Chapter 15
Where is everyone? Pan held her knees and closed her eyes. She was still in the hospital room of the Briefs home, in her long white night gown, her short raven hair greasy from neglect, and her face red from crying. The last time she had seen anyone was Vegeta when he silently brought her a tray of food. But that was around noon, over 3 hours ago. It was dark now, and the house was more than silent. Surely my mother at least would have come to see me by now. Or papa. Pan slipped off the bed, and walked to the door. It was closed, but there was a small window by her eye level, and she looked through it. The coast was as deathly as it sounded, lifeless. Where is everyone? She thought again, and placed her hands on the door. She pushed it open, and walked out into the hall. The only reason why she hadn't left before now is the sheer fact that she didn't want Vegeta to find her again. It was awkward enough being near him when he brought her food and water, without seeking him out.
So she stepped out, and automatically felt the chill of fresh air. That means only one thing…a door is open. She looked around, but this place reminded her of CC headquarters. It was a living maze with endless stairs and corridors.
Pan decided that she didn't care if she walked right into Vegeta; she wanted to find someone, anyone. The silence was killing her.
After a few steps however, she shuddered. The odd ting was, she didn't know why.
This way.
She yelped and span round. The voice had come from a door she was now facing.
This way.
She heard it again, and bit her lip. She could do one of three things.
1, go back to her room.
2, carry on the way she was going.
Or 3…follow the voice.
This way Pan, come this way…
The voice seemed soft, and yet clear with kindness. She felt a smile grace her lips, and decided to do the one thing she thought she would never do.
She obeyed a voice in her head.
Her hands shuck as she pushed the door open, and was greeted with a set of stairs.
"This way?" she then rolled her eyes at herself. What did she expect? An answer?
Yes…
Never mind then.
She took a deep breath, and began to walk down the stairs. She found herself on a lower level, and felt just like she was back at RRA head quarters. Lots of closed doors, with lots of inventions and secrets behind them. She walked down the hall, listening very carefully and gulped. It was like walking through a horror scene, with the mad scientist waiting around the corner, about to pounce on you any minute. Thinking of this, her ankle length black bushy tail, coiled around her waist twice. One hand rested across her chest and on her shoulder, while the other held her side. She soon came to another set of stairs.
Come this way.
Like a mental patient, she obeyed the voice in her head once more, and descended the steps. It went this way for another 7 levels, her walking through the halls to another set of steps, hearing the voice call to her and doing as she was told. Then she came to the final level, before the voice changed its message.
Almost there, turn left. She did so, and looked around her. She didn't like what she heard. Nearly there, come to me, I need you. That sounded desperate, and she was tempted to just leave…when…
"Damn you!" Vegeta? She thought. "Why will you not answer me, monster!" Pan blinked, and then covered her mouth.
"You were attacked."
"Pan, my daughter is lying, anaemic from blood loss, unconscious and suffering in pain. What ever happened to you, is directly connected to the creature that attacked Bulla."
"Creature?"
"Yes, and it seems to have a bone to pick with you. And I think it knows you, from when you went away."
I was attacked by a creature, after it almost killed Bulla, and it wants me for some reason…but I had nothing to do with a 'creature' when I joined the army…so what could it have to do with me?
"Damn you! Why will you not tell me what you want with Pan!" Vegeta roared, and subconsciously Pan moved to the door, and looked through the small window. She couldn't see what he was yelling at on the back wall, but she could see Vegeta, livid and clenching his fists at it. "I should just kill you, for what you have done."
"What have I done Vegeta?" Pan gasped, and clapped her hand over her mouth to stifle the sound. That voice…it was the same as the one from her dreams.
"What have you done? What do you mean, what have you done? You attacked my daughter!"
"I wished to trade her for what is mine." He said coolly, and Vegeta powered up.
"She is not yours!"
"I beg to differ." He chuckled, but Vegeta turned SS2. He held his hand up, and a small ball of Ki glowed there.
"I have had it with you android." So the creature is an android. A machine. She rose up on her tip toes and tried to look through better. "If you will not tell me where you came from, I will make you." Vegeta smirked, and through the Ki ball at it. "You may not feel it, but I can tire you from your instant regeneration, and weaken you that way." He threw another, and Pan flinched with every sickening thud or bang it made against the wall.
"You are calling me the monster, where it is I tied up, at your mercy, and you're trying to torture me."
"Do not try to turn this on me, android. It isn't me who tried to kill my daughter. It was you. It wasn't me who absorbed those people in Nikki town. It was you. And it wasn't me draining Pan's powers and trying to kidnap her. It was you."
