~Takula Saga~
Chapter 49 – Crimson Silver
It was quiet for a moment. A shining silver Gohan, a blazing red Videl, and a black as night Darkon. Their energy was like a flame around them, accenting their facial features. Videl and Gohan showed determination, while Darkon's crazed smile continued to grow. The others were currently grounded, but not out of the fight yet. For now, they would watch and only act when they felt their wounds would allow it. The thoughts were not on who would win, they had confidence in Gohan and Videl.
Their main thoughts were if this space station would be able to hold itself together while they duked it out.
All three moved at once, charging towards the other side. The onlooker's eyes darted from one side of the room to another, watching a seemingly invisible battle being waged before them. Despite being out numbered, Darkon was not outmatched. Gohan and Videl were being given all they could handle by the Gohan look-a-like.
A sudden break occurred in the action with both Gohan and Videl backing off to regroup only for a moment. As they charged once again, Darkon countered this time by flattening his hands and consuming them in a black flame to create a blade, one for each of his two hands. Spinning like a top, Darkon slashed towards the two incoming fighters. Both Gohan and Videl barely noticed it, both planting their inner foot and pushing off.
The bladed hand seemed to be moving in slow motion as it approached Gohan and Videl's necks. They both reared their heads back, trying to muster out every centimeter of safety they could get. The blade just grazed their necks as it passed, time seeming to return to normal after that. Planting their now outside feet, Gohan and Videl charged after Darkon. Darkon stopped, the black energy around his hands subsiding as he planted his own outside foot and charged right back at the two fighters.
Gohan and Videl let loose two punches aimed right for Darkon's face. The black copy pushed off his feet and flipped up into the air and over the punches. As Videl and Gohan passed underneath him, Darkon shot his legs out towards them like they were spring loaded. Both Gohan and Videl stopped, catching the kick just before they hit the sides of their heads. Now both of them span around, imbedding the back of their heels into Darkon's back. Darkon was sent flying forwards, recovering only before hitting the wall of the large room.
All to familiar black tattoo's started to make themselves known all over Darkon's body as he hung there on the wall, a wicked smile on his face. Gohan took a step back, taking a defensive position.
"Videl, get ready."
Videl only had time to nod before Darkon was upon them again, the black lines outlining his body. His skin looked especially pale when compared to the lines, and the lines seemed to be darker than last time. Gohan didn't have time to observe them past that however, due to Darkon taking over the dominating role of the fight. It was Gohan and Videl's turn to be on the defensive.
Darkon didn't give them time to think about fighting back anyway. It was almost as if there were to of him, he was moving so fast between both Gohan and Videl that all they could do was hold their own. Gohan started to notice something happening however, two things actually. One, was that the lines on Darkon's skin were starting to form bones, just like last time. Except this time he hadn't eaten his own energy yet. And number two was the fact that the portal to Hell was starting to falter. Gritting his teeth, he returned to focusing one hundred present on Darkon.
The bone looking tattoo's finished forming on Darkon's skin, and a burst of black energy ripped through him just as he threw a punch at both Gohan and Videl. They both crossed their arms infront of themselves, but the punch broke through easily with the extra boost of energy.
Both Gohan and Videl crashed into the ground below on opposite sides of the large room. Krillin moved to Gohan, digging him out from under the debris. Videl's body twitched slightly as she tried to control herself and not give into the pain she just took. Darkon simple smiled, taking a step towards Videl.
Darkon was interrupted however by a golden ball of light exploding on his shoulder. Turning, he found Bardock to be the one pointing the hand at him. Darkon smirked, amused that such small pray would even try something. Bardock simply glared down the enemy.
"I've had enough of watching. Saiyan's fight as one, let's finish this guy all ready."
Darkon fazed behind Bardock, his hands behind his head. "Oh? You'll all die anyway. All that's left to decide is the order. Feel free to volunteer."
"No!" Goku took off towards his father, racing towards him. Bardock's eyes were wide as he started to turn around. Faster than either of the identical looking fighters could react to, Darkon ducked down to the ground and pushed off towards the side. As he passed under Goku, Darkon shot countless jabs that were little more than blur's of light. The second Goku's eyes noticed Darkon to be missing his body registered the pain, saliva shot from his mouth as he crashed into his father.
