Her Return

Chapter Twenty-Four

Goku!

"Forget about him Areiko, he doesn't care about you."

Yes he does! If he didn't then he wouldn't have called out my name when you were about to kill Aya!

"You think he was calling out for you?"

…

"Please! You're more pathetic then I thought! He wasn't doing it for you! He was doing it for Aya! He cares about her more then you!"

Not true!

"Yes it is. If he really cared about you, and really wanted us to stop, then wouldn't he have been here helping out Vegeta?

"Exactly, he wasn't. He was nowhere to be found. He wanted them to kill you. Goku's a weakling, and he only kills when it's necessary. And right now, he wants us dead. So he doesn't care."

R-Really…?

"Yes. Do you think I'm lying to you?"

Well…

"Come on Areiko, I know you better then anyone else. Why would I lie about something like this?"

I don't know.

"I wouldn't lie, trust me my sister, he doesn't care. He just wants to see you dead."

But… it would be different if he could help himself out. He's poisoned! He can't do anything!

"That's his own fault Areiko. Don't go soft on me. Goku doesn't need you, he doesn't want you. He doesn't care."

He… doesn't care.

"That's right, he hates you."

He hates me…

"Exactly, I'm your only friend. Trust me, I'll handle everything for you. You can just rest."

O-Okay…

A smirk crept across Areiko's face. Her darker half felt her lighter side fall asleep, giving her complete control without any disruptions. And that's how it was going to be. This was now her darker side's game, and she's going to kill EVERYONE.

She turned away from Goku as he hit the ground. A wicked laugh came from Areiko as she turned her head looking over her shoulder at the older saiyan. Goku laid there still as can be, not moving, not breathing. He was dead.

Aya looked up at Areiko, watching as she laughed wickedly. Aya propped herself up onto her elbows. She turned her eyes onto Vegeta, who was still lying on his back. His eyes were closed now. Her eyes then met with Goku's body, everything was going wrong here. Instead of Areiko helping them, she was killing them. Aya had to put a stop to this.

"A-Areiko…"

Areiko turned her eyes downward onto Aya. "P-Please…" Areiko bent down, her knees cracking looking at Aya's face. Aya's body froze when her eyes met with Areiko's crimson red ones.

"T-this isn't… my R-Reiko-chan…"

Areiko smirked, her fangs hanging over her bottom lip. She stood upright and walked away from her. Aya kept her eyes locked on her, watching her closely. Areiko was headed for Vegeta. Aya instantly got to her feet, nearly falling over from her blood loss.

Now Areiko was standing in front of Vegeta. She looked down at the saiyan prince, watching his chest raise and fall gently, giving signs that he was close to death. Areiko bent forward grabbing onto his wrist. She then turned and looked at Aya walking over to her. Vegeta winced in his sleep as his body was dragged across the dirt, kicking up dust.

Areiko then laid Vegeta in front of Aya. Aya looked down at him and then back up at Areiko who had turned and walked over to Goku. She looked at Goku's unmoving body. She bent down and rolled him over with the back of her hand. She watched for a good minute till she saw Goku's chest rise and fall. He was still alive, that was a good thing, and Areiko's darker half wanted that.

She smirked grabbing onto Goku's wrist and dragging him over to Aya. Aya just watched her closely. When both Goku and Vegeta were in front of her, and she knew that they were alive; Aya lifted her head to look at Areiko.

Areiko lifted up three fingers. One by one she lowered them back into a tight fist. Aya got the hint. Areiko was giving her three days, to take care of herself and of the two saiyan men. Aya reached down wrapping both Vegeta and Goku's arms around her body and holding them tightly to her. She looked them each over first before she took to the air. She just wanted to make sure that they would survive the flight to the Lookout.

Areiko looked up watching as Aya flew away. She then turned her head looking at Kira who was standing on the cliff-top with a deadly look on her face. Kira then leapt off of the cliff and approached her.

"What are you doing?!" Kira shouted at her. "You let them get away!"

"Frii."

"Three what?!" Kira shouted. Areiko lifted up three fingers again, once again she lowered them into a tight fist, giving Kira the hint that she was giving them three days to patch themselves up.

