The Salga Saga
Chapter 6Tei gripped his sword tightly as he stared into the eyes of Salga. He was facing the one responsible for killing Sasami and the others. He caused he and his mother go through unspeakable pain over the years. Ever since he was a kid he dreamed of this moment, he couldn't lose, he wouldn't lose.
"Are you going to attack anytime soon kid, or am I going to have to attack you first?" Salga asked as he switched from a defensive stance to an offensive position. Tei's eyes slightly widened when he saw the switch.
'Okay so he's going to attack I know that, but the question is where will he strike?' Tei thought to himself. Salga's sword was positioned next to his ear as though he was about to stab him. Tei went into a defensive stance, and prepared himself for the attack.
"I hope you're ready," Salga said, then he suddenly shot forward with speed Tei could barely keep up with. The stab was nothing but a fast sliver blur as it shot towards the young man's stomach. Tei quickly jumped to the side, and countered with a strong strike towards his ribs. Salga suddenly teleported behind him, and knocked him into the ground with a swift kick to his back. The red haired swordsman jumped to his feet, and went into another stance.
'What an attack,' he thought. 'I could barely keep up with it, but luckily master Saiat taught me how to see such things.' Tei took a quickly breath, and went on the attack. The young man thrust forward, but Salga easily parried the attack, and kneed Tei in his stomach, making him gasp, and double over. While he was crouched down, Salga delivered a powerful front kick to his chin that sent him flying back into two trees behind him.
"Is that it? That was the slowest attack I have ever seen," Salga said as he made his way towards Tei. "If you wish to defeat me, you must do better than that." The red haired swordsman jumped to his feet, and attacked with fast slashes. Salga smirked as he saw them coming, and held up his sword. Loud clangs rang through the forest as the conqueror blocked every one of Tei's attacks with ease. The young fighter jumped back, then shot forward again with a powerful thrust to his stomach.
"Take this!" he shouted. Salga chuckled as he easily evaded the thrust, and countered with an elbow to his neck. As soon as Tei his the ground, he swung his leg around, sweeping Salga off his feet, then delivered a powerful round kick with the same leg. But the conqueror teleported into the air before the kick hit him. Tei growled, as he got to his feet again. He sheathed his sword, and started firing rapid ki blasts at the floating swordsman. The yellow blasts shot towards him, but the man dodged them easily as though they were moving slowly. Tei growled as he watched him dodge his blasts as though they were nothing, he started to fire more and more. Salga shut his eyes, and started to dodge them as he shot towards the young man on the ground. Tei fired another round, but when the smoke cleared Salga was gone.
"Looking for me?" a soft, but dark voice asked from behind him. Salga suddenly brought down his sword, giving Tei two deep slash marks in his back. In one motion, the red haired swordsman spun around, and drew his sword with lighting speed. However, his attack was cut short suddenly when Salga blocked his blade with just the palm of his hand.
"There's no way!" the young man exclaimed. Salga chuckled, and suddenly slashed him across his stomach, making his wound from the fight with Imumura even worse. Tei was suddenly thrown into the ground again by a powerful left hook from Salga.
"And here I thought this would be fun, but as it turned out, this has been nothing but a major bore," the man said as he stood over the young man.
"You want fun, I'll show you fun!" Tei shouted, and thrust his sword forward. Salga easily parried, and grabbed him by his skull, locking him in a tight grip.
"Now I believe it's time to end this foolishness." Tei yelled out in pain as Salga increased his grip on his skull. The man chuckled when he felt his skull slowly begin to crack, and as a result he started to apply more pressure to his already tight grip. Tei grabbed Salga's arm to try and pry it off, but the man's grip was already locked on his already cracking skull. Everything started to grow dark, Tei started to lose feeling in his body, and his hand that was on Salga's arm started to drop.
"Let me go…" he said softly, but the tight grip only became more tighter.
"Say goodbye kid," Salga whispered, and in an instant cracked Tei's skull. But suddenly, the young man just exploded into leaves, and twigs.
"Up here!" a loud voice cried. Salga looked up, and saw Tei coming down with his sword over his head. The man smirked, and brought up his sword as Tei brought down his. A loud clang reached their ears as the two swords met. Tei's eyes widened when he saw that Salga's sword was still in one piece. The conqueror pushed up on his sword, making the red haired swordsman flip backwards away from him.
"Surprised kid?" Salga asked when he saw Tei's expression.
"But…how, that attack should have broken your sword!"
