Disclaimer: Oh, yeah, that... I think I left in Chapter One.
(At the last moment, I decided to not make this a 2 parter chapter) You know, I'm not quite sure if I originally ment for this story to be this bloody at the end. Well, I was planning blood, but really, I was also planning for Piccolo and Jin to be going after a huge gang, thus a massacre, not just a couple of jackasses using chemical warfare. Now, anyway, lets watch that falling action in this story that I'm not quite sure if is a comedy or not anymore! And... I doubt it's PG-13 rather heavily now...
"When I reached the exit, I could finally get a clear view of Jin. Although I didn't see any wounds on her, some of her clothes looked soaked with blood and were torn in many places. She collapsed to her knees on the ground, coughing and gagging, trying desperately to breathe. I helped her stand and urged her to keep walking. Looking back at the gushing haze, pouring from the exits of the club, I knew that we had to get out of the area as quickly as we could. Since she could hardly move as it was, I picked her up into my arms and took to flight.
"At first, she didn't even notice that we were floating. When she did, she didn't seem to really care that much. She only choked out the place that she was sure Jiinzu was going: an apartment where he was staying for the time being. I landed about half from it and she pushed herself off of me. "Standing by herself (though her legs still seemed unsteady), she turned to me. 'I'm fine to walk, now. I don't need any more assistance.'
"'If you say so. However,' I started walking ahead of her. 'I will not allow you to do much of the fighting. I realize that it's probably going to be easy now, but you gave me quite a scare.' I glanced back at her for a moment, just recognizing that the rips in Jin's apparel weren't just the kind one would see in a fight, but not dissimilar to the kind I saw on the unfortunate female victims there. She saw the new apprehensiveness that rose from this, and she did not disagree with my suggestion.
"Going in to the door, I ripped the door away and entered, suddenly greeted by the shots of a semi-automatic. Jiinzu was crouched against the wall, holding the gun before him with a shaky hand. As I came closer, he screamed, 'Bakemono! Bakemono! Stop! Stay away!' and ran into his bedroom.
"'Futile,' I heard Jin say. She sat down on the couch in the now abandoned room. 'It's all yours, I guess. But, if you cut off his head, I want it.' When I gave her an quizzical look, she said, 'I keep a collection. You aren't surprised, are you?'
"'Not really. But don't enter, even to look. All right?'
"'Sure, sure. Whatever you say, Dorai-sama,' she mused, waving me away. I grinned and went into the dark room, shutting the door behind me. Only light from the window made anything within visible. Jiinzu was still screaming for me to stay away. 'I'll do anything, man! You can join me in the operation! You can have as much money and opium as you want, all the territory, too! You can have anything! I swear!'
"'I started to laugh. 'You think you can offer me this territory? You don't seem to understand. This area is already mine, you just broke my rules by trying to claim it as your own slaughter grounds in the first place.'
"'Are you one of the g-gang leaders?' he cried.
"'Gang leader? Heh, you could say that.' With that, I allowed for my normal visage to be seen. The miscreant's last wail was cut short when I severed his throat in one quick motion.
"I exited, in my Human cover again. I found myself confused, as Jin, faced towards the door, had her hands up in a surrendering fashion. She looked over at me in a wry, nervous smile. I didn't really understand until I looked before her. A large clot of police officers blocked the doorway.
"'Well, today isn't the best of days, huh?' I said. I held up the disjoined head of the late Jiinzu Kaaki by the hair. 'For your collection, right?'
"The cops looked at me with horrified expressions. Some of them pointed their barrels to me. 'Freeze! Y-you are under arrest for... uhh... f-for murder.' Several of these men looked like they really had enough gore for the night, judging by their queasy grimaces. 'Just give yourself up and e-everything will be fine!'
"'I'd really rather not,' I said, then I threw the head to Jin. As soon as she caught it, I scooped her up into my arms and jumped out the window towards our own room.
