My Immortal
By: Cabalistic
Disclaimer: I still dont know DBZ.
Chapter 19 Reunion
-Last Time-
As the prince, the man and the Ograthan woman were embedded in their grief, the girl on the right stirred. Slowly her left wing swished in the green liquid and her head rocked from shoulder to shoulder.
Suddenly her eyes snapped open to reveal their crimson color, focusing in at the scene before her. Her lips parted in a silent snarl as she locked focus on her unsuspecting prey…
134's eyes darted over to the girl who was hanging there limply in her cylinder. She hissed and 156 stirred as well. The other girl's fangs covered up her upper lip but not enough to miss the smirk growing.
Suddenly they burst from their cages, wires snapping and glass shattering. The chemicals spilled over the floor. The girl screamed, her finger pointing at them, backing away in growing horror.
The vampire girl was used to this. A smirk grew on her face as a vein appeared on her forehead. Slowly her missing appendages grew back, just like a Namekian. Clear liquid oozed from her new appendages. She rubbed her hand on her new elbow but she didn't surrender any weakness. Her bloodshot eyes suddenly snapped to the man that stood in ready position. The way his hair flamed up above his head and the scowl caused a wrinkle to form on his forehead, she had to say that she might have known him, somewhere in the abyss of bloodshed in her mind.
She was interested suddenly and pounced at him, hissing and clawing. He caught her by the wrists. "Getsa!" He growled faintly. "It's me, Vegeta." She twisted away.
"Mere namesss on your lipsss." She hissed, her tail swishing back and forth. Her wings pounded the air. She looked over to 156 and saw she was approaching the other male. The other girl had disappeared, probably running for dear life. Her eyes darted over to the cylinders control panels and saw the girl making way to there. She hissed and pounced, like a releasing spring. She landed in front of her, her narrowed eyes looking up at the Orgathan, her horned elbows ready.
156 landed next to her, nails extended. "Walk away Orgathan." 156 said with a growing smirk on her face. "If you value your life." She sucked a breath in and 134 watched calmly as her hand clenched and changed into a sonic cannon, pointing it at the girl.
The Orgathan girl was looking around the room, eyes squinted, not the least bit concerned about what was in front of her. Eyes darting in each direction. Suddenly 156 jumped up, hissing, but the saiyan boy knocked her aside. 134's own opponent tackled her away from the Orgathan.
"Intruders!"
The saiyan guard was running down the hall, bloodied and scarred into Vegetsa's healing chambers. Korn was in the heal containment unit next to her. They opened slowly and Vegetsa stepped out, hooking her scarlet cape over her shoulders.
"Who are they?"
The saiyan guard, as usual, never looked in the eyes of his princess and said, "They are Shifts." Vegetsa sucked in a breath. The shapeshifters were strong in shifting and probing minds.
She said, "Lead the guards to protect the walls, have some archers prepared around the borders." She looked at Korn. "We'll attack them head on. If we fall," she raised her voice, "then don't weep. Continue to fight for Vegetasei. Don't believe anything you see."
Korn nodded solemnly as they took off out the window. The guard already left the room, ready to carry out his princess's orders.
She saw the Shifts approaching but what she saw shook the insides of her.
Vegeta. Her older brother was dead for years after training with the Icejins, trying just to ensure that the peace of Vegetasei. They turned on him brutally killing him, leaving his body to freeze.
Korn stopped breathing as well. She saw her brother, Goku, who had attempted to save Orga from the Great Fire. But the fire, seemingly alive had swallowed Korn's brother whole then spat him out as a corpse.
"Do not hesitate." She hissed to Korn, who was sometimes weak of mind. They pounced, taking down the Shifts disguised as her brothers.
The Shift disguised as Vegeta said, "Getsa! It's me! Your brother…" Suddenly his voice was static as though coming from a great distance.
The scene shifted for a second. She saw a gray chamber and shattered green glass on the ground. An Orgathan girl was backing away. Her lower lip was sore from her… teeth? Sharpened teeth like a vampire's rested on her lip and her temples were sending a splintering pain from… atennas? Like a Namekian and her back was screaming with pain with wings that beat on her back. The Shift Vegeta was standing there with a helpless look on his face. Vegeta! The scene shifted again. Obviously they were having the time of their life toying with the princess' head.
"Mere names on your lips," she snarled, raising her hand to hit him. Suddenly she saw a female Shift disguised as a… what? What was she disguised as? An Orgathan girl, making it for the palace, running faster than normal. She growled and flew in her direction…
"Vegeta!" Bulma yelled, studying the machine in front of her. Her eyes darting all over the keyboard and screens. Obviously the woman was onto something.
"Busy!" He answered, blocking his sister's attacks. He was only defending himself now but he knew that for his own survival he would have to attack Vegetsa sooner or later. His sister was now more animal than saiyan and she was attacking because he had intruded on her "home". "Getsa," He panted as her aimed kick landed squarely on his chest. He absorbed the kick and grabbed her ankle. She resisted as he twisted her and landed a harder kick than he meant to into her stomach. The impact sent her flailing into a wall.
