Chapter 12

It was harder to get Sabrina safely out of East Kaioshin's room the next morning than he had anticipated; especially when they had both slept in longer than they should have. Thankfully, though, Sabrina made it out of the room, only being noticed coming out of the hallway by her roommate, Sashay.

For the remainder of the day, East Kaioshin found it hard to forget about seeking Sabrina out so he could spend time with her. He had hoped that the passing of the previous night wouldn't change the way he felt about her, and he was pleased it didn't.

And his feelings towards her would only intensify for every day that passed. Finding a few minutes alone hadn't been easy, especially for Sabrina. It seemed that every time Kaioshin was able to pull her out to the gardens or sit down by the lake, someone would start calling for her.

Their quality time came at night, when everyone was in bed. Sabrina had made an agreement with Sashay that she wouldn't tell a single soul that she snuck out of the servants' corridors as long as she helped by taking one of her roommate's chores.

East hadn't been very happy about the agreement, the biggest reason being that someone knew the truth about him and Sabrina; but he agreed that if any other servant in the mansion was trustworthy, it was Sashay.

It was two weeks and one day since Kaioshin and Sabrina proclaimed their love for each other, but they hadn't shared such an intimate experience since and Kaioshin felt it best that way. He had no desire to make Sabrina feel like he was using her for one purpose; nor did he feel it right for a young girl to do such a thing every night—it wasn't morally correct.

Most of the time, Kaioshin took her out of the house completely, to the opposite side of planet where there was a magnificent waterfall from a large hill that fell into a very small river, which eventually led to the lake by the house. It was the best place on the planet in Kaioshin's opinion and Sabrina was never happier when they were there.

"You know, Sashay thinks we do more than sit around with each other every night," Sabrina told him once as he held her while they sat next to the waterfall.

"Let her," Kaioshin had replied. "We know it's not true. And if she told anyone, who would believe her?"

"What if she tried to prove it?"

Kaioshin laughed lightly. "Sabrina, you're the one who told her and now you're nervous."

"Well, I'm having second thoughts," she claimed looking up at him.

"That's not allowed on my planet," Kaioshin played.

"Nor is a servant and a god supposed to be a couple, but it happened," she countered dreamily. "And this servant loves her god."

"Ah, and this god loves his servant," he said. "But I don't like the word servant. You're merely at a different job than me."

"Yeah, a much lower one," Sabrina said and they both laughed.

Once and a while they dared to stay up late to watch the sun slowly rise over the horizon, although by the time they had returned to their own separate rooms, they lectured themselves for doing such a stupid thing for then they wouldn't be able to sleep.

But sleep would soon be the only thing that kept Kaioshin from thinking of the growing threat in the universe. By then, four galaxies were completely erased from existence, not to mention several planets from the entire eastern quadrant. He was tired of being useless against the force, but Dai Kaioshin insisted that it wasn't the right time to attack.

Sabrina was East Kaioshin's only redeemer and safe haven. When he was with her, he felt so much better than he had when he was forced to watch innocent people being slaughtered into an unnecessary early death.

Then, after two weeks of Majin Buu's terror, it stopped. All five deities tried to find a rhyme or reason as to why and where he disappeared to, but not even Bibidi's own life force was detectable. It seemed that perhaps they had finally come to a stop with their evil ways.

They could only hope. Three months passed on Kaioshin-kai and still there had been no destructions of planets or galaxies. For a while, they had thought it was all over.

-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-

Kaioshin had awakened before the sun completely had a chance to start the day. He opened his eyes to be greeted with a mass of purple hair beneath his face and he felt arms loosely draped around his lower abdomen.

At first he hadn't noticed any sign of alertness in Sabrina, but when he moved to roll over so he could stretch, her hands held him to keep him where he was. He smiled when she started rubbing his back, all the while keeping her eyes closed but a smile on her face.

"Good morning," he greeted adding a kiss to her forehead. "Did you sleep well?"

"Very much," she said happily, opening her eyes and tilting her head back for a sweet kiss from him. "We're not late, are we?"

"On the contrary, we're early. The sun just started to rise."

"Oh good, more time to stay here," she said before nuzzling her face against his shoulder.

As they lay in bed, Kaioshin's senses picked something up; something he hadn't felt in a while. At first he thought it was just the process of waking up taking its toll on him, but then he could've sworn he felt Bibidi's life force, and this time it was closer than it had ever been.

Kaioshin started to sit up, as if it would help his concentration better, but the energy he was feeling disappeared.

"What is it?" Sabrina asked, sitting up with him also.

Kaioshin waited a moment before answering. "Nothing," he said. By now the sun had come up fully and he could hear the life downstairs beginning another day. "Except I think its time we got up."

"Figures," Sabrina said getting up and gathering her shoes and Kai vest. "I was really comfortable."