So that is what happened…
"You left out the part where I held your daughter as a bargaining chip to gain her. Oh, that sounds familiar…but from where." He chuckled. "Oh yes, my dear Pan. She is still here, isn't she?"
"None of your business."
"Oh but I know she is." He chuckled. "I can see her, remember?"
"Freak." He grunted, and threw another Ki ball at him.
"Maybe so…but unlike you I would never harm her."
"I would never hurt Pan. She is perfectly safe."
"Perfectly safe you say? So keeping her captive here, simply so that I do not hunt her down and kill all of her family to get to her, and to ensure you have a hold over me, isn't hurting her? Or putting her in danger?" without realising it, Pan had clenched her fists, and her tail had lowered from her waist. The hairs on her tail stood on end, her fangs extended and her eyes narrowed on Vegeta. So you were using me to get to it huh? I am just bait. I thought I could trust you Vegeta… she sniffled, but her scowl never wavered.
"Tell me this!" he snarled. "If I let her go to her family, would you follow her?"
"Yes."
"And would you kill everyone and everything until you got to her?"
"Yes."
"So what kind of monster would that make me, if I let her leave and risk the lives of everyone and everything she touched or even goes near? If I willingly let her endanger all life as we know it? You said it yourself Major." He leaned back against the wall, his hair still blonde and his eyes turquoise. "You are a threat to all mortal life."
"All mortal life…that gets in my way." He chuckled as if he had told a joke. "And Vegeta?" he cooed. Then there was a loud clang of metal chains and Vegeta looked like he was in panic. "You are in my way."
"NO!" Vegeta powered up until he was SS4, and lowered into a fighting stance. "You will not go after Pan."
"No, I will not." He chuckled. Vegeta raised a brow, but still scowled. He stepped back, and Pan craned her neck to see.
Her mouth dropped open, her hands still over it. This was the first time she saw it, the creature. It was around 7 feet tall, had a type of green grown, horn like head piece, a green body with speckled dark green camouflage armoured skin, orange on his beak like mouth, lower abdomen and between her legs. Pan didn't even want to address the fact that she had looked there, and continued to look down him. She saw his lizard like feet, and then looked up him again. She saw the dark obsidian gem in the centre of his pecks, and then up to his face.
2 things made her squeak in her throat.
1, he had another gem in the centre of his forehead, obsidian, and two large yellow cat like eyes, with black slits for pupils.
And 2…
…those eyes were looking right at her. "No Vegeta, I will not have to go after Pan. For…she has already come to me." His mouth curved into a smirk, and he started to walk towards her. "Come to me Pan, my mate."
"NO!" Vegeta flew past him; Ki blasted the door to ashes, hooked an arm around her waist, and flew up the stairs. "What the hell are you doing here?"
"I…I heard…" she was about to say a voice, but now she realised that it was probably 'Major'. "You arguing when I came down here."
"How much did you hear?" he shot through the levels, and his a hand on a button as he passed it. A metal wall of steal started to fall behind them, and Pan looked over her shoulder. She saw the creature right behind them, and slipped under the wall before it closed. "Baka." He spat, and flew off to the next level.
"Am I really a risk to all life Vegeta?"
"Not now." He growled and laded at the next panel. He banged the button, and waited.
"Was Bulla just a ploy for him to get me?"
"Not, now." He growled again when Major slipped under that wall too. "Damn it." He burst off again, and didn't stop until he reached the next panel.
"Did he call me his mate?" he banged the button…and turned to face her. "Does he think he is my mate Vegeta?"
"Why should that matter?"
"Because…I…I think I might have met him before…" Pan could see the rage in his eyes.
"You said you didn't know him!"
"You said a creature Vegeta! I never saw his face!" she shouted back. "How was I to know!"
"I think he has one of those recognisable Ki's, don't you think?" he scolded.
"I was asleep! I couldn't sense my own Ki, never mind his!" she pushed out of his arms. "So don't you shout at me!"
"I can shout all I like at you! You had something to do with it being here in the first place!"
"No I didn't! He came to me in a dream, I think, and that is it!"
"And why would you think this guy was in your dream?" he folded his arms, and seethed. Pan however, grew her fangs fully, her tail waving angrily from side to side, and her fists clenched.
"I recognise his voice, and he said he was my mate. He said he wanted to claim me for real, and he would soon or something."
"Anything else important like that you want to mention? Or anything life changing you would like to declare to me, because we have all the time in the world!" He powered up simply with anger.
"How about that fact that he never attacked me like you said!"
"He took your powers and left you in a state of possession, he controlled your body!"
"He never attacked me." She spat. "You did!"
"Can we please do this later?"
