Hey everybody! First I want to apolagize for taking so long in getting this
chapter out, expecially after my little 'note'. But before I say anything
else I feel the need to tell everyone who reviewed how much what they said
meant to me. I was feeling really depressed, and I thought that no one
liked this story. Yet the overwhelming response I got totally lifted me up
and I really appreciate it. I didn't know what I thought when I posted it,
probably that everyone would hate me, but I really can't express how happy
I was when I read your overwhelming response.
So now you probably all hate me for taking so long, hun? Well, I guess it's inevitable. My classes changed, and I just didn't have any time to write anymore. I had a writers block, my computer was attacked by a virus and everythign was deleted.you know, all that crap you probably don't even care about. Oh well.
Ok, in return for taking so long I made this chapter expecially long for youg guys, so enjoy!
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Usagi gave her house a quick check just to see if her first impression was correct. On short transparent legs she ran from room to room calling for someone, anyone to hear her. But she could not know that even if anyone was still there, she wouldn't be heard. And there was no way she could be seen.
Finally, emotionally exhausted Usagi slumped to the floor in the kitchen. She leaned against the bleached white refridgerator, and sat on the smooth tiled floors. But when she leaned backwards she started to float through the fridge! With a start she quickly sat up straight. This just wasn't her day! She buried her face in her hands and choking sobs ripped from her delicate throat. In her whole life she couldn't remember a single time her family wasn't in their cozy little house. And she had rarely, if ever, had been carried out by her father. It just didn't make any sense that the first time she didn't jerk awake at a mere touch her parents carried her away. It was just crazy!
She groaned in frustration. Why couldn't she just take what she had and be happy with it? Why on earth did she feel the need to leave, even if not in body? She should've realized as soon as she looked down at her still face that this was a bad idea. After all, who was she to defy the laws of nature and separate her spirit from her body in the first place?
And so she wept the tears of a confused child, unaware that forces long lying dormant were about to change the world; and her, forever.
***
Goku flew faster than he ever had before try to reach the closest town. Usagi was limp in his arms, her rhythmic breathing one of the only things that reassured him that she was still alive. In fact, she seemed perfectly healthy, except for the fact that she wouldn't wake up. And he wouldn't even need that to know that she was fine. It was an ability that he had, and used to constantly check on his daughter.
Like everyone else on earth, she had an energy signature that radiated from her body. And no matter how far away he was, he could always locate this signature. And if she was sick or having difficult dreams her energy would fluctuate, or decrease. Which was why even if she was on the other side of the planet he could easily tell if she had a cold, or was just a little chilly. Of course, if he ever tried to find her and didn't feel anything.
The first of the buildings came into sight as he continued to fly. He flew past the fringes of what was the largest city in Japan, Tokyo and ignored the startled cries and people pointing at him as he defied the laws of gravity and flew past them. Normally he wouldn't dare to be seen like this, it just freaked people out too much. But now his baby girl was more important than other people's opinions, and he really couldn't worry about what other people might be thinking if he didn't know what was wrong with Usa.
Finally the buildings began to reach higher and higher into the sky, and more people pointed at him than he could ignore. After all, he didn't want to be in the news or anything, that was the last thing Usagi needed. Making sure he found an alley where no one could see him, Goku gently landed. He could walk the rest of the way, and while he was eager to see what was wrong with Usagi, he didn't think there was any immediate danger.
He tucked her small head back in the crook of his arm, and re-adjuested her so she would be as comfortable as possible. Finally sure that she was going to be fine, Goku began to walk.
Goku effortlessly carried his daughter through the streets of downtown Tokyo. All around him people from every walk in life were pusing past him, intent on their own goals. He did get a few strange looks from some people. Apparently they hadn't seen an unconscious girl as sick as Usagi not in a hospital. One woman, who must have been in her late twenties even looked like she was about to stop and ask him if something was wrong. But apparently she decided against it and allowed the crowd to push her forward and out of sight.
