Saiyance
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"You are indeed correct, my dear. That is the devil," Cell chuckled playfully, "And the blue one is Lucifer."
"Aren't Lucifer and the devil the same thing?"
Cell frowned, "You humans obviously know nothing of the afterlife."
The girl shrank back self-consciously, "…Cell, should I hide?"
"Gaiger; you are currently only momentarily damned through some obscure loophole in the black magic you and your friends tampered with. An encounter with Lucifer himself would more likely leave you permanently damned, and therefore in my company for the rest of eternity to regret it."
"I'll hide," Gaiger groaned, darting below a line of shrubs to sprint under the cover of bushes to the closest hiding place. Her bare feet were covered thickly with yellow dust and Cell noticed with some perplexity that her toenails were painted bright pink, something that would only hinder her in camouflage. Humans were hopeless at stealth.
Gaiger ducked behind a little ring-tossing stall, hiding as best she could from the sight of 'Lucifer' and 'the devil'. She held her knees tightly and tried to slow her breathing. It brought back a memory from when she was little; hiding behind the teacher's desk, hoping the monster hadn't heard her breathing. It hadn't really worked then, either.
The girl noticed something moving under the tablecloth of the ring-tossing table in front of her. She tensed. The cloth rippled, Gaiger hastily made her fingers into a cross, 'Better saved than sorry!' and a white cloud shot out towards her face. Gaiger's jaw clamped down before she could scream, holding her hands to her mouth. The cloud flew about her curiously, trying to see her from every angle. Gaiger shook her head furiously, silently willing it to go away.
"Cell," Frieza crowed.
"What?" Cell glared at the ice-jinn, less than happy to see him hovering behind himself with his arms crossed; that sort of body language usually meant that Frieza thought he had the upper hand.
"I propose we come to an agreement. You share your ticket out of this place with me and I will not make it difficult for you and your little friend; are we clear?"
"If you stay out of my way and leave the human alone, then I will not incinerate you," Cell replied coolly.
Frieza smirked, "You thought far too much about the human—your perfect little brain forgot that she was only half of the equation," Frieza cackled, "You forgot to hide the crystal ball properly."
Cell's teeth ground together. How could he have miscalculated so much? It infuriated him that he had allowed for such a mistake; it infuriated him more, however, that Frieza was correct in his assumptions; "You are making a foolish mistake by removing it. I doubt that the crystal ball will work very well away from the target of the seance itself."
"It is in a… safe place," Frieza laughed, turning his palms out bare, "My bargaining chit."
Cell narrowed his eyes; "You will regret that."
The ice-jinn laughed outright, "Oh, one day?"
"Very, very soon."
Goz and Mez were sprinting haphazardly through the little town, waving their arms and screaming in exactly the way that a headless chicken wouldn't. The Ginyu team was making quite a mess, exploding things and reeking havoc as they always did when released from confinement. The two ogres seemed not to worry about Cell and Frieza; the two were not doing anything destructive.
'Morons,' Cell thought idly.
The android's massive brain was calculating his next move; if Frieza indeed had the crystal ball then Cell was at a definite disadvantage. At least the human trusted him more than Frieza. It's not as if the ex-ruler would be able to orchestrate an escape for himself using Gaiger and no one else. There was that triumphant feeling again.
Cell's ego inflation died a cold death when he saw Gaiger running out of the booth she had been hiding in, straight into the two protectors of the underworld; the imbeciles Goz and Mez. 'Frieza had better not have told Gaiger who those two really were.'
The human halted before the steaming ogres, almost knocked flat by their colourful momentum. Cell wondered if he should intervene or not. And intervene how? Waltz over there and make a claim on the human as a hostage? The situation had every possibility of becoming worse beyond restoration.
"What did Churchill say? If you're going through Hell, keep going. Keep going," Gaiger whispered beneath her hands, explosions around the city shaking the booth, "Keep going." The human got to her feet, stood shaking for a moment, and ran out of the booth, away from the sounds of the explosions. She bolted down the street at a speed that was unknown to her, running down cleared streets as straight as an arrow… Out of the frying pan and into the fire.
"Lucifer!" Gaiger hissed, part astonishment at the blue wall in front of her and half a curse. The red devil, too! Could life get any worse?
"Who are you?" the red one shrilled in surprise, looking down at the dark-haired human frozen in fear before them.
Gaiger swallowed but said nothing.
"How come you haven't got a halo," it asked, its voice slowing down in dumbfounded curiosity as it pointed at the vacant space above the girl's head.
Gaiger looked up, then back at the ogres. "I am immortal, that's why."
The two ogres' peering heads kicked back, looking alarmed. Gaiger's eyes darkened, "What kind of mess have you two made of this place?" she demanded, "I hope you know how the guy upstairs is going to react to this."
"King Yemma!" they both yelled. The red monster gulped, "He knows?"