"So was I," Kaioshin laughed as he gathered clothes from his closet before heading to his bathroom to take a hot shower. "Just think, in twelve hours we'll be back the way we were."

"Mhmm," Sabrina smiled. She waltzed over to give him one last kiss before she left. And once she had, Kaioshin finished his morning routine.

The day seemed slowly paced and relaxing. Sabrina was busy doing her daily chores and it would be a while before Kaioshin had a chance to see her. To help ease the wait, he took a new book from the library and headed outside to lie in the grass atop a hill that overlooked the tiny river.

It had been peaceful, until that is West Kaioshin started her antics.

East Kaioshin sat up in the grass to see what all the commotion was about, and he couldn't help but laugh. West was running up the hill towards him with a huge rice ball—something that South Kaioshin went nuts for.

"Come and get it!" West yelled over her shoulder, winking at East as she ran past him.

"West, c'mon! This is beyond shameful, even for you!" exclaimed South Kaioshin as he chased her with his arms outstretched.

"Hey East, get a load of this!" West had barely reached the edge of the hill when she jumped up and threw the rice ball over the edge of the short cliff…and South soon followed.

East got up and joined West at the edge of the cliff, both looking down to see South proudly wadding through the water after catching the rice ball and keeping it from being drenched.

The rice ball may have been saved from water, but North Kaioshin, who had been fishing below the fall, had been soaked. "Do you two always have to fool around? You're scaring the fish away!"

West Kaioshin laughed. "Sorry North! It won't happen again!"

"You're terrible," East chuckled as he watched South march off with his prize.

"I am, aren't I?" She said as she lay down on the grass and looked up at the moons.

East Kaioshin had just returned to his book, now sitting next to his dear friend. He had gotten through six pages when he had to stop again, only it wasn't because West was starting up another joke.

"Do you feel that?" He asked West seriously.

"Yeah, it's a bit breezy," she replied with a smirk.

"No, West. I feel something terribly powerful not far from here."

West sat up and looked around, but when she felt nothing she shrugged her small shoulders. "I don't. I think you're paranoid, my friend." She smiled at him and got to her feet, strolling back over to the edge of the cliff to see if she could see South Kaioshin devouring the rice ball.

East had just reopened to the page his finger kept for him when he heard West let out a serious, "Oh my heavenly Kai…."

East Kaioshin barely turned around to see what she was looking at when he not only heard the loudest bang his ears ever experienced, but his eyes saw a massive black mushroom cloud rise from the direction West was staring in complete terror.

"East! Someone just blew up our home!" She yelled as she jumped and flew down to where North Kaioshin was in the process of dropping his fishing pole into the river after being completely shocked by what happened.

"It's Majin Buu!" South Kaioshin yelled, coming from around the bend in the river.

"No! That's not possible!" East called, but then his mind shifted to what West had just announced: someone blew up…the house. "Sabrina!" He yelled out and started to fly after West Kaioshin who had begun running towards the sight where their home had once been.

Then, out of nowhere, a small pink figure wearing baggy white pants appeared in front of the beautiful Kaioshin of the West. "West Kaioshin!" East yelled as she was immediately thrown into a battle against none other than Majin Buu himself.

"She can't fight him alone!" North yelled out as the three remaining gods watched their beloved friend fight Buu in the air all the way towards the mountain in the distance.

And before either of them could go after her and take Buu away from the mountain to give West a second to catch her breath, the mountain exploded.

"NO!" East screamed louder than he had ever done in his life. "West Kaioshin! NO!"

"This can't be happening!" North yelled as he jumped up after Buu, who appeared in mid-air over their small group.

"North, don't do it!" East yelled as he watched North Kaioshin snap his fingers and a sword appeared in his hand. He gazed upon the two fighters, but the weapon was no match for Buu. He broke it in two, the pieces falling to the ground in front of East's feet.

South Kaioshin had just left the ground to save North from destruction…but it was too late. East shielded his eyes from the intense light from the blast Buu used to murder North Kaioshin.

In a matter of minutes, East Kaioshin's happy and relaxing day had turned to this. His friend North Kaioshin and his life-long companion West Kaioshin were both dead.

"Stay there, East!" South ordered as he engaged in a heavy duel of hand-to-hand combat.

For a few moments, East had thought South had a chance of winning the fight. He was proving to be a bigger match against Buu than even the monster thought possible; after all, South Kaioshin was physically the strongest of them all.

"Get him, South!" East cheered on.

The two had now landed on the ground and South was holding onto Buu's arm, the two fighters staring each other down. East saw the snicker form from the corner of South's mouth, and then suddenly he ripped the pink appendage off.

