Dragonstar22: Hey guys, we're back with another chapter, and I know a lot of you are wondering when does DBZ comes into play well you've finally got it though it is only her getting there. The rest of the story will now be there mostly though, but keep in mind that Keiko's also the sailor scouts and the straw hats guardian so they'll be there from time to time. Enough of all the informal stuff...here's CHAPTER 7!
Keiko Disclaimer:
Dragonstar22 does not own Sailor moon, One piece or Dragon ball z or any other anime that may appear in this, or their characters. Unfortunately, but she does own me and any other oc's. Now on with the story!(Warning mild cussing will be in the story here or there.)
'My OC's Thoughts'
'Other people's Thoughts'
"Speaking"
{Author's note}
**** = time skip or scene change you'll be able to tell which.
Italics= Flash back or memory.
*telepathy speech*
/"Inside of Keiko's head" /
/"Keiko's response"/
~*~*=Point of view change
Revised with slight changes!:5/23/14
Chapter 7: The battle has ended,The war has just begun!
I opened my eyes sluggishly. A black void surrounded me. The only thing that was a different color was the blue lightning streaks that's dancing around the place.'Why does every time something major happens to me I'm in a black void? Maybe it's because I don't think a lot on things...well at least there's something that's a different color.'
/'You're lucky I think you're worthy of saving...brat.'/ a smooth voice spoke out.
I spun around to find the voice, but when I did... I think my brain shut down. 'Who is this?'
I blinked once, twice, three times and I still couldn't figure out what the hell I was seeing. I just stared in I just gave up on it decided to ask what I wanted to know instead.
I narrowed my eyes at the mirror image of me that was smirking showing her sharp fangs. The only difference from me and her was that her hair was blood-red with the same gold streaks I had. Her eyes were two different colors, one was hazel and the other was a ocean blue. Her tail actually was a wolf tail. There was not a mixture like mine, it was the same colors of her hair.
/Who are you? Why am I here... and why do you look like me?'/
/'I look like you brat because in an essence I am you...sort of. You're here because; Number 1 you used a costly technique that you shouldn't at the energy level you had left in that fight. Number 2. If I didn't pull you in here, we would've died...again and everything would've succumbed to darkness for 100,000 millenniums, because you were stupid enough to die on your first mission. And finally number 3...
well there was a little problem with your mind. well maybe a major problem. It kind of... how do I put this lightly?
Your brain has basically overloaded and rebooted itself like a computer. Then it placed security measures around memories to make sure it wouldn't happen again. If I hadn't been in here you would've turned out like Kakkorat. It also mix matched some things so don't be surprised if you act insane from time to time. You've also managed to trash your muscles to mush, have internal bleeding that would've made you drown in your own blood if not taken care of quickly, and diminish your energy supply to that of a newborn's .'/
I just stared at her blankly for like two seconds...
Then I proceeded to flip the fuck out.
/"What THE FUCK! I knew something bad was going to happen if I used that attack, / I replied with my head down, my fist were shaking. /"...but I didn't think it would be that FUCKING BAD!"/ I yelled, Going into my "I thought–shit-couldn't-get–worse!" mode. Muttering and pacing bout all kinds of nonsense.
My look-a-like walked up and pulled my tail slightly./"Calm down brat! It's not that bad."/
I paused for a moment waiting for her to continue.
/"Think about it. Now at least you've been reminded that you're not invincible. This isn't some show or fan fiction. This. Is. Real. Don't rely solely on what you've seen. Those 15 years in the Chosen's void only got you a step ahead of your charge. As you can tell by how close you were to kick'n the bucket for good, you're nowhere near close to being able to defeat whoever that Rasher guy worked for. You have a lot of room to improve, but time's ticking brat. The enemy isn't going to wait for you or your charge."/ She said crossing her arms.