"Foolish boy, my sword is made of the same indestructible metal as yours. So it is useless to try to destroy my sword." Tei growled, and charged in for another attack. Salga easily parried his slash, and knocked him on his back with a powerful sidekick to his chest.
'How can I beat him?' Tei thought as he gripped his stomach wound. The blood from his wounds was only getting worse, if he didn't treat them soon the loss of blood would get to him.
"Finished so soon?" Salga asked as he walked over to him. Tei shut his eyes as the conqueror made his way towards him. When he was standing over him, Tei spun around, and snapped open his now completely blue eyes. Salga was suddenly trapped in a blue aura that started from his neck, and went down to his knees. Seeing his chance, Tei took to the air, and sped off.
'I have to get Gohan. Maybe I can't beat him, but I know he can!' the young man thought as he shot through the air.
"A binding attack. Trying to get away eh?" Salga said as he watched Tei fly off. He smirked, and suddenly broke out of the aura. "Too bad for you I am too powerful for such tricks."
Tei shot towards where he sensed Gohan's energy, but he was suddenly knocked out of the sky by a powerful force. When he looked up it was Salga with a smirk on his face.
"No way!" the red haired boy exclaimed.
"Trying to get away is useless," Salga said as he extended his arm. "Now take this. Dragon Blast." A powerful orange red ki ball shot towards Tei who quickly jumped back. Suddenly, the blast exploded into a powerful wave of destruction that consumed the entire area. Tei cried out in pain as he was engulfed into the wave.
OOOOO
Piccolo, who had been meditating under a waterfall, snapped open his eyes.
"What power. I can sense it even from here. I've sensed anything like this before. Could it be that Salga guy Tei warned us about? He's near Goku's house, I have to get there!" and with that Piccolo flew off.
OOOOO
Gohan's eyes snapped open when he felt a powerful ki. His eyes had a stern look on them as he scanned the area around them. Sasami gave him a confused look as she watched him.
"Gohan, what's wrong?" Sasami asked as she watched him. The ki he was sensing was incredible, it was unlike anything he had ever felt before. Gohan decided to do a quick ki check back at his house. There was his mother, brother, and father, nothing unusual. The stern look in his eyes disappeared when he heard Sasami call him again. "Gohan, what is it?"
"Oh it's nothing," he replied.
"Are you sure?" she asked as she looked into his eyes. Gohan couldn't help but get lost in her bright pink eyes. The powerful ki, and everything else around him just seemed to vanish. In his mind there was nothing else around him, but her.
"Yeah I'm sure," he said, and kissed her again.
OOOOO
By now Videl had touchdown in front of Gohan's house. She knocked the door, and Goku answered it with a smile.
"Hey Videl what's up?"
"Hi, is Gohan here?" she asked.
"Oh, no, he's in the fields near the lake. It's not far from here," Goku replied. Videl nodded, and flew off.
"Goku who was that?" Chi-Chi asked as Goku closed the door.
"Oh that was Videl. She wanted to know where Gohan was."
"And did you tell her?" Goku nodded, and Chi-Chi gave him a look that told him that he had a mistake.
"What did I do?" he asked.
"Goku, who is Gohan in the fields with?"
"Sasami."
"And who has Gohan been going out with for the past three months?"
"Videl," Goku answered again not sure where all of this was going. "What's wrong Chi-Chi?" Chi-Chi sighed, and decided to go at it another way.
"Goku remember when Sasami first came here, and Gohan hugged her. What did that hug mean to you?"
"That they really care about each other."
"Good, now Goku, Gohan is going out with Videl right?" Goku nodded, still not sure where this was going. "And what do people do when they go out with each other?" Goku thought for minute, not quite sure about the answer, then he remember Yamcha and Bulma.
"They hug, kiss, and fight with each other a lot."
"Right, except for the last part, now put all of that together," Chi-Chi instructed. Goku thought long and hard about everything, he made softly groaning sounds as he tried to make sense out of everything. Then after six minutes he finally understood.
"Oh now I get it!" he exclaimed happily. Then his happy face finally switched to the same face Chi-Chi gave him at the start. "Oh."
"Yes, it seems our son has gotten himself into a love triangle."
"But Chi-Chi," Goku began with a confused look on his face. "I thought love had something to do with your heart, not triangles." Chi-Chi sighed, and went over to the couch.
"Sit down Goku, and I'll explain everything."
OOOOO
Tenchi sighed as he sat in Washu's lab, and explained to everyone how the new dimensional tunnel worked, too bad no one understood what she was saying.