South had thrown the useless arm to the ground and grinned. East Kaioshin was ready to applaud his small battle victory, but nothing prepared him for what happened next. The arm hadn't been uttered useless at all; instead, it turned itself into a small pink blob of wiggling jelly.

"South, look out!" East yelled, taking a step forward as the blob jumped to life and dunked itself over South Kaioshin's head. East was more than horrified to see the pink mass pull the mighty South Kaioshin towards Buu as it draped its slimy looking form around the tall figure of the god.

"Oh no…" Kaioshin gasped when the blob fused it and South Kaioshin to Buu's body; and soon, the unthinkable happened. Buu started to evolve, his body shifting to become much taller, much stronger, and much more fearful.

He was huge. His muscles rippled with every move he took as he flexed his arms and turned towards the last god in the area. East Kaioshin took several steps back, his body literally trembling with terror. He had never been so scared in his entire life. He wondered what his terrible fate would be after he saw the three people he had grown up with died before his very eyes.

"Stay back!" He ordered, but Buu laughed wickedly and jumped to life.

East Kaioshin didn't even have a chance to blink before feeling a fist connect with his jaw making him fly backwards and into the hard ground. It was more pain than he was used to suffering from when he had fought someone—especially seeing that it was the first punch.

Quickly regaining his thoughts and pulling himself up to stand on his feet, Kaioshin held up his arms in defense as he waited for Buu to attack. It seemed that he was waiting for something, but he had no idea what.

Then in a flash, something had hit him in the back of his neck and as he flew forward, something else had connected with his ribs, sending him sailing into the side of the cliff.

Kaioshin felt like he had been killed ten times over, yet he was still living as he dropped with a pile of rubble onto the ground. He sat with his legs buried under rock and his back indented into the side of the cliff.

He couldn't move. He couldn't think clearly. The only thing he could think of was the fear Sabrina must have felt before she died. No! You mustn't think of that, he told himself fiercely. She may still be alive!

But how can I think of that when such a monster is approaching me, holding a hand out to deliver the final blow. Sabrina, my love, please forgive me for not protecting you. And West, I'm sorry I broke my promise…I'm weak and I deserve to…

"Die," Buu said with a deep voice, a voice that sounded so much like South Kaioshin. East Kaioshin breathed heavily as Buu approached, his hand outstretched, and a small ball of energy gathering up enough power that would blow the last god away.

East held his breath as Buu released the blast. He just turned his head so it wouldn't hit his face directly when a shadow loomed over him and a loud burst of energy shielded him from the fateful blow.

"Dai Kaioshin!" East called when he saw the great god standing in front of him, after having saved his life. "No, Dai Kaioshin, save yourself while you still can."

But his master didn't answer him. Even in such a weak state where he felt he could pass out any moment, East could feel the energy and strength Dai Kaioshin was building up.

Majin Buu, in the meantime, was staring down the great god, not amused in the least that he had stopped the kill of his victim. But his angry face turned into what seemed to be a small tremble of fear as Dai Kaioshin unleashed an attack so powerful, East thought half the planet would go along with it.

When the light had died down and Dai Kaioshin's defenses lowered, East opened his eyes and was amazed at what he saw: nothing. Only small little pieces of pink lie scattered on the ground.

"You did it," East said with shock…but he has spoken to soon.

"Impossible!" Dai Kaioshin said as he braced himself for whatever could happen next.

"Watch out!" East Kaioshin yelled as the pink pieces gathered, formed large pieces, and gathered again. Then, without thinking it would happen twice in ten minutes, one of the large pieces of pink blob jumped onto Dai Kaioshin.

"No! Dai Kaioshin!"

Nothing East Kaioshin said would stop the inevitable. The struggling god of gods, the great Dai Kaioshin, was being pulled into the fusing masses of pink, and soon arms, legs, and a head sprouted from the center.

In place of the mean and fearful monster Kaioshin had just witnessed being blown to smithereens had reshape itself into nothing less than a fat, happy faced, round creature that started dancing around the scene.

"Majin Buu, you've done well," said a voice and immediately Kaioshin knew that it was Bibidi. "You've changed," he said. "You've absorbed those Kais, haven't you? Good work Buu!"

Buu stopped dancing and pointed his yellow-gloved hand at his stomach. "Buu hungry! Buu want cake!"

"Cake?" Bibidi asked, not quite sure what had happened to his evil creation. "Yes, yes of course! We shall go home and have lots of cake!"

Kaioshin couldn't believe what he was seeing. Majin Buu had absorbed South Kaioshin and became a monster that anyone would have nightmares from for the rest of their lives. Then he absorbed Dai Kaioshin and seemed to become not only more tame, but weaker.

Everything was now quiet. There was no more fighting, no more screaming, and no more life on the planet except East Kaioshin. He was alone. And all he wanted to do was die.