Goku couldn't help but noticing how still and weightless Usagi was in his arms. She was little more than a baby, yet she had suffered more than most in a lifetime. Robbed of her childhood and forced to grow in order to survive. Through her whole life Goku couldn't remember her being like this. Her far too intelligent eyes that were always gazing at the world around her were shut in an unnatural slumber.
"Don't worry Usagi, everything will be fine." He said softly, hoping that even if she wasn't awake somehow she could hear him. Of course, it was impossible, but the childish part of him couldn't help but hope.
***
".Usagi." Usagi heard as if it was a whisper on the wind. A disembodied voice that she seemed to feel more than hear. It snapped her eyes open, and out of her self pity. So what if her parents weren't home? Maybe they went on a walk, or maybe.maybe.. 'maybe they decided that they would take Gohan's walking as a signal that your time is up, and they're taking your body to a place where they can get rid of you.'
"No." They wouldn't do that! Usagi quickly pushed the part of her that would always doubt in the back of her mind. Her family loved her, and even if they didn't there was no way they would get rid of her. After all, they didn't even know what she did. She allowed herself a small smile. Her parents probably didn't even think what she did was possible, just like the rest of the world.
Closing her eyes she tried to once more hear the voice on the wind. She concentrated with all of her might, but couldn't hear anything. Maybe it was nothing more than her imagination, but the harder she concentrated, the stronger a feeling in the pit of her stomach got. She concentrated all of her attention on that one feeling until it completely absorbed her. It was all around her, all she felt. Her beating heart thrummed in her ears, but it wasn't in her chest. It was off in the distance, wherever her body was. Slowly she started to hear whispy breathing, that must also come from her body. But for now all of those sensations came from inside her, and wouldn't help. Instead she started to push this feeling outside of her, little by little.
Finally she was done. Looking towards the south east Usagi knew exactly where the other half of her was. It was so easy, why didn't she just find it before. With a flash she didn't bother to use a door and went right through the wall, traveling like she had earlier that day. Only now she had a destination.
***
Goku pushed people out of the way, trying to be poite by swiftly realizing that woudn't do any good. These no good, rude people weren't letting anyone by. Everyone was elbowing their way not paying any attention to anyone but themselves. He had to protect Usagi with his body just to keep her from begin crushed!
"Oh my god." A whisper drifted through the crowd. All of the sudden all of the noise and the people just stopped. Curiously Goku looked up to what everyone was pointing at, despite himself wondering what could quiet this mob like that.
Less than a block away stood a tall man in black holding a woman with a gun pointed at her head. He had indistinct features, and a black hat covering what looked to be light brown hair. He also had an angry expression on his face, no doubt ready to pull the trigger at any second. The woman looked to be in her late 30's, and had long red hair that was in a state of total disarray and was blowing everywhere in the wind. She had panicked green eyes that were constantly looking at a small boy in the crowd. Yet she also seemed to be trying not to make that obvious. Goku looked closer and saw that the boy had short red hair.
He saw all of this in the first seconds he was trying to find out what was going on. The man was screaming at the crowd.
"Don't anyone move, or I'll shoot! I swear to God, I will!" The police stood stock still as they tried not to instigate this man who had gone over the edge to action. One of them in a quiet calm voice tried to mediate and said.
"Now don't do anything you'll regret. Right now you only robbed a store. You don't want to go down for murder."
The man with a gun just started shaking his head and with a harsher voice continued. "All I want is one hundred thousand dollars, and a capsule car to get out of here. Once I have that I'll let the girl go."
Goku, once more looked back and forth from the cops and the burglar. It was so obvious that nothing was going to be resolved for a while, and he needed to get Usagi to a hospital as soon as possible. He didn't have time for this! Yet what could he do? Sure, he had faced down men with guns before, and other crazed villains who he shouldn't have been able to handle. Yet at that time he didn't have a daughter in his arms to slow him down. Besides, even if he did decide to intervene, he didn't want to put her into any danger that wasn't absolutely necessary. It was the police's job to take care of domestic disturbances like this.
