Her Return
Chapter Sixteen
Areiko was whipped out of the crater by her hair. She lunged her hands into the ground digging her claws deep within the concrete. When she looked up, Kira's foot automatically met with Areiko's face tossing her head upwards. Kira then slashed horizontally across the base of Areiko's neck.
Blood squirted out from the cut onto Kira's clothing. Areiko ripped her claws out the ground throwing large pieces of cement into Kira's face. Kira's body hit the ground hard. Areiko's sibling soon started to gasp for air when she felt her wind pipe being constricted. Areiko lifted Kira up pulling her towards her face. Areiko rubbed her fangs across Kira's face and then rubbed her right cheek on Kira's left purring softly.
"The sweet smell of blood…" Areiko mumbled demonically sniffing Kira's neck being able to smell the blood through her flesh. Kira growled throwing her hand forward placing a ki beam into Areiko's chest. She was thrown across the ground leaving a large and wide gash in the concrete.
Kira coughed placing her hand onto her neck; she coughed so hard that the inside of her throat tore open causing her to spit up blood. She then lifted her head watching as Areiko stood up onto her feet placing her hand onto the nearly found gash at the base of her neck. She tore her claws through the flesh making it wider and the blood to pour out more. She removed her fingers from the wound that she had made larger. A smirk crept across Areiko's lips as she licked her nails with her tongue shuddering in delight of the taste of blood.
Kira found this – even to her – to be a little bit disturbing. But before she knew it, Areiko lunged towards Kira running on all fours slashing at her left side tearing it open. Kira screamed as she grabbed onto her side listening as the blood poured onto the ground. Areiko then turned and came back towards Kira. She slammed her shoulder into her cut up back causing her to hit face first into the ground. Areiko glanced down at the blood and smirked. She seated herself down and began to drink the blood off of the ground like a dog or cat drinking out of its water bowl.
Aya's eyes widened placing a hand over her mouth to stop herself from vomiting. Goku and Vegeta were also stunned by this. Both of them completely shocked and speechless about the actions that they were seeing from Areiko.
"She's… she's…" Aya couldn't find the right word to use to come out of her mouth to describe Areiko. So she just continued to repeat the word 'she's' till her voice finally died down.
"We can see Aya…" Came Vegeta's voice watching Areiko as she was now scooping it up into her hands drinking it.
Areiko grinned wickedly as she turned her eyes up at Aya, Vegeta, and Goku. Once their eyes locked, a cold shiver went straight down their spines. But she looked away, charging right at Kira once more. She through her fist into her stomach then dug her claws into her flesh. Kira clenched her eyes tightly. But she then backhanded Areiko's face tossing her to the side. Her side came in contact with a sharp rock. It ended up being embedded into her side. Areiko hissed spitting out blood from her mouth from biting onto her tongue when she was backhanded.
Kira lunged forward towards her. But her sister turned her eyes onto her leaping up into the air. Areiko came down onto Kira's shoulders. She dug her claws into Kira's flesh, but once her claws entered her, Kira reached up jabbing her own claws into Areiko's chest. She got a good grip on her causing her to hiss again. She ripped Areiko off of her shoulders slamming her knee into her sister's face.
Areiko's head was tossed back. Kira grabbed onto her throat gripping on her neck lifting her into the air. Areiko started kicking her feet gasping for air as the supply of oxygen continued to get smaller and smaller. Areiko then lifted up her hand blasting a ki beam at Kira throwing her back.
Suddenly, a voice started talking to her.
No more! Whoever the fuck you are I can't let you fight anymore!
"Who said that you can stop me!"
I said I can! And I had about enough of you!
A piercing pain went straight through Areiko's head. Her eyes widened as she quickly grabbed onto her temples, practically digging her claws into her flesh as she gripped. She clenched her eyes tightly shielding her blood red eyes from the world. She started to screech loudly causing her own ears to bleed.
Aya clasped her hands onto her ears pressing her palms against them tightly to drown out the screeching. Aya then clenched her eyes shut tightly shouting over the noise that was coming from Areiko's throat.
"What's going on?"
Goku and Vegeta had their hands tightly pressed against their ears just as tight as Aya. They didn't answer her since they were unable to hear her. The three of them watched Areiko closely. Blood started to drip down the side of her head down her neck and some of it got into her hair from the holes in her head. She started trashing around screaming out as if she was being attacked by something within her head.
Areiko looked down at the ground. There she spotted a sharp rock resting there on the ground. She growled grabbing onto the rock tightly with her left hand. She then began to bash the sharpened rock into her forehead causing it to crack open and bleed. Kira watched as Areiko continued to inflict this injury on herself. Blood splattered everywhere every time Areiko pounded the rock against her forehead.
"Areiko stop!" Aya cried shooting down towards her.
"Aya wait!" Vegeta called out for her watching as his daughter rushed towards her. But Aya didn't want to wait. She didn't want to continue seeing Areiko pound a rock into her own forehead!
Aya grabbed onto Areiko's arm ripping the rock out of her hand. Areiko growled loudly throwing her fist into Aya's face. Blood splattered out of her mouth and she was thrown back hitting a piece of rubble and bouncing off hitting the ground. Aya shook her head looking up at Areiko as she began to claw away at the flesh on her arms.
Goku and Vegeta flew down next. This was getting a little out of control. Areiko was starting to eat and claw at her own skin, that was a little disgusting. Vegeta grabbed onto Areiko from behind and held onto her as tight as he could. Areiko thrashed about in his grip clawing at his arms. Goku landed in front of her looking at her. He watched as the blood ran down in between her eyes and against her cheeks as if she was crying.
"I'm sorry Areiko." Goku said softly as he suddenly threw a punch into her stomach.