Darkon skidded to a stop on the ground, smirking as he pushed his hand off the ground in order to get up.
"Like I said, the choice in order is yours."
Gotenks was next, pulling up his sword as he charged Darkon. Black flames surrounded the flat palms of Darkon, a wild grin covering his face as he glanced behind him to find the young fused swordsman charging him. Spinning around Darkon's palms made an x infront of himself, catching Gotenks falling blade. Gotenks glared at the one who had pushed Gohan and Videl into the ground, while Darkon simply chuckled back.
A flurry of slashes and the sound of metal grinding. Darkon's style seemingly changed, his focus now on using his hands like blades. The glowing Z-Sword was helping Gotenks hold his own, but he was clearly currently on the defective. Slashes started to show up all over his body, Gotenk's clothes starting to get cut along with just a little of his skin. Small blood drops started to trickle down his body, the stinging pain of lots of large paper cuts burning his skin. The flames on Darkon's hands suddenly shot up his arms, the black maniac shooting past Gotenks. The Z-Sword flew into the air, Gotenks sporting a startled look on his slightly bloody face. The sword landed, blade sticking into the ground just infront of the fused boy. Gotenks slowly started to turn his head around in fear, only to find something moving towards his eyes.
Gotenks took the backhand of Darkon's fist to his face, sending him flying towards the ground. Just as the fused being hit the ground, Goten and Trunks separated from one another. The two boy's bounced off the cold hard ground, their bodies twisting till they came in contact again with the floor, this time their bodies coming to a rest. Darkon smirked as he held his right palm towards the two of them a black ball of energy forming in his hand.
Vegeta grit his teeth together, his hair flashing to gold as he shot towards his son. Darkon fired the black ball only for Vegeta to get there just in time to swat the ball away. Darkon merely chuckled. Without even fazing out of view, Darkon appeared next to Vegeta. It was as if he teleported, he moved so fast there wasn't even any lag time between him disappearing and reappearing. Vegeta's eyes widened when he noticed the palm of Darkon come to rest on his forehead from out of nowhere.
A moment of silence passed before the screaming started.
It was blood curdling. A black M flashed upon Vegeta's head, his vein's on his body bulging ridiculously. His arms moved to Darkon's, trying with all his might to rip Darkon's arm's of, but it was all for not. Black lightning started to spark around Vegeta's body, and then it stopped just as suddenly. It however didn't stop crackling around Darkon's arm, and after Darkon released Vegeta's head the fighter fell to his knees. Vegeta's eyes were white, and his skin was as pale as a ghost. Finally, Vegeta fell forward to the ground, his body resting on the metal unconscious.
Videl struggled to her feet, her red aura still surrounding her body. In a burst of crimson, she took off towards Darkon once again with the same fire in her eyes. The two entered into a stalemate of sorts, both side throwing both punches and kicks only for the attacks to be blocked.
Krillin lifted up Gohan's head, Gohan sucking in air. His eyes landed on Videl fighting, and his body instantly started to stand up. Krillin was thrown into a panic at first.
"Whoa Gohan! Just a sec, you need to catch you're breath!"
"Krillin, just keep that portal running and I'll take care of the rest!" With that, Gohan pushed himself back up rather quickly and shot back towards the fray. Krillin stretched out his arm in an attempt to stop him as he left, but it was rather pointless. Clenching his fist around his new device he got from this place, he turned to the portal and ran towards it. It was wavering, but if he fed some energy into it somehow, it might stay open long enough for whatever Gohan was planning.
Darkon grinned, a dark orb forming in his hand. "You remember this...right? It's time to end this, I grow tired, and the universe needs to be attended to..."
Lifting the black ball of energy up to his mouth, Darkon swallowed it whole, the ball sliding down his gullet as his throat expended to much for it to still even look remotely human. A black orb surrounded Darkon, his crazy laughter only minority silenced. A second or two after it had completely formed, a single crack made itself known. It was followed by another, and another, and then another. Soon the entire ball was cracks from head to toe. In a violent explosion of black flames, the cracking bubble popped.
Those who could shielded themselves, those who couldn't simply tried to hold on as the pain surrounded them. Gohan covered his eyes, gritting through the pain. Videl fell to a knee, but she wasn't about to count herself out. Pain wasn't something new to her, and she would be damned before she let a little stop her now...even if that little was really a lot.