/"...Don't call me a brat ,but you're right. At the level I'm at I can't to do much against the next threat, especially alone. I'm going to have to start those training sooner than I thought. "/
/"I called you a brat to see if your senses were coming back. If you didn't catch me calling you that it was going to be your new nickname, but I guess they've come back now since you noticed. Which means you'll be waking up soon. I'll still be able to talk to you in your head though." /
After she said that the lower part of my body started to disappear and I couldn't feel or move anything anymore. The best I could do was moving my head. I quickly realized that I didn't have much longer in here and I didn't have her name yet.
/"Hey before I disappear ...what do I call you and how you apart of me? "/ I asked my stomach and my hands had disappeared by now, the only thing left was my shoulders and head.
/"The name's Fiammetta Aiolfi . Don't worry about that, it'll be explained later."/
I was barely able to hear the last part after she said her name. I fully disappeared and I could feel my body numb up before relaxing slightly. Realizing that my eyes are still closed, I opened them up to see a wooden ceiling. Out of the corner of my eye I could see chopper looking directly at me with bandages in his hands, his eyes were wide open. Keeping a straight face I closed my eyes willing them to change to a steel grey. Slowly turning my head towards him I opened them back up and stared lazily into his eyes.
He was still frozen but his eyebrow started to twitch.
"...Boo!" I whispered lifelessly.
Chopper ran out of the room screaming, "AAAAHHH! MONSTER!" slamming the door. I could still hear him screaming. His screams were soon followed by someone else screaming smashing sounds coming from outside the door.
I laughed quietly, changing my eyes back to their normal hazel color.'Hehehe, there's nothing like a prank when you wake up to brighten the day!' I tried to shift my body to sit up but a wave of pain went down my back. "Ouch! I forgot that my body's still messed up; or maybe it's karma?" I grunted slowly sitting up, trying and failing to prop the pillows to cushion my back.
After a while I finally got comfortable and started to doze off when the door burst open. I didn't open my eyes though. I might as well rest my eyes until they're all in here.
"MONSTER! WHERE?" I heard Luffy yell.*BANG!* "Oww! Why did you hit me Nami?"
"Idiot, be quiet she's still resting and there's nothing in here. " I heard Nami harshly whisper.
"Why did you tell us that there was a monster Chopper? She looks like she's still knocked out." I heard... I think Makoto say it.
"You had us panic about Cali-Schwan, you shitty doctor!" Sanji said. I heard another bang after that so I decided to open my eyes half way to let them know I'm a wake before Sanji killed poor chopper. Not saying a word, I observed everyone.
Nami was standing over Luffy who was holding a big bump that popped through his hat. Sanji was threatening to kick Chopper, while Makoto was trying to get them to calm down. Hotaru watched them before glancing at me. Her eyes widened slightly when she noticed that I woke up.
"I think she's awake you guys."
They froze and turned to me. 'And that's my cue.' "Well at least someone pays attention when I say things." I said opening my eyes all the way and smiling weakly at them, though I bet it looked like I was grimacing. My body was still killing me.
They all just, (well except for Hotaru and Luffy who was grinning at me) stared at me like I died and came back to life.
'Well I did die and come back to life technically...but they don't know that.'
"Why are you guys staring at me like that?" I said raising an eyebrow. "Didn't I tell you before that just because a person looks like they're not paying attention, doesn't mean that they are? That includes sleeping."
"YOU'RE AWAKE!"They yelled, smiling. 'They completely ignored what I just said.' I thought sweat dropping, then studied their happy moods. ' I'll let it slide for now.'
"Yeah, I had to wake up some time,right?" I replied. "...but thanks for worrying about me you guys. "
Nami just waved me off and shook her head."It's the least we could do. You did manage to save us from being blown to bits by that guy after of this as paying off our debt to you."
I smirked slightly at her. 'Looks like she still thinks the same way I remember from the anime."Sure, let's go with that."
I then turned my attention to Chopper who was hiding behind still looked a little scared of me. I smiled sheepishly. "Sorry for scaring you Chopper. I really appreciate you for checking up on me, but I just couldn't risk the opportunity to prank ya!"
