The Dark Side of Love
By: Shari Celestine
A.K.A
Serenity
When Pan was 14 her best friends did something that
hurt her and scared her for life. Now 5 years later
she's different, cold and heartless, catching the eye of their newest enemy.
§ Chapter Twelve: Dark VS Light – The Mental Battle §
Princess Pan floated above Pan's pale body, a frown on her face.
"You baka, look what you did to us! We could have been great you and I, we could have ruled the world with Prince Trunks and Kagetsu but no, you had to have feelings for that other guy (Trunks). Weak fool, that's what you are you know, a weakness and weakness should be eliminated before they become a distraction. This is the end Pan my dear, and remember you asked for this." Princess Pan said lowering her body to Pan's.
At that very moment the doors opened and the Son's Briefs' and Chestnut's rushed in, what they saw confused and shocked them all. Somehow Princess Pan's form became transparent and her body disappeared into Pan's
"Someone want to explain that?" Yamcha asked.
"I, I don't even understand it myself. She shouldn't be able to do that." Bulma said rushing to the control panel to check Pan's status.
"That's weird she seems to be fine but when I look at her brain waves…she has two different brainwave patterns." Bulma said looking at a sheet of paper.
"Two? Are your sure Bulma-San?" Goku asked confused, he could be a bit dense at times but even he knew that a person is supposed to have only one brain wave.
§
Princess Pan found herself floating in the middle nothing everything was dark. Princess Pan flared her Ki and the 'room' illuminated with a bright light, Princess Pan could see nothing before or around her it was all white. She cursed softly, "Damn it Pan, where are you? I didn't come all this way to play hid and go seek with you!" She yelled.
Nothing.
She cursed again and walked forward reaching out with her mind to find Pan's Ki still she found nothing.
"Your just making it hared on yourself Pan, it's time to face the music. You didn't think I would let you live a normal life like nothing happened did you?"
§
Pan knew someone was out there, she just couldn't recognize the Ki, it felt somewhat familiar like her own but darker.
"Princess Pan." She whispered in realization.
Pan quickly diminished her Ki to nothing, making it hard for Princess Pan to pick up on her Ki signature, when Pan was ready to be found she would let her presence be known but for now she didn't want to be found.
"Your just making it hared on yourself Pan, it's time to face the music. You didn't think I would let you live a normal life like nothing happened did you?" She heard Princess Pan say.
She stood a few feet in front of Princess Pan; the light given off by her Ki didn't touch her yet so she was still hidden.
It's now or never. Pan though raising her Ki.
§
Princess Pan stopped and looked across the 'room' at her own reflection. A small smile formed on her lips as she stared at her counterpart. They looked alike except for the different color clothes they wore, Princess Pan picking dark colors while had on Pan lighter colors.
"Ah, so you finally show your face, I was beginning to wonder if you'd show up or not."
"I'm not sacred of you."
"Not yet at least."
"You can't beat me, this is my body!"
"I'm not going to fight you unless you push me Pan. Come with me, we can rule the world together."
Pan snorted, "Like hell I will, what kind of a fool do you take me for?"
"If you don't come with me right now I will be forced to fight you and you will lose." Princess Pan threatened.
Pan crossed her arms over her chest and frowned, "No."
"Damn it, you are so stubborn sometimes. I guess I'll have to do this the hard way." Princess Pan said, she cupped her hands in front of her and a spear of dark energy formed, the sphere tripled its sizes several times until it was bigger than Princess Pan. She hurled the sphere in Pan's direction. Pan tried to dodge but the sphere followed her and sucked her inside. Pan cried out in pain, the dark energy was trying to enter her body again.
"Don't fight it Pan, you belong with me, with Prince Trunks. They don't want you, think about it, think back to the times when you were all alone, you were always alone."
Pan's eyes lost its pupils as she was drawn into a trance. "Alone, I was always alone…" She mumbled.
§ On the outside §
Pan began to moan in agony causing everyone to look at her.
"What's wrong with her? What's that monster doing to Pan?" Trunks asked in horror.
A dark sheet of energy slowly began to cover Pan's body this did not go unnoticed.
"She'd being absorbed by dark energy again, but his time from the inside." Bulma said looking at the meter that calculated negative energy in Pan's body.
Vegeta silently walked over to Pan's body and put a hand on her sweating forehead. He closed his eyes and concentrated for a second before she spoke, "She is fighting the evil inside of herself, unless things change she will lose the battle." Vegeta frowned.
"There has to be something we can do!" Trunks shouted.
"There is nothing we can do for her now, we can only pray that she's stronger than the evil."
Trunks walked over to Pan and placed her sweaty hand in his own. "Come on Pan, I know you can do this your stronger than this, fight it!"
§ FLASHBACK §
Pan watched as her uncle and Trunks walked away from her leaving her standing on the CC lawn by herself. She fell to her knees, tears flowing like a river down her sad face.
"Trunks-Kun? Uncle Goten? Why won't you spar with me, you promised me you would! Have you forgotten, today's my birthday!" Pan cried.
§ END OF FLASHBACK §
"Can't you see, they didn't care about you then, what makes you think they care now?"
"No, you're lying, it's all an illusion! That's not how it ended; I know Trunks wouldn't do that to me. He loves me just as I love him!" Pan cried powering up.
The sphere around Pan broke under the pressure of her powering up, a golden aura surrounded Pan her hair changed to a wavy gold and her eyes became emeralds.
"No! It's not possible, how could he have broke my spell!" Princess Pan said astonished.
Pan powered up for an attack.
"Ka…Me…Ha…Me…HA!"
The blast hit Princess Pan head on, she cried out as she was thrown out of Pan's mind and body.
§
The dark energy slowly faded away from Pan's body. A bright light surrounded Pan's body as something dark flew out and slammed against the far wall. It was Princess Pan, her body slowly slid down the wall until it came to a stop on the ground.
She slowly and painfully stood up, a look of pure rage on her face.
"I will be back, this is far form the end. You will pay dearly for this!" She vanished.
§
The next morning everyone sitting down at the breakfast table, no one said a word. The events of the night before still fresh in their minds. Trunks had only left Pan's side after Bulma assured him she was stable again and no harm would come to her.
Unnoticed a figure slowly padded up the stairs in the Capsule Corp. compound, it was dressed in one of those hospital gowns with the back tied in white strings. The figure entered the main hose of CC undetected by security; it knew all the tricks and loopholes around CC security system like the back of its hand.
As the figure neared the dinning hall it picked up a few muffed voices, as it neared the door to the kitchen a few blurry figures could be made out. The figure smiled.
§
Vegeta was the first to notice the figure standing in the doorway, he smirked at them and continued to eat his breakfast, and the others would notice its presence sooner or later.
Bar stood up to deposit her plate in the sinks when she stopped dead in tracks; a look of shock crossed her face. She dropped the plate and raced to the figure by the door.
"Bra! That's my good china dish you just broke, it's coming out of your allowance, do you heard me-"
Bulma turned to her daughter in her hallway hugging the life out of someone; she gaped at what she saw.
"My Kami." Tears that were held back over 48-hours ago finally fell.
"I miss you so much!" Bra said catching the attention of everyone present in the room. There in the doorway stood a slightly pale Pan Son, a small smile on her face.
"Gomen minna," She began in a small voice. "I didn't mean to cause you so much trouble."
§ END §
The end in coming soon mina! I can hardly wait!
Ja ne.