Finally, the flames subsided. The metal flooring had been stripped away from where Darkon had been standing, the useless machinery now pushed to the far edges of the room. He looked normal. White hair, same clothes, still looked just like Gohan. However, in his hands and legs, instead of black lines, white stones were now there.
"What do ya think? Like the new look?"
Gohan barely had time to grit his teeth in frustration. Darkon fazed over to his side, and it took all the silver haired Gohan's reaction speed to block himself from a solid hit. After skidding back for what seemed like forever, Gohan came to a halt. This was bad, Darkon was a lot powerful now.
They didn't have time to come up with a plan, let alone share it with the other one. Darkon was upon both of them again, raining down attacks on them all the while it seemed like they couldn't find a spot to counter-attack. Finally, one of the punches broke through Videl's deffences. She took a solid hit to her stomach, saliva and blood spitting out. Darkon didn't wast time, landing several other hits, pushing her body higher into the air before Gohan could get over there. Just as he did however, Darkon turned to him.
Gohan had lost his focus for a second, due to seeing Videl so brutally beaten and that was all Darkon needed. Punches started to rain down, all of them smashing into Gohan's face and ribs. Finally, just as Videl's tired body returned to the floor Darkon gave the finishing blow to the last string of combos. Gohan fell over limp, next to Videl. Both were sucking in air, and were losing more than just saliva from their mouths. Gohan growled, he knew this was bad. They'd have to go full tilt as well if they'd want to hold their own.
"Videl, forget about the ship. Let's go all out."
Videl gave a silent nod, confirming that she had heard him. The two stood, tucking in their shoulders and elbows, roaring out to a Darkon who was watching with a rather amused face. The silver around Gohan and the red around Videl doubled in size. Darkon only chuckled, but was forced to stop when Gohan's fist connected with his face. As he was rolling from the hit, Videl gathered a powerful golden energy ball in her hand and brought it forward, pushing the ball into Darkon's side. It exploded, causing Darkon to stumble to the side.
Gohan and Videl didn't let up. Gohan reared a fist back, firing it only for it to get caught by Darkon. Darkon threw his own punch, but Gohan caught that one. The two started to push against one another, trying to over take the others.
Videl jumped back, putting her right hand on her left hand's wrist. Holding her left hand then like a gun, she pointed it at Darkon. "I call this little move the Erasa Gun!"
A red ball of light formed at the tip of Videl's finer, and when she felt the time was right for it, fired it like her hand was a real gun. Darkon growled, giving up his game of push with Gohan in order to dodge the blast, only to take a boot to his stomach. Darkon coughed as Gohan's foot sent him flying towards the wall again.
Videl took pursuit of Darkon, her fists starting to glow white like they had back at the World Martial Art's tournament. Darkon span around, getting ready to push himself off the wall and back at her and Gohan only to find Videl all ready in his face.
"And I'll call this my Sharpner Straight!"
The white fist smacked into Darkon's face, forcing his head to fly back and bounce off the wall. As it bounced back forward, Videl let him have the other fist as well. Darkon's head bounced once more.
The ship was by now violently shaken, to sum it up it felt like it was falling apart at the seams. Takula looked around, worried as he tried to help Krillin keep the portal open. The other fighters were still rendered useless, but most of them were using their senses to follow the fight up till then. The violent shaking meant that their powerful battle was destroying the ship, and the shaking was getting more frequent and stronger. Things would have to wrap up soon.
Darkon looked startled, tired, and burned. His breathing was raged, and both Videl and Gohan knew it was time to finish it. The two moved as one, circling around Darkon until they reached either side of him at the same time.
As precise as machines, the two struck Darkon at the same time at the same place. Darkon couldn't even try to block as the attacks rained down on him, the hits connecting at the same time. His chest and back took a punch. His body hung motionless as he coughed up blood mixed with saliva. Gohan and Videl leaned forward, connecting a foot to his chin and the back of Darkon's head. Darkon slightly rose into the air, his eyes starting to blur out. Finally, Videl and Gohan twisted around, the silver and red flames of energy around them moving with them. Now meeting on the same side of Darkon's body, the two sent him flying with a final synchronized punch towards the portal.
