Her Return

Chapter Thirty-Four

The wind blew furiously, blowing dust around the scenery that really didn't have any scenery at all. The ground was flat and leveled. Even the mountains that once surrounded the desert plain were gone. It was a complete waste land. Nothing was alive, or was there?

The area was pretty much leveled except for a rather large lump in the dust that lay there peacefully. When the wind howled, the lump groaned and lifted up a small section. Come to find out, the lump in the ground wasn't a lump, it was a person. A person that went by the name of Aya Briefs.

Aya shook her head shaking the dust out of her hair. She wiped the dirt off of her face as she slowly got to her hands and knees. She listened as the wind howled again blowing the dust right off of her body. Aya checked herself out, the only main injury that she had to worry about, was the injury on her side that was torn open again. She placed her hand on her side and pressed down hard, feeling the warm blood seep through her fingers.

The wind howled again, whipping dust into Aya's face. She covered herself and waited for the wind to die down. Afterwards, she got to her feet and looked around.

"Areiko!" Aya called out, her voice echoing throughout the flat and leveled area. "AREEEEEIKOOOO!!"

AREEEEEIKOOOO!!

The only response that Aya got was her own echo. Since the area was pretty much leveled, she could see as far as her eye sight would allow her too. Being able to see that far, she couldn't find Areiko anywhere.

"AREIKO!"

Kira touched the tile floor of the lookout. She smirked keeping her eyes locked on the saiyan prince who was backing away from her. The red aura continued to roar around the psycho villain that was staring at Vegeta with a deadly glare.

"Something wrong?" Kira asked approaching Vegeta. "You look a little scared to me."

"Scared my ass," Vegeta snapped. "Where are Aya and Areiko?"

Kira started laughing evilly. Vegeta watched her closely; he knew that the way that she was laughing wasn't a good thing. He also knew that he wasn't going to like her answer.

"Aya and Sister Lekira are dead."

Vegeta's eyes widened. "What…?"

"Do I have to spell it out for you?" the aura around Kira broke away. "They're D-E-A-D dead."

"I don't believe you." Vegeta snapped clenching his fists.

"You don't have to believe me." Kira said, "but it'll be easier for you to fight me believing that they're dead then trying to tell yourself that they're not."

Vegeta just growled. Kira's smirk seemed to widen as she sniffed the air a little bit. She looked straight at Vegeta as she began cracking her knuckles. "I smell some humans, and a saiyan that I haven't killed yet."

Vegeta's eyes widen again. He was the only fighter that was able to fight at the moment. Chichi could try to help, but she would just get hurt. Yajirobe was definitely no help to Vegeta, all he would do is just randomly swing his sword around and hope that he'd hit Kira. Videl would probably be the only one that would give some type of help to the saiyan prince, and that would be protecting the children.

Kira went to leap over Vegeta till he threw himself at her, tackling her to the ground. The two wrestled around a bit till Kira punched the saiyan prince directly in his stomach. Vegeta gasped feeling the air from his lungs escape him in one breath. Kira smirked as she then latched her claws into the flesh on his shoulder. She threw him into the concrete creating a crater. Kira threw him with such force that Vegeta was instantly knocked out.

"That was too easy." She said. "To bad this wasn't a movie or right when I'd say that you'd jump right back on your feet and punch me." She walked around the crater cracking her knuckles again entering the lookout building.

It didn't take long for someone to know that Kira was coming. Goku's eyes widened as he looked at Chichi. "She's coming…"

Chichi blinked seating herself on the bed. "Who Goku?"

"K-Kira… hide the kids." Goku demanded seriously. Chichi's eyes widened as she turned to Bulla and Pan who were playing in the corner of the room.

Chichi turned to Videl and Bulma who were standing by their kids. She stared at them till they looked at her. Instantly they could tell from the look on her face that something was up. Videl picked up Pan and Bulma picked up Bulla.

"Mama, what wrong?" Pan asked looking into her mother's face.

"I need you to be really quiet Pan, okay?" Videl asked looking at her daughter. Pan nodded her head, almost as if she knew what was going to happen. Bulma had told Bulla the same exact thing as they approached the closet.

Pan almost started crying. Videl didn't want to put her daughter in there again, but she was doing it for her own safety. Right when Bulma and Videl were about to put their kids on the floor, Goku spoke.

"All of you go in there." Goku ordered. Chichi instantly turned her head towards her husband.

"But Goku…"

"Chichi… listen to me." Goku placed his hand onto his wife's and tangled their fingers together. "Kira, as you know is ruthless. I don't want anything to happen to you. So please, just listen to me and get in the closet, all of you. Including you Yajirobe."

"You don't have to tell me twice." Yajirobe said approaching another closet that was located in the room. He opened and the door and stuffed himself within it and closed it. Chichi looked at her husband seeing how serious he was. She sighed and stood up off of the bed approaching the closet where she will hide with Videl, Bulma, Bulla, and Pan.

As Chichi stepped into the closet, Videl and Bulma pulled their children into their laps seating themselves down onto the floor. Chichi took a few more steps back pressing her back against the farthest wall in the cramped room. She slid to the floor tucking her knees to her chest wrapping her arms around her legs. That's when she started trembling.

Bulma reached out placing her hand onto Chichi's shoulder. When the blue haired woman touched her best friend's shoulder, her arm began to shake from the trembling that Chichi's body was producing.

"Chichi, he'll be fine…" Bulma said quietly.

"I… I hope so…" Chichi replied softly resting her chin on her knees.

That's when the door to the bedroom was kicked open, causing the women and the kids in the closet to jump. Videl buried Pan's head in her shoulder to reassure her that nothing was going to happen to her. Bulma just gently placed her hand over her daughter's mouth whispering to her in her ear to keep her calm.

