Chapter Four: Finish Him

Golem swept himself proudly as he slunk into his bizarre fighting pose. Gohan eyed him with a piercing glare that immediately made him drop his posture slightly. Gohan was finding it hard not to been driven mad by the lack of defense from the team. Their idiotic stances left them wide opened to a variety of attacks which clearly was not intimidating to anyone with further skills.

Gohan did not want to waste any time really using any perfected moves he had been planning to show off. The simpler the faster it will be over, Gohan reminded himself harshly. Plus they would be more coerced if he wasn't even using skill to beat the overgrown cabbage.

A sudden power, a thirst for the coming battle, shivered through Gohan's body slipping him into a unfamiliar fighter's stance. The strange thirst was so overbearing that Gohan could barely contain his mind as he observed his opponent. The instinct was screaming out battle cries and reassuring Gohan that he would surely win. His muscles flexed as he tensed up for the battle.

"You ready, Toad?"

"The name's Golem," Golem snorted as his beady eyes glinted with fury.

"Whatever," Gohan smirked finding the voice vibrating through his whole being now. "Let's just get this started."

Golem blinked and the child was gone from his sights. Not even able to make comment to his disappearance, a fist slammed against his cheek sending him hurling across the floor. His sides burned with the rubbing against the tiles so quickly. Unable to get up right away, Golem took a deep breath of air and held it. Pain rippled through his mind as he pressed himself up and rubbed his tender jaw. His eyes shot to the boy was standing right in from of him. Golem tumbled backwards almost loosing his grips on the time freeze.

How could this child obtain such speed? Golem thought wildly as he raced away from the child. I almost got clobbered if I hadn't have held my breath.

Suddenly, Golem's lungs burned and spit out all the air he held down. Time about him reawakened with a sudden jolt causing Gohan to tumble forward a bit. His eyes shot immediately to where Golem was now. His eyes gazed over with a slight amusement when he disappeared from view again.

Panicking, Golem engulfed a huge amount of air again. Once more the time froze and Gohan was standing right before him. Except Golem let out a scream in his head as Gohan moved. Slowly Gohan reached out and grabbed the startled Golem by the sleeve. He smiled and spoke, "Penny for your thoughts."

Kneeing him hard across the neck, Gohan had flung Golem hard across the room landing at Captian Ginyu's feet. Rising with ultimate shock, Golem started shrieking in a cowardly way, pointing insanely at Gohan. Gohan placed his hands at his hips and shook his head.

"You only slowed time," Gohan smiled. "And if I am going faster then the time you slowed then… I doubt that ability of yours will be of any use."

All of the Ginyu Force members jaws dropped, as Captian Ginyu nodded knowledgably.

"Clever boy," He hissed. "Keep it up."

The rest of the Ginyus forced a hard bit of laughter at Golem's already assumed defeat. But inside, Gohan could tell, they were all pleading Golem to win so Gohan would not move to knocking them off too.

"Great job, Golem," The one called Jeice laughed. "That's showing 'em the old two four."

"Shut up, you ungrateful sunburned pig!" Golem shouted as his green face burned a light shade of pink.

Jeice huffed slightly as he stuck his pointed nose in the air, "Just go off and finish him already. Unless you aren't capable."

"Of course I am capable," Golem protested angrily.

"Then show us already," Raikom hissed. "We are waiting for some sort of show."

Golem puffed himself up further if that was even humanly possible for his gauche body to do. He leapt back into the battle ring doing some more stupid poses possibly to boost up his failing confidence.

It's kind of pitiful really, Gohan thought to himself. I'll have to ask Master Freesia why he announced these as the fighters of the universe.

"Come and attack, Gohan!" Golem smirked. "I'm ready for you this time."

Gohan let out a shrug and once again disappeared from view. Golem took in all the air he could and let out a horrible scream as his native words rang hauntingly through the air. Gohan found himself suspended in the air, his muscles straining against a invisible bond. Gohan let out a cry of anger as he struggled against the bonds that threatened to rip him apart.

