Disclaimer: This applies to all chapters, I do not own DBZ or Shinzo or any of their characters. All I own is Allegra. This fanfic is a crossover with Shinzo, but written for a DBZ-reading audience that knows nothing about Shinzo, so don't worry! All will be explained. Happy reading!
The Creations- CicadaS
Chapter Five"There are other Enterrans on this planet, aren't there?"
"Why do you want to know?"
"Because if we could find the other, or others even, we could try and find a way to save Allegra."
Piccolo looked at Tien sceptically; "Goku told you of her thanks?" Tien nodded grimly. Piccolo sighed through his nose; "There is only one other on the planet at this moment. Goku never wanted Allegra to find out about the other… there was a danger they would attempt to wipe out the humans if they joined forces."
Tien shrugged, "Maybe she's turned over a new leaf."
"I doubt it. Goku forbade anyone from letting Allegra find the other Enterran. I don't think he'd be very happy if you used the Enterran to help save Allegra."
"If she is saved then it would put Goku's mind off worrying for a bit, he's blaming himself for this situation Allegra's in."
"If it fails then the Enterran race will be one step closer to extinction."
Tien stood, "I will see how this other Enterran measures up. If we are to fight Cell, then we will need every power available. If he is strong enough I might attempt a rescue mission," Tien shrugged. "Which way?"
Piccolo stood closer to the edge of the marble plateau, scanning the cloudy horizon. He pointed a sharp green finger in the direction of the other Enterran, firing a small beam of ki. Tien flew after the guiding beacon.
Allegra sped through layers of dense cloud after the green blur ahead of her as Cell led her on a roller-coaster ride through the stratosphere. The Enterran was yelling, her voice growing steadily hoarse, "CELL! Coward! Tell me what you know!" Allegra dived to narrowly avoid an oncoming flock of geese flying in the opposite direction.
"Honk! Honk! Honk!"
Allegra skidded to a halt in the air, whipping her head around to stare at Cell. She jumped when he appeared right behind her. Cell drew out a feather stuck in Allegra's black hair, "Imagine that; goose," he smirked.
Allegra floated back a way, "Tell me what you remembered about the Enterrans, Cell."
"Persistent little thing, aren't you?"
"Please, Cell. I haven't heard anything about my own race in years. Do you have any concept on how pathetically lonely one could get in that state?"
"Why, my dear, you act very much like someone who's had to watch their own planet be destroyed," Cell leered.
"Damn you!" Allegra growled, "What else do you know?"
"Only very few, fragmented memories of the planet's destruction attained from Frieza's DNA."
"F-Frieza?"
"Your planet would not submit to Frieza's rule so he had it destroyed… How fortunate that you could all survive in space," Cell chuckled smugly.
"Submit? Fortunate! You have no idea what went on out there! It was a massacre. Enterrans do not submit to slavery! Ever! Frieza destroyed our planet. Vegeta was there; he was involved… Most were killed; few escaped… a lot were caught and made slaves. Some… some joined with the one that destroyed our planet."
"And what happened to you, dear Enterran?"
"I—"
"Oh, here it is; another memory… fell into the 'caught and made slaves' category, didn't you? How amusing…"
Allegra's cheeks seemed to inflate with rage; "Perhaps I should give you some of my DNA and you can find the memory of how much I despise you!"
"Now, now, now," Cell scolded playfully, "You shouldn't let yourself get riled up so easily, my dear; it shows you up in a very poor light."
Allegra folded her wings flat and charged at the offending creature. Cell shot upwards, clearing the atmosphere in a matter of moments. Allegra followed suit; flying straight until the clear blue sky melted away to a dark infinity lined with dots of distant flames… and a particularly ugly meteorite hurtling towards her. Allegra rolled sideways around the meteorite, cursing Cell to the deepest pits of the afterlife.
Cell cocked his head to the side in interest; the Enterran was shining oddly, as if a thin layer of ozone was still clinging to her as a second skin. His memory database was sifting through Frieza's records trying to find anything relating to this particular Enterran. For all Cell's curiosity of the being, Frieza seemed to have paid her no more mind than a number and a job station.