"Getsa! It's me Vegeta!"
The animal let out a screech neither saiyan or animal. A torn scream from the anguish buried deep within her as she clutched her temples and sank to the ground. "Vegetsa…" He approached her cautiously.
She was up in an instant, tackling her brother down, the horns on her elbows piercing through her brother's chest. He grimaced as blood trickled down his armor.
Goku wasn't doing any better. "Korn," he pleaded as he fended off his sister's attacks. "Don't make me do this. I'm your big brother. Kakarot!"
Her voice was hard and metallic when she replied in a steely voice, "Liar." The word itself jetted into Goku's mind and froze in the air, her accusation simple and hurting.
He amazed looked at her hands that clenched, metal creeping up her hands, turning them into sonic cannons. Ki blasted at him in a series of shots, sending him sprawled on the floor.
Korn looked up at her brother, her eyes narrowed as the fake saiyan claimed to be her brother. "Liar." She snapped, shooting ki at him, leaving him on the ground.
For a Shift, he was weak. That or he was toying with her as the other one was toying with Vegetsa. They both knew that they had to keep an eye on the Shiften girl that was making her way towards the palace. The King and Queen were strong for their aged years but their defenses wouldn't last against a Shift.
The Shift stood up still in her brother's form. "Korn…" There was static this time and a bright light flashed. For a minute, she glimpsed a laboratory with green cylinders with twisted beings inside. A growing horror as she saw Vegetsa… no that wasn't Vegetsa… it was a monster.
"Quit toying with my head!" She screamed, grabbing her temples and screeching. Her voice scared her, like metal burning in the sunlight. Her fingers were cool metals against her head and her jawbone ached against her upper lip.
The scene changed again but Korn was still scared. They're toying with my head, they're toying with my head… the words repeated over and over in her mind and in a small way she was comforted. But otherwise, she was still scared of what the Shifts could do to her.
"Vegeta!" Bulma yelled, seated at the computer, fingers typing across the keyboard like lightning. It was a log, an experiment. This was where the Icejins had kept their darkest secrets from the world.
Her eyes scanned through the screens as she discovered the secret kept from the world that could alter it forever from the feared Icejins.
"Vegeta!" She yelled, "It's an illusion! Everything here—it's fake to them! They're still in Vegetasei in their heads!"
Vegeta stopped blocking and stared blankly at her, earning a kick from his sister that sent him into the wall. "How do we get them out!" He yelled back at her, grabbing his sister by the wrists.
Bulma scanned through the computer again. "It's the clamps on their heads! It directs the illusions straight into them!" Suddenly Korn, or at least that was what Goku called her, sent a kick into her head that made her temples throb and left her staring up at the ceiling. "I warned you, Orgathan." She spat angrily, her eyes glowing a dangerous green.
Aim! Her mind screamed. She pressed her index fingers together and concentrated hard on the clamps on their heads that bit into their scalp. "Gigara!" She screamed as Korn's foot came down.
The beam that shot from her fingers did not go to the clamps. She missed, Vegeta thought with growing horror. Instead, it went for the computer, blasting it into smithereens. (A/N: You gotta love that word)
Suddenly Korn was on her knees, her long nails pressed against her head, screaming a steely scream as Vegetsa was shrieking, her wings beating the air as her mind spun further into chaos. She twisted around painfully in the air, hovering like she wasn't going to come down.
Her fake, perfect world suddenly came down. She knew what happened. She remembered…
She was living with the Shifts in Qara, where her parents sent her to live in exile when the Icejins came looking for her. They kidnapped her and attempted to her force her against her country. She resisted and that sent her smack into the lab, where pain endured. Screams were wrenched from her throat, only giving the Icejins more amusement.
Now she opened her eyes painfully to reveal the truth. She looked down at her bloody fingers and said slowly with a faint hiss in her voice, "Vegeta…?"
Vegeta had a smile on his face and he hugged his sister, "Welcome back, Getsa." She pushed him away, tears streaming down her face, mixing with her blood. "Do not hug your sssister," She said bitterly. "I am a monssster. I deserve to die for my sssins."
His back handed slap left her touching her wound with a dazed look on her face.
"You endured more than All. Of. Them." He gestured at the bodies that hovered in their cylinders. "How dare you think that you deserve to die!" His princely scowl crumbled down as he hugged her again, choking on his tears as Vegetsa hugged her brother back.
Korn had opened her eyes as well and was hugging her brother, tears streaming down her face.
She had been ordered to destroy Qara but something went wrong. Her partner had turned on her, leaving her to die when the Icejins discovered her. She bit one of the generals for trying to whip her like a measly dog. She landed in the lab where she laid on a table as chunks of her skin was taken off and one by one was turned into the monster she was…
"It's gonna be okay, Korn." Kakarot was babbling, hugging his sister and crying as much as his sister was. "It's gonna be okay."
Or will it, Bulma thought grimly, looking at the rest of the beings that hung in their cylinders, ready to die, just like them as they headed towards the real target… Freiza.
A/N: Yay! I'm so happy! I did three chapters in one day! Thx for reading!
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