"NO! I want to 'do this' right now!" Vegeta rolled his eyes…and focused over her shoulder with a start. "What!" she looked over her shoulder, and saw Major leaning against the closed door, smiling with his arms folded.
"Oh please, don't mind me. Continue." He chuckled.
"Pan." Vegeta stood in front of her.
"You are so gonna get it when we get out of here."
"I will not interrupt you Pan. I can wait." He chuckled and relaxed against the wall.
"Really?"
"Really."
"Not the time for this!" Vegeta interrupted them. "Run!"
"No…"
"What?" he looked over his shoulder at her, furious. "I said run!"
"And I said no." she put her hands on her hips, and faced the creature. "Listen mister…"
"Major." He bowed.
"Right…Major…" she looked to Vegeta. "Give us a minute." Vegeta still looked to Major, checking for any sudden movements. "Vegeta, look at me."
"If you haven't noticed, it is right there."
"He." He added.
"What?"
"I have a gender Vegeta. I am male, so, I am not an it, but a he."
"Fuck this, run Pan now!"
"No, I haven't finished with you."
"What are you doing?" Pan walked around him and scowled up at him. She then looked to Major.
"You, stay."
"As you wish." He winked to her, and she swiftly turned to Vegeta, a flush on her face.
"You, listen to me." She threatened with a fist. "I am no one's worm on a hook. And how dare you use me like this, like bait!"
"I had to. You weren't going to tell me what I needed to know."
"Maybe, it is my choice!"
"I think you lost all liberties to that choice, when that." He pointed to Major. "Killed its first human."
"You killed people…" she turned to face him, a frown on her face.
"I had to. Either them or I. I seem to resemble my father." He chuckled.
"He is a monster. He is a killer." Vegeta spat behind her, and tried to pull her back.
"And what would a monster, and a killer want with me?" she asked no one but Major, and he pulled away from the wall and Vegeta.
"Have your forgotten our first encounter so quickly my love?" she gasped as if this was a trigger for her dream to fill her mind and play out for her once more.
"I am perfection, this is your mind and you are here because I will for you to be here. I have dominance over you and have been growing, in the back of your mind since the moment you were born. I am perfection, and will have my own body soon."
"Ok, that doesn't explain why I am dressed like a bride."
"You are a bride, my bride. As I vow myself to you, as you do me. No words are needed, we are together."
"Erm... (Whatever...)What do you mean you have been growing in my mind?"
"I am perfect and perfection takes time. So I have only surfaced now, now that I am ready and perfect."
"Perfect to do what?"
"To." She felt the veil being lifted from her face and flipped behind her. A cold breath beat down on her lips letting her know just where his mouth was. "To kill everything." Pan gasped again and tried to pull away, but he had snaked his hands around her and held her tightly to him. "Oh do not worry. I am not about to kill the one that made me what I am."
"I didn't do anything?" she panicked and her voice gave this over to him 'perfectly'.
"You didn't have to. You are perfect in your own way. And from that grew me, perfection. And because of that." Pan remembered the kiss he gave her, and her mixed feelings towards it. On one hand, she was frightened and knew she should have pulled away from him, but she didn't and in fact, pulled him closer. She kissed him back and couldn't help but feel this was right. Then was the first time he touched her, cupped her breasts and made her moan with passion. "And because of that I will never harm you. I love you and came from your inner soul and very being. I am perfect to kill, but I am also perfect...for you. I have the lust to kill. And the lust...for you. I will have these desires for as long as I exist. And will be yours for that long, and longer. But remember, it goes both ways. I may be yours, but." Then he kissed her again, and bit her lip until it bled. "But you are mine too. I am yours, but you are MINE!"
Pan felt sharp fangs tare at her neck again as if he had bitten her just like in her dream. Her hand covered her stinging neck and she whimpered backwards against the wall. There was no doubt in her mind now that this Major, was the one from her dreams. "You are mine. And when the time comes...I will claim you."
"Why...?"
"Because I came from you, I am part of you as you are part of me. We belong together; it is our DESTINY to be together. Together..." Pan felt him lapping her neck lovingly with his tongue, but he was stood at the other side of the room. How could she feel him suckling at her neck, when he was at the other side of the room! She whimpered quickly and became locked in his eyes. Oh yes, she could tell from the lusty look in his eyes he knew just what she was feeling. Not to mention what she was thinking. She could even hear him groaning in her mind. And she saw him licking his lips at her from the wall. "We are Perfection."
"Indeed we are." He chuckled.
"You, you were in my head just now…you heard it all…" she gulped, soon realised she was out of breath, just thinking about the dream. And then she remembered the encore performance in her room. "And it was you who came to my room."
"Yes."