"Washu for once can't you just explain this crap in plain English!" Ryoko shouted, but suddenly out of nowhere, a large bronze statue dropped out of the ceiling, and collided with her head.
"Ah, ah, ah, if you have a question, you raise your hand," the scientist said with a smirk. Ayeka looked at Ryoko, who was out cold from the statue, and hesitantly raised her hand. "Yes Ms. Ayeka?"
"So you sent my little sister through a dimensional portal that you didn't even bother to test?!" Ayeka exclaimed.
"Yeah, what's the matter with that?" Ayeka groaned.
"It could be dangerous!" Washu gave Ayeka a reassuring smirk.
"Don't worry Ayeka, if anything goes wrong all I have to do is to push this button," the scientist said as she held up a small remote. "It instantly opens up the tunnel so Sasami can come back in case of emergencies, but it can only be used two times."
"So you can bring Sasami back anytime you want?" Kiyone asked. Washu nodded.
"So why not bring her back now!?" Ayeka cried, but that just caused a statue to fall on her head. Tenchi sweatdropped when he saw the large hole the ground.
"Washu, why did he just send her to another dimension all of a sudden. I mean you could have told somebody."
"Tenchi, I had to send her to Gohan, and Piccolo's dimension, it was for her own good," Washu replied.
"How is sending my little sister to a dimension filled with monsters, and who knows what else for her own good!?!" shouted princess as she got up.
"The girl was practically dying a little bit everyday."
"What are you talking about?" Tenchi asked.
"Haven't you noticed how she always seems to be sad or depressed. And sometimes she just cries out of the blue? She even told me that even if she's awake or sleeping she sees Gohan, and it just hurts her even more. That kind of stuff can't be good for anyone, especially someone at her age."
"Oh, I see," Tenchi said, finally understanding.
"Don't worry I gave Sasami the same remote I do. If anything goes wrong she'll just come back." All of a sudden a loud explosion echoed through the lab.
"Mama!" Tei's little voice cried. "Daddy destroyed another simulation again!" Washu sighed.
"Not again!" she shouted back. "Telew how many times are you going to destroy those things!?"
"Until you create one that is an actual challenge to me! These stupid level 23s are nothing! Make a new one!" Telew deep voice ordered.
"I'm not a slave Telew! And I'm busy!"
"I don't care, make another one now!" Everyone sweatdropped when they saw Washu make a tight fist, and raise her watch on her wrist.
"Telew," she said slowly, then suddenly pushed the red button. The dark lab was instantly lit up like a light, then a loud thud reached everyone's ears.
"Mama!" Tei cried again. "Daddy is on the floor, and he's not moving!"
"Don't worry honey! He'll be fine!" Washu replied, then added with a mumble, "In maybe two hours."
OOOOO
Tei groaned as he pushed his way out of the rubble of Salga's last attack. The entire area that once stood was nothing but rubble, and destroyed trees. Tei struggled to get to his feet with new injuries, and his previous injuries even worse. Blood came down the side of his head, and his cheek. His left arm was practically useless as even more blood ran down from his left shoulder all the way down to his fingertips. His eye was swollen shut, and his shirt was halfway torn off. The young man fell to his knees panting, and his blood making small puddles around him.
"Oh, what's this? Still alive eh?" Salga asked with a smirk as he floated in the sky. Tei winced when he tried to raise his left arm.
'This arm is partially useless. I can't draw.' Salga smiled darkly, and shot towards the injured boy. Tei tried to block the upcoming punch with his useful arm, but it was no use, in an instant he went flying into a tree. As soon as Tei saw the conqueror coming, he took a quick breath, and fired rapid ki blasts with his good arm.
"You would think you would have learned by now." The blasts were all slapped away with ease as Salga made his way towards Tei. The red haired swordsman swiftly leaped into the air to avoid a slash that brought down the tree he was using as support.
'One attack, I just need one attack,' Tei thought as he saw the dark lord shot towards him.
"Get ready to die," he said calmly as he blasted towards him. Tei slowly put his left hand over his hilt, and started to spin through the air. Salga was taken a back as he saw a blue shining aura surround the boy as he spun.
"Take this! Spinning Dragon Bite!" In an instant Tei collided with Salga as he drew his sword. In an instant Salga hit the ground with countless slash marks starting from his chest to his stomach. Tei landed and sighed as he weakly sheathed his sword.
"I see…you used the force of your spin to draw your sword even though your left arm was useless," Salga said weakly as his blood oozed out of his wounds staining the ground. Tei took a deep breath and started to walk away.
