| 0.2-The Loss of Innocence |
| THE PRESENT Gohan shook his head at that memeory. The valley had widened a little, enough to include a couple of tennis courts, three small parking lots, and two six story buildings. He blinked. This wasn't just some apartments. This was a little small university, and the buildings were dormitories. This amused him. THE ONE WITH INNOCENCE AND PAIN IS AN AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENT!?! HA! Then he frowned. He was judging things at face value... it was too much like Lysis... EIGHT YEARS AGO Gohan knelt before Lysis, shrunk down to twice a regular human's size, in a throne plundered from the last planet, in a fake show of respect. "Gohan?" A long silence followed. "Gohan!?!" Still he said nothing. "GOHAN!!" Lysis extended an "arm" and grabbed his hair and threw back his head, while collecting some Black Energy in its other "hand," and shot it into Gohan's face and chest. "FUCK!" The blast wasn't enough to serverly wound him, but it hurt like hell. Gohan jumped up, wiping blood off his face. "Do not think you can test me boy." Lysis glared at him. "I-I was just responsible for the deaths of billions of innocent people! How can I just sit here and act like everything's fine!!" Gohan wept, from anger, from guilt, from helplessness. Lysis laughed his disgusting laugh. "You made the most logical desion, my child. If you had refused to fight that planet's champion, I would have killed you, destroyed your world, and the destroyed that planet anyway. Had you lost on purpose, and believe me, I would have known, I would have vapourized you and both world anyway. It was an understandable decsion..." Gohan's head snapped up. "BUT WHY! Why did you kill them?" His fist cracked the floor. "Because, Son Gohan, I can," Lysis seemed almost bored, completely ignoring the bloody, tear-drenched boy before him, and his reaction. "Besides, I called you here for a reason other than crying like a newborn." It idicated to a section of the floor, which opened up, and out came an alien from the planet whose warrior Gohan defeated. It was a weak, little child. "Kill him." "What!?!" Gohan felt like he was punched in the stomuch. "Kill him or I'll kill you and your world." "But it's just a child!" Gohan couldn't believe his ears. "He is the same age as you, and his father would have killed you given the chance... So kill him. NOW. I'm growing impatient." Gohan raised a shaking hand. CAN I DO THIS? CAN I?? "Kill him or die." Gohan squeezed his eyes shut. "Five..." Gohan gathered Ki in his hand. "Four..." Gohan heard the alien child crying. "Three..." FORGIVE ME FATHER, MOTHER... FOR NOT BEING ABLE TO STOP THIS... "Two..." Gohan let the blast loose and slowly opened his eyes. Lysis laughed. The child's body lay lifeless on the floor. Gohan swallowed. "You may go back to your room now, Son Gohan." Lysis beamed in triumph. Gohan felt hollow. |