Kratos Main Theme- God of War (1)

Dark Piano-Nightmares- Lucas King (2)

Rocky Mountains, United States

December 24, 19:13

(1)

Cell backed away from the fighter on the ground. He feared what he had created. He never took his eyes off of the former half Saiyan, knowing if he did, it would be the end of him. In fact, he was so focused on Gohan, that he completely forgot about Superman.

Superman was in awe of the power display in front of him. He thought he had anger issues. But this. This was otherworldly. Godly, even. Superman decided that the best thing for him to do was make sure Gohan stayed with it, and kept his focus on the enemy. He floated down towards the powerful teen cautiously, knowing what a false move could trigger when in this kind of state. "Gohan," He said once he was within earshot of the boy. "You with me buddy?"

Struggle was obvious on Gohan's face after those words. Almost as if he were, fighting for control.

Superman took this as a sign to continue, to get their only hope back on their side. "Gohan, we need you to wake up. Everyone needs you to wake up." Gohan's struggle didn't change for a good few seconds. But that was not to last.

Gohan threw his hands to his head and hunched forward, grabbing at his hair and pulling chunks out in his insanity. An ungodly scream amplified by ki pierced the ears of Superman, drawing blood and doubling him over in pain. He made one last bid for his goal, matching Gohan's intensity of voice with his own power. "GOHAN WAKE UP!"

This did nothing but intensify the screams of the boy, the pure power from his voice pushing Superman, and Cell back. However, Vegeta remained untouched. Almost as if he were being shielded.

Suddenly, Gohan stopped. His voice faded, and his hands fell from his face, hanging limp from his hunched over body. No expression was seen on his face except one of complete calmness.

Cell and Superman both recovered from the scream, Superman struggling to his feet and Cell falling from the sky to land on the ground. "What do you think you're doing! You could have killed me you brat!" Cell yelled, seemingly forgetting the gap in their powers. When he was ignored by the teen, however, he became infuriated. Cell grit his teeth and clenched his fist. "I SAID WHAT DO YOU THINK YOu're doing…. boy". Cell slowed what he was saying and stared directly ahead of him in shock. Gohan had completely disappeared from his view, and gotten right in his face, looking down on him as he floated inches in front of him.

Gohan's face, completely expressionless, he reached out and wrapped his hand around Cell's throat. Cell did nothing, or more accurately, could do nothing to the hand as he clawed at his neck.

"G-Gohan…" Cell sputtered out. "Plea-se don't d-do this!" He begged, hoping the true Gohan showed through. And luckily for him, he did.

"You killed me."

Cell's eyes widened.

"You killed my dragon, and more importantly, you almost killed Vegeta!"

Gohan squeezed harder, making Cell's eyes bulge inches out of his head. "N-no!" Cell gasped with his last breath.

"Gohan brought the android in close to his face. Inches disappeared between them. "Yes." He closed his hand completely. The severed head of Cell popped off and landed on the ground meters away. Gohan opened his now bloodied hand and let the mess of purple, gold, and bone fall to the ground next to him. A horrified Superman dropped to his knees; The exhaustion and events showing their toll on him. But his relaxation would not continue.

He was next.

An earth shattering blow rammed into Superman's side. Blood flew from Kal-El's open mouth. He was propelled into the sky at speeds far surpassing light. Gohan met the flying Superman in the air, less than 10 feet from his original position, showcasing just how fast he could move.

An absolutely brutal fist went through Clark's stomach, not even covered in blood when it exited due to the intense aura caurterizing the blood before the fist even went through the skin.

No sound came from the now underpowered hero, as he slumped down while impaled on Gohan's arm. His eyes wide open in shock. Gohan opened his hand that was in the Kent man and revealed a ball of highly concentrated red ki. God ki. "For the last five years of my life, I give you this gift." He was about to let it implode, taking Superman and the remains of Cell with it, when he was stopped.

"Gohan, no!" A weak cry of desperation called from below them. "He helped me fight Cell, he deserved a second chance." Vegeta said softly, coughing up blood. Gohan was kneeling by his side in an instant, dropping Superman on the ground where he laid until further notice.

Recognition slowly came back into his eyes as he checked on his now only living friend. They black pools slowly faded away to his normal eyes but with blue iris. His hair retracted as well to his normal hairstyle but a light blue color. The aura surrounding him no longer damaged the area he inhabited, now rather rejuvenating all life forms smaller than himself from the battle, bar the actual fighters.