It wasn't over, however. Gohan and Videl leaned back into a familiar stance, Gohan to his right and Videl to her left. Their hands met in the middle behind them, their cupped hands forming a single blue orb. Their voices resonated in unison as well, the sound reaching the still flying Darkon's ears.
"Ka…me…ha…me…!"
The blue orb grew in size, the destroyed room around them reacting to the massive amounts of concentrated energy radiating off the two teens. Their flames faded around their bodies, all the energy moving towards this attack. Darkon's eyes widened, his teeth grinding against themselves.
"HA!"
"Like HELL I'm going back!"
Darkon twisted around mid air, landing back on his feet and thrusting his hands forward all in one motion. A black energy beam shot from his hands towards Gohan and Videl. The two thrust their hands forward as well, a blue beam they both were feeding shooting forward to meet the other attack.
The attacks hit one another hard, the space station groaning as it tried to hold itself together. The attacks pushed against one another, one side blue as the sky and the other side black as night. Gohan and Videl grit their teeth, trying to dig their feet into anything and everything in order so that they wouldn't be pushed back.
Most of the other fighters were struggling to come to now. Goku forced one of his eyes to open, trying with all his might to get the rest of his body to listen to him and move. Takula stood by Krillin, both whom were trying their best to keep the portal to hell open despite the strain on their body growing increasingly prevalent with each passing second. Trunks and Goten lay motionless still, however both of them were sensing the battle out. Bardock tried to suck in as much air as he could, trying to get up and be of some use. Vegeta was the last one still out cold, the strain of the dark energy being ripped from his body having taken an enormous amount of toll on his mind and body.
Videl closed shut her eyes, her body starting to shake. Was it just her being tired, or something more than that? She hated herself for admitting it, but this was scary. No, it was terrifying! The fate of not only earth, but the entire universe was on her shoulders! Who in their right minds could be confident at a time like this with a load like that? Her knee's started to bend, the kamehameha losing its strength. The black beam slowly started to push the blue one back, causing Videl to worry even more.
It...it just was too much for her! She...she wanted to go back to fighting normal crime. She could handle that easy. But this…this was too much for her to face like this…
"Breathe."
Suddenly, a strange sense of calm wash over Videl. Her eyes opened, blinking a few times as she tried to get used to this sensation. It was as if…she could hear a second heartbeat. Turning her head to the side, she caught site of a smiling Gohan. Videl was silent, to startled to speak.
"Just relax. I know it's scary, but we won't lose."
"…but, but how do you know?"
"That's easy; you're here to help me. There's no way I'd lose. Now, shall we finish this?"
Videl blinked a few times before smirking back at Gohan. "You geek. Stop trying to act all cool. You should know I don't fall for that mushy junk."
Gohan chuckled, turning back towards the task at hand. The black energy beam was still closing in on them, however, Videl was back. Both Gohan and Videl reared their arms back, and then thrust them back forward. The Kamehameha doubled in size, the silver and red energy's around Videl and Gohan mixing together as they roared out. The blue beam once again matched the black one.
Darkon grit his teeth, leaning into his attack more as the black marks all over his body started to glow very brightly as his attack grew in size as well. Gohan and Videl winced under the pressure, their attack once again being forced back. Videl took note of Gohan's energy, her energy, and how they were blending together. After taking a deep breath, she let out a battle roar a Saiyan would have been proud of. Gohan matched her with his own, this time their silver and crimson energy's become like that of a tornado of flames around them.
The blue beam blew past the black one as if it weren't even there. Darkon only had time to widen his eyes before it hit him.
Krillin and Takula closed their eyes shut tight as the beam of energy shot into the portal.
-DBZ-
Back in Hell, the bad guys whom were recently relieved of their darkness were enjoying their time together much to the bafflement of the Saiyan's on guard. King Vegeta however suddenly got a bad feeling as he turned behind him to face the portal. In an instant, he roared for everyone to scatter, and everyone did as told. Seconds later, a blue beam shot out the portal. Inside the Kamehameha towards the front of it, Darkon's cloths were starting to disintegrate, his body being pushed and ripped apart even as his face never even flinched.
His back arched his skin now starting to be ripped and burned, yet he never made a noise. His halo re-appeared above his head, his body going cold, but he never made a sound. Like the silent night itself, his body continued to break apart, Darkon never making a peep, until he was nothingness itself...
Not even Darkon's halo remained.