"Y-you're not going to do that again right?" he stammered, hiding the wrong way behind Luffy.
I shook my head no. "Nope, well at least for you..." I smirked evilly at the others. "everyone else is still fair game."
"HEY!" I ignored them, focusing on chopper instead. "Hey, how long have I been out Chopper?"
" You've been out for 6 days. We thought you'd at least be out for another week with all the internal injuries and bleeding you had." He said seriously, his voice started waver a bit but he was able to get his emotions in control again.
"Your muscles were all torn up and you had lost a lot of blood. We...we couldn't find any blood to match yours. You were starting to get really pale...we thought that you might die. Then your body started to glow a bunch of different colors while we were operating, and started to heal some of the internal bleeding, and fixed your ribs. After that it started to heal slowly on its' own. Amy and I have taken care of any other injuries that didn't heal or were infected, but you still need a lot of rest before your able to walk."
I was quiet for a while after he said that, but it wasn't because I was sad or scared about what Chopper said. It was the complete opposite. I already knew that my body was messed up that bad, because I just finished freaking out about it when I was in my mind-space, and was told I almost died again there. The reason I was silent was because I'm mad at myself for making them sad and worry like that. I'm suppose to keep that from happening as much as possible, not be the cause of it. Plus I'm also busy thinking about what he said about my body glowing a whole bunch of different colors.
'I know that's not my normal healing powers, could this be what Ted meant by look for any changes that happen to me? Or is it because of what Fiammetta did? I'll have to figure it out got some worry warts to cheer up.'
I snapped out of my musings and looked back at them, they kind of went back into worry mode again. 'Eh? They just saw me being quiet and they've already turned back into worry warts. I can't let them mope around, now can I?'I grinned at them, trying to get them to stop worrying. "Wow! It was that bad? Thank you chopper for being such good doctor. I'll have to thank Ami too."
He instantly went into his little happy dance and clapping thing he does if someone compliments him.
"That doesn't make me happy at all you shitty bastard." he said still dancing. I started to laugh at him but a sharp pain went through my sides making me groan in pain instead. 'I think it's time for me to heal up. I don't want to sit in this bed for any longer than I needed if I can help it.'
"Chopper, can you ask Serena to give you my bag that I had with me earlier? She'll know where it is. Just tell her that I might want it when I wake up. If she asks why you want it." He nodded saluting me before marching out the door.
"Hey, do you want us to tell the rest of them that you're awake now?" Makoto asked, pulling a chair close to the bed before sitting down. Luffy sat down on the end of the bed, while the Nami, Sanji, and Hotaru found a place somewhere in the room.
Hotaru nodded slightlly."I'm sure that Serena would want to know, Reni too."
I tilted my head to the side,"Hmm, that depends. Are they all mopey in there?"
"Of course they are baka! We all were. Why would you even ask that?" Nami ranted waving her fist.
"Uhh... nothing just being curious. Don't worry about telling them that I'm awake." I said smiling evilly. "I'll tell them myself."
Question marks appeared over all of their heads. Chopper came through the door with my bag when Nami was going to say something back.
"I got your bag Keiko... but how come you didn't want me to tell them you wanted it?" Chopper asked handing the bag to me.
"Hehehe, they think I won't be awake until a few more days right?" They nodded question marks still over their heads.
"Right, Cali–Schwan." Sanji sing/said his eye turned into a heart.
"So, why not surprise them my way myself? I've got to make sure that they didn't turn into permanent worry warts." I said smirking almost evilly. Their question marks popped. They looked at me exasperated. Luffy still looked confused, but he was more curious about what I was doing with the bag.
Nami sighed, her hand pinching the bridge of her nose. " You've just woken up for the first time in six days. Do you really want to start do crazy things again?"
I ignored her and concentrated on the bag. Huh? I've been ignoring things a lot lately. I'll have to think about that later. 'If this thing can give me an awesome hide out then it should be able to give me a bag of senzu beans.'