"Mommy! Somebody help!" The cry pierced the air that ripped out of the little boy's throat as apparently he couldn't stay silent any longer. It was almost in slow motion as he started to run forward toward his mother, oblivious to the danger he was in as the man moved to aim the gun at him. Goku didn't have any time to think. He couldn't just let this little kid die like that. Finding the first person by him, a business man with dark spiky hair much like his own he thrust Usagi in his arms and asked.
"Hold her for a minute."
"But I." The business man started to say, but Goku was already gone.
The nameless man in a business suit quickly glanced around him for any sort of help. What did that psycho man think he was doing giving him this little girl like that. He didn't have time for this sort of nonsense. He had to get to work, and he was already delayed enough as it was. He turned around, and completely missed it as Goku ran over faster than any human and pushed the boy out of the way and turned to deal with the robber. He just saw a crowd of nameless faces instead.
Finding the first person he could he thrust the unconscious girl into the arms of a lady with spiky blue hair quickly saying. "I don't have time for her anymore! You take her." He turned and walked quickly in the other direction.
***
Ryoko looked at what had just appeared in her arms in complete shock. Just who did that man think he was leaving this girl, probably his daughter with her like that! If her own father didn't have time for her, then Ryoko definitely didn't.
In her arms was probably the sickest looking toddler that she had ever seen in her life. Limp black hair hung over white skin that was stretched over a skeleton like figure. Long lashed fanned her face, and soft breaths came out of a thin, chapped mouth.
Yet she couldn't just leave her like this, like that man had. She would just cause someone else problems, and who knew what would happen to the girl. She would just have to take her for now and maybe drop her off at a hospital or something. Roughly she started to push through the crowd. For now though, she would just have to take her home.
Of course, her decision wasn't all logic and necessity. Looking at that little girl, she just got the oddest feeling of dejavu, almost like she had seen her before. Of course that was impossible, but looking at that tiny face.created a feeling that she just couldn't explain. And she felt that she needed to do everything she could to help, because otherwise she would be committing some horrible crime that would drive all of her previous and everyday ones into the ground.
She pushed closer and closer, trying to get downtown where she had her own small 'hole'. Most people would be surprised at the number of abandoned buildings that no one has any claim to, and most just can't find. When she had first arrived through that black vortex with nothing but the clothes on her back and nowhere to go she had managed to find her own little place to stay. It was out of sight behind an old abandoned bookstore, mostly an underground finished basement that was hidden beneath and behind piles of rubble, but when you managed to get your way through it was mostly intact. She had spent most of her last few years doing everything she could to repair it to where it went from the point of barely livable, to quite comfortable.
Finally she turned into the last alley that led to her own secret home. She wondered at the wisdom of bring anyone, even a small unconscious girl to her secret place as no one but herself knew it existed, but decided that it was the best thing to do. After all, when she dropped the little girl off at the doctor she would probably never even remember where she had been.
***
Usagi arrived at her body just in time to see it turn around a corner. She quickly followed it, wishing that what she had just seen wasn't real. It just couldn't be! She wasn't with her father, or any of her family at all. She was with a strange woman in a strange place! She got a closer look and realized that no, this woman wasn't a stranger at all. She was the same one that she had seen when she had left her body to see what the city was like. But how did she manage to get with her?
Well, she shrugged her small shoulders. She wasn't gonna get anything done just standing here, all she had to do was go back in her body and try to find where her family went. In theory it was something absolutely simple.the only problem was getting it done.
Quickly she ran/floated to the woman who was carrring her away. She got ready, and moved to jump in.
***
Balzazar watched as Goku saved the little boy and his mother from the thief that was holding them hostage, and the other eye was on the body of Chaos. They had all known that her just existing in an uncontrolled form would be dangerous. Fate was a fragile thing, and one smile or wave could change the future forever. And while she was nothing more than a husk that never left her own home the danger was minimal. But when Goku took her into the city whole new events begin to occurr...
