What can I say, I just can't stay away… I'm back and ready to go with yet another chapter of Mystic Saiyan! I know the last chapter was something of either a surprise or something just plain easy to predict, but I'll try to make it up in later chapters. This chapter has some residual sadness from last chapter, but not nearly as much detail will be needed.

This will be kind of the follow-up chapter that ties up some loose ends left from last chapter and hopefully will sort of complete this sort of "arc" if you will. I really expected to get this out last week and have all intentions to finish this entire story either this week or the next. Enjoy chapter 17!

Mystic Saiyan-Ch17-A Sibling Interaction

I had woken up—finally—sometime later. I assumed it was much later as I was back in my room at Capsule Corp. My own body tried to convince me that it was only a few hours, like that sort of felling when you wake up from a regular night's sleep, but I knew that it wasn't true. The last time I had transformed like this, I was out for a week.

I looked out my window as I sat up, noticing as I did the greyish dusk that overtook the skies; whether it was morning or evening, I didn't know. It was one of those indecisive, cloud-covered situations. I stood to my full height and noticed that I was patched up reasonably, but still in the clothes that I had left on from the Cell Games.

I looked out the window and made my decision. Instead of going through the trouble of going downstairs and dealing with the questions and mortifying curiosity, I decided to open my window and fly out that way. I was one of those moods where I didn't want to talk to anyone, knowing full well the possibilities of what happened. I couldn't get my mind off of what happened the other day…

"Is Vegeta okay, Alexis?" I had asked, all ready knowing the pity-filled answer I would get.

"I'm sorry, Saki…" My brother had answered, a genuine look of remorse on his face as if he was the one who caused his death; the death of the brother I had never really known.

Soon enough, the brisk air of the oncoming night startled me from my distant thoughts. I looked to the west and saw the fading sunlight. The sky in the east was all ready taking on the velvet violet color of night.

The events of the other day never truly left my mind at all. I hovered there aimlessly, wondering if there was something I could have done to avert the happenings that occurred. Everything hit me like a solid brick wall that I kept running myself into, aggravating the pain I felt for unknown reasons. I needed to find an area where I could sort out my thoughts in private. I settled for the place that I knew no one in their right mind would go anywhere near: The Cell Games Arena. I took off at top speed.

Unfortunately, I had to pass the mountains before I could stop at the place I wanted to go and naturally, I had caught the attention of Alexis, who happened to be training outside at the time.

"Sakidra!" He called as I flew past him. He knew I didn't want to be bothered, but he also knew that I would stop because I needed information from someone who wouldn't torment me with pity.

"Hello." I said simply.

"Did you just come to?" He asked, all ready knowing the answer.

"Yes. How long was I out this time?" I asked, wanting to know how much I had improved my ability from last time.

"I'd say about five days. I haven't seen you much, but based on everyone's reaction, they were worried when I went to the Lookout with you in my arms unconscious." He replied.

"Hmmm… Any word on…?" I asked, not being able to complete the question.

"Vegeta? I really don't know. I went to the Lookout, as I said before, just to tell them that I was taking you back over there." He said, pointing in the direction of Capsule Corp. "They were talking about Dragonballs, dragons and wishes, but I couldn't make heads or tails of what they were implying. They were all making a big deal about how they needed to summon a dragon to get three wishes or something…" He explained. "Why don't you go back and ask them? They would know if anyone…" He added. Catching my slight grimace, he mentally took back the statement.

"I don't feel like going through the endless questions right now. I'll eventually explain it to them, but there's no way I can face them as mentally and emotionally confused as I am right now." I answered him, turning to face my destination and sighing as I looked back to Alexis.

"Well, I won't be the hug and comfort type, because I know that it's the last thing you need and also because you'll just force me off you anyway. Where were you heading?" He asked me. I chuckled at his light-heartiness and looked once again toward my destination.

"I'm going somewhere I can be alone. If I have to come to terms with something, I'd best be prepared for it. Just give me a while, okay?" I replied, getting ready to fly off again.

"Well, I'll leave you alone then. We all know how much you need it…" He said and gave me a hug. I flew off and looked back after about a couple hundred feet. I could still clearly see his face and he was looking off in some foreign direction, smirking. Whatever, I thought. He'll tell me eventually…or I'll force it out of him… Mentally laughing at the thought, I flew off to my destination.