"Vegeta, we need to get you to the healing chamber, or a hospital, or the watchtower!" Gohan frantically said while carefully picking up Vegeta, mindful of his severe wounds. He knew he should use the Senzus, but he preferred to keep those for a during battle need. Vegeta could survive until they got to the pod.

He floated in the air as Vegeta passed out almost immediately from the strain. He started to fly off, only stopping from the pain filled moan behind him. "Son of a bitch- Get over here." He grumbled as his good hearted nature would not let him leave the dying Superman behind, who now looked completely normal, all of his rage and extra power leaving him.

Now flying with two passengers, Gohan reached his house in a matter of seconds. Or what was left of his house. What was once his beautiful house in the woods, was now a pile of rubble with a half disintegrated, skeletal Android 16 in the midst of it. Gohan had to look away as he flew off, knowing the only place he had left.

He rocketed through the sky at speeds far past that of his former forms. He couldn't say he didn't like this new power. But it felt different. Almost divine. And the rage he had felt was unnatural. He pushed those thoughts aside. He could think about his new power later. Now he needed to get these two medical attention.

He exited the Earth's atmosphere, creating a ki shield around himself and the other two to make sure they could still breathe. A small, dark object was seen against the Sun. The Watchtower. Gohan almost instantly was at it's doorstep, knocking the hangar bay door so hard it was heard throughout the entire facility.

He would give them 3 seconds exactly before he knocked the door down.

"One… Two…. Three…" Gohan counted mentally. His patience not being his strong suit. Obviously. He let go of the Superman, letting him float in the vacuum of space for a short time. He charged up a ki blast in his now free hand. His normally crackling, dangerously violent ki was now completely peaceful and solid. Undisturbed was a good word to describe it. More interesting information.

Before he could fire the blast, the door opened at speeds far greater than last time. Before he you know. Happened. The Blue Super Saiyan diffused his ki and flew into the building, almost forgetting poor Superman. He rushed through the complex on his feet now. Running so fast that a blue flame trailed his form (he could do this earlier. He just thought it was cool that it was blue).

"Batman! Get me to a medical station now!" He yelled at the dark night as he rounded the corner. Batman was already well prepared for this and took off down the hallway wordlessly, a clear signal to Gohan to follow, as he did so without hesitation. They reached the med room in a minute flat. Something that irked Gohan. However, along the way, he had learned that the entire league was investigating the battle scene with Cell, bar Batman of course.

Gohan set both fighters down on seperate beds carefully. He tended to Vegeta almost instantly. He was in worse condition than Superman, and quite frankly, Gohan liked him waaaayyyy more. Gohan reached in his tattered clothing's only pocket. Which, for being the most important pocket. Seemed very convenient for it to be the only one left.

He pulled out one of his few capsules that he had left. Throwing it down, it revealed another capsule, and of course, his two swords. We all know he goes nowhere without those. He quickly grabbed the other capsule and strapped his two swords to his back in an "X". Throwing the other capsule at the ground, the smoke covered the small brown bag that he really needed.

He had his hand in the pouch in an instant, pulling out two beans. He threw one to a prepared Batman, who after hearing about these from Wonder Woman, Faora, and the Amazons (there were about 20 of the 1000 ish on the Watchtower, the others were on the new island), knew exactly what they were. Without hesitation, he crushed the green bean and shoved it into Superman's mouth. The Man of Steel stirred, his injuries healed, yet he remained unconscious. Most likely from the mental stress.

Gohan grunted in contempt and did the same with Vegeta, who unlike Superman, woke up immediately. Most likely due to having been subjected to similar stress before.

Vegeta bursted from the bed, his tattered clothing almost falling off of him. "Gohan what happened? Wheres Cell!" He got one good look at Gohan and saw his blue hair. "And what happened to your hair?!"

Gohan blinked and in realization, panicked. "Cell's still out there. I only tore his head off. He can still regenerate!" Almost as if on cue, the sirens of the Watchtower went off and all the lights turned red. Something had breached the outside. Almost immediately, the breaches were sealed by the automatic contingency measures Batman had placed when he built the Watchtower. However, he was in the station.

Gohan and Vegeta stood back to back, Vegeta igniting his now golden aura as he powered up quickly. Batman stood protectively over his heavy hitter, knowing he couldn't do much other than defense in this situation.