"Well, done," Gohan heard Captian Ginyu said with a sigh of disappointment. "The mind grip gets them every time."

Gohan wanted to scream out but his jaw and his voice were not even responding. All he could do was grunt helplessly as the web he was ensnared in bind him tighter. Air was sucked from his lungs as he found his lips going slightly blue as Golem crushed Gohan's body slowly. With no air or any form of movement, Gohan found his life coming to a possible close. He closed his eyes and concentrated all his might into his hands. Two large ki blasts emerged from his grip causing Golem to gasp in surprise. But it was only momentarily, for a second later he let out a large snort realizing without arm strength, Gohan could not release them. Crying out against the fastenings, Gohan's body grew numb.

Please. I can't lose. My parent's memories depend on it.

Golem seemed abruptly unsatisfied with his apparent victory. He gazed about him for some kind of weapon settling for a nice combat sword sharpened on the wall for decoration. Casting a weary glance at Gohan, he decided. Golem focused his ki energy on the object lifting it off its hook and unsheathing it with quite some ease. Gohan's clouded eyes widened as Golem caught the sword by the hilt and grinned up at him, "It ends now."

Someone help me!

Goten stared at the ceiling hugging the comforts of the white sheets closer. But the vacuums of space still nipped at his soul. His body was somehow frozen and no matter how hard Goten tried, he could not move. Closing his dark eyes, Goten let out a small cry of hopelessness. The door flung open suddenly, and Goten was unable to move his head to see who was entering. But as soon as those calming arms wrapped about him, Goten knew. The smell of her perfume wrapped about his senses soothing his body. Relaxing him.

"Mom."

Perfume. Some kind of sweet soothing fragrance. It was so familiar yet so foreign, Gohan could not name it. He closed his eyes relaxing his muscles. And much to his shock, the bonds dropped immediately.

Chinese Finger Trap, Gohan thought suddenly not really knowing was that was.

Golem was right in front of him the sword forward just as Gohan swung about his ki blasts. The burning ki seared right through the metal of the sword and nearly took Golem's hand off. Crying out in half agony from the burn and half amazement, Golem tumbled backwards through the air and landing sharply on his back. Gohan landed a bit of a ways away on all fours. His muscles screamed in bewilderment of being released so suddenly. Gohan took several deep breaths and stared uncertainly at his hands that were glowing a shimmering white. It faded quickly leaving Gohan even more bemused.

"What was that?" Gohan hissed through his teeth. "Why did it release me?"

Golem rose from his fall only for him to pass out from lack of energy. His hand was still smoking and the sword's remains had punctured some of him as they shattered. Bleeding and dying, he lay motionless.

Gohan stared wearily at his foe as he rose. Well, now to finish it off. Always that's the hardest of the job. Gohan formed his immense amount of ki into his hands as his eyes shown with true pity. And as Gohan stood staring at him, Gohan found himself slipping. How many people had he killed before? Hundreds. Then why now was the tremors of his past were staring to rip him inside? Because it was when Frezia told him to... Frezia wasn't here this time. Frezia hadn't made the order. And it didn't feel right. Not right at all.

Gohan began to cry softly as he realized his weakness for the first time. His hand shook as he took aim. It wasn't worth this much. It wasn't. Gohan lowered his hand and whipped his tears on the back of his palm. Standing strong, Gohan turned and exited the room. He never looked back….

Captain Ginyu and the rest of his team stood staring at the sealed door the victor of the battle had exited. Raikom scowled and fired one small ki blast silencing Golem's annoying struggled breathing.

"Why did he stop?" Berter asked stupidly.

"He has a weakness for finishing people off," Captain Ginyu smirked awfully as he stepped over Golem's dead body. "Which would give us all the better advantage over him if he rebelled."

"So is he on the team, Captain," Jeice asked clueless.

"Well, he killed Golem, didn't he?" Captain Ginyu smirked with a devious glint to all his members.

The Ginyu force's laughter vibrated off the walls and entered the ears of a lost sayian boy just trying to run away from failure.

To Be Continued…
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