"We walked in together and I took out the vial from my pocket and tossed it in the air. Jin snatched it before it reached my hand, then uncorked it. 'Useless, eh?'
"I nodded. 'Quite. Why did you bother making it?'
"'To do this.' She drank half the contents and passed it to me. She sat down on the couch with a grin on her face. I sniffed at it, curious. 'What is this, really?'
"'An aphrodisiac.'
"'...You're kidding.'
"'Yes, but something tells me that you wouldn't mind if it was.'
"I rushed closer to her. 'Of course I would mind! The way things went, if one of us took this after consuming the drug in that place, could you imagine what might happen?'
"'You're right. That would be bad. Well, go ahead and drink it. It was the counteractive to that drug, but, now that it's no longer a problem, it's rendered to being nothing more than a small beverage.'
"I growled at her, but did as requested of me. 'Tastes pretty good, actually.'
"'Yeah, I put flavoring in it.' She chuckled a bit then turned to me. 'This is our last night together, Dorai. What should we do?'
"'I'm not interested in going out or watching anything,' I said, 'so I'm going to bed.' I went to change.
"'I said we,' she continued, 'and I meant we.'"
Chi-Chi held her hands in front of her mouth to keep her giggling from becoming audible. When she finally was able to control herself, she asked, "How far did you two get?"
I chose not to dignify that with a direct answer and twisted a little more from her. "We slept together in the bed that night. I held her close to me, listening to her breathing carefully to make sure that she was all right. There was a slight raspyness in her exhale, like her trachea was scratched. I asked her a few times if she needed anything, but she would only shake her head.
"When I felt that I could no longer take her being so quiet and still, I spoke up. 'Jin, perhaps we should have done something before going to bed. I can't sleep. Let's talk or... something.'
"'I can't sleep either, Dorai, and I can't think of anything to talk about.'
"'We could do something. Anything.'
"'To take your mind off of it, right? It's pointless. The glass is empty. There's nothing left to do except look at the glass and recollect on how good the drink was.'
"'I see what you mean.' I sighed and drew her closer to me. 'Jin.'
"'Hmm?'
"'It was a good drink, wasn't it?'
"I saw her smile a little, then she leaned over more to me and kissed my cheek. 'We could lick off what's left of it from the glass.'
"'You're kidding!'
"'Yes, I am.'
"We laughed and kissed each other. Then, she laid down her head onto my shoulder and her hand upon my chest. 'Do you suppose that we're getting away without paying?'
"I thought on this for a moment, then encircled her waist and side more tightly with my arm. 'No. Personally, I had to work at the bar to make up what I couldn't pay on the tab.' I meant this quite literally.
"'It was an expensive drink, wasn't it? Somehow... it's more comfortable now.' Her voice seemed to have become drowsy as she spoke. We kissed again and fell asleep.
"When we had everything packed and ready to go (which wasn't much, really), we met with our co-workers just outside the city limits. We were in an area where there was never many people around; In fact, it was only us. Mari and Taifu were crying a little bit; Nama had his hands to his side, grinning in his usual manner; Shuran and Uwaki seemed to be torn between happiness of getting their titles of being the 'most attractive' in the bar, or distraught because they never had a chance with us.
"'Come visit the pub whenever you can!' Nama called, 'I'll give you kids a discount.'
"Jin laughed. 'I doubt I'll have the chance, but I'll keep it in mind.'
"'Yeah,' I agreed, 'I can't make any promises either.'
"'I still think that you two are making a mistake by not going together,' Taifu said, wiping tears subtly from her eyes. I could see Mari nodding in agreement from behind her handkerchief. 'Really, true love is hard to come by!'
"I looked over to Jin again. She had that same brown suitcase by her legs, since she really didn't get too much else since she moved in with me, but adjacent from the suitcase was a large, somewhat tattered cloth bag that I had never seen before. I raised my brow when I noticed that it was somewhat discolored and damp-looking at the bottom. 'Jin, your bag is... leaking.'