'It's over,' he thought. But he suddenly froze when he heard Salga's chuckling from behind him. Tei turned around, and his eyes widened in shock, Salga was standing on his feet, chuckling as if nothing had happened!
"Did you really think only a few slashes would kill me? HA! You fool!" The dark warrior adjusted his neck a few times, and chuckled as his wounds started to close, and heal themselves.
"There's no way!" the red haired fighter exclaimed. Salga suddenly teleported behind him, and charged up a strong ki blast.
"Die." In a flash Tei went flying through four trees at once, and slid through the ground with his blood leaving a long trail. The young man tried to get to his feet, but he was just too weak to move. His joints felt like they were on fire, and the loss of blood was making him dizzy, and sluggish.
'That was my last move,' he thought as he tried to get up. 'What….what….what do I do now?' Salga suddenly appeared in the air, with his arm extended.
"Just so you know, you won't survive this one," Salga said simply. "Lighting Dragon!" Salga suddenly fired a powerful white blast in the air that instantly exploded into a lighting blast. Tei slowly turned his head only to see the lighting quickly form into a long white dragon with sparks flying out everywhere. He uttered one word as he watched helplessly.
"Mother." A loud intense explosion demolished the forest. Smoke rose over the green trees, and blackened a part of the sky. Salga smirked when he saw the giant crater that used to be where Tei once was.
"Well that was boring, but there is another power that might be wroth my attention," the dark lord said, and flew off. The only part of Tei that remained was a picture that was in his pocket. It was when he was still a kid, with his mother, and his father, who was actually smiling. Then because it too was in the explosion, it dissolved away.
OOOOO
A cold feeling ran through Gohan's body as he lay down in the fields with Sasami. he quickly sat up, and looked around. He was sure that he had sensed a powerful ki not too far away, but he just couldn't bring himself to check it out.
"Gohan, what is it?" Sasami asked. "You've been acting weird for a while now, and I want to know what's bothering you. Come on, you can tell me." To be honest the power Gohan was sensing wasn't the only thing on Gohan's mind. It was the question his mother had asked him earlier, "What about Videl?" That question was bothering him all day, and now that Sasami knew there was something wrong with him, Gohan wasn't sure what to say. Should he say that there was a powerful force on the Earth? Or that he was seeing another girl, and that he cared about as he much he cared about Sasami?
"Well Sasami, its…." He started, but he suddenly sensed something, or rather someone. When he looked up, he could just barely make out Videl's figure flying this way. Gohan suddenly stood up, and started to head for the air.
"Gohan what is it?" she asked. Gohan gave her a reassuring smile.
"Don't worry, just stay here, okay?" he said, then flew off to meet Videl. As Gohan flew that question started to bother him again. 'What about Videl?' He just kept asking himself that question as flew. He wasn't sure what to do, so he figured he would figure it all out later.
"Hey Gohan," Videl said cheerfully when he met her halfway.
"Hey, Videl, what's going on?" he asked. The ebony haired girl motioned for them to land, Gohan nodded, and they were on the ground in an instant.
"I was wondering, have you been sensing something recently?" she asked.
"Like what?"
"I don't know, but for a while now I've been sensing something that's completely out of this world, I'm not sure what to make of it. Gohan, have you been sensing it?"
"Yeah, but if you've been able to sense this guy from all the way in the city he must be powerful. And if he's that powerful, we might have another Majin Buu incident," Gohan replied.
"Oh….I see," Videl said simply.
"Videl, what's wrong?" he asked.
"Gohan, I died when Majin Buu was here, you nearly died, the Earth was destroyed, and everything was destroyed! I….just….I just can't stand to see it happen again," Videl whispered. Gohan went to her, and embraced her, while stroking her short raven hair.
"Don't worry Videl, that'll never happen again. I'll make sure of that," he said softly. By now Sasami, who decided to follow Gohan in hopes of finding out what was wrong, had caught up with him, and accidentally stumbled upon the scene. She ducked behind a tree, and saw Gohan embracing another girl. Being the forgiving person that she was, Sasami figured it was no big deal, they were probably just good friends. However, that's when it happened.
They stayed like that for a few more minutes before they pulled back. Sasami once again figured this was no big deal, but then she saw the girl stand on her tiptoes, and start to close the space between them. Then time just seemed to slow down to the young Juraian girl as the space between them became less and less, until their lips were locked together in a loving kiss. Sasami's heart just shattered at that moment as she watched them. Tears rolled down her cheeks, and her small hands shook in shock. She lowered her head as more tears started to fall. A small gasp escaped her lips as the pain of her heart started to spread through her body like a disease. She could only whisper one thing as her heart crumbled like a fallen castle.
