To part 2 of Chapter 21
***Bonding***
***You won't believe the things I've seen, far beyond you're wildest dreams,
I've seen chaos and order rein supreme, I've seen the beauty of the universe,
so peaceful and serene in second to violence and screams?***
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*VegeChan/Mabelle/Tobias/Lady Youko/J'dee* cont'd
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'Right time to do my thing.' I thought as my feet touched the ground. I knelt down to the ground on one knee and I waved my hand over the ice and began a quick incantation.
"Powers that be, powers that see, powers of three time three, I call up thee. Cut her source of author powers, so mote it be."
I looked up at Kakuna and Gohan and nodded. "Okay ramblers, lets get rambling." I said standing up. I brushed the ice off the knee of my gi and Gohan looked at the ice.
The ice flashed a deep blue before the light seeped in to the ice and ground, the spell sent out there. I only hoped it would reach Lady Icer before Tobias did.
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I opened my eyes as the whip stopped singing through the air and a guard rushed in. I looked back over my shoulder at Ginyu, the whip was down and he was staring at the warrior whispering to Lady Icer. I didn't know what to think but I could feel it, him! Toby was here and he was close. I could practically smell him and I hoped that I wasn't going to be whipped again. I didn't fight when I was released from the cuffs but I nearly bolted when I was shoved into the cage again. As before, the threads surrounded me and I was held spread-eagle. I looked up at Ginyu and Jeice as they smiled at me, the gag keeping me from telling me what I thought about them. They exited the room and I was alone, I didn't like this!
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Tobias walked to the front gate and noticed all the men scurrying around. The gate raised, and the entire Ginyu Force surrounded him.
"Lady Icer will see you in her private chambers." Ginyu said, smirking. Tobias nodded.
"Take me to her."
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I smiled as Toby slowly entered my throne-room his eyes clouded with suspicion. I smirked as the Ginyu Force followed him. He looked upset, but not worried. My little monkey had something planned.
"Welcome to my fortress, monkey, I hope you like it. It was specially designed for you and your little princess," I chuckled as he glared at me.
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"Cut the crap." Tobias said, after Lady Icer's greeting. "Where's Mabelle?" Lady Icer smiled and snapped her fingers. A large silver birdcage lowered to the ground, and Tobias could see Mabelle hanging inside, suspended by wires. Her mouth was gagged and her eyes widened at the sight of Tobias. She began to struggle but soon gave up, just watching intently.
"What do you want?" he hissed, clenching his fists. Lady Icer smiled.
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I growled as I watched Toby and Lady Icer talk. I was hoping he wouldn't do something stupid, but now I was worried he was going to do something that would get us both in lots of trouble. I knew that if he accepted this deal neither of us would be free ever again. I gulped as I watched it play out. Please Toby, don't worry about me, it's you she's after anyway.
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"Now, my little monkey, I have an ultimatum for you. You will obey me, do everything I ask, and never even think about running off. If you do this, I'll see to it that my new pet is alive and well," I said as I looked at him. " What do you think about that?" He was eyeing the damage done to his little whore.
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"Fine." Tobias said. "Me for her. I'll do whatever you want, now let her go." Lady Icer shook her head.
"Oh no, my toy monkey. You see I will keep her to make sure you will do as I say. Then you will obey everything I say." she said, and began to laugh. Tobias smirked. Lady Icer stopped laughing and gave him a look.
"Why are you looking at me like that?" she asked.
"You don't think I came alone did you?" he asked. He whirled around and fired at blast at a group of warrior, who screamed as they went to the next dimension. Then two explosions came, one from the right and then another for the left. Lady Icer's men began to scream as they were being destroyed.
"You bastard! You five, go stop the intruders! I will take care of my toy!" Lady Icer cried. The Ginyu Force gave a small bow, and hurried off. Lady Icer smirked at him.
"You are in deep trouble, boy. I will surround you with hundreds of Friezas!" she cried and focused. Nothing happened. Tobias began to laugh.
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I watched in horror as I tried again and again but nothing happened, damn it! I glared at him as he laughed and threw a ki blast at the cage. It looked as if the cage itself was burning, I smirked. Perhaps his little bitch was feeling the heat at the moment. She came through just fine and I hissed as my tail began to whip around behind me. I only thanked the Heavens that I had wished myself stronger before he had come. I would've been a dead lizard if I hadn't.
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I growled as I watched as the ki blast surrounded me and I gulped, hoping that Toby knew how to control this attack. I practically cried out in relief as I realized the ki was staying about six inches away from me. I reached my fingers out to brush at the ki and watched it move away from me. I fell, too weary to fly, Toby's strong arms wrapped around me and I looked up at him and felt like crying.
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"You bastard!" she screamed, clenching her fists. Tobias slowly pulled the burnt remains of the ki bands from Mabelle, and then her gag. Mabelle wept and threw her arms around him.
"Toby!" she wept. Tobias held her for a moment and then stood up, holding weeping into his chest as they stood. It must have been bad for her, and Tobias could make out faint whip marks on her back. Tobias growled, he would get Lady Icer for each one.