Utter silence filled the compound, as the Amazonian warriors had heard something as well. But they, nor anyone else in the Watchtower, would have to worry about a thing.

The silence was ripped apart as the wall closest to Gohan exploded. He was not fazed, as he caught a punch from a Golden, and enraged Cell. He help the fist in a vice grip and allowed Vegeta to clear the area, before he ignited his peaceful blue aura. He used a fair amount of power and pushed Cell's fist to the side, throwing one of his own which made contact with Cell's forearm. It seemed that the two were almost evenly matched, Gohan's power lowering with the loss of his enraged form and Cell's rising to meet it with the zenkai boost he received.

The two began trading blows at speeds surpassing light. Batman and Vegeta both carried Superman out of the area, and away from the fight. Vegeta knew he was well outmatched here, and somehow, Gohan had risen up to face Cell. His face hardened as he set his goal. "Whatever I do, I must be your equal, Gohan."

Suddenly, a loud BOOM cracked the floors they walked on. A blue aura went flying past the three, followed quickly by a golden one. They both flew so fast and hard, that they went straight through the Watchtower again, shooting out like a bullet out of water.

Gohan, still flying through the air, held his stomach. He had made a misstep and it caused him to take a nasty tail strike form Cell in the abdomen. He could have tanked it and kept on going, but this was the best way to make sure he could protect those on the Watchtower.

He looked up and saw Cell's golden aura shooting at him through the vacuum of space. Gohan let go of his abdomen and used his new, divine ki to twist his body through the air in an acrobatic movement that put all of Earth's olympians to shame. A golden tail shot out and found nothing where Gohan used to be. It instead, was grabbed by the thing it was trying to impale. Gohan locked the golden appendage between his body and elbow. However, it left him open for the follow up punch that Cell threw.

Gohan took the punch to his left pectoral, right over his heart, however, he did not let go of Cell's tail. The blow left an indent that did not go unnoticed by the Saiyan teen. Gohan recovered from the strike and regripped Cell's tail with both of his hands instead. He used his divine ki to spin the Bio Android in a circle.

Cell's wordless screams as he flew out of Gohan's grip changed to a more recognizable one. As he flew away, Cell regained his composure and while still moving, lowered his hands to a cupped position by his side. "Kamehame-" Cell started as he completely orbited the Earth in the direction Gohan had thrown him. Once he came back around to meet the blue haired Gohan, he finished his chant. Thrusting his hands forward, Cell released a gigantic blue beam of pure energy in the direction of Gohan. "HAAAAA!"

Gohan turned before the beam could make contact with him. He crossed his arms in front of him and conjured a sphere of energy around his form. The beam made contact with the dense sphere. It, however, was merely deflected off of it, splitting into many different, smaller beams that flew in every direction. Including towards the Earth.

Knowing that if that hit, it would utterly obliterate the entire planet with no effort whatsoever, Gohan expelled the energy around him, cancelling out Cell's main Kamehameha entirely. He once more ignited his flaming blue aura. He reached the streets of Detroit less than a second before the energy wave made contact.

Gohan dug his feet into the already eroded concrete streets. He braced his right arm with copious amounts of divine ki, to the point where it glowed brighter than his hair. Just as the Kamehameha remnant was about to meet him, he violently punched out forwards. His fist met the blue beam and he absolutely shattered it with his overwhelming power and placement technique.

Knowing that he had prevented the disaster, Gohan was about to shoot back off to re engage Cell. But that was before a rather rude voice caught his attention.

"Hey mother fucker!" A kid, no older than 14 yelled at Gohan. The child had dark skin and clothes too big for him. A cruel sneer was on his face, and Gohan would have felt anxious if he were without his powers or battle experience. However, that sneer went away when a little girl of the same skin tone shyly came out of hiding from behind him. She was more than half the older one's age, with a small, grey dress on. When the older teen saw her, his face softened considerably. He looked back at Gohan before nodding. "Thank you." His voice much more accepting.

Gohan didn't know how to take the situation other than to nod his head back at him. However, the sweet moment was shattered when Gohan was blindsided by a gold/red aura enveloped Cell.

The punch to Gohan's face turned his jaw bone into powder. Gohan could do nothing as the shockwave from the punch was equivalent to condensing a nuclear explosion down to the size of the block. He had to watch as the two children he had just connected with were flattened by the immense force. His eyes, glued to their now pancake like bodies smeared with blood and organs.