Gaiger spluttered, disguising confusion as exasperation, "Did you think he wouldn't? He does, all right. What, did you think he was too stupid to know?"
"Oh no!" "Of course not!"
" 'Cos that sounds pretty much like what you just said before!"
"No! No, we never said anything like that!"
"W-well why aren't you up there now?"
"What?"
"Didn't you get the message? Go! Up there! Now!" Gaiger insisted, waving her arms in jerky motions. She folded her arms again tightly to stop them shaking, scowling impatiently at the two.
Mez looked at Goz, "So, what do we do?"
"Idiot! We go up there, before he gets too mad!"
"Right!"
"Hurry up!"
"Wait!" Mez towered over the human, "Who do you think you're trying to pull? Hey?"
"What-what?" Gaiger stuttered.
Mez's boulder-like hands set upon his hips, bent over almost nose-to-nose with the puny figure half his size, "You're just trying to get us into trouble, aren't you? If we leave now those goons are going to destroy Cloud City!" he pointed at the nightmares still circling and hurling ki blasts at the scattering citizens. Gaiger gulped.
"I will take care of them," she asserted calmly.
"Yeah? You and what army?"
"I am an army. I'm immortal, or are you calling me stupid too?" Gaiger snapped.
"Mez! You don't mess with kaio—" Goz began, but was cut off by Mez, "Fine, fine, we're going! Hope King Yemma isn't angry with us!" "Good luck with the losers!"
Gaiger stood staunchly, watching the pair in disbelief as they sped off. She had done that. She'd bluffed and it had worked! What a lucky break! The human grinned in contentment, 'I bluffed! I bluffed! And those dim-witted-devils fell for it!'
"My, how quickly you catch on, dear Gaiger," Cell applauded from behind her, smirking at the disappearing figures of the two trolls running over the yellow hills.
She impressed Cell? The teen couldn't repress a grin, "Why thank you."
"Although you did almost earn yourself an eternity with the 'infinite losers' as it were. Next time, Gaiger, stay hidden when advised."
Gaiger frowned dejectedly at the android, "What would you have done if you were in the same position? I can't really see you running away and hiding."
"I couldn't see myself in bright pink nail polish either," Cell replied coyly.
Gaiger looked down at her feet; noticing for the first time in ages how much they really hurt. She looked around herself, searching for the fountain. "Cell?"
"Yes?"
"Would you be able to deal with those… people blowing up the city?"
Cell gave her a sweeping bow, "I would not want to insult your intelligence, immortal one; I assumed the job was yours."
"I can't," Gaiger hissed, "Don't patronise me."
Magenta eyes twinkled with slight mirth, "Or what, my dear? I'm quite confident in my own ability to outbluff the world's most elite poker player, let alone a lovely lady such as yourself."
The teen muttered a scoff; "I'm going to the fountain."
"Why, may I ask?"
"My feet are sore, that's why—what? Hey! No!" Gaiger looked up at the serial killer's pallid face, "What are you doing?"
"Hn. I remember you better now," Cell noted, holding the human mid-air from under her limp arms, his eyes met hers, while upside down, "You were at that primary school in the suburbs, were you not?"
"Nutmeg primary?" Gaiger stared, "Yeah…"
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"Anything from Erasa yet?" Melani asked groggily, hands clutched around a box of juice.
"No…" Talia mumbled, head in her arms; "Think we should call a priest?"
"Yeah, probably," Melani nodded, flipping through the phone book.
The phone rang. Melani and Talia both scrabbled for it. Melani answered first, "Hello?"
"…Hi! This is Gohan! Uh… Erasa said I should call you, she didn't say why."
Melani frowned, "Where are you?"
"In a phone booth."
"Ok. Well… you see… we were kind of playing with an Ouija board… summoning the spirits of the dead… and we thought, well I thought, we should try summoning the dead spirit of Cell. Well, we did, and Gaiger vanished when she picked up this crystal ball and then we tried to contact her and she sounded really scared and said that Cell was holding her hostage and stuff and that we had to bring him back to life the same way that Gaiger managed to get to him and we don't know what to do and Gaiger told us to get you and we really, really need help," Melani took a deep breath.
Gohan, on the other end of the phone line, considered what the girl had said for a while. Were they joking? "Why did your friend say to get me?"
"Because you were the one who killed Cell," Melani replied with conviction.
"Who said so?"
"Cell did."
"…What did he say, exactly?
"Judy asked who killed him, because he said Hercule didn't, that he was too weak or something. Cell said 'that brat Gohan'."
"That definitely sounds like Cell."
"What do we do?" Melani asked desperately.
"I… uh… stay there. When did you last hear from your friend?"
"Last night; when Cell had her hostage."
"I'll be there in five minutes. Uh… one more thing... Where exactly do you live?"
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Sorry for the lag, guys. Exam times in the old down under. Gaiger and such will be back for more fear-breaking fun later, promise! Have a good day, ok: )