"I asked J'dee to remove your author powers. She is the one who brought us here after all." Tobias said and Lady Icer snarled.
"I don't need them now! I made myself far more powerful than before!" she screamed, and began to power up. Tobias gently pushed Mabelle away from him and powered up to SSJ4.
"Go. J'dee and the others are waiting." he said.
"But-"
"GO!" he screamed and launched himself at Lady Icer. Mabelle ran.
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This was very bad, how was I supposed to beat this little monkey now that his weakness was running off. I smirked. At least she was heading towards the Ginyu Force, I hoped that they would show her back to her room. I turned to the monkey in front of me.
"So I assume we're going to be doing this the hard way," I hissed as he powered up, I could take him like this. I had to stop him from going SSJ4, or at least act like I was trying.
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Tobias screamed and slammed a knee into Lady Icer's chest. She reeled back, and kicked up. He caught her foot and threw her down threw the floor. He flew after her, and she fired a blast in his face. Tobias snarled and stopped. Icer grabbed him by the waist, and slammed him head first into the floor, slashing his forehead open. She moved back, panting as Tobias slowly got up. He was grinning.
"Yosh. I haven't had this much fun since I went to Cedar Point in the real world. Maybe after I kick your kusottare ass from here to hell, I'll take Mabelle there." he said with a grin. Lady Icer snarled.
"Well then I guess I'll have to take it up a notch!" she said, and closed her eyes. She let out a scream as Tobias watched in awe.
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I could feel Tobias's power surging all around me. I'd had enough of waiting. I knew that I needed to find Mabelle. I know she's hurt, but not badly. My senses are so overwhelmed though, that I don't even realize what's coming at me till I'm practically face to face with her. I could see that she hadn't expected me of all people to be here, hiding in a corner to conceal herself. Of course, I had sensed her presence. She was battle ready and prepared to give a swing at my head. My eyes widen, lips widening into a grin.
"MABELLE!"
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I rushed down the corridor and growled as I felt another powerful fighter coming towards me. I powered up to SSJ2, my arm raised to kill whoever was coming. I hid in a corner and watched as a shadow began to creep towards me. I waited until the shadow passed me and leapt at the warrior! I was about to blast the warrior when I realized that it was a woman, a Saiyan woman, a Saiyan woman who looked happy to see me. I suddenly recognized the female.
"Kakuna?" I asked.
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"Gohan!!" I watched as he was slammed in to a wall, how could they do that to Gohan? They weren't that strong were they? I rushed to his side and pulled him out of the hole in the wall. I blushed suddenly seeing his shirt torn and half hanging on him. He looked at me then to the gi I was wearing. I hadn't even had time to get changed. But the Z team fought in their gi's all the time why couldn't I?
"I just remembered I left the chicken in the oven." I said to him.
Gohan laughed and he looked at me. "That's the least of our worries now."
Gohan leapt back in to battle and I just stood there, I'd been trained to defend, but I found myself stumped, unsure of what to do.
I watched the flying side kick sail right in to the stomach of the guard who'd thrown Gohan in to the wall. He flew back and hit the wall with a sickening crack and I cringed.
"Jera!" Gohan shouted at me.
I spun round in time to duck a punch at a guy I hadn't even sensed come up behind me. I saw him reach for my tail and he grabbed it thinking it was the source of my power, but he was greeted with knee straight to the crown jewels. "That's not my weak point." I growled at him.
The guy fell over and I saw more come at Gohan. 'Why Gohan?' I thought and shrugged it off. He must have appeared stronger.
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All I could think of was how strong I was going to be and I smiled as I stood in front of the monkey. Sadly, he didn't wait and jumped to SSJ4. Damn it! I'd have to go further if I wanted a fighting chance. He smirked at me and I growled. This transformation actually hurt. I didn't know why but it actually caused pain to transform again. Oh well, victory was my only concern.
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Lady Icer looked like a female version of Kooler in her fourth transformation. Her power level did rise substantially but Tobias was still more powerful. He smirked, but Lady Icer raised a hand.
"Wait, there's one more," she said in a deeper voice, and Tobias' eyes widened. There was a fifth transformation?
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Shit! It hurt more than I could imagine and I knew that the power would set me even with him. I howled as my fingers erupted outward as the bone became sharp and pulled free from the flesh. I hunched forward as the bones in my knees and forearms ripped up and out, slicing through my skin and became fearsome blades. My tailbones ripped and splayed at the ends becoming flat, wide and sharp. I laughed as I finished, it hurt but the power jump was exhilarating!
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After the dust cleared, Tobias could see Lady Icer. Her hands had transformed to claws, razor blades extended from her forearms and knees. Her tail had grown into what looked like a battle-ax with two blades on the tip. All the tips on her head were razor sharp, and looked deadly to the touch. To top it off her, power level was the same as his.
"Oh sh-" Tobias began but Icer slammed into him. He went flying back, smashing through a few walls in the process. Icer flew after him, but he flipped up. He landed on her back, and fired a blast at her back. She howled and flipped him off and charged him. The battle raged on....