"How could you." She couldn't bring herself to run, her body just wouldn't move. She just wanted to run right then and there, run to a place where no one would find her, where she would just disappear from existence. She just wanted to turn around, and forget all of this ever happened, but she just couldn't move, why was fate torturing her like this? Gohan and Videl eventually pulled away, and smiled at each other. She looked at her watch, and gave Gohan a quick peck on the cheek before flying off. Gohan waved goodbye as she flew off, he had yet to realize that Sasami was there. But then when he turned around his eyes widened when he saw Sasami step out from a tree with a look of pure anguish in her eyes, and tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Sa-Sa-Sasami?" he finally said. Sasami took a step back, as soon as she realized she could move, she ran off with the speed of the wind. She couldn't even hear Gohan's yells for her to come back, she didn't care where she ended up, she just wanted to be as far from here as possible. Suddenly a strong force wrapped itself around her wrist, making her stop. She spun around and saw Gohan behind her. With all her might she struggled to get of his grip, she didn't want to see him right now, or ever for that matter.
"Let me go!" she cried tugging on her arm, but it wouldn't move.
"Sasami wait, I can explain," Gohan said.
"Explain what!?" Sasami shouted. "Explain how you were locking lips were some girl!? Don't bother, I saw the whole thing!" she exclaimed with her back turned.
"Sasami, it's just that…."
"How could you!" Sasami cried again. "How could you! You just turned around and went to that other girl like I was nothing! I feel like nothing but a used car that someone just trashes as soon as the newest model comes out!"
"You know I don't see you like that, I lo…"
"Don't say it! Don't say it. If you really did you never would have done what you did," she whispered. "You never loved me, you just used me until you found someone who was ten times better than me."
"No Sasami, no one could ever be better than you."
"So then why did you complete drop me, and shot straight towards that other girl!?" Sasami shouted as she turned her head to look at him. Gohan's eyes widened when he saw Sasami's eyes, the innocent, and carefree look in her eyes had vanished. All that was left was anger, anguish, confusion, and misery. It was as though Gohan had stripped her of all her childlike innocence, and turned her into nothing but a shell of her former self.
"I….I…."
"Get away from me, I hate you," Sasami whispered.
"Sasami, you don't….you don't mean that." Sasami made a fist and spun around.
"I said to leave me alone!!!" she shouted, and suddenly gave him a slap that would put his mother, Bulma, and 18's slaps to shame. Gohan wasn't sure if she had put any ki in it or not, but nevertheless it was a strong blow. As soon as Gohan released her from his grip to nurse the now red mark on his face, Sasami sped off.
"Sasami!" Gohan called. "Sasami!!!" When her figure was completely gone, Gohan made a fist, and slammed it against a tree, knocking it down.
"How could I have been so stupid! I knew she would find out sooner or later, but I didn't want her find out like this! Sasami, I'm sorry, I'm sorry," he whispered as he fell to his knees. He suddenly snapped his head around when he heard clapping. "Who's there?" A man with jet-black hair, and cold light blue eyes hoped down from a tree.
"A valiant performance. I haven't had this much entertainment in a while," the man said with a smirk.
"Who are you?" Gohan asked as he started to stand up.
"My name is Salga, and you are the one who killed my brother, Gallio."
"You're Salga!?" Gohan exclaimed as he went into a fighting stance. "I didn't even know Gallio had a brother."
"Well he does," Salga replied.
"So what do you want? Revenge?" Salga just chuckled.
"Revenge, that is so simple, too simple for my taste. No, I just want to kill you. You see I plan on taking over this planet, and I can't do that if the one who killed my brother is still here."
"So, you think if I'm still around, I'll just come and kill you too right?" Salga nodded.
"That's exactly right," Salga replied, and drew his sword. "Now on guard!" The conqueror suddenly shot towards the young half Saiyan with speed he could barely keep up with. Gohan quickly went to Super Saiyan two, and readied himself.
"Bring it on!"
AN: I am really, really really, really, sorry about the delay. Two days after Christmas, I had some computer trouble for a while so I had to rewrite this chapter, then I had to turn it off because the mouse wasn't working, and my stupid computer didn't recover it. So I had to rewrite this whole thing like two times, and it was a major pain. So anyway, will Gohan survive this fight with Salga? Will Sasami ever forgive him? When will Videl find out about Sasami? What happened to Tei? Is he still alive? You'll just have to read the next chapter of the Salga Saga. See ya!