But still, he tossed another meteorite at the forsaken girl, for good measure. Allegra yelped silently as she dodged, spinning frantically to get out of the way. Cell tossed her another one, same result. Grinning, he tossed another one. A bigger one, a faster one; every flying rock dodged just in time and hurtling behind Allegra's graceful form to burn up in the planet's atmosphere.
'If only I had air to heave… what sick pleasure does he get out of tormenting me this way!' Allegra dodged a pair of twin rocks as Cell tried ever more 'interesting' ways of crushing the girl with flying space debris. 'For the sake of the Generals… I've never ached this much in my life!' Allegra strayed right as another meteorite flew towards her.
Cell threw a heavy punch at the closest meteorite, setting it screaming down his wind witch's merry way. "Getting tired yet, little Enterran?" Cell called. He watched gleefully to see her avoid the rock. The meteorite hit the atmosphere; but Allegra hadn't emerged from under it.
Allegra pushed off from the side of the meteorite, staggering backwards and flopping down onto the charred earth. The meteorite had taken her straight back down to Cell's plateau, perfect. Allegra looked up at the green monstrosity towering over her, scowling like a child broken its own toy; "You missed one."
"I missed plenty of others—I mean, lots of others missed me… because I dodged them—damn you, now my head is aching too!" Allegra hissed.
"Did you want me to kiss it better?" Cell muttered flatly.
"No."
A Grinch-like smirk curled its way across Cell's face, "Are you sure?"
"NO!"
"You're not sure?" Cell was advancing.
"Cell, get away!"
"Are you entirely sure you do not want my help, dear Allegra? You were complaining so avidly; I honestly believed your pain," Cell drawled coyly.
"Get away from me-e!" Allegra yelled, staggering to her feet and stumbling backwards. Cell caught her in an iron embrace, trapping her in his arms. Allegra struggled in vain, why was this misfortune hers to endure? Why was he so intent on torturing her to insanity? Why in all the worlds did his breath have a slightly minty scent to it?
"Ceell!" Allegra protested, straining her neck to get away from the advancing pale face. Her taloned feet kicked out in protest, scratching at Cell's shins. Cell smirked his slyest and kissed her firmly on the lips, lingering for only a moment. Allegra blinked, mind devoid of all thought. Her lips tingled oddly.
Cell chuckled, "Feeling better now?"
Tien ascended the steep stairs of the temple ruins calmly, surveying the ruins and the lush vegetation creeping in on all sides. The Snake Temple was well renowned for bringing death upon anyone who dared to visit it. But that was understandable, Tien mused, stepping over the odd black mamba slithering up and down the stairs like a stray breeze.
One or two of the snakes had reared to strike at the wandering human, but it took only a little flare of ki to dissuade them. 'It's so quiet here… I've missed temples, especially such old ones. The architecture here is amazing.'
"You have three eyes. That's never happened before." Tien looked behind him but saw nothing. "No, no. You'll have to excuse this place, the echo is all backwards."
It took Tien a while to see the figure, but he was surprised that he hadn't noticed the squatting humanoid before. It was definitely Enterran; the figure's skin looked pale enough to be dead with eyes a solid tropical green and shiny dreadlocks bright yellow and swaying oddly.
The figure's reptilian face grinned hungrily; "Do you taste better with a third eye?"
Tien straightened up, "My name is Tien; I have come here looking for an Enterran by the name of—"
"Ryuma?"
"No, Gyasa."
"Well that's good. I am Gyasa, Prince of Snakes," the Enterran announced proudly, spreading his spindly arms wide and proud over his serpent-infested territory. He was met with a soft chorus of hissing and rattling; Tien saw the masses of serpents out of the corner of his eye, slithering over everything.
"I can't remember the last time I had a visitor! Usually my little friends pick them off before they can get close to the temple, congratulations on making it all the way to the steps! How did you manage to survive? You didn't fly here, did you? I thought I saw some of those weird humans who fly around in the sky without wings… Are you one of the flying humans? Do you taste any better when you can fly?"
"I don't think you'll be wanting to eat me. I've come here because I need some help from you, or some advice, whatever you can offer," Tien stated forwardly.
