Chapter Eight- Videl Falls
Videl let out a scream of terror that anyone would cry with their last bout of breath. She could feel the hot burn of the beam come hurtling at her. Videl covered her face with her hands preparing for the worst. But strangely it never came…
Goten let out a sharp intake of the dust shortly coughing it back up. His heart pounded with a terrible ache of fright. She wasn't …dead, was she? Once the smoke cleared, his worst fears were proved wrong.
"Trunks!" Goten cried with delight.
The little purple haired boy held Videl up in the air under her arm pits smiling smugly. Videl still was covering her face with her hands and only looked up when Trunks whispered, "Hey, dun worry. I got ya."
Videl looked behind her at the young boy and let out a deep sigh of relief.
"Thank the Heavens. You saved my life!"
"Welcome," Trunks beamed.
He lowered her gently to the ground to be greeted by a overjoyed Goten. Videl collapsed to her knees running her hands along the soil glad to still be living. Goten greeted Trunks with a big hug.
"Next time I say wait for me, stay put!" Trunks hissed pulling away embarrassed.
"Okay. Sorry," Goten snickered.
Suddenly, the two of them, by instinct, turned to face Cell. Cell had been waiting patiently for them to realize he was still there. Frankly, he was trying to figure out who this new child was. But once that boy set his piercing blue gaze on him a smile stretched across his vileness face.
"So Trunks. You are still alive."
Trunks stood quite still not really understanding what he meant. He remembered his mother telling him a bit about Future Trunks but it didn't really strike him that this had anything to do with that.
"What?" Trunks murmured.
"Ah. So you aren't really the Trunks I killed at all. You must… I know. You are the real Trunks of this time! How quaint. So we finally meet," Cell laughed.
Videl got to her feet shakily. She tilted slightly but Goten caught her kindly.
"Trunks, let's go. We need to get Videl out of here."
'No," Trunks said so suddenly that it startled both Videl and Goten.
A malevolent smirk slipped onto Trunks' youthful face. His eyes glistened in Cell's direction. He flexed his muscles and jumped into a fighting stance.
"I'm the future prince of all Sayians. I can take this guy no problem," Trunks grinned.
Goten blinked in shock and then muttered, "But Videl-"
"You can take her-"
"No! You will need help. Dun be so cocky!"
Videl rolled her eyes at the boy's quarrelling. It was typical of them to scrap over a monster to fight. They were just kids after all…
"Videl, you go. We'll fight this green bug." Trunks hissed.
If Videl tried to argue, Trunks and Goten didn't hear her. Immediately they charged up to Super Sayian and swung out at Cell. She didn't stay to watch. Videl quickly took to the air and pelted up to the sun. She squinted back down at the blurs that were the two boys. Videl clasped her hands together and said a quick pray all for them and then took off in the direction of her home. She had to warn the town. Cell had indeed returned.
As Goten and Trunks continued to attack Cell, a member of the Genu force strutted up to Freesia.
"I do not think it was wise that Cell let that child go. I request permission to follow her."
Freesia did not hesitate to say yes. He seemed almost afraid of this member…
Although Cell found himself much stronger than the children, combined they made a most formidable opponent. Avoiding their attacks was getting even more difficult by the second. But Cell was too stubborn to throw in the towel. He needed to continue this fight at all costs. He could not be defeated once again by children.
Out of the corner of his eye, Cell spotted one of the Genu force members take off after Videl. He turned with no concern whatsoever.
He did tell us to let him do what he wanted… Cell thought to himself, Best let him go.
Videl had just gotten about a little less then a mile from the town when a strange alien creature popped out in front of her. Videl recognized him as one of what Cell called the Genu Force. She tumbled backwards a bit in the air startled by the creature's speed.
"So you are Videl," He smiled in his sinister voice, "I have… heard so much about you."
The way he said that made the hairs on the back of Videl's neck stand on end. She wrung her hands together nervously and then slid into a fighting position. She had never fought in the air before. Videl didn't think this would go over well in her part.
The figure just smirked. He hovered quite calmly in the air eying her with some interest.
"You are worried bout Gohan…" He said quite suddenly.
Videl almost fell out of the air in shock. How could he have known that? She bit her lip and growled, "What is it to you?"
"Because I killed him."
Videl found herself going numb. She blinked in shock.
"B-but that's-"
"Not so impossible as you would think. Go home, Videl. Stop meddling in things that you do not understand."
As soon as he said this, he grabbed her wrist. Videl let out a wail of intense pain. Smoke rose beneath the alien's finger tips and the smell of burning flesh filled the air. The alien finally uncurled his fingers from her now red wrist and let out a small sigh as though he had just had a tasty meal.
"Thanks."
In a blink of a eye, he was gone. Videl, on the other hand, fell down into the trees as soon as he let go of her wrist. The pain had over took her and she plummeted to the ground…
A terrible scream of agony reached Trunks and Goten's ears. Goten cast one look at Trunks and Trunks nodded.
"Be back in a flash," He muttered eyeing Cell, "Stay alive, Goten."
"Piece of cake," Goten smiled, "I've only just broke a sweat."
To Be Continued…
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