The 'A' in the middle of the bag started to glow rainbow colors and hum again. The humming didn't bother me this time since it was quieter, but it started to get weird I'm going to freak.
"COOL!" Luffy and Chopper said, their eyes had turned into stars. The others eyes just got a little bigger but other than that they were paying close attention to what I was doing.
It stopped glowing and I opened the bag to see a red pouch. I grabbed it, opened it up and grinned seeing it full of senzu beans.
I pulled one out of the bag before putting the pouch back into the back pack. I looked at the bean closely before shrugging. 'How bad could it be?'
I ate it and it tasted horrible. I gagged, trying to rub the bitter taste out of my mouth with my hands. "Blehh! Why do all the medicine's that make you feel better quick taste horrible?" 'And Goku ate a whole barrel of these when he was a kid? Man, he must've been starving.' The good thing that came out of this experience is that all of my injuries healed up. I got out of the bed and stretched my tail out. 'Well at least they work instantly.' I wasn't paying attention to the others until I heard a 'thud'. I blinked and looked at them.
All of their jaws dropped. "What?" I deadpanned. I looked behind me and I didn't see anything, so I don't know why their like that. I ate a bean...there's nothing special about that.
"How did you heal up so quickly?" Chopper asked looking up at me with wide eyes.
I shrugged as I changed my clothes to a red v-neck T-shirt, black gi pants, and some sand storm light fighter combat boots using piccolo's clothes technique. "I ate the bean. " 'I really need to come up with a name for that technique...how about U-Cloth? It's lame as fuck but that's the best I can come up with, especially since my head still feels jacked up.'
I put my backpack back on, mentally preparing myself for whatever happens after I leave this room. I probably have to explain a lot of stuff to everyone later, so why do it twice.
Nami narrowed her eyes. "A normal bean should not be enough to heal you. So don't tell me all we had to do was give you a bean, and you would've been up days ago."
"...It's a magic bean." I pointed out blankly. There was no way I was going in-depth, or argue about senzu beans. I needed to get all the explaining done in one go. I really didn't want to repeat myself later. Besides that's basically what they were anyway, magic beans.
Before she could say something but Luffy interrupted her. I tilted my head slightly 'Nami is getting interrupted a lot lately, I wonder how much longer till she blows and the veins that's popping out the side of her head are going to explode.
"Magic, that's so COOL! I've decided that you will be our magician." He said nodding to himself. "Sanji prepare a feast for a party!"
Makota sweatdropped."Luffy you can't decide things just like that."
"Besides what makes you think that she would say yes. Everyone we ever recruited always say no. Then we end up on a crazy adventure with you constantly demanding them to come until they give in." Nami said hitting him in the head again.
I didn't hear the rest of their argument because I disappeared out the door to find where the others were. I had other things to do, like pran- I mean cheering up worry warts. I was going down the hall way to the room where I heard all the talking was when suddenly.
*CRASH!* "What the hell is that?!" I heard Zoro say.
"It looks like a black hole, but it's not sucking anything inside of it." I knew that had to be Robin because no one else would say that calmly.
'It must be the portal to the next dimension. I didn't even show them the place where they have to train, and it's already time to leave.' I thought as I continued to walk down the hall and stepped in the door way. They didn't notice me because they were too busy staring at the portal that was just floating in the middle of the room.
I crossed my arms and leaned on the door frame. I was a little disappointed that I had to leave so soon, especially since I hadn't pranked them yet. Oh well, there's always next time. "That's because it's a portal, which is also my ride. Oh, and stop being worry warts. You'll turn into grouchy old ladies."
"You're up!" The scouts yelled well except for some of them along with the Straw hats in the room except for Franky yelling, "SUPER!, at the end. The others just smiled.
"Yea, but it seems that I have to go, but you guys need to train because I can tell you now. This is only the beginning of a war. I know there's going to be people much stronger than Rasher, that guy I just nearly got killed by."