Gyasa stood up from his squat position atop the nearby pillar and hopped down with a lanky grace. He was wearing some strange outfit covering him from neck to ankle in blue spandex with an alien brace crossed over the material on his chest. As Gyasa walked closer Tien noticed that the thick tendrils of hair were in fact yellow snakes hanging suspended from the Enterran's head, like the mythical Medusa, their red eyes gleaming sinisterly at the human.
"What do you know about the Enterran Allegra?" Tien asked loudly.
"Allegra? The little bird? I haven't seen her since the annihilation of our home planet. I haven't seen any Enterran since the annihilation of our home planet, really. I miss her; she was very good company. I only knew a few of the Winged. Her and Caris."
"I need your help to rescue her."
Gyasa blinked, "She's alive? You found another Enterran? Alive? How could that be possible? And Allegra… what are the odds? Second cousins with Ryuma, Lord of all Reptiles. Quite high nobility, and her mother was second in command to Lady Rusephine, too."
'I swear… all these Enterrans ever do is talk about each other.' "She is being held hostage."
Gyasa laughed openly, the sound echoing loudly, "Allegra? A hostage? By whom?"
"His name his Cell; he's an android, and he's stronger than anything we've ever faced."
"Android? Damn tin cans… if he's stronger than Goku it's either going to take diplomacy or sneakery; and only humans use diplomacy." Gyasa grinned, "Which way did the android take her?"
"And so another day passes. Eight to go… and the Cell games shall commence," Cell beamed proudly.
"What are you planning to do for eight days? Train?" Allegra asked, perched precariously atop one of the spiked marble pillars.
"Perhaps. I had planned to meditate for the larger part of the time. Terrorising the locals, et cetera. You're welcome to join me."
"In terrorising the locals?" Allegra asked hopefully.
"In meditation."
"…I find meditation to be pointless."
"You are so open to new ideas and concepts," Cell drawled sarcastically.
Allegra made an angry sound and turned to face away from Cell. 'Years of waiting around in a deserted forest and I get this, a creature who likes nothing better to do than wait. Damn him!'
Squeak. Squeak. Squeak.
Allegra turned her head to watch Cell approach her, lifting her chin defiantly. Her blue eyes focused eerily, white irises sharpening in twin seas of blue. Cell stopped, arms still folded across his broad chest; "Did you want to go terrorise the locals?"
"Yes?" Allegra replied automatically, her voice oddly higher than usual.
"I suppose I could spare myself a few hours of screaming and burning… I wouldn't want to leave any backwater city residents unaware of my presence," Cell smirked thoughtfully.
"I could say the same. The Enterrans will be remembered; even if only by the survivors," Allegra smiled, her mood also uplifted considerably. She laced her fingers together, tapping her laced fingers against her chin and humming, 'Should I herd them to their own demise or should I simply strike them with attacks? I can't remember the last siege we had…'
"Humans beware, the little angel of doom is plotting," Cell chuckled, "Believe me Allegra; when they see my approach they will be running towards you."
"Don't be ridiculous," Allegra replied in a deadpan. She brightened, "The last siege was almost sixty years ago… I remember that; we found eight humans in a small underground community. I blew one of them into the sky, but someone else plucked them out of the sky before I was finished with them."
"Sixty years ago? Did your race count the days and years the way the rest of us do?"
"Enterrans don't deteriorate at the same rate that the humans do. When are we going to terrorise the locals?"
"Now, perhaps?"
"Please! Can we?"
Cell laughed softly, "If you so wish."
Allegra floated into the air, wings unfolding, "Which way?"
Cell shrugged, "Why don't you sniff the humans out?"
"Cell! …Fine! West of here, there's a city still emptying, mass panic. Can we go there?" Allegra asked innocently, pointing apprehensively.
"Oh the wonders of actually having a nose. Well, after you, dearest bloodhound," Cell purred.
Allegra kicked up a gale and took off, watching Cell closely as he followed behind her. Flying again after he previous exertion with Cell felt good on the wings, and she knew attacking the humans would make her feel even better. Allegra observed Cell closely, finally seeing him fly at a speed her eyes could follow.