Kira smirked a little, "if I knew that then I wo—"

Areiko's fist went straight across Kira's face. Kira was thrown back and something went flying out of her pocket and into the air. Areiko smirked as she swiped her own hand through the air grabbing onto whatever it was that flew out Kira's pocket. Kira hit the cliff wall, groaning she pulled herself out and shook her head. Kira then looked up at Areiko.

Areiko looked down into her hand to see a small little jar with a purple liquid in it. She held it within two fingers and twirled it, making the purple liquid within it swirl in circles like a whirlpool. Kira growled as she teleported herself back in front of Areiko.

"Give me that!" Kira went to snatch it out of her hands, but Areiko pulled her arm away growling loudly as she stared at Kira. She then put the liquid within her own pocket.

"Me shal re shirr."

(I will be back.)

Areiko took off into the air. Kira growled as she stood there on the ground. Kira knew better then follow her, she'd be attacked by her. And right now she wanted that side of her sister on her own good side, not bad. But little did she know that Areiko's darker side planned on killing everyone, just like Kira.

Aya landed on the lookout. She adjusted Vegeta in her arms before proceeding forward, but she knew that she couldn't go far by herself, since she was wounded just as bad as the other two saiyans. She collapsed to her knees and clenched her eyes shut.

"Mr. Popo!" Aya cried out, hoping that - even though the black genie was in the Time Chamber – he would come and get her. "Mr. Popo!"

Thmp.

Someone landed behind Aya. Aya's eyes widened as she turned around and saw Areiko standing there. Aya put Vegeta and Goku down and stood up the best she could without her aching back hurting her. Areiko approached Aya slowly, causing a little bit of fear to run through the short teenager.

Areiko came to a stop just feet away from Aya's face. Aya knew every well that Areiko was close enough to strike her with those deadly claws. But Aya dared not to move, because if she did, she knew that Vegeta and Goku would be in danger. Areiko reached onto her pocket and pulled out the small jar, holding it tightly within her fist so that Aya didn't know that she had something for her.

Aya gulped silently as Areiko grabbed tightly onto Aya's injured wrist. She winced, but dared not to show the animal any kind of pain. Areiko opened up Aya's fist and placed her own into the palm of her hand. Slowly, she opened up her hand allowing the jar to fall into Aya's hand. When Areiko moved her hand, Aya blinked looking at the purple liquid that moved back and forth in the jar.

Aya looked up at Areiko, not following what it was for. "What is thi—"

"Kakkarot." Areiko said interrupting her. Aya blinked as she turned and looked into the pale face of Goku. When she turned back around, Areiko was gone. Aya stared where Areiko once stood, thinking to herself.

'That… couldn't have been my Reiko-chan… she never calls Goku by "Kakkarot"… could this other side of her be a completely different being?'

"Aya?"

Aya turned around and spotted Mr. Popo standing there with the girls at both of his sides. Bulla and Pan stared down at their grandfather and father in horror. Their faces turning pale, and when they met with Aya's eyes, they just started crying.

The two little girls ran up to her, hugging her clawed up body as tight as they could. Aya winced from the pain that shot through her body. She wished that she could hug the girls back, but she couldn't. She just couldn't find the strength.

Aya looked up at Mr. Popo. "Take this." She said to him holding out her hand. The black little genie walked over to her holding his hand out. Aya gently laid that vile in his hand. Mr. Popo looked at it for a few moments, and then picked it up with his other hand.

"I'm assuming that it's for Goku." Aya said to him pushing the crying Bulla and Pan off of her aching body. "Give it to him." she added.

Mr. Popo nodded, "what are you going to do?"

"I'm going to go head down to Korin's place and pick up some Senzu beans." Aya replied.

"A… Aya…"

Everyone's attention was turned towards Vegeta, who was now awake and alert to his surroundings. "Daddy?" Bulla approached her father, but was then pulled back by Mr. Popo as Aya approached him.

"Vegeta?" Aya knelt down next to him looking into his pale face.

"R-Right… p-pocket…"

"Right pocket?" Aya repeated silently. She reached into his pocket, making sure that she didn't hurt him. She blinked a few times as she pulled out a small bean. She stared at it, as Vegeta started talking.

"T-Take… it…" he said to her, getting her attention. "I s-saved it…"

"This is the bean that Areiko gave you?"

Vegeta nodded.

"Why didn't you take it?!" Aya shouted, growing a bit angry knowing that his condition wouldn't have been so bad if he took the bean in the first place.

