Without further ado:
Chapter 17: Messanger From the FUTURE!
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Lavender hair swayed idly as a gentle breeze swept through the desolate landscape. Dark, nearly black, cobalt eyes looked up at the sky, feeling out his enemies power fluctuations. Everything about this felt surreal. He's heard the stories all his life of how the saiyans finally defeated Frieza in the midst of his plans of universal take over. Earth would have no doubt been in ruins if they hadn't stepped in even if it cost several people their lives.
There was a drastic influx of ki, cobalt eyes searching the skies as the influx continued for three agonizing minutes. Sweat gathered on his brow, this power could only be described as enormous. It felt entirely different to what he had thought to be Frieza, there was what he could only describe as an electric feel to it. And then as there had been the influx, all traces of the ki vanished.
The young, futuristic, saiyan felt nothing at all. The odds weren't exactly in Trunks favor now, that power surge could very well be stronger than him.
He slightly cursed his mother and old friend for being so closed lip about the past. They were haunted by the pains of those memories, they prefer to forget then talk about it. What he learned about the past, had taken hours of agonizing questioning, in the end, he had to go to Gohan's mom Chi-Chi, and even though she didn't seem as fazed by the past, she didn't have all that much to say.
Running his fingers through his bangs, Trunks sighed heavily. All he could do now was wait and hope that his interference would save this earth from the future he knew of. That meant saving the two saiyans; one of which could only be his father. A man whose identity he didn't even know because his mother couldn't bring herself to say his name and Gohan refused to say as he didn't know either, or he never told him of his suspicions at least.
Again the futuristic seventeen years old sighed for the umpteenth time that day. There wasn't a single ki signal coming from the ship yet it remained on its course of this spot. Did everyone on the ship hide their power? Even so, it wouldn't change that the ship would be landing here.
In the spaceship, that he now waited for, housed what could only be one of the fiercest enemies, besides the androids, the world has ever seen: Frieza and his father, King Cold. He had followed his mother's directions and now stood at the exact coordinate. Looking to his right he spotted the small silhouette of what could only be the Z-warriors, seems they weren't all that eager to face this foe again. But after what Gohan told him he couldn't blame them.
Looking at the group he saw the warriors making their way over to him, they were no doubt going to warn him to leave, but he was the only one strong enough to defeat Frieza as Goku wouldn't be landing for two or three more hours.
Fifteen minutes, that's how long it would take until the ship landed. Still, he felt nothing from the ship, and the Z-warriors were getting closer. It's not like he could tell them to stay back, that he'd handle Frieza by himself, they'd call him an idiot for sure.
They were only a few hundred yards away when a shadow passed over the sun. Seems his calculations were wrong fifteen minutes had really been less than five. Would have helped if they weren't hiding their ki, what was the point? Anyone, even those not ki sensitive, could have felt the ki surge.
Fisting his hands, the half-saiyan squared his shoulders and took on a more defensive stance while still looking somewhat relaxed. He swallowed thickly, would he be able to defeat them? Able was out of the question; he had to.
The ship landed softly, and for a moment everything was still and then with a loud release of air the door opened. With the release of air gray sparkling specks burst from the edges of the ships door. It took to the air swirling and mixing with the breeze, looked so magical that Trunks almost lost focus on the fight that would soon be taking place.
Once the door opened all the way, he was greeted by something he hadn't expected. In the middle of it stood two people surrounded by the sparkling specks looking much like glitter in nearly matching clothing.
The male stood over a foot taller than the female that he had an arm around. Black hair stood atop his head in a gravity-defying fashion while he looked straight forward with almost black colored eyes. He wore a white top with a ruffled collar and long buffy sleeves with metal navy blue and gold cuffs that matched the armor that wrapped around his chest with a shoulder guard on one shoulder with a thick metal strap on the opposite shoulder. At the waist was an angular part of armor that covered part of the hip while covering his lower half were red pants tucked into navy boots that matched the armor.
Now the woman looked up at the sky with gray-blue eyes and a small smile pulling at her pouty lips. Falling down her backside were waves of raven colored hair. Her clothing while similar to the males was noticeably different. The armor was identical aside from missing the shoulder guard, the white shirt sleeves fell to brush her knuckles as if to hide her hands while the bottom half of the outfit, instead of being a little more form fitted, flared out almost like a skirt or maybe it was a skirt. She held distinct similarities to a warrior he had read about as a child studying the Japanese Feudal Era.*
He stared wide-eyed at the two. The first could only be Goku, he was identical to the pictures he'd seen at Gohan's house. But no one had never told him of any female arriving with Goku.
The female spotted him and then looked up to Goku with a questioning look as if to ask 'Do you know this guy?'. The saiyan shrugged and then offered her a wink before practically disappearing only to reappear in front of Trunks.
"Are you Goku?" Trunks asked excitedly; this man was a legend among legends, Gohan had idolized everything about his father and was more than happy to tell of his heroics.