"How do you do it? Fly like that, without wings?"
"Ki focusing. Energy… it takes a lot of practice. How do you control air movement?"
Allegra shrugged lightly, "I don't know. I use my wings, the wind moves. It's as simple as that." Allegra shifted her flying pattern, aware of Cell watching her in response, "Stop looking at me, you'll throw me off."
"How far does your nose say we are from this group of humans we are targeting?" Cell chuckled.
"Not far. I'll race you there!" Allegra grinned, firing off ahead of him. As she sped through the trees the only sound that could have drowned out the screaming wind was her own racing pulse. 'Revenge, finally,' the thought became a mantra. Revenge, after thousands of years, almost five thousand since the war, against the humans.
On Allegra's planet, Enterra, the humans had created the Enterrans. How the humans managed to spread themselves so far across the galaxy Allegra didn't know, but if there was a human creating humanoid robots of such a level as she had seen with 17 and 18, then they weren't far from creating organic beings from artificial beginnings. Enterrans.
The humans on this planet may not have had anything to do with the Enterrans, but they would suffer the revenge of the Enterrans.
Allegra dived towards the city, wings spread menacingly. The humans were already scattering in panic, but why were they pointing in a different direction. Allegra looked up in confusion. Cell. He just had to make an entrance everywhere they went. Allegra heard Cell laugh mockingly and fire a ki blast at one of the tall buildings, the explosion raining debris everywhere.
The Enterran landed gracefully upon a shorter building. She called to her hand as much wind as she could find and grinned. She watched Cell landing on one of the city streets and fired her air missile at the nearest skyscraper, intent on knocking it on the arrogant bug.
"WIND MISSILE!" Allegra yelled. The building broke and tumbled over Cell. Allegra smiled playfully, 'Terrify my crowd of helpless humans, will you?'
Allegra charged up her wings again, wondering where to attack next. She spied a tall, slender building covered in glass, "Perfect!" Allegra's wings fanned out, "AIR WAVE!" The shimmering ripple of air sped towards the towering glass building, shattering car windows and streetlights as it went. Allegra heard a masculine yell and a massive energy wave rippled out from around where Cell had emerged, shattering glass in every direction. Which wave hit the glass building first was indeterminable.
"CELL!" Allegra screeched. She sent attacks flying at him, concrete crashing everywhere. The humans were screaming, some being picked up and flung into each other by Cell and Allegra's attacks. Allegra landed on the main street, taloned feet crushing the layer of shattered glass beneath her.
She looked down at the glass lining the streets, throwing colourful reflections against the broken and buckling walls of the buildings around them. Allegra heard someone else stepping across the glass and spun around, wings flaring towards her victim—a small child? Allegra recoiled slightly as the child emerged, but stood her ground.
The little girl stared at her, wide eyes transfixed upon the Enterran. Her little mouth opened slowly, "A-are you an angel?" the child asked breathlessly.
Allegra's eyes went white, "What…?"
"You're an angel! You've come to save us!" the child insisted loudly.
Allegra shook her head slowly as an old memory clouded her vision. Her Lady Rusephine, general of the Winged Enterrans, walking stonily past gold engravings on the temple walls. Angels. 'They made us to look like angels. Winged humans that talked to their God. They used us like tools; bred us to look beautiful for them. Nothing but tools. They made us to save them; we destroyed them.'
Allegra shook herself out of her reverie; she could hear other voices now, human voices, emerging from everywhere. "It's an angel!" "She's come to save us from Cell!" "We're saved!" "Is she real?"
The Enterran felt fear gripping her innards, standing frozen as the humans drifted towards her. 'What am I to do? They should be running, not coming towards me with open arms… I can't attack someone so trusting, it's not right…' Panic took hold.
"Air wave!" Allegra cried, clamping her hands over her ears.
Minor cliffie--don't kill me:) Thank you all so much for reviews. And this is all I've written thus far :) I'll try my best to find time to write more, but school is really killing my time right now... Hope you enjoyed the chapter! Links to pictures of Gyasa and such will be posted on my author page, as usual ;) I'll update ASAP! Promise!