Her Return
Chapter Thirty
Aya turned around quickly. Vegeta hung in Kira's grip, her claws still dug deeply within the hole in his stomach. Her eyes widened as she started to run over to him, her arm stretched out in his direction.
"Vegeta!"
Bam, Areiko was right in front of her with a disgusting, evil smirk on her face. She swung her claws from Aya's right, leaving four gaping gashes on her cheek. Aya's body spun with the force of Areiko's claws swiping her face. She hit the ground kicking up dust. She turned her head quickly in Areiko's direction to see her hand pointed down at her getting ready to shoot a ki beam. Aya quickly got to her hands and knees and leapt out of the way. Areiko's beam hit the ground causing an explosion that sent rubble and dust everywhere.
Aya coughed placing her hand over her mouth to keep the dust from getting in her lungs. She then lightly placed her fingers on the four gaping gashing on her face and hissed loudly. She then quickly turned her direction towards a ki level that was coming at her extremely face. She jumped up to her feet and got into a stance. She was about to leap out of the way when she realized that it was Vegeta.
"Vegeta?" Aya let down her guard. Suddenly, Areiko came from her right slamming her shoulder into Aya's side. Aya yelped in pain and was tossed to the ground as Areiko grabbed a hold of Vegeta, who was in too much pain to do anything.
Vegeta tried to grab onto Areiko's wrist, to get her to let go, but suddenly, pain shot through his back and Areiko had let him go. Vegeta tumbled forward a few times as he slowly came to a stop on his back. He quickly placed his hand onto his bleeding stomach and looked over. Kira was standing right next to Areiko. He sat up slowly glaring at the two.
"Y-You're cheating," Vegeta said.
Kira smirked, "since when do villains play fair?" she asked. Vegeta growled, but he quickly stopped growling when Areiko and Kira disappeared. Vegeta looked around frantically, trying to figure out where his enemies went.
Suddenly, Aya appeared at his side wrapping his arm around her neck and moved quickly, causing the saiyan prince to wince. Vegeta and Aya looked back, two ki beams had hit where Vegeta was once laying, making a small crater in the ground.
Aya landed on her feet and set Vegeta on the ground. "Are you alright?" she asked him. Vegeta nodded his head holding his stomach.
"Y-Yeah…"
"You… didn't take the senzu bean did you?" Aya asked. The prince looked up at the young fighter before him. He was about to answer when he suddenly saw Areiko teleporting right behind Aya. His eyes widened as he suddenly shoved Aya to the side and threw his hand forward.
"Gatlick Gun!"
Areiko didn't see that coming, and she was hit right in her stomach. She yelped like a dog and fell to the ground. She skids a few feet sending up some dust. Vegeta was expecting to see her get to her feet, but she didn't stand, she was out like a light.
Vegeta found that to be a bit odd, but then, there was a voice behind him. "You hurt my sister."
Vegeta turned his head to see Kira standing behind him. Suddenly, Aya came out of nowhere and tackled the beast to the ground. The prince knew that Aya could handle Kira for the time being. He stood to his feet and limped himself over to Areiko, keeping his distance just in case she was faking her unconsciousness. But when he got to her, he could see that she wasn't.
Something shook Areiko awake. She sat upright and looked around. Everything was silent, extremely silent. There wasn't even a word of her darker half to tell her to go back to sleep, as a matter of fact, her darker half was nowhere to be found.
Areiko stood to her feet but then fell back down. Her legs felt really weak, she couldn't stand. Suddenly, someone appeared sitting right next to her. She looked over to see her darker half, the light around her was half way faded.
"We're unconscious." She said.
"Huh?"
"God, what are you stupid? We're unconscious, and Vegeta did it."
Areiko stared at her darker self. The woman sitting next to her then pointed over to the right. "Look."
Areiko looked over, there before her – as if she was watching some movie - she saw Aya's back. Suddenly Aya was shoved to the ground and she was now looking at Vegeta. The saiyan prince looked at Areiko as he threw his hand forward. He shouted something, but Areiko couldn't quite hear what he said. His attack hit her, and everything on the screen that she was looking at went blank.
"See?"
Areiko turned to look at her.
"None of them care for you."
"Aya does." Areiko said looking at her. "She was telling the truth, I could tell."
"Oh really? How?"
"Aya never lies to me." Areiko said to her, "she always tells me everything, no matter what it is."
Her darker half turned her head. "Psh. Pathetic." She stood up. "Can you stand?"
"N-no…" Areiko answered feeling a little ashamed. "Why?"
Her darker half smirked, "good, that means you're almost there."
"Almost where?"
"The darkness is coming for you my dear sister."
Areiko blinked a few times, she then caught on to what was going on. "Wait… you bitch! You were planning this all along weren't you?!"
Her darker half smirked. "Planning… what?"
"You were planning for me to fall completely into darkness so that you could take over my body and kill everyone weren't you?! You fucking bitch!"
Areiko tried getting up, but she fell back over. Her darker half laughed at her. Areiko really was weak, she always caught onto things at the last minute.
"You're too late." She said. "You're already becoming one with the darkness, and once you become one, you can never go back."
Areiko growled. She suddenly threw her hand forward firing a ki blast at her. Her darker half was caught off guard and was flung to the ground, hitting her head. She growled as she stood up, blood dripping from her hair, down her forehead and in between her eyes.