"I… w-was k-keeping it… for something… l-like this."

Aya looked into her hand at the small ripped off bean.

"Take… it… a-and go to K-Korin…"

Aya shook her head. "No, Vegeta." She slowly picked up the prince's head, "you need it more then I do, you're the one dying, not me."

Vegeta refused to take the bean from her. "Y-You… can't make me…"

"Vegeta stop being so damn stubborn!" Aya bellowed, "take the bean before you die!!" Vegeta let a smirk creep across his lips as he looked at Aya.

"Me? D-Die of a flesh w-wound…?"

'A flesh wound? This is what he calls that?!' Aya thought. She knew that she wasn't going to get Vegeta to eat the bean willingly. She wasn't sure if she was going to get him to eat it at all. Aya sighed, coming up with a plan of her own.

"Fine Vegeta…" Aya said putting his head gently back down onto the tile. "But if I come back here and find you dead, I won't hesitate to teleport myself to Otherworld and take your head off."

"J-Just go…"

Aya tossed the bean into her mouth. She turned around and ran over to the side of the lookout jumping down. As Aya plummeted towards Korin's Tower, she brought her hand to her mouth and spit the bean back out. She wiped it off on her shirt and shoved it into her back pocket. She was doing the same exact thing that Vegeta was doing with the bean, keeping it just in case it was really needed.

Aya flared her ki around her, causing herself to come to a complete halt in front of Korin's tower. She placed her feet onto the railing and one hand onto a nearby pole. She rubb3e her hip a bit; she hurt it when she took off running on the lookout.

"Master Korin?" Aya glanced around her. "Yajirobe?"

There was no answer. Fear suddenly started to build up in her. She afraid that Kira had already came here while they were training. And if that's true, Kira had violated the agreement that her and Areiko had made. But Korin wasn't really a human, he was a talking cat, and she knew that Kira must've been thinking about that.

"Hello? Anyone here?"

"Aya? Is that you?"

Aya turned her head as she slowly climbed off of the railing of the tower. Coming out of his hiding place was Yajirobe. His face was pale, as if something had happened. He glanced around before he actually emerged from his hiding place.

"Why were you hiding?" Aya asked looking at him funny as she cradled her left injured arm.

"I was hiding from Areiko's psycho sibling!" he bellowed. Aya flinched. She really didn't need anyone yelling at her at the moment. She was to worried about Vegeta and Goku to take anyone's crap.

"Where's Master Korin?" Aya asked ignoring the fact that Yajirobe had yelled at her. "I need more senzu beans."

"You're out of luck kid…" came a weak voice behind Aya. She turned around to see Master Korin, but he was beaten up pretty badly. Blood was visible in his white fur, and in some places Aya could see claw marks and burns.

Her eyes widened, her fear coming to reality. But at least Master Korin wasn't dying, so she thought.

After Master Korin had gotten that sentence out of his mouth, he collapsed. Aya and Yajirobe rushed over to him. Aya picked up the small cat holding him close as she turned her head reaching into her back pocket. A hand appeared on her arm, a furry white one. She blinked turning to look at Master Korin.

"Keep it." He said to her, "you're going to need it…" He fell limp. Aya's eyes widened as she turned looking at Yajirobe.

"Why didn't you protect him?!" She shouted. Yajirobe jumped back.

"I tried!" He shouted pointing over to his broken sword. "She was too strong!"

Aya growled. She rested Korin's body on the floor and stood up. "There's gotta be some type of senzu bean around here…" she turned to Yajirobe, growling at him. "Help me look!"

Yajirobe jumped again. "O-okay."

The two of them looked around the area where Korin always had his beans grown. Aya was on her hands and knees looking about. She was pissed. Korin was dead, Vegeta and Goku are dying, Chichi, Bulma, and Videl are in danger, there's not much that Mr. Popo can do about protecting the girls, Goten and Trunks were dead, Yajirobe was basically useless, and Areiko was fighting with Kira. Everything to Aya was hell on earth. She was getting sick of it. But, something deep down actually couldn't help but be excited about it all. Maybe it was from all the years with Vegeta.

"Did you find anything Yajirobe?" Aya asked still searching.

"Nope." He answered picking up a pot and tossing it aside. "I think she ate them all."