"And now you are here…in the flesh…" she didn't know what to make of this. So Vegeta decided for her. He grabbed her arm, and started to drag her backwards.
"You said you wanted to see my face." He pulled away from the wall. And I do believe Vegeta wishes us to begin the chase once more."
"Vegeta, wait."
"No I will not." He threw her over his shoulder, and blasted off to the next wall. "I want to know every detail of these dreams of yours as soon as we get out of here."
"Where will we go?" she asked, tears in her eyes. Her neck still stung, and red teeth marks could be seen on her skin.
"Into the woods, away from everyone else. We can't risk going near anyone else." His red fur was warm against her and his aura was strong around them both, like a shield.
"Right." She held on tight, scared that the man from her dreams was now chasing her, and as frightening as she thought he would be…and yet…she couldn't fight off this feeling of need to go to him. To be…happy…
"You were attacked. That feeling of happiness was a trick. Don't fall for it."
Oh yeah…a trick.
But then, why didn't it feel like it was a trick?
"This is futile Vegeta; I will not allow you to keep me from my mate." Major said, he wasn't even out of breath from running so fast, as he continued to slip under the steal walls.
"That's it, fuck the walls." With a burst of speed, Vegeta flew through the rest of the house, and straight outside.
"Aren't you going to lock him in?"
"He would get out."
"You sound as if he is really powerful." She slipped round into his arms, and looked up at him. "Is he?"
"You transformed into SS5, remember?"
"Yes."
"And he has your powers. So I think he is not a push over. Do you?"
"But they are my powers, can't I just use them instead of him?" she was about to power up, and Vegeta saw this.
"Don't you dare!" she stopped instantly. "If you do that, you will give your powers over to him on a silver platter. Using your powers, gives them to him." He landed outside at the start of the woods. "But hiding them might be different. Hide your Ki, and follow me."
"So I can't even fly?"
"No, that uses Ki and he might either sense it, or use it himself." Vegeta pushed some braches apart, and yanked on her wrist. "Now go!" she nodded, and ran forward. She was still only dressed in a long white nightie, and ran bare footed. Sticks, thorns and stones dug into her feet, leaves and braches whipped at her arms and legs, and tears feel down her face. "Don't look back!" Vegeta yelled behind her. She knew this was it; she either had to run, or face him. And she didn't want to face someone who seemed obsessed with making her apart of him, his 'perfection'. She wasn't stupid. She knew from her father of Cell's abilities, and what he did. He was driven to find Android 17 and 18 and said that it was their 'destiny' to be together. That together, they were 'perfection'.
And those were the exact same words Major said to her.
He said he wanted to claim her, like Cell said to 18. They were perfect together.
"My Kami!" she sobbed as she ran. "He wants to absorb me!" Vegeta heard this, and felt another rush of adrenaline run through his veins. There was no way he was going to let that creature absorb his Pan. Never. He bolted forward, and used his SS4 speed to scoop up Pan, and blast through the branches. Yes, he had used his Ki, yes, Major probably sensed them. But if he got enough distance between them, then hid, they could give him a bigger slip than just running. Especially since he now knew that Pan was what he needed to become perfect. He still remembered how desperate and focused Cell was on his perfection, and expected nothing less from his son. Pan whimpered and huddled against his chest, her anger with him well and truly forgotten. "I'm going to die."
"No, no you are not. I will not let you die Pan." He powered down and they slid into a cave. He hid his power, and hers too, just to help. He held her close to him in his arms, and rubbed her back. If he didn't get her to calm down and be quiet, Major would hear her. "I swear I will not let that happen Pan. Major will not absorb you while ever I am still alive."
"But PV…how long will that be for?" her big eyes looked up at him, and she fisted his shirt. "He is going to kill everyone and everything I go near until he gets me. That means you too Vegeta." She sobbed.
"No, because I will not give up, I will never give up on you Pan." He kissed her forehead. "That would make me a lousy father figure, now wouldn't it?"
"Oh Vegeta!" she buried her face in his chest, and tried to slow her breathing. "If he has my powers, all of my powers, he will is the equivalent to a SS5, not to mention his own powers and what he took from those poor people of Nikki town. You can't face him and win."
"But I can fight to keep you alive. I know your grandfather." He chuckled. "If you became in danger, a danger that I couldn't protect you from, he would jump right in like the jolly Baka he is, save the day and still have time to eat before he leaves again."
"I hope so…I hope he jumps in to save you too Vegeta…" she closed her eyes, and let the warmth of Vegeta's chest drown out the fears of her mind. But oddly enough…not her heart… "…because if he finds us…I think…I think…" she hiccupped. "I know…he will kill you."
Unless…