"Who wants to know?" Kagome asked her eyes narrowed in defense of her brother.
"Yeah, I'm Goku. But she's right who are you?"
Even though the man could only be Goku nothing of what he'd been told was adding up. "I'm sorry, but I just have a hard time believing you to be Goku when I know nothing of that woman," He points at Kagome who glared almost wanting to stick her tongue out at him. "-and you arrived on earth using Frieza's ship. None of that was supposed to happen!?"
"What do you mean? What are you saying?" Kagome asked. Something didn't feel right; this boy knew more than he was letting on.
Goku shrugged his shoulders and explains in a matter-of-fact way. "Well, Kagome here had me teleport onto the ship to take care of him before he landed and tried to hurt anyone on earth,"
"Teleport?!" Cobalt colored eyes widen in confusion and amazement. So Goku had teleported and taken care of Frieza. Gohan hadn't been kidding, Goku was fantastic.
"Yeah, they call it teleportation, some guys on a planet called Yardrat taught me, their pretty mysterious and aren't all that strong, but they know a lot of weird stuff," he laughed.
"Then I changed history for no reason!? I was supposed to meet you and only you. But the others have seen me they will wonder who I am,"
"History?" Kagome asked. A strange sensation caused her to shiver. Without him saying it the words "time traveler" raced through her mind with a strange familiarity to it.
"What do you mean?" Goku asked.
"Can I ask you a question? Can you become a Super Saiyan at will?"
Goku almost laughed. "Yeah I couldn't at first, but after a lot of practice I learn to control it,"
"Could you become one right now?" Trunks asked his eyes hard.
Both Kagome and Goku stiffened.
A light hue of pink dusted Trunks nose as he softly asked "Please?"
Kagome almost wanted to laugh it was adorable
"Okay," and with a small grunt, a typhoon of golden light consumes Goku's form transforming his eyes to a familiar seafoam blue coloring and his hair to stand on its ends with a bright golden hue.
Trunk sweat drops "Thank you! Wow! You look just like me as a super saiyan," he said excitedly, it had been so long since he had seen another saiyan it was so different looking from the outside. Had to admit it was totally badass looking.
"So what now?" Goku asked.
"I'll become a super saiyan too," Within a second the young boy was engulfed in the same golden glow, his lavender hair turning blonde and standing up in gravity-defying spikes and his eyes the signature teal color. The two looked at each other in amazement before Goku turn to Kagome.
"Why don't you join the fun," he chuckled Kagome rarely wanted to spare with him, so this might be an excellent opportunity to find a worthy sparring partner.
Trunks stared at her with wide eyes. Was there a third Super Saiyan and a woman no less?
"No, I'll let you have all the fun," she grinned with a playful wave before crossing her arms.
Turn his attention back to the boy. "So what now?"
"I'm sorry about this," the boy muttered.
"What?"
In a second of speed and practiced agility Trunks attacked Goku with his sword, the blade's tip stopping only a hair away from his nose. There was a scream from the onlookers all of which in shock to see that not only did Goku transform but that there was a second saiyan.
"Why didn't you get out of the way?" Trunks asked with wide eyes.
"Because I didn't feel any malice behind your attack. I knew you were going to stop; you don't want to hurt me,"
"I see. Well, I won't stop this time, all alright?"
"Okay," bringing up his finger Goku supercharge the tip and in a flash of speed once more the two attacked with Goku deflecting the sword with only his finger.
"Amazing," seemingly please Trunks jumped back with a small smile and threw his sword in the air before transforming back into his normal form the lavender hair falling to his ears. "All the stories were true, no, you're greater than the stories," slightly tilted to the side the sword fell into its sheath.
"Well you weren't coming at me with all of that you had," Gouk smirked.
"Let me explain," He briefly looked over to Kagome worrying his lip. Could he trust her?
"Whatever you have to say, you can say it in front of Kagome," Goku nodded putting an arm around Kagome.
Trunks nodded in understanding "Okay please keep everything about to tell you to yourself,"
"Don't worry I keep secrets,"
He looked to Kagome who raised her hands in self-defense. "I promise your secrets will be safe with me,"
"This will be hard to believe for someone of your era, but I've come from 20 years in the future," He said with a sigh, but Kagome again felt that weird sensation. Even though her logic said something like that shouldn't be possible, she somehow knew it was and just accepted the knowledge with a nod whereas Goku seemed to have trouble with that.
"The future? 20 years?!" he almost fell over causing Kagome to have to hold him up.
"Yes my name is Trunks, and I do have saiyan blood because my father was a saiyan,"
"Who's your father?" Kagome asked sheepishly.
"Unfortunately I do not know the identity of my father as my mother kept it a secret and told no one. But I have reason to speculate that it was Vegeta,"
Kagome's heart constricted painfully, but she made sure not to show it.