"Are you serious? You barely beat him. If it wasn't for you we would've been toast!"Rei said.
"My point exactly. We all have to come together to beat whatever the head of this thing is. I can't do it alone. I know that all of you are capable of getting stronger if given the right training." I said looking each of them in the eye, smirking slightly. ' They're going to be able to kick major ass when they get done training. Not that they aren't already able to.'
"So what are you saying? Are you're going to train us?" Trista said calmly.
I blinked before rubbing the back of my head sheepishly. " Not me because I got'ta go somewhere else for a while, but I know someone who can train you... but you would have to all stay at my place that I have hidden here. And I doubt you'll be able to find it."
/"Baka just get Ted to do it, did you lose all of your common sense too! "/ Fiammetta's voice rang in my head.
I scowled . /" No, I just don't know how to get him here. I know there's a way but I can't remember."/
/"You really would've turned into Kakkorat if you forgot how to do that ...It's simple. Just summon his book from the bag. Then think of a tracking device to your place and give it to them. Problem solved. You're lucky that you have a smart subconscious to make sure you didn't turn into an idiot." /
I felt like my veins were going to pop /"You're annoying, but helpful at the same time. Just to let you know... you're talking about yourself since in an essence you are me."/
/"...That goes for you too since in an essence I'm you. Isn't it nice to know that you're annoying and helpful? "/
/"...no comment."/
"Why does your face look like you're constipated?"
That's the comment I heard when I started to pay attention. Wait, what? constipated? "What are you talking about?" I asked looking around the room. Luffy, Nami, Chopper, Sanji, Hotaru and Makoto were all in here now.
"The face you were making just now made you look constipated. What were you thinking about so hard for that to happen?" Mina said. They all were staring at me. Half the room looked like they wanted to laugh. I could hear Luffy and Ussop giggling,and the other half just looked at me confused or blankly.
Sweat dropping I said "I just got frustrated for a moment, butI solved the problem of you guys training."
I slipped my backpack off before concentrating on Ted's book to get him here. The 'A' in the middle of the bag started to glow rainbow colors again, but this time the humming was like it was when I made that hideout and the words on the bag started to glow too. I slowly inched away from the bag watching it warily.
'Well that's is this bag going to do next? 'The bag stopped glowing and humming suddenly, like turning off a light switch. I carefully opened the bag and saw the same book that was in the training room with the gold door. Pulling it out it started to glow, I opened it up and Ted's spirit-ghost thing started to come out.
"COOL! You're definitely becoming our magician." Luffy said. His, Chopper's and Usopp's eyes turned into stars.
"Would you three quit saying that?!"Nami yelled at them, but it wasn't full heartedly as before.
Ted formed all the way and he actually looked happy. "It's about time you got me out of there little guardian. I was beginning to think that you forgot to let me out once you got here...wait. Don't tell me that you actually did forget?" He said looking at me blankly. I couldn't tell if that was a rhetorical question or not.
"Hehe...you see what had happened was..." I started off but Ted already cut me off, hitting me on top of head yelling.
"BAKA GUARDIAN you were supposed to remember that! Who else was going to train them? You wouldn't have any time to."
"Hey, don't go all ape-shit on me! There's no time for that. Do you think you can use that technique you taught me so you can see where my hideout is? The portals already here so I can't show you."
He puffed out his chest proudly."Of course I can. I taught you how in the first place didn't I?"
I sweat dropped. 'Why are you so boastful all of a sudden is it because you can show off to more than one person now?' "Well, then can you please do it so the rest of them can train?" I asked still sweat-dropping.
"I'm already done little guardian. Now hurry up and say your good byes. I have to whip these kids into shape and you have to set up."
I tilting my head to the side. "Setup? What are you talking about?" I'm sure there were question marks above my head.