"She glanced down to see what I was talking about, then grinned. 'Oh yeah.' She picked it up and pulled the contents out. Once again, I saw the frightened eyes of Jiinzu Kaaki, dripping with blood. 'Your present for my collection. Remember?'
"There was a still moment before I would cachinnate loudly. The others seemed to still be in a state of shock, though I think that I heard Taifu mutter to her brother, 'Is it a fake?'
"She placed the head back in the bag and gathered the luggage in her other hand. 'Fare thee well, Dorai, or, at least, don't die a terrible death.'
"'Same to you, Jin. I do hope we see each other again one day, though.' I held out my hand. She took it to shake, but then we realized that something seemed amiss and we retracted to look at our palms. Now we both had some of Kaaki's blood on our hands again and we laughed again.
"Then we parted, our suitcases in one hand, waving back to each other with the bloody one. Along with my valedictions, something in me said, 'Farewell, my Daimajoou.'"
When I realized that I told the whole story (and what my last line was) my face burned furiously. I had just told my whole encounter with the only woman that I ever fell in love with, and, furthermore, I told it to Chi-Chi.
She seemed satisfied enough. "Wow. You really had a Romantic adventure, huh? Past the blood and all the drug and drinking stuff, it was really tender." She put her chin to her knees. "Do you still love her? Or do you miss her, at least?"
"I haven't even thought about her for seven years, until Gohan reminded me. But now that I am thinking about her..." I stopped myself to keep from becoming any more sentimental.
"Well, come on,' she said, standing up.
"Huh? Come on where?"
"To Kouseki Island! That's where you said she lived, isn't it?"
Whew! A long chapter. Don't think that it was the last! Bakemono - Monster. Man, you know how this story works: don't look at it for a while, you have 3 chapters to read when you check again. At least, that's how I suppose that it's working. (Also, I had to take a short break; I cannot afford the comedy to take too much more violence than already planned, and I just watched "Happy Tree Friends", which doesn't help.)
(At the last moment, I decided to not make this a 2 parter chapter) You know, I'm not quite sure if I originally ment for this story to be this bloody at the end. Well, I was planning blood, but really, I was also planning for Piccolo and Jin to be going after a huge gang, thus a massacre, not just a couple of jackasses using chemical warfare. Now, anyway, lets watch that falling action in this story that I'm not quite sure if is a comedy or not anymore! And... I doubt it's PG-13 rather heavily now...
"When I reached the exit, I could finally get a clear view of Jin. Although I didn't see any wounds on her, some of her clothes looked soaked with blood and were torn in many places. She collapsed to her knees on the ground, coughing and gagging, trying desperately to breathe. I helped her stand and urged her to keep walking. Looking back at the gushing haze, pouring from the exits of the club, I knew that we had to get out of the area as quickly as we could. Since she could hardly move as it was, I picked her up into my arms and took to flight.
"At first, she didn't even notice that we were floating. When she did, she didn't seem to really care that much. She only choked out the place that she was sure Jiinzu was going: an apartment where he was staying for the time being. I landed about half from it and she pushed herself off of me. "Standing by herself (though her legs still seemed unsteady), she turned to me. 'I'm fine to walk, now. I don't need any more assistance.'
"'If you say so. However,' I started walking ahead of her. 'I will not allow you to do much of the fighting. I realize that it's probably going to be easy now, but you gave me quite a scare.' I glanced back at her for a moment, just recognizing that the rips in Jin's apparel weren't just the kind one would see in a fight, but not dissimilar to the kind I saw on the unfortunate female victims there. She saw the new apprehensiveness that rose from this, and she did not disagree with my suggestion.
"Going in to the door, I ripped the door away and entered, suddenly greeted by the shots of a semi-automatic. Jiinzu was crouched against the wall, holding the gun before him with a shaky hand. As I came closer, he screamed, 'Bakemono! Bakemono! Stop! Stay away!' and ran into his bedroom.