When I finally did arrive, I looked over the debris and figured that we did some major damage to this area. The place where Cell's and Gohan's final attacks collided left a huge crater. The paths that the two large beams made left its own trace in the ground. The pristine tiles that started were now crumbled and spread apart all over the area. The area I had released in was a sensible mass of energy that still laid within the ground. The spires that were left were stabbed into the ground in random areas, leaving this place to be a truly abandoned wasteland.

The night hours faded across the skies, letting the crescent moon take its course. It calmed me below the point of bursting rage, but I was still angry.

"Damn it all!" I yelled, blasting one of the nearby poles with one of my blasts. "I lost him once and I might have done so permanently! I was supposed to be his protector and I end up killing him when I could have stopped it! Damn it! Stupid Cell, stupid Vegeta, stupid Mimicry, stupid Alexis!" I yelled, going into a blasting frenzy with the remaining ruins. I knew it was pointless to blame half of these people, let alone myself, but that was just the way I am. I knew that there was no way the event could have been avoided, but it still aggravated me. I lost a brother that I never got the chance to know, granted, but he was still my brother! Why didn't he get out of the way when I told him to damn it?

I felt something trailing down my face and I wiped my cheeks to find the saline product of tears. Why I was crying at something so trivial was a mystery to me, but I couldn't help it. I wiped away the wet trails and swallowed my tears instinctively, but I stood there, shaking in a worry that had no roots. It was a premonition, a gut feeling in my stomach that something bad would happen very, very soon.

"Damn it all!" I yelled, swallowing this feeling and blasting a rock formation far away to a bunch of wavering dust.

I kept clenching and unclenching my fists, needing to hit something, but also needing to get control of my anger. I very rarely let my emotions get out of check and it took a lot of energy to reign them back in. To tell the truth, I probably would have gone back and asked everyone the condition of Vegeta, had it not been my pride writhing at the thought of those faces. Nearly everyone was there when I left and I didn't want to be bombarded with questions and I didn't want to see the inevitable pity that would show itself like the plague on their faces, contagious as they saw me.

"I had no idea that you felt such a way toward me. I knew something suspicious was going on, I just couldn't pinpoint it." I heard a familiar, triumphant voice reach my ears. I felt a rough hand clasp my shoulder and I jumped, shrugging it off and turning around, facing Vegeta, alive and kicking. I backed off on instinct and swallowed whatever emotions still rampaging within me as I looked at him.

"You're…okay?" I asked. I was shocked to see him standing in front of me after Alexis told me himself that he had died. I looked away slightly, my face flushing away in embarrassment of my unnecessary worry and anger…

"I knew you looked slightly familiar, but it stumped me as to where I've seen you before. So you're my older sister, I never realized it. Sure, my father mentioned something to me about it, but I assumed that you were dead the way he was speaking of you." He said. I was completely shocked.

"You heard…everything…" I said, not asking for conformation.

"Yes." Was his simple reply.

Vegeta's Point of View, Five days ago…

Cell was being a bastard. Why wouldn't he just die all ready? What made it worse was the idea that he was patronizing me the entire way. Oh, how I wish I could just wipe that ugly smirk off his idiotic blemish of a face!

He had kicked me into the air after a more intense bout and I had to regain my bearings before rushing in again. We both backed off again and Cell decided to pull a trick and use one of the attacks I've seen that Namek use. I decided to retaliate with my own attack. Soon enough, we were in the middle of a furious struggle for the upper hand in this match. When the two minute barrier stretched and broke, (meaning two minutes had passed for all those metaphorically challenged people out there) I had an idea. What if I used the Mimicry Blast that Sakidra had taught me?

"No! Vegeta, it won't work! Don't try it here, get away from that cannon!" I heard a familiar voice yell at me. I glanced out of the corner of my eye to see Sakidra and her brother had arrived. Sakidra was leaning on the edge of the cliff, screaming at me—what was she wearing? I'll ask her about it later, anyway.

What was her problem? Why was she telling me to dodge this blast when I could just throw it back to him? She's a fool not to know what I can do. I loosened the control over my Big Bang and felt Cell's cannon gain control and pierce through my blast. I prepared to catch it, like Sakidra had taught me—

"Vegeta, you idiot! DODGE IT!" I heard her scream again. Why in hell was she distracting me? I needed to concentrate if I was going to do this… I heard something else going on in the background as I gathered my energy.