Such as the little boy and his mother. They were supposed to die, that was their fate. The little boy was supposed to be shot first, and then the robber was meant to turn the gun onto the mother. But because of Usagi Goku came into the city and saved them. And due to that they would become uncontrolled forces that weren't meant to be there. Strings that continued on when they were supposed to be cut for the good of the pattern. And every person either one of them met would change, and so on and so forth until everything began to unravel. And that was just incidentally, and not directly, because of her. Who knew what would happen when she started meeting people, and doing things?
No, this had to be clipped in the bud before it all spun out of his control. As he continued to weave with one hand he reached out and fingered that one string that had caused him no end of trouble. Laina.she should have been born, and how she would have fit into the pattern! But now he took the twisted threat the represented her life, and cleanly snapped it in two.
***
In one smooth leap Usagi jumped towards her body as the woman walked through a small door. But when she met her body, instead of going through it or entering it, she was flown back as if she had hit a brick wall.
Dazed she got back up and went back to her body. The strange woman was now putting her on a small bed, and Usagi couldn't help but notice the infinite care she was taking. She reached out to touch her, curious as to what was happening, and like she suspected her hand passed cleanly through, and the woman, apparently, didn't feel a thing. Now she moved to stand by the bed and instead of putting all of her weight behind it, she just tried to pass one hand thorugh her body. But about an inch away she came in contact with the same wall. She reached over, and started to pass her hand across the body. It went on like smooth marble until she reached her feet and it stopped.
She was about to see if she could find her father to see why he left her, as she wasn't getting anything done but then she felt the oddest feeling in her chest. Only she wasn't really feeling it, because she wasn't in her body. Like she could hear, and almost feel her heart beating, it was the same for this pain which must have been incredible, but she was detatched from. Her heart started to stagger, and beat an inconsistent tempo. And that same incredible agony spread from her body like evil tendrils of smoke to first her arms, and then her legs until her whole body must have been on fire. And yet it really didn't bother to watch what she knew must have been happening. There was only one thing for it to be, her body must be dying. It jerked off the bed, and a gasp came out of the empty throat. There was only seconds left on earth, yet strangely the thought didn't really bother her. Usagi had always known that her time to die would come, and it just happened sooner than she expected, and in a way she could have never imagined. Besides, it wasn't like she felt a thing as her body was a thing completely separate from her.
The woman ran to the side of her bed and took the tiny hands in her own. "Don't die on me. Not NOW, when you're still so young. Don't die, please don't die.I don't even know your name." A single tear started to flow it's inexorable path down the strange woman's smooth, white skin. Usagi felt bad that she didn't even know the name of this stranger that took her in, yet was also glad that she wasn't alone. She also felt a sadness that could only come to one dying that she could never see her family again, and that they couldn't be with her. She couldn't allow herself to wonder what happened to them so they wouldn't be with her in her time of need, as there wasn't time.
Finally she felt it, like a releasing of the ties that bound her to the earth, they were suddenly cut. She could no longer feel the beating of her heart, or hear the soft whisper of breath. It was all silent.She looked up above her in wonder as a void that could never be described in words opened up. So this is what death felt like. Beyond lay things she could never imagine, and wonders she could finally enjoy. That is what death was meant to be, she somehow knew. A passing on into a whole new world where the possibilities were endless. Yet as she found herself drifting up towards the unknown she had the strangest feeling that something was terribly wrong. And in the distance she could have sworn she heard the cackling laughter of an old man. Something was wrong.
She looked back down at the world that she would leave, and at the woman who was kneeling by her side. Her hands were still holding Usagi's, despite the fact that they were dead. Usagi looked closer at those hands, resisting the pull that was dragging her upwards. Something was calling her, and before she died she had to see what it was. She knew it, like she had never known anything in her life. It sang like that that song deep in the hidden part of her soul.
Finally, she found it. On the womans wrists were four perfectly white stones, in her eyes glinting like the most precious jems. They were what was calling her, what has been calling her her entire life, she just didn't know it. With one tiny hand she reached out to touch just one, not sure what was going to happen.