"'Futile,' I heard Jin say. She sat down on the couch in the now abandoned room. 'It's all yours, I guess. But, if you cut off his head, I want it.' When I gave her an quizzical look, she said, 'I keep a collection. You aren't surprised, are you?'
"'Not really. But don't enter, even to look. All right?'
"'Sure, sure. Whatever you say, Dorai-sama,' she mused, waving me away. I grinned and went into the dark room, shutting the door behind me. Only light from the window made anything within visible. Jiinzu was still screaming for me to stay away. 'I'll do anything, man! You can join me in the operation! You can have as much money and opium as you want, all the territory, too! You can have anything! I swear!'
"'I started to laugh. 'You think you can offer me this territory? You don't seem to understand. This area is already mine, you just broke my rules by trying to claim it as your own slaughter grounds in the first place.'
"'Are you one of the g-gang leaders?' he cried.
"'Gang leader? Heh, you could say that.' With that, I allowed for my normal visage to be seen. The miscreant's last wail was cut short when I severed his throat in one quick motion.
"I exited, in my Human cover again. I found myself confused, as Jin, faced towards the door, had her hands up in a surrendering fashion. She looked over at me in a wry, nervous smile. I didn't really understand until I looked before her. A large clot of police officers blocked the doorway.
"'Well, today isn't the best of days, huh?' I said. I held up the disjoined head of the late Jiinzu Kaaki by the hair. 'For your collection, right?'
"The cops looked at me with horrified expressions. Some of them pointed their barrels to me. 'Freeze! Y-you are under arrest for... uhh... f-for murder.' Several of these men looked like they really had enough gore for the night, judging by their queasy grimaces. 'Just give yourself up and e-everything will be fine!'
"'I'd really rather not,' I said, then I threw the head to Jin. As soon as she caught it, I scooped her up into my arms and jumped out the window towards our own room.
"We walked in together and I took out the vial from my pocket and tossed it in the air. Jin snatched it before it reached my hand, then uncorked it. 'Useless, eh?'
"I nodded. 'Quite. Why did you bother making it?'
"'To do this.' She drank half the contents and passed it to me. She sat down on the couch with a grin on her face. I sniffed at it, curious. 'What is this, really?'
"'An aphrodisiac.'
"'...You're kidding.'
"'Yes, but something tells me that you wouldn't mind if it was.'
"I rushed closer to her. 'Of course I would mind! The way things went, if one of us took this after consuming the drug in that place, could you imagine what might happen?'
"'You're right. That would be bad. Well, go ahead and drink it. It was the counteractive to that drug, but, now that it's no longer a problem, it's rendered to being nothing more than a small beverage.'
"I growled at her, but did as requested of me. 'Tastes pretty good, actually.'
"'Yeah, I put flavoring in it.' She chuckled a bit then turned to me. 'This is our last night together, Dorai. What should we do?'
"'I'm not interested in going out or watching anything,' I said, 'so I'm going to bed.' I went to change.
"'I said we,' she continued, 'and I meant we.'"
Chi-Chi held her hands in front of her mouth to keep her giggling from becoming audible. When she finally was able to control herself, she asked, "How far did you two get?"
I chose not to dignify that with a direct answer and twisted a little more from her. "We slept together in the bed that night. I held her close to me, listening to her breathing carefully to make sure that she was all right. There was a slight raspyness in her exhale, like her trachea was scratched. I asked her a few times if she needed anything, but she would only shake her head.
"When I felt that I could no longer take her being so quiet and still, I spoke up. 'Jin, perhaps we should have done something before going to bed. I can't sleep. Let's talk or... something.'
"'I can't sleep either, Dorai, and I can't think of anything to talk about.'
"'We could do something. Anything.'
"'To take your mind off of it, right? It's pointless. The glass is empty. There's nothing left to do except look at the glass and recollect on how good the drink was.'