"Did you tell him the limit?" I heard a male voice yell over the commotion. I recognized the voice as Alexis's and contemplated for a split second of what he could be talking about. I then remembered what Sakidra had told me in the Time Chamber; a matter of fact, she used this technique as a very example! I knew it was too late to dodge it and tried to gather enough energy to possibly parry the blast

I caught the blast and I had started to get my hopes up. The power seemed to be doubling, but I couldn't control it any longer. I felt the cannon bypass my hands and I lost all feeling from that moment on.

I heard a scream, but it was a far away voice. "Chaos Transport!" It was a female voice. I remember Sakidra telling me about the technique; maybe it was her.

I had fully expected to hit the ground, but surprisingly, I landed in someone's arms. I managed to open my eyes to see Sakidra's blurry face looking my injuries. Her gaze stopped at my chest and she let out a gasp.

"No… This cannot be happening to me. Not again…" I heard her whisper. I heard another far away scream and soon enough, I looked past Sakidra's head to see Alexis's silver hair flying in the wind. She finally looked to my face and saw my expression. She was definitely crying, but for what, I had no idea.

"I lost you once before…" I blacked out for the shortest time. I woke slightly when I felt myself move to another set of hands. I saw Alexis's face when I looked up and I saw Sakidra staring into the distance, silently fuming; her energy level was spiking.

"You fool… I told you not to try it, didn't I?" I heard her whisper and I had to admit at that moment that she was right for once. I felt my vision darkening in increasing intervals, so I let the blissful sea of shadows overtake me.

I became aware of my surroundings soon enough to find Kakarot and Trunks bending over me, checking my injuries. Kakarot looked at my face and yelled to everyone else that I had awoken. Not for long… I thought as I slipped back under.

I drifted in between life and death for a long time, surrounded in darkness, but I could hear what was going on around me in increasing intervals. A voice close by started.

"Wait! Is that coming from Sakidra?" Trunks yelled from nearby.

What the hell? Is it the energy I suddenly sense that he's referring to? That is unbelievably powerful. Could it be Sakidra?

"…No place in this fight." I heard Alexis's voice further away.

No place? What the hell is he talking about? Who is he talking about?

"She could easily beat Cell!" I heard Scarface in the background.

WHAT? Who are these bumbling idiots talking about? Sakidra? Is that her energy? It doesn't seem possible.

"…she'll be fighting blind…" I heard Alexis's input again.

"Does this have to do with Vegeta?" Piccolo asked the question we all wanted to know.

Does it have something to do with me? Am I the cause of her energy spike? What is this nonsense?

"…You don't have much time!…"

"…Saiyans and Mystics…"

"…Serena and Vegeta…"

"Arrogant prince that lies close to death…" I heard Sakidra say.

Was she referring to me? Of course! I am the prince of all Saiyans after all

"If I'm hearing this correctly…" I heard Cell's over-arrogant voice call in an increasing volume as I regained consciousness enough to open my eyes. "Then you're…"

"Yes. You are correct." I heard Sakidra say as I felt my vision darken again. I managed to start to get to the bottom of this.

"What is this nonsense, Kakarot? What is she on about?" I managed to mumble before sinking into the shadows again, but not before I heard the answer to it all:

"I am the only half sister to both Alexis and Vegeta…" Were the last words I heard before I fell into a darkness where I couldn't be shocked at the revelation.

Five Days Later...

Sakidra was still incapacitated, based on what I knew with everyone checking up on her constantly. Our home had become the temporary come-and-go check up station for Kakarot and his gang of fools to make sure that the girl was okay.

During a moment of peace, I was eating when I felt something; or it was I wasn't feeling. I couldn't feel Sakidra's energy in her room. I finished my meal and climbed the stairs to her room to see that she wasn't in her bed and the window was open, the wind of the evening blowing the drapes inward. I flew out the window, following her energy signature.

After her conversation with her brother, she flew off again, looking back briefly, but I followed her and soon found myself at the wasteland that was the Cell Arena.

She lashed out, obviously thinking she was alone because of the loss of control she was showing. I surprised her and she jumped back. She tried to hide it, but I could tell she had been crying. Why, was the major question.

"You're…okay?" She asked. I stared at her, mildly surprised. Didn't she know about the Dragonballs?

"You heard…everything…" She said a moment later, changing the subject.