Right before her finger met with the stone that same tear that had been traveling down the womans face rolled off her cheek and fell, soaring through the air and landed right on top of the jem and disappeared. Right after that Usagi reached out and touched it.
The world exploded in a flash of light..Usagi screamed.
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So now you probably all hate me for taking so long, hun? Well, I guess it's inevitable. My classes changed, and I just didn't have any time to write anymore. I had a writers block, my computer was attacked by a virus and everythign was deleted.you know, all that crap you probably don't even care about. Oh well.
Ok, in return for taking so long I made this chapter expecially long for youg guys, so enjoy!
***
Usagi gave her house a quick check just to see if her first impression was correct. On short transparent legs she ran from room to room calling for someone, anyone to hear her. But she could not know that even if anyone was still there, she wouldn't be heard. And there was no way she could be seen.
Finally, emotionally exhausted Usagi slumped to the floor in the kitchen. She leaned against the bleached white refridgerator, and sat on the smooth tiled floors. But when she leaned backwards she started to float through the fridge! With a start she quickly sat up straight. This just wasn't her day! She buried her face in her hands and choking sobs ripped from her delicate throat. In her whole life she couldn't remember a single time her family wasn't in their cozy little house. And she had rarely, if ever, had been carried out by her father. It just didn't make any sense that the first time she didn't jerk awake at a mere touch her parents carried her away. It was just crazy!
She groaned in frustration. Why couldn't she just take what she had and be happy with it? Why on earth did she feel the need to leave, even if not in body? She should've realized as soon as she looked down at her still face that this was a bad idea. After all, who was she to defy the laws of nature and separate her spirit from her body in the first place?
And so she wept the tears of a confused child, unaware that forces long lying dormant were about to change the world; and her, forever.
***
Goku flew faster than he ever had before try to reach the closest town. Usagi was limp in his arms, her rhythmic breathing one of the only things that reassured him that she was still alive. In fact, she seemed perfectly healthy, except for the fact that she wouldn't wake up. And he wouldn't even need that to know that she was fine. It was an ability that he had, and used to constantly check on his daughter.
Like everyone else on earth, she had an energy signature that radiated from her body. And no matter how far away he was, he could always locate this signature. And if she was sick or having difficult dreams her energy would fluctuate, or decrease. Which was why even if she was on the other side of the planet he could easily tell if she had a cold, or was just a little chilly. Of course, if he ever tried to find her and didn't feel anything.
The first of the buildings came into sight as he continued to fly. He flew past the fringes of what was the largest city in Japan, Tokyo and ignored the startled cries and people pointing at him as he defied the laws of gravity and flew past them. Normally he wouldn't dare to be seen like this, it just freaked people out too much. But now his baby girl was more important than other people's opinions, and he really couldn't worry about what other people might be thinking if he didn't know what was wrong with Usa.
Finally the buildings began to reach higher and higher into the sky, and more people pointed at him than he could ignore. After all, he didn't want to be in the news or anything, that was the last thing Usagi needed. Making sure he found an alley where no one could see him, Goku gently landed. He could walk the rest of the way, and while he was eager to see what was wrong with Usagi, he didn't think there was any immediate danger.
He tucked her small head back in the crook of his arm, and re-adjuested her so she would be as comfortable as possible. Finally sure that she was going to be fine, Goku began to walk.
Goku effortlessly carried his daughter through the streets of downtown Tokyo. All around him people from every walk in life were pusing past him, intent on their own goals. He did get a few strange looks from some people. Apparently they hadn't seen an unconscious girl as sick as Usagi not in a hospital. One woman, who must have been in her late twenties even looked like she was about to stop and ask him if something was wrong. But apparently she decided against it and allowed the crowd to push her forward and out of sight.
Goku couldn't help but noticing how still and weightless Usagi was in his arms. She was little more than a baby, yet she had suffered more than most in a lifetime. Robbed of her childhood and forced to grow in order to survive. Through her whole life Goku couldn't remember her being like this. Her far too intelligent eyes that were always gazing at the world around her were shut in an unnatural slumber.