"'I see what you mean.' I sighed and drew her closer to me. 'Jin.'
"'Hmm?'
"'It was a good drink, wasn't it?'
"I saw her smile a little, then she leaned over more to me and kissed my cheek. 'We could lick off what's left of it from the glass.'
"'You're kidding!'
"'Yes, I am.'
"We laughed and kissed each other. Then, she laid down her head onto my shoulder and her hand upon my chest. 'Do you suppose that we're getting away without paying?'
"I thought on this for a moment, then encircled her waist and side more tightly with my arm. 'No. Personally, I had to work at the bar to make up what I couldn't pay on the tab.' I meant this quite literally.
"'It was an expensive drink, wasn't it? Somehow... it's more comfortable now.' Her voice seemed to have become drowsy as she spoke. We kissed again and fell asleep.
"When we had everything packed and ready to go (which wasn't much, really), we met with our co-workers just outside the city limits. We were in an area where there was never many people around; In fact, it was only us. Mari and Taifu were crying a little bit; Nama had his hands to his side, grinning in his usual manner; Shuran and Uwaki seemed to be torn between happiness of getting their titles of being the 'most attractive' in the bar, or distraught because they never had a chance with us.
"'Come visit the pub whenever you can!' Nama called, 'I'll give you kids a discount.'
"Jin laughed. 'I doubt I'll have the chance, but I'll keep it in mind.'
"'Yeah,' I agreed, 'I can't make any promises either.'
"'I still think that you two are making a mistake by not going together,' Taifu said, wiping tears subtly from her eyes. I could see Mari nodding in agreement from behind her handkerchief. 'Really, true love is hard to come by!'
"I looked over to Jin again. She had that same brown suitcase by her legs, since she really didn't get too much else since she moved in with me, but adjacent from the suitcase was a large, somewhat tattered cloth bag that I had never seen before. I raised my brow when I noticed that it was somewhat discolored and damp-looking at the bottom. 'Jin, your bag is... leaking.'
"She glanced down to see what I was talking about, then grinned. 'Oh yeah.' She picked it up and pulled the contents out. Once again, I saw the frightened eyes of Jiinzu Kaaki, dripping with blood. 'Your present for my collection. Remember?'
"There was a still moment before I would cachinnate loudly. The others seemed to still be in a state of shock, though I think that I heard Taifu mutter to her brother, 'Is it a fake?'
"She placed the head back in the bag and gathered the luggage in her other hand. 'Fare thee well, Dorai, or, at least, don't die a terrible death.'
"'Same to you, Jin. I do hope we see each other again one day, though.' I held out my hand. She took it to shake, but then we realized that something seemed amiss and we retracted to look at our palms. Now we both had some of Kaaki's blood on our hands again and we laughed again.
"Then we parted, our suitcases in one hand, waving back to each other with the bloody one. Along with my valedictions, something in me said, 'Farewell, my Daimajoou.'"
When I realized that I told the whole story (and what my last line was) my face burned furiously. I had just told my whole encounter with the only woman that I ever fell in love with, and, furthermore, I told it to Chi-Chi.
She seemed satisfied enough. "Wow. You really had a Romantic adventure, huh? Past the blood and all the drug and drinking stuff, it was really tender." She put her chin to her knees. "Do you still love her? Or do you miss her, at least?"
"I haven't even thought about her for seven years, until Gohan reminded me. But now that I am thinking about her..." I stopped myself to keep from becoming any more sentimental.
"Well, come on,' she said, standing up.
"Huh? Come on where?"
"To Kouseki Island! That's where you said she lived, isn't it?"
Whew! A long chapter. Don't think that it was the last! Bakemono - Monster. Man, you know how this story works: don't look at it for a while, you have 3 chapters to read when you check again. At least, that's how I suppose that it's working. (Also, I had to take a short break; I cannot afford the comedy to take too much more violence than already planned, and I just watched "Happy Tree Friends", which doesn't help.)