"Yes. I did." I replied. I looked around. I'll admit that Kakarot messed up the field quite a bit when he fought, but it wasn't this bad the last I remember.

"How are you alive?" She asked, taking a hesitant step forward. "I mean, Alexis told me you were dead. Yet, here you are. Care to explain?" She asked. I scoffed and turned to her again.

"Kakarot used the Dragonballs to wish me back to life." I said as if that explained everything. Wanting to get my questions answered, I asked the next question.

"So, what happened here?" I asked. "This was no where near this point when I left it. You entered the fight next, by what I understand. What happened here?"

"Well…" She seemed hesitant still. "You see, when I transform into something as powerful as my Blood Fusion Form, I have a lot of energy that I'll never use. I have to release that energy before I can regain my natural form. If I were to release this naturally, the repercussions of the release would be enough to destroy this planet and possibly the moon next to it. That's why I locked it into an alternate dimension and thus, completely destroying this area." She explained. "I didn't cause all of the havoc around here, but I did help. Ask Gohan if you want the details, but I doubt you'd want to ask the 'spawn of Kakarot' anything." She explained, mocking my reference to Kakarot's kid.

"You'll regret that." I said. A long silence followed as I looked around and she thought about something.

"Draw in the shadows." She said cryptically. What?

"What are you drawing on about now?" I asked her.

"Exactly that. The shadows around us make up what we call the Chaos. It's an endless energy that we draw on to use as a source. Try to gather it into a useable energy. It's similar to charging your own energy, except that it is a force outside your body. I guess I could compare it to Goku's Spirit Bomb. Try it." She said as she held out her hand, palm facing me. A mass of black energy swirled around her palm until it turned into a dark violet ball of energy. She pointed the energy toward a boulder and shot it off, destroying the rock as if it were a dirt clod.

Copying her, I held out my arm and concentrated on the shadows, trying to feel an energy within them. It was slight, but the energy was there. I drew on it and forced it into my hand. Soon I felt an unknown energy swarm my and I opened my eyes to see a midnight blue ball of energy sitting within my palm.

"Impressive. Truly impressive." She said to herself. I scoffed.

"Naturally." I said.

"No, you really don't understand. This is a major advancement for Saiyans." She replied.

"What do you mean?" I asked, shooting the energy toward one of the remaining spires, destroying it.

"Well, most Saiyans can't even begin to grasp the concept of the Chaos. Most life forms in the universe can't understand it enough to use it. I should know, my Saiyan side rejects every dose of liquid Chaos I try to put into myself. If you can do this, then so should the rest of your friends. I could teach you all. I'd be breaking one of the most major Mystic laws, but since you'll be basically protecting people with this, I shouldn't worry too much." She explained.

"What do you mean by that?" I asked her.

"You see, the reason the Mystics secluded themselves is because so many races were seeking them out and requesting to gain their power over the shadows. We couldn't give it away because whoever we gave it to would kill themselves with the strain. We couldn't tell them the secret. You should all be powerful enough to actually handle it though." She told me.

"Sure…" I said, not really sure.

"Let's just go back home. I'm tired and it's getting late." She replied.

"You just slept for nearly a week. How can you be tired now?" I asked.

"I still haven't completely recovered, and I used a lot of energy to vent tonight." She said, flying back to Capsule Corp. I followed after her, wondering just how much there was to this Chaos stuff. I could always afford new skills that I could use against Kakarot…

:.EoC.:

I know it might have been a bit of a boring chapter, but I had to put it in. It was necessary to go on with the story. The Chaos will play a major part in the next few chapters as it will be needed for the next big battle… Cue: Dun, Dun, Dun sequence.

As for me, I'm hoping to finish this story soon enough so I can get on with my next big project. I was thinking of writing another DBZ story, but if you all thought this was cliché, then my next story would be too much for you to bear. Anyway, the next chapter I had originally wrote around Christmas—sorry if you don't celebrate—so ignore the whole holiday theme, it was the only thing that would work. Unless, of course, you're actually reading this around aforementioned holiday, but if you're reading it when I get it out, it won't be Christmas…

As for next chapter, I'll be generous and give a short preview:

As the holidays and the snow come down on Capsule Corp., Sakidra and Alexis have a small surprise/gift for everyone. We all realize just how cold Kamorae is, we get rid of Alexis for a while, and: "I thought trees were supposed to be grown outside. What's the point of bringing one inside the house?" Well, 'till next time!