"Don't worry Usagi, everything will be fine." He said softly, hoping that even if she wasn't awake somehow she could hear him. Of course, it was impossible, but the childish part of him couldn't help but hope.
***
".Usagi." Usagi heard as if it was a whisper on the wind. A disembodied voice that she seemed to feel more than hear. It snapped her eyes open, and out of her self pity. So what if her parents weren't home? Maybe they went on a walk, or maybe.maybe.. 'maybe they decided that they would take Gohan's walking as a signal that your time is up, and they're taking your body to a place where they can get rid of you.'
"No." They wouldn't do that! Usagi quickly pushed the part of her that would always doubt in the back of her mind. Her family loved her, and even if they didn't there was no way they would get rid of her. After all, they didn't even know what she did. She allowed herself a small smile. Her parents probably didn't even think what she did was possible, just like the rest of the world.
Closing her eyes she tried to once more hear the voice on the wind. She concentrated with all of her might, but couldn't hear anything. Maybe it was nothing more than her imagination, but the harder she concentrated, the stronger a feeling in the pit of her stomach got. She concentrated all of her attention on that one feeling until it completely absorbed her. It was all around her, all she felt. Her beating heart thrummed in her ears, but it wasn't in her chest. It was off in the distance, wherever her body was. Slowly she started to hear whispy breathing, that must also come from her body. But for now all of those sensations came from inside her, and wouldn't help. Instead she started to push this feeling outside of her, little by little.
Finally she was done. Looking towards the south east Usagi knew exactly where the other half of her was. It was so easy, why didn't she just find it before. With a flash she didn't bother to use a door and went right through the wall, traveling like she had earlier that day. Only now she had a destination.
***
Goku pushed people out of the way, trying to be poite by swiftly realizing that woudn't do any good. These no good, rude people weren't letting anyone by. Everyone was elbowing their way not paying any attention to anyone but themselves. He had to protect Usagi with his body just to keep her from begin crushed!
"Oh my god." A whisper drifted through the crowd. All of the sudden all of the noise and the people just stopped. Curiously Goku looked up to what everyone was pointing at, despite himself wondering what could quiet this mob like that.
Less than a block away stood a tall man in black holding a woman with a gun pointed at her head. He had indistinct features, and a black hat covering what looked to be light brown hair. He also had an angry expression on his face, no doubt ready to pull the trigger at any second. The woman looked to be in her late 30's, and had long red hair that was in a state of total disarray and was blowing everywhere in the wind. She had panicked green eyes that were constantly looking at a small boy in the crowd. Yet she also seemed to be trying not to make that obvious. Goku looked closer and saw that the boy had short red hair.
He saw all of this in the first seconds he was trying to find out what was going on. The man was screaming at the crowd.
"Don't anyone move, or I'll shoot! I swear to God, I will!" The police stood stock still as they tried not to instigate this man who had gone over the edge to action. One of them in a quiet calm voice tried to mediate and said.
"Now don't do anything you'll regret. Right now you only robbed a store. You don't want to go down for murder."
The man with a gun just started shaking his head and with a harsher voice continued. "All I want is one hundred thousand dollars, and a capsule car to get out of here. Once I have that I'll let the girl go."
Goku, once more looked back and forth from the cops and the burglar. It was so obvious that nothing was going to be resolved for a while, and he needed to get Usagi to a hospital as soon as possible. He didn't have time for this! Yet what could he do? Sure, he had faced down men with guns before, and other crazed villains who he shouldn't have been able to handle. Yet at that time he didn't have a daughter in his arms to slow him down. Besides, even if he did decide to intervene, he didn't want to put her into any danger that wasn't absolutely necessary. It was the police's job to take care of domestic disturbances like this.
"Mommy! Somebody help!" The cry pierced the air that ripped out of the little boy's throat as apparently he couldn't stay silent any longer. It was almost in slow motion as he started to run forward toward his mother, oblivious to the danger he was in as the man moved to aim the gun at him. Goku didn't have any time to think. He couldn't just let this little kid die like that. Finding the first person by him, a business man with dark spiky hair much like his own he thrust Usagi in his arms and asked.
