yoko, Yoki, Kakkhan, and Gohan had some very important matters to talk about. Very important matters.
Gohan was introduced to the "Y pair", as Yoko and Yoki were known otherwise as, and was made nervous by their obvious enjoyment of the blood- and metal-shed that had just taken place. Gohan didn't really get what they were crowing about, for he had just woken up from his semi-doze in time to perceive that the battle was over. He had come to himself, and Gohan had derived that all the pieces of metal, with green stuff splashed all over the place, including himself, had formerly been two terrifying Dark Androids, and that they were gone forevermore from this world. Gohan was actually trying to hold himself together from seeing all that icky green stuff everywhere, for he was sure it was blood, the blood of the Androids, and he found that he didn't like the sight as much as he thought he might have. But anyway, he remembered how it had felt to wake up, and the knowledge of what he had just done whacking him over the head with a ten-pound frying pan. (:D)
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'You will know when to wake up.' The snarl reverberated in the darkness. He opened his eyes and was told happily by the dark that the battle was over, the war was won. The child smiled sleepily and prepared to doze again, when the snarl came back.
'You will know when to wake up.' He attempted to glare at the offending noise, but failed in his attempt as he could not discern the origins of the sound. The boy apathetically looked about for it, but ceased soon in the action. He was so tired.
His pale forehead suddenly furrowed into a frown. You will know when to wake up…? What was that supposed to mean? He pondered it, growing more conscious the more he thought about the message. You will know when to wake up. He was waking up. The thought caused a start to gong all along his body. You will know when to wake up.
He saw that the darkness was growing thinner, no longer tainting the shades of white in his mind. It was retreating back into the cage It originally was in and pushing him, Its child, out of Its protective embrace as It was doing so. He didn't want to leave the darkness, but something was drawing him away, the same force as in his dreams. His dreams. With another start, the boy realized just what had happened. He had completed the mission. Or rather, the darkness had completed the mission.
Gohan looked wide-eyed at the darkness retreating solemnly from the majority of his mind. When the dark had reassembled into Its true form, It just pulsated benignly at him again, then drew Itself and Its cage away out of his sight, but not out of his mind.
Gohan was left to wrestle with the happenings and with waking up.
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A/n: /Grimaces/ Eh, not a very descriptive fight. Descriptive enough I suppose, especially with the mind control thing in here (/Looks pointedly at simbarulz/), but not descriptive enough to my liking. I suppose I could do my fight-writing skills more justice, but I don't even really feel like lengthening the chapter just for a fight. Even if it is the Dark Android fight we're talking about here. Heh. /Sweatdrops/
Anyway, I have no idea why I ended the chapter the way I did. I just felt like it was a good place to end it, especially since I was looking for a place to end it too, hehe, and that popped up!
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(1) Yes, Gohan was dark for a time. No, he's not being turned evil. Be wholeheartedly assured. This element will come into play again later on, but whether it's in this fic or the next, or the one after that, I'm not telling.
(2?) What I'm thinking by this statement is that metal was never made to fall from the sky, right? And the Dark Androids are made of metal, correct? There you are. That's what I meant. I know, I'm being confusing. That's good for you. A little confusion in Life never hurts (A1). ;D
(A1) Confusion element in this chapter inspired somewhat by Skadu, who is writing a very confusing fic named Kokuhaku. An AASN award goes to Skadu for being the "Mistress of DBZ Fic Confusion"! /Sweatdrops as artificial applause rings in empty opera theater/ Hehehe. /Yells to aforementioned theater/ Somebody tell her about this award! Go on, I tell ya! /Listens to echoes, flees from them/ Eek! /Disappears underground as echoes go on and on/
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SNEAK PREVIEW OF: Enigmas Unwrapped, Partially
Kakkhan finished the last box of his portion in a matter of seconds. He cleaned up his mess and dumped it all in several waste paper baskets lying around. Done with his house cleaning, Kakkhan seated himself in a comfortable chair by one of the windows. The window was cracked and badly in need of a wash, but Kakkhan wasn't there to look outside. Nah, it was just meditation time.
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REVIEWER'S RESPONSES:
SS2 Megami-sama: O.O Poor Fal-chan... Yeah, that's happened to me too! Grrr! OK! New club! This is for all Comp-Haters-We-Want-To-Beat-Them-Into-Pieces! Grr! And then we get new comps and do it all again! YAY! /Bows/
Nooka: Again with the comp acting up! Grr! Hey! Writing a chap just for me! Aw, thanks! You're the best Brit I know! LOL! You're the only Brit on here I know! LOL! Hahaha!
SSJ5 Tigger: I updated! I don't care if SSJ5 comes back either. And believe me, she won't be escaping for a long, long, LONG time. /Smirks proudly/ Oh no. LOL! I updated! Thanks for your review!
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ShadowObscurity: You're welcome for the pep talk. :D Thanks for the compliments and I updated! Keep up the rewriting! :D
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Thanks to SS2 Megami-sama, Nooka, SSJ5 Tigger, DBZ Chick1, simbarulz, and ShadowObscurity for their excellent reviews! You guys are da best!
Well, that was exciting! LOL! I mean, Gohan's there for, like, the biggest battle of his life so far, and he isn't even awake for it! LOL! That's funny. Real funny. Gods, the things I do to my characters. Well anyway, I look forward to your comments for this chapter! LOL I'm so sadistic! Hehehe! Thanks for listening, now review!
Look out! It's the darkness! Run for your lives! LOL!
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