Reading of dispair

Chapter thirteen: Ten of swords

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The morning rays had peeked over the horizon and shined in the window closest to the couch. Sky and Gohan were sitting on the couch asleep together. The rays of sun had hit Gohan's face first sense he was closest to the window. He flinched as his eyes opened. Gohan's eyes made contact with the digital clock on the end table next to the couch. It was seven o'clock am. As soon as Gohan realized this he stretched as he let out a huge yawn. Sky was still clinging to Gohan with her arms around his waiste.

Gohan looked down at her and smiled. He leaned down and placed a kiss on her forehead. But her forehead felt cold for some reason.

"Sky, time to wake up." Gohan whispered softly.

But there was no response from Sky. Gohan noticed this and looked closer. Her skin seemed paler than usual. The bluish viens in her skin were present. Gohan grabbed her and lifted her up. There was still no response. He begain to painic as he gently shook her, again no response. She lie still, stiff, and cold.

"Sky? Are you okay?" Gohan spoke a little louder in denial.

Still nothing. Gohan begain to hyperventilate. He laid her on the floor and checked for a heart beat and a pulse. He got nothing.

"NO NO NO NOOOO, SKY SAY SOMETHING ANYTHING, PLEASE!" Gohan screamed as he begain CPR.

Crystal and Robby awoke with a start. They heard Gohan's screams and knew something wasn't right. They put on their robes and dashed down the stairs to the living room. What they saw was Gohan screaming and crying for Sky to answer him as he tried to resesitate her. Crystal freaked, she ran to her daughter and grabbed her hand crying hystairically. Robby stood there in complete shock unable to move from the stair case. Gohan continued to cry, beg, and scream to the heavens as he tried desprately to save the girl he gave his heart and soul to.

It wasn't till seven thirty that the awful truth that it was too late sank in. Gohan couldn't save her lie he believed he could. Crystal cried harder as Robby walked over to them in a grief strikened daze.

"My...little girl...no." Robby muttered in dispair silently.

"NO, not you too Sky, I already lost mama! Not you too damn it!" Crystal cried hitting the carpet with a closed fist.

Gohan was in a daze himself, never moving from the spot he's been in sense he awoken to this devestating discovery. He lifted her up in his arms and held her close to his chest for as long as he could for as close as he could. He lifted his head up to the celling and sobbed.

"WHY? NO SKY DON'T LEAVE ME, PLEASE! OH GOD NO! EVERYONE I LOVE DIES OR LEAVES ME NOT YOU TOO!" He continued to scream.

About eight o'clock am, Robby made all the calls to Gohan's friends, family, and the morgue. He placed the phone on the reciver and walked slowly back into the living roon dreading to see his little girl dead on the shag carpeting. Gohan was still hystarical and holding Sky. He wouldn't let anyone come near her let alone take her from him. His and his wife's cries hadn't stopped yet. He stayed with them until a knock sounded at the door. Robby rose from the floor and answered the door. The first of Gohan's family and friends to arrive was Chichi and Piccolo.

"What happened Robby? Why'd you call us over here?" Chichi questioned feeling in her heart that something was terrorabley wrong.

He sighed as he let them in before he finaly spoke,"It's Sky Mrs. Son, she...," He struggled to speak but the words didn't make it out.

Then Chichi and Piccolo heard the screaming. They looked at each other and with out further ado ran to the living room where they heard it coming from. There, they seen Gohan crying hystarically and holding Sky's dead corpse. But that wasn't all, he was bleeding from all the emotional stress. Blood was seepping from his nose and mouth as his cries became labored and gruggly. Chichi and Piccolo noticed he was in super saiyan two. They tried to go over to him to comfort him but Crystal stopped them. They looked at her confused as she told him what was going on.

"Don't, when we tried to go to him he did this strange transformation and it blew us away. He won't let anyone come near him or Sky." She explained.

"But we can't leave him lie that! His health is in danger! He could be damaged from the stress he's going through right now!" Chichi remarked panic strickened.

"What are we supose to do then! Let him bleed to death?" Piccolo snapped.

Just then the sirens of the paramedics sounded in the drive way as they came rushing into the house. As they saw Gohan they froze at the sight. No one dared to move until Jasmine came through the door. She noticed Gohan had his gaurd down which to her advantage made her realize that the idea she had would work perfectly. She had gotten the call from Robby about Sky and Gohan's behavior. He clearly stated that Gohan was out of control with grief. That was when she planed to bring her Moshi nagent (Sniper rifle that shoots tranqulizer rounds) with her.

She renforced the trank darts to withstand saiyan strenght. She took aim at Gohan's neck through the scope and adgusted the magnafacation. She took a deep breath holding it as she waited paitently for his movements to cease. Jasmine was greatful for her expireance in the military for it would come in handy. She was a lot of things in that field of work. One of those things was a sniper. If she wasn't on medic parachute then she was on infiltration or sniper duty. Once Gohan's movements ceased for a split second that was all she needed to pull the triger.

A loud bang and clicking sound was heard as it ecohed in the house. Everyone, Chichi, Piccolo, Sky's parents, and the paramedics shot a look in the door way were Jasmine stood pulling the lever back on the rifle. They didn't even know she came in. She was as stealthy as a snake in the grass sneaking around at night. The dart hit home as it was lodged in Gohan's neck. However, he didn't feel it. But he felt the pull of unconciousness as it took him to a deep eight hour sleep. He dropped to the ground on his side still holding Sky's dead body in his arms. Jasmine raised her hand in athority.

"Alright, he's out! Do your thing! Go Go Go!" Jasmine shouted.

The paramedics wasted no time as they quickly did their job.

"What the hell was that Jasmine! You didn't have to kill him!" Chichi cried.

"Relax Chichi. I didn't kill him and besides, you'd think I'd do such a thing to my favorite little guy? I only tranquilized him. I used my moshi nagant rifle. It only fires tranquiling rounds." Jasmine defended.

"She's right, if we left Gohan like that there's no telling what might have happened." Piccolo agreed.

Two hours had passed, and the paramedics had done their job and got Sky's body to the morgue. Gohan was taken to the emergancy room. Everyone else fallowed.

At the hospital, Gohan laid in bed getting a blood transfusion. He had just came out of surgery. The emotional stress caused so much damage to his stomach that it aggervated the cancer and it caused his stomach to tare and bleed profusly. He was reciveing five bags of blood. As Gohan was in the ICU (Intensive care unit) his mother and friends were there with him. He didn't make a sound, he was too doped up from the anisthesia and pain killers that he didn't even register anything around him. Everyone was in silence as they were vigilant of Gohan's presence.

A knock sounded at the door and everyone had sensed who it was. Jasmine noticed everyone on edge and had a hint of happiness to thier facial features. Jasmine took this as a que to rise out of her chair and answer the door. And to her superize Goku was standing on the other side.

There, Now it's gonna get interesting.

Thank you to all my reviewers.

The ten of swords means ruin and dispair.

Till next time.