He looked a little disturbed. "There's been a change of plans." He said stroking his goatee with his eyes closed."I was able to talk to Kazumi since she is the spirit guardian and I am a spirit. She said that the darkness is gathering up in one spot instead of consuming the other dimensions. The darkness is currently heading towards the Dragon ball Dimension. The one that you're going to. It's gathering further away from the earth of that dimension, so far away that you'll be ahead of them by a month or three if you go now. We fear that it's trying to build up all at one and going for the strongest dimensions first instead of the small time to medium ones they've been going to.
You're mission is different this time around, because this time you'll have to fit in for a while before you approach. You can't just go and say what you are because all of your friends here need time to train. They don't have the same privilege to use the same room you used. But don't worry I was able to get something similar though it takes longer. We'll come to you when I feel that they're prepared enough. Find a good place for your hide out. Then we'll train with the Z-warriors in the same place. You're on your own now. Do well little guardian." He finally wrapped up patting me on the head while staring at me straight in the eyes. It was like he was looking for something. I ignored it and just let it be, he knew what he was doing.
I nodded 'so, the darkness has decided to take a bigger step than before. I have a feeling that there's something more to than just consuming the strongest dimensions. It's almost like it can sense where I'm going and is trying to prevent me from getting there first.'
/You're right it has to do with our past. / A voice rang in my head, but this time it wasn't Fiammetta.
/Right again. I'm glad you still have some common sense left. It's not me but we'll explain later when you get settled in the next dimension. Speaking of which, Hurry up and say good-bye to our charges already! /Fia yelled in my head.
A vein popped on the side of my head. 'Someone's Pmsing '
Shaking my head I slipped the backpack back on nodding to Ted, then I looked at them all in the eye and grinned. "I got'ta go. Thanks to all of you guys for worrying about me. Ted here will show you the place you'll be staying at and training. He'll also be your new sensei for now on. He's my sensei also so don't worry about the weird methods h uses they actually do work. I can't wait to see how strong you guys will get. Well ...see you guys later!" With that I started walking towards the portal. Right before I was going to jump in someone called, "Wait!"
I turned around and Serena was behind me, she had some tears in her eyes but she was smiling a little. All of a sudden she hugged me. I blinked but returned the hug.
"Thank you for protecting us. I promise to get stronger so I can fight with you next time." She broke away from the hug and looked at everyone else. "I bet that goes for the rest of you too!"
"Right!" the Sailor scouts yelled.
"What do you say captain? Are we in or out?" Robin asked Luffy.
Luffy raised his fist and yelled, "Yosh! We're in for our new Magician!"
"Yeah!" The straw-hats yelled after him.
I sweat dropped. ' I bet he still thinks I'm a magician, but I appreciate knowing that they all are willing to work together. I can tell that the scouts are doing better teammate wise already. They followed Serena's command with out questioning anything.'
Smirking I winked at them."I expected nothing less from you guys. Good luck! I'll see you all later, bye!" I turned back to the portal and jumped in.
I was falling through the same pool thing again, but this time Kazumi contacted me while I was getting to the DBZ Universe I needed to get to.
*Cali, this is Kazumi. I'm placing you in your own apartment this time. You're already registered to join Orange Star High school to get in contact with the Z fighters. Like last time things are different, but I will tell you that it is exactly one month after buu and Gohan's the same age as you.*
*Wait, physically or mentally?*
*Physically of course. That attack you used must've taken a lot out of you're brain.*
I felt a couple of veins throb on the side of my head.*Shut up, I already got chewed out by the wolf part of me. Please don't add-on to it.*
*Okay, I won't say anything else about that. I'll update you on the progress of the Darkness it's now codenamed T.D. from now on. I'll let you know about any more info on it later your old phone will have the updates on minor things about the T.D. Good luck Cali! I'll see you later.*
After that it was silence.I just focused on getting the DBZ universe, pushing through the bubble, everything turned dark again. 'Seriously! I thought that I'd least have the lightning bolts again. At least it was some what entertaining.'