"Hold her for a minute."
"But I." The business man started to say, but Goku was already gone.
The nameless man in a business suit quickly glanced around him for any sort of help. What did that psycho man think he was doing giving him this little girl like that. He didn't have time for this sort of nonsense. He had to get to work, and he was already delayed enough as it was. He turned around, and completely missed it as Goku ran over faster than any human and pushed the boy out of the way and turned to deal with the robber. He just saw a crowd of nameless faces instead.
Finding the first person he could he thrust the unconscious girl into the arms of a lady with spiky blue hair quickly saying. "I don't have time for her anymore! You take her." He turned and walked quickly in the other direction.
***
Ryoko looked at what had just appeared in her arms in complete shock. Just who did that man think he was leaving this girl, probably his daughter with her like that! If her own father didn't have time for her, then Ryoko definitely didn't.
In her arms was probably the sickest looking toddler that she had ever seen in her life. Limp black hair hung over white skin that was stretched over a skeleton like figure. Long lashed fanned her face, and soft breaths came out of a thin, chapped mouth.
Yet she couldn't just leave her like this, like that man had. She would just cause someone else problems, and who knew what would happen to the girl. She would just have to take her for now and maybe drop her off at a hospital or something. Roughly she started to push through the crowd. For now though, she would just have to take her home.
Of course, her decision wasn't all logic and necessity. Looking at that little girl, she just got the oddest feeling of dejavu, almost like she had seen her before. Of course that was impossible, but looking at that tiny face.created a feeling that she just couldn't explain. And she felt that she needed to do everything she could to help, because otherwise she would be committing some horrible crime that would drive all of her previous and everyday ones into the ground.
She pushed closer and closer, trying to get downtown where she had her own small 'hole'. Most people would be surprised at the number of abandoned buildings that no one has any claim to, and most just can't find. When she had first arrived through that black vortex with nothing but the clothes on her back and nowhere to go she had managed to find her own little place to stay. It was out of sight behind an old abandoned bookstore, mostly an underground finished basement that was hidden beneath and behind piles of rubble, but when you managed to get your way through it was mostly intact. She had spent most of her last few years doing everything she could to repair it to where it went from the point of barely livable, to quite comfortable.
Finally she turned into the last alley that led to her own secret home. She wondered at the wisdom of bring anyone, even a small unconscious girl to her secret place as no one but herself knew it existed, but decided that it was the best thing to do. After all, when she dropped the little girl off at the doctor she would probably never even remember where she had been.
***
Usagi arrived at her body just in time to see it turn around a corner. She quickly followed it, wishing that what she had just seen wasn't real. It just couldn't be! She wasn't with her father, or any of her family at all. She was with a strange woman in a strange place! She got a closer look and realized that no, this woman wasn't a stranger at all. She was the same one that she had seen when she had left her body to see what the city was like. But how did she manage to get with her?
Well, she shrugged her small shoulders. She wasn't gonna get anything done just standing here, all she had to do was go back in her body and try to find where her family went. In theory it was something absolutely simple.the only problem was getting it done.
Quickly she ran/floated to the woman who was carrring her away. She got ready, and moved to jump in.
***
Balzazar watched as Goku saved the little boy and his mother from the thief that was holding them hostage, and the other eye was on the body of Chaos. They had all known that her just existing in an uncontrolled form would be dangerous. Fate was a fragile thing, and one smile or wave could change the future forever. And while she was nothing more than a husk that never left her own home the danger was minimal. But when Goku took her into the city whole new events begin to occurr...
Such as the little boy and his mother. They were supposed to die, that was their fate. The little boy was supposed to be shot first, and then the robber was meant to turn the gun onto the mother. But because of Usagi Goku came into the city and saved them. And due to that they would become uncontrolled forces that weren't meant to be there. Strings that continued on when they were supposed to be cut for the good of the pattern. And every person either one of them met would change, and so on and so forth until everything began to unravel. And that was just incidentally, and not directly, because of her. Who knew what would happen when she started meeting people, and doing things?