(2)

"Hahahahaha! Oh Gohan, you always were one to get unnecessarily attached to worthless beings." Cell mocked as he stood over the shocked Saiyan, maintaining his Kaioken state effortlessly. "Then again, worthless people do attract other worthless people."

Gohan turned his head to Cell. His face blank, and his jaw hanging limply off of his head. The amount of nothingness in his eyes uneased Cell. He would not let it show, but he was sacred.

Words, nor sound were not needed for Gohan to express his rage. His empty eyes soon filled in completely black. His face contorted into something one see's in nightmares. His light blue aura sprung around him, before turning a blinding white. His hair lengthened down to his waist once more, matching the color of a sheet of paper. Gohan's limp jaw suddenly snapped back into place, completely repairing itself.

Not even batting an eye at the phenomena, Gohan's rage filled eyes locked onto Cell one more time before he threw his head back and released the most heartbreaking cry of rage and despair. "YOU WILL PAAAAAAAAAAAYYY!" In an instant, glowing red streaks flashed down Gohan's impressive mane of hair. His aura, followed suite and introduced red lightning to its coloration.

The newly transformed Gohan wasted to time in dismantling Cell again. He rushed forward in blind, calculated rage. He threw a 'weak' punch towards Cell's face, which was just barely dodged. However, the android played directly into the back breaking knee that was placed into his side.

Cell's aura instantly vanished as he was separated in two from the waist. Gohan held his hand towards the bottom half of Cell's body. An orb of ki the color of his eyes manifested out of his palm. The teen fired it without remorse, and Cell's legs were completely and utterly disintegrated.

Gohan turned his dark gaze to the golden menace floating in the air next to him. He placed his foot on the ground once more, taking a stance that help nothing but arrogance. His feet were shoulder width apart, pointed outwards. He was leaned over forwards with his arms hanging down towards the ground. His stare, however, never left the remaining half of his opponent.

Cell tried his hardest to remain in the air, but just that one attack had completely drained the being. His torso fell to the ground uselessly, his golden coloration and power leaving him as he reverted back to his normal green.

Gohan fell forward onto his outstretched hands, using them to launch himself to Cell, like a creature would pounce on it's prey. He was on his knees, hunched over the murderer, his dark eyes boring into Cell's fear filled ones.

"P-please-" Cell sputtered out. His fear and plea for mercy fell on deaf, and unwilling ears. Gohan merely created a band of ki that wrapped around Cell's mouth, silencing all attempts at changing what was about to happen.

Gohan raised his right fist back past his head. It charged with pure black energy, much more energy than what Cell had possessed even in his golden form. Gohan's fist snapped forward and made contact with the face below him, his eyes never faltering. When the fist connected with Cell's face, it disintegrated everything it touched. Gohan pulled his fist back once more, and shook off the ash that clung to his pulsing skin.

His emotionless face still present, with only his right arm, Gohan released millions of punches upon Cell's entire remaining being. He destroyed every last cell of the Android, making sure no more innocent would die because of him.

After it was done. Gohan stood. His dark eyes looked around at the destruction that had been caused by his now dead enemy. He looked at the bodies of the two children that he had witnessed the murder of. A single, black tear slid out of his eye, only making it halfway down his face before it was wiped away.

His now bright blue eyes shone through the darkness once more. His fear inducing hair shrunk back into his skull, taking the same coloration as his eyes. His aura completely extinguished itself. His hair and eyes went back to their normal charcoal color. He fell to his knees and looked to the sky.

He let the tears flow.

*END Arc 1*

I know I went a bit dark with this chapter. But really, what way is there to end out the first arc other than with someone's best friend betraying them and them having to kill that one person.

But anyway, do you guys actually use the music suggestions I give? I was just wondering about that.

Power Levels

Gohan

Base: 50,000,000

SS: 2,500,000,000

SS2: 5,000,000,000

SS3: 20,000,000,000

Super Saiyan Blue: 2,300,000,000,000,000,000,000

Enraged (Dark) Super Saiyan God: 5,250,000,000,000,000,000,000

Cell

Golden Super Saiyan (Pre-Zenkai): 1,900,000,000,000,000,000,000

Golden Super Saiyan (Post-Zenkai): 2,100,000,000,000,000,000,000

Golden Super Saiyan Kaioken: 3,000,000,000,000,000,000,000