Aya looked over her shoulder at Yajirobe. "Ate them?" she repeated. Aya just got a nod from Yajirobe.

"Either she ate them like a fat bitch, or did something else with them."

"Something else?" Aya perked herself onto her heels. "Like what?"

Yajirobe shrugged, "I don't know! Maybe she created an antidote with it."

That's when it hit Aya, she remembered Kira saying something about Goku being poisoned. She probably used the senzu beans to make the poison, and make the antidote. That could explain why all the beans were gone, except for the third in her back pocket that she was going to give to Master Korin before he passed.

She was thinking of giving Goku and Vegeta a little bit of that liquid, but she wasn't sure how much she was supposed to give to Goku, she also wasn't sure what kind of effect it was going to have on Vegeta. It could poison him, or even kill him. Or it could heal him and bring life back into his eyes. Aya didn't like this situation, guess she was just going to have to deal with it the hard way.

"Yajirobe," Aya started looking at the fat man. "It's too dangerous for you to stay here."

"No, you think?" Yajirobe said sarcastically. Aya placed a frown onto her face. She then looked to her side seeing that her rather large gash was still bleeding; she needed to get that patched up before she bled to death.

"Plus," Aya then turned and looked at him again. "Someone needs to protect the girls."

Yajirobe looked at her. "Ooh no! I'm not going to fight that psycho sister of Areiko's!"

"You don't have a choice." Aya stated standing up. "With Goku poisoned and Vegeta dying, you're the only one left."

"Can't you get Dende to heal them?" Yajirobe asked, "and have Goku and Vegeta protect ME?"

Aya looked down. He didn't know about Dende's death, which meant he didn't know that the dragonballs were gone. She sighed looking up at the fat man wearing orange once more. She stuffed her hands into her ripped up pockets and shook her head.

"No… I can't."

"Why not?"

"Because… Dende's dead." Aya answered softly, but loud enough where Yajirobe could hear her. "Kira killed him… and took Videl, Chichi, and Bulma captive. Right now, the only ones standing and possibly able to fight is me and you, and you need to take your part."

Yajirobe stared at Aya. He saw how serious she was. Aya was almost never like that, the only time she was ever serious about something was when she was either in school or in training with Vegeta, or in some type of argument. He decided that he wasn't going to fight with Aya, who looked like she was going to drop dead any minute.

Yajirobe nodded her head, "alright, I'll do it."

"Thank you Yajirobe, you saved me a lot of yelling." Aya said approaching him. Yajirobe nodded his head as he let Aya place her hand onto his shoulder. Using Goku's technique she teleported herself and Yajirobe to the lookout.

Kira was pacing in front of Videl, Bulma, and Chichi. Her arms were crossed tightly around her chest as she mumbled to herself. She couldn't believe that her sister did what she just did; taking that vile away from her and then giving it to Aya so that Goku can live! She couldn't believe it. She wanted to get rid of Goku, not save his life.

Areiko soon came into view from the sky. Kira looked up and lowered her arms glaring as her sister landed in front of her. Kira approached her about to yell.

"Why did you give them that? We're trying to kill them remember!?"

Areiko just glared at Kira, not answering her. She turned her head looking at the women behind her. She then approached slowly, getting fearful looks from them. Kira knew better then to ask her sister what she was doing. She knew that whatever is was, Areiko was doing what she thought she had to do.

Areiko grabbed onto Chichi's chains tightly lifting her to her feet. Chichi looked into Areiko's eyes, seeing how cold they looked when they stared at her. She wished that she could just run away, but she knew that she couldn't, one because of the chains and two Areiko would just kill her on the spot.

"Do ka dessyre da mer?" Areiko asked looking at Chichi

(Do you want to die?)

But Chichi didn't answer her since she didn't have a clue what Areiko was saying. She then tossed her to the side towards Kira, who caught her since Areiko threw Chichi hard enough where she just went straight towards Kira. Areiko turned her head looking at Kira. She then pointed up into the air at the top of the cliff. Kira turned her head looking up. She then got the hint that Areiko was giving to her. She wanted her to tie Chichi and the other women to the side to the side of the mountain, and that's what she was going to do. When suddenly something hit her. Why is she listening to her? She wants to kill her sister.

She then decided that she was going to let her sister do whatever she wanted. She was just going to kill her afterwards.