Areiko stopped growling and roaring. Her eyes widened. She then fell limp in Vegeta's arms passing out. Vegeta dropped her onto the ground. Aya walked over looking down at Areiko as she laid there unconscious. She was waiting for her feral features to disappear, but they didn't.
Kira suddenly lunged herself forward slamming her knee into Goku's side. Goku cried out being thrown into Aya. The two of them skid across the ground coming to a stop by a large boulder that they crashed their heads against. Vegeta turned his head looking at them, which was the worse thing to do.
Kira kneed his stomach. She then placed both of her hands onto his neck holding him still as she continued to bash her knee inward into his stomach.
"Never take your eyes off of you opponent!" Kira shouted as she continued to pound on Vegeta.
Aya could hear Vegeta's grunts and groans in pain over the loud ringing in her ears. She suddenly threw Goku off of her and sat upright watching as blood began to pour out of his mouth and onto the ground.
"Vegeta!"
Aya powered up as high as she could, gaining Kira's attention. She smirked tossing Vegeta to the ground and standing upright looking at Aya who had yellow ki flaring around her. Aya looked extremely ticked off. She had an evil look plastered on her face, and her eyes spelt out death for Kira.
"You think I'm scared?" Kira asked.
"You should be." Aya replied. "Because I'm going to fucking end you right here and right now."
"Come take your best shot then," Kira said with a wide smirk on her face. Aya lunged forward pulling her fist back.
Areiko woke up in the same darkness as last time. She stood up looking down at herself to see that she was still wearing that white robe with the golden belt. But for some reason Areiko felt extremely weak and tired, also her stomach hurt as if she was punched extremely hard there. She rubbed her stomach a little looking around.
She knew that that other side was there. She knew it, and she wanted to find her. "Come out!" Areiko called listening as her own voice echo throughout the darkness around her. "I know you're there! Get your fucking ass out here right now!"
A bright light shined down at Areiko as the other side of her fell to the ground, covered in blood. Areiko looked down at her seeing the darker version of herself standing up slowly because of her injuries. She looked at Areiko growling like an animal.
"What the hell is you're fucking problem!" Areiko shouted approaching her. "You're a fucking animal!"
The woman smirked, "I am an animal," she said completely calm. "I'm you're animal. Like I said the last time we met, I'm you."
"I'm not like that!"
Lekira smirked. "oh, you're not." She lifted up her hand pointing in another direction. "Then what do you call that?"
Areiko turned her head. Her eyes widened as she watched something that she didn't want to see. It was herself from five years back, from when she was under Orx's control. And she remembered that specific memory. That was when Orx wanted to be civil and try to have a conversation with a king of a planet that he wanted to rule. But things turned deadly and he sent Areiko in to take care of the guards. Once the king had handed his planet over on a silver plate, Areiko was allowed to eat him.
Areiko herself almost gagged at the scene. She covered her mouth. The woman smirked grabbing onto Areiko's chin making her look and watch as she ate the king alive.
"Look at you!" The woman shouted pointing at the view. "That's you! That's you eating him! You're a monster! I'm that monster! We're one!"
"No!" Areiko stepped back holding her head. "I refuse to listen to you! I'm not like that! I'm not like you!"
"What did you do to Goku two years ago?" the woman asked with a smirk. "Remember, you nearly killed him. You even transformed into your Oozaru form and nearly grained Vegeta's bones into dust. You're that same monster."
Areiko shook her hand clasping her hands onto her ears. She collapsed to her knees continuing to shake her head. "No. No. No. No. No. No. No!" Areiko turned her head looking at the woman. "I'm not going to listen to you!"
She stood up firing a blast at her. The woman was hit in her chest throwing her to the ground, which Areiko wasn't sure was there since the darkness surrounded the floor as well.
Suddenly a burning pain throbbed within Areiko's chest. Her eyes widened dropping to the floor, laying flat on the ground. She gripped her white robe with her eyes still wide staring at the woman as she stood up just fine.
"W…"
"Remember Areiko," the woman continued approaching her. "I'm part of you, meaning that any pain I feel you feel as well."
Aya through her fist forward at Kira's face, it hit; but Kira stood there like nothing was happening. Kira stood there placing a disgusted look on her face. "After that mini speech, this is all you have to show for it?"
Aya's eyes widened as she began to tremble where she stood. "Pathetic!" Kira suddenly backhanded her into a building. Aya hit with the building instantly collapsing down on top of her. Kira directed her hand towards the building, and with an unseen force, she blew away the rubble of the building leaving only Aya there on the ground. She was covered in dust. Aya coughed a little bit spitting up some blood.
Kira started to approach Aya till Goku appeared in her way with his arms out. Goku looked at her seriously; Kira just smirked at him as she shook her head.
"Tsk. Tsk. Tsk." Kira said shaking her head. "You all bore me. And you all are so damn pathetic!" Kira threw her hand forward blasting a ki beam rather quickly at Goku.
Goku managed to dodge it, but it had hit Aya while she standing up. She screamed and fell back onto the ground. Goku quickly turned looking at her to make sure that she was okay. But she wasn't getting up.
"Keep your eyes on me!" Kira shouted out punching Goku in the back of his head. Goku stumbled forward hitting the ground hard. Kira then began to bash her foot in the middle of Goku's back over and over again.
"You all piss me off!" Kira shouted out. "I give you all ten days to train! And you're not even strong at all! You're all weak! Just like the last time I fought you! The only one that actually managed to create some damage was Sister Lekira! You're all so" – Kira picked up Goku – "PATHETIC!"
She then threw Goku into an oncoming Vegeta throwing him to the ground. Kira growled clenching her fists tightly. She then lifted her hands up into the air. In each palm of her hand a ki ball started to form.
"I'll finish you all right here! And right now!"