Kira kicked the door, the door flung to the floor with a loud 'thud.' She stepped onto the wood door glancing around with her catlike eyes. She spotted the closet door to the left that was cracked open a little bit, but took no note of it. She continued to scan the room till her eyes came to a saiyan lying on his death bed in the room.

A smirk came across her pale face, "well, well, well." Kira placed her hands onto her hips. "Look who I found."

Goku glared at the monster in the room. Of course he knew that there was nothing that he could've done because of the state he's in. He kept his body from trembling, and kept the smell of fear from escaping his body as Kira approached him.

"How are you feeling Goku?" Kira asked looking at his wrapped up body.

"Just fine…" Goku answered.

"I bet you're wondering if your Areiko is alright, correct?"

"No." Goku answered. The reason why he wasn't to worried about her is because something deep down in Goku told him that Areiko and Aya were just fine.

Kira let a slight – but not so surprising – gasp escape her body, "you aren't? I'm completely shocked."

Goku just growled lowly.

"If I didn't know any better," Kira started walking to the right side of the bed. "That growl kind of gives me the thought that you're challenging me."

Goku kept silent.

"I'll take your silence as a yes…"

Kira suddenly kicked the mattress, sending it flying across the room. Goku fell to the floor as the mattress hit the wall and collapsed down onto him. He groaned in pain clenching his fists tightly and gritting his teeth as he laid on the cold tile. Kira smirked as she grabbed the end board of the bed and flung it to the other side of the room near the closet that Yajirobe was hiding in. The wood broke to pieces and the bed was now tilted in a slope looking like a slide.

Kira walked around the bed walking towards Goku. She grabbed the mattress by the white sheet that covered it and flung it out the door. Goku laid there on the ground shaking in pain. He opened one eye looking up at Kira as she knelt down, her knees cracking, to get to his eye level.

"Can't you get up?" She asked with a smirk. "Oh wait, that's right. I poisoned you and then dropped you off a cliff. I'm," Kira stood and bashed her foot into Goku's face. "Sorry about that."

Blood gushed out of Goku's nose and mouth as his head dropped to the floor. Kira smirked again reaching down picking Goku up by the back of his neck. She lifted him into the air and held him out in front of her. She pulled her fist back and began punching the injured and weak saiyan over and over in the middle of his back.

Goku cried out in tremendous pain. Yajirobe tried getting out of the closet, but the wood that had broken on his door had jammed it, making it impossible for him to get out. Also the space was a little to small for him to draw his sword and slice the door in half.

Chichi watched her husband's beating from the closet. She was on her hands and knees peering out of the crack that she had left when she entered the closet to hide herself from the monster. Her eyes widened with every punch she watched Kira give to her helpless husband. Videl and Bulma tried pulling her back away from the door so that they could close it, but Chichi would not budge.

Kira's beating to Goku's back ceased, and she dropped the saiyan to the floor. Goku was on the verge of letting tears drop from his eyes. Kira smirked looking down at the weak, and pathetic saiyan beneath her.

"Just like dirt," Kira said placing her foot where she was punching Goku. Goku winced as he felt the pressure of her weight appear on his back. "And just like dirt, you'll disappear into the wind."

She held out her hand.

"NO!" Chichi cried throwing the closet door open and running over to them. Kira turned her head to look at Chichi right when the human woman placed her hands onto her sides shoving her away from the saiyan on the floor. To Kira's surprise, she stumbled losing her balance. But she quickly regained it to watch as Chichi threw herself onto Goku.

"Chichi what are you doing?!" Videl cried out from their hiding spot. There was no use hiding now, Chichi just revealed where they were.

"Don't kill him!" Chichi cried, tears in her eyes. "Please…"

Kira smirked. She loved to see people beg in front of her. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't?"

"Gwandma Chichi!" Pan screamed, crying loudly.

Chichi was silent for a moment, "… because he can't defend himself…"

"Ch-Chichi…" Goku mumbled softly, but was quickly shushed when Chichi placed her finger on his lips, her eyes never leaving Kira.

"Sorry," Kira held up her hand, a red ki ball forming within her palm. "That's not a good enough reason."

Chichi pulled Goku close to her as she clenched her eyes shut holding her husband to her chest as she listened to Kira's evil laughter and Bulma, Videl, Bulla, and Pan's cries.

"AREIKO!" Aya screamed holding her side that was bleeding not so bad anymore. Aya looked about but there was still no sign of Areiko. "Areiko! Come on! This isn't a time to be doing this! Kira's out loose somewhere! We have to stop her!"

A few hundred yards away - maybe feet, laid another lump in the ground. This one laid more still then the other lump that turned out to be Aya. Blood stained the ground beneath the lump as a groan came from it when the wind blew and knocked a small rock onto her ear. A hand lifted up from the sand, removing the rock.

"Ugh…" came another painful groan as it sat up onto their knees.

The lump on the ground turned out to be Son Areiko. She shook her head shaking the dust out that formed in a circle around her as the wind blew a tornado around her. Her ponytail whipped against her face as the wind blew by. Areiko curled a piece of loose hair around her ear as the wind slowly died down.

Areiko looked around seeing that she was still in the desert. The horrible dream that she had about Kira was actually happening. That thought scared Areiko an awful lot. She looked around the area to see that there was no one around. Not even a mountain. She thought back to what had happened with Kira's power suddenly exploding and realized that she and Aya had gotten separated. She tried standing up, but a sharp pain shot through her ankle causing her to collapse to the ground once more.

Areiko cradled and nursed her broken ankle rocking back and forth with her eyes clenched. "Fuck…" she cursed trying to get the pain to stop. She glanced around her one more time. "Looks like I'm stuck here…"

That's when she saw a figure in the distance. "AYA!"