No, this had to be clipped in the bud before it all spun out of his control. As he continued to weave with one hand he reached out and fingered that one string that had caused him no end of trouble. Laina.she should have been born, and how she would have fit into the pattern! But now he took the twisted threat the represented her life, and cleanly snapped it in two.
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In one smooth leap Usagi jumped towards her body as the woman walked through a small door. But when she met her body, instead of going through it or entering it, she was flown back as if she had hit a brick wall.
Dazed she got back up and went back to her body. The strange woman was now putting her on a small bed, and Usagi couldn't help but notice the infinite care she was taking. She reached out to touch her, curious as to what was happening, and like she suspected her hand passed cleanly through, and the woman, apparently, didn't feel a thing. Now she moved to stand by the bed and instead of putting all of her weight behind it, she just tried to pass one hand thorugh her body. But about an inch away she came in contact with the same wall. She reached over, and started to pass her hand across the body. It went on like smooth marble until she reached her feet and it stopped.
She was about to see if she could find her father to see why he left her, as she wasn't getting anything done but then she felt the oddest feeling in her chest. Only she wasn't really feeling it, because she wasn't in her body. Like she could hear, and almost feel her heart beating, it was the same for this pain which must have been incredible, but she was detatched from. Her heart started to stagger, and beat an inconsistent tempo. And that same incredible agony spread from her body like evil tendrils of smoke to first her arms, and then her legs until her whole body must have been on fire. And yet it really didn't bother to watch what she knew must have been happening. There was only one thing for it to be, her body must be dying. It jerked off the bed, and a gasp came out of the empty throat. There was only seconds left on earth, yet strangely the thought didn't really bother her. Usagi had always known that her time to die would come, and it just happened sooner than she expected, and in a way she could have never imagined. Besides, it wasn't like she felt a thing as her body was a thing completely separate from her.
The woman ran to the side of her bed and took the tiny hands in her own. "Don't die on me. Not NOW, when you're still so young. Don't die, please don't die.I don't even know your name." A single tear started to flow it's inexorable path down the strange woman's smooth, white skin. Usagi felt bad that she didn't even know the name of this stranger that took her in, yet was also glad that she wasn't alone. She also felt a sadness that could only come to one dying that she could never see her family again, and that they couldn't be with her. She couldn't allow herself to wonder what happened to them so they wouldn't be with her in her time of need, as there wasn't time.
Finally she felt it, like a releasing of the ties that bound her to the earth, they were suddenly cut. She could no longer feel the beating of her heart, or hear the soft whisper of breath. It was all silent.She looked up above her in wonder as a void that could never be described in words opened up. So this is what death felt like. Beyond lay things she could never imagine, and wonders she could finally enjoy. That is what death was meant to be, she somehow knew. A passing on into a whole new world where the possibilities were endless. Yet as she found herself drifting up towards the unknown she had the strangest feeling that something was terribly wrong. And in the distance she could have sworn she heard the cackling laughter of an old man. Something was wrong.
She looked back down at the world that she would leave, and at the woman who was kneeling by her side. Her hands were still holding Usagi's, despite the fact that they were dead. Usagi looked closer at those hands, resisting the pull that was dragging her upwards. Something was calling her, and before she died she had to see what it was. She knew it, like she had never known anything in her life. It sang like that that song deep in the hidden part of her soul.
Finally, she found it. On the womans wrists were four perfectly white stones, in her eyes glinting like the most precious jems. They were what was calling her, what has been calling her her entire life, she just didn't know it. With one tiny hand she reached out to touch just one, not sure what was going to happen.
Right before her finger met with the stone that same tear that had been traveling down the womans face rolled off her cheek and fell, soaring through the air and landed right on top of the jem and disappeared. Right after that Usagi reached out and touched it.
The world exploded in a flash of light..Usagi screamed.
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