"You'll pay for that bitch…"
Vegeta blinked a few times. He spotted the blood dripping down Areiko's head. He hesitated for a moment, but then searched her head over for some type of wound. But there wasn't one. He blinked a few times trying to figure out where the blood was coming from. He sighed and turned his head towards Aya and Kira.
The two of them were rolling around on the ground. Aya was trying to pin Kira down and Kira was just trying to get the short girl off of her. Suddenly, Kira flared her ki throwing Aya up into the air. Aya flipped a few times landing on her feet and standing upright, afterwards, she quickly got into her stance and looked at Kira.
Kira got to her feet just to laugh, "you think you can take me on?"
"I don't think Kira," Aya said, "I know."
Kira growled loudly. "You're smartass punk." She spat disappearing. Aya glanced around; she was trying to pinpoint Kira's exact location. But when she finally got a lock on her, Kira had already punched Aya in her stomach.
Aya stumbled back, cradling her stomach in pain. Kira lunged forward again kneeing the young fighter in her face. Aya was thrown upwards into the air. Kira leapt above her and stuck out her foot. She flared her ki and shot herself downwards impaling Aya's stomach with her foot. Aya got the wind knocked right out of her. She and Kira both plummeted to the ground and formed a crater. But the more Kira flared her ki, the deeper the crater got.
Areiko's eyes widened as she watched her darker half get onto all fours and lunge at her. Since she couldn't move her legs, she levitated into the air and tried dodging that way. But her animal self was able to catch on to what she was doing and change her direction.
Her animal self got Areiko right at her side, scratching her. She winced a bit and turned to face her darker half who landed behind her.
"Who the fuck are you anyway?"
"You mean you don't know?" her evil half asked, raising an eyebrow. Areiko shook her head, "haha! You ARE an idiot."
Areiko just glared.
"I have no name," she answered, "but I guess I'll take the name of Lekira."
Areiko blinked, "my… saiyan name?"
Lekira sighed, "are you really this dense? I'm your evil half! The half that likes to kill! I was the first born. You were the second born. Kakkarot named you, Father Orx named me.
"Therefore, this is my body."
"If this is your body then why do I have so much control?"
"You don't have control now do you?" Lekira asked, "I'm fully awakened. Now that I'm awake, we're both going to be fighting for the right to this body. Because I won't be giving up."
"And neither will I."
Lekira smirked. "Then let's get the battle going then huh? The first one to fall loses."
"Fine."
Areiko could start to feel her legs again. This was a good sign; she was coming out of Lekira's spell. Areiko found this to be wonderful. But she still had to deal with Lekira. Areiko was going to turn towards her, when she suddenly vanished. Her eyes widened as she looked around quickly.
"This is my territory!" Lekira shouted her voice echoing around Areiko. Suddenly, something pounced at Areiko's back sending her forward. She slid across the invisible floor with someone on her back digging their claws into her flesh. Areiko managed to reach over her head and grab not the shoulder blades of Lekira's robe.
Areiko tore her right off of her back. Lekira's claws ripped through her flesh as she flung across the room. She instantly jumped to her feet and got into her stance as Lekira ran towards her in zigzagged lines.
Aya grabbed onto Kira's ankle, holding her in place on her stomach. Kira growled loudly as she started to bash her other foot into Aya's hand. Aya winced in pain as she felt the bones in her hand start to crumble under the pressure of Kira's stomping.
"Let go of me you bitch!" Kira shouted. Aya closed one eye tightly as she smirked. Kira blinked looking at her oddly.
"Gatlick… GUN!" Aya threw up her hand shooting Kira right in her face.
Vegeta watched from his position next to Areiko as Kira and a purple beam came flying out of the crater that was created. He knew that Aya could hold her own in this battle so he slowly got to his feet with his hand on his stomach. The prince turned and walked over to Bulma, Videl, and Chichi.
"Vegeta are you alright?" Bulma asked her husband watching him walk over.
"Yeah," he answered. "Lean forward." He demanded from the women.
Without question, the three women leaned forward. One by one Vegeta shot at the chains, but he didn't use to much ki in yet not to little. The chains broke and fell to the ground instantly.
Bulma was the one first one to get to her feet after pushing the heavy metal chains off of her. She approached Vegeta looking at him. "Let me see."
"No, I'll be fine." Vegeta said holding his hand out to her. "You need to get out of here."
"But…"
"Do it onna!" Vegeta shouted. "Head back to the city. After the battle we'll find you."
Bulma looked at her husband and just nodded her head. "Alright," she said looking at Videl and Chichi. "Come on, let's go."
"But which way is the city from here?" Chichi asked.
Vegeta sighed and pointed. "That way…" he said with a moan. Chichi blinked and then placed a nervous smile on her face.
"Heh… well I don't know. I don't live in the city." Chichi stated feeling dumb about her question.
"It's okay Chichi," Videl said placing her hand onto her shoulder. "Let's just go."
The three women took off in sprint, and Vegeta watched them closely. He sighed glad that his wife was able to get away from the fight. Suddenly he heard Aya's scream.
"AAAAHH!!!"
Vegeta turned quickly, but when he turned to look, there was an explosion.