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I stepped forth, pulling Mabelle into a bear hug. "I'm so glad you're alright! I can't believe that I'm here, but I am!" All the while, Mabelle had powered down to her normal self, smiling genuinely despite the obvious situation we're in.
"It's so good to see you too, Kakuna! Or should I say, Meg--"
Suddenly, I clamp a hand over her mouth, pressing us close to the wall. "The fight is worsening. I can feel Lady Icer. Her power level is getting stronger and I think Tobias is going to need our help."
She nods, fully understanding the predicament.
We smirk to one another, raising our power levels as far as we could go, golden hair shining.
Beneath hooded eyes, Mabelle stared at me as I reached level four, studying the crimson fur growing from all over my body, accentuating my figure and covering my chest appropriately.
"You never told me you could go that far."
I smile, flashing a peace sign. "I'm letting Tobias fight by himself for now. I think it's the best thing to do under this circumstance. You are after all his mate and I figured it's a typical male thing to wanna fight by himself. We'll jump in if we have to, but for now, we've got to stay low and just make sure things are going well."
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I looked around the corner with Kakuna and growled as I saw the familiar faces of the Ginyu Force. I powered up as far as I could go and looked over at Kakuna, her eyes were narrowed. She nodded as we jumped out in front of the five warriors in fighting stances.
"They're rather strong," I whispered just low enough so Kakuna could hear it with her Saiyan senses but the Ginyu Force couldn't.
"Yea, but we're still going to kick their butts!" she chuckled and I smiled as Guldo and Racoome stepped forward.
"Who do you want?" I asked Kakuna and she smirked like Vegeta.
"The big, dumb one," she laughed and I smiled as I looked at Guldo.
"Why do I always get the short one?" I shook my head as I zipped behind him and punching him in the kidney before he could do his little breath-holding bit. "I call Burter after this one!"
Kakuna threw Racoome through a wall and then began to blast him just as I threw Guldo up into the air and blasted him into the next dimension. Racoome lunged at Kakuna just as Burter and attacked me!
"Well, that was fun," I chuckled as I tossed the body of Burter out the huge gaping hole in the wall and it landed next to Guldo and Racoome's bodies. I smiled as I turned to look at Captain Ginyu and Jeice. Kakuna only smiled at me as she looked back at the two remaining members of the Ginyu Force.
"You want the Captain or the little red man from Mars?" Kakuna asked and I growled as I remembered the pain of my tail being crushed!
"I have a little payback to offer the man from Mars," I growled.
"You do realize he's close to you in strength?" she asked and I nodded.
"They both are close to us," I said as I looked at the two. "But we can take 'em!" We attacked.
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I howled in agony as he caught my tail and ripped the last foot off of it! I hissed in anger as I looked at him, oh well, at least I nailed him in the side with it in the process of removal.
"That hurt, now you're going to HURT!" I shrieked as I lunged at him, catching him across the forehead and side of his face with my arm blade.
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Tobias struggled to get up. The cut running from his right forehead to the left side of his chin was putting a lot of blood in his eyes. Lady Icer was panting, and struggled to get up. He had broken the tip of her tail off, but it hand given him a slash along his right side that was less than pleasant.
"I am impressed boy, but alas if you will not be mine then I must kill you. A pity, you would have been fun." she said, and began gathering her ki into a black ball of energy. Tobias straightened and wiped blood from his eyes.
"I still have one trick up my sleeve." he said. He placed his hands at his hips, gathering the energy into his hands. The energy was red, and looked like flames.
"Heelllll'ssss...." he began.
"DIE!" Lady Icer screamed, flinging the ball at him.
"-RAGE!!!" Tobias screamed, and slammed his hand together like a Final Flash, but the blast was red flame._ The blast hit the ball, they worked against the other. Tobias put everything he had into the blast. Lady Icer smirked and willed the ball forward. It slowly began to take up Tobias's blast.
"KA-OH-KEN... TIMES FIFTY!" Tobias screamed. His aura exploded with power, and it surged threw the blast, obliterating the ball, and slamming into Lady Icer. The blast slammed her screaming up and out of the castle where she vanished.
Tobias collapsed to his hands and knees, dropping to normal. He gasped for breath. He slowly got up, and staggered out slowly, his hand clutching at his side. He leaned against the wall, leaving a trail of blood along the ice wall as he walked. He heard Gohan screaming for everyone to get out, the castle was collapsing. He was close, but he seemed so far away.
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I ran away from the firing of the energy gun and did a Krillen running along the wall and back towards the guy firing at me. I landed in with a jumping front kick and the gun let out one more blast, and Gohan pulled me out of the way just in time and we looked round, they lay either dead or unconscious and I let out a breath.
"I was never trained for this back home." I grumbled.
Gohan chuckled. "Welcome to our world, where saving the world is a daily thing."
I looked at the debris and bodies. "Man, I'd hate to clean up this mess."
Gohan nodded. "I wonder how the other's did?" He asked.
There was silence suddenly, it was almost eerie and I felt for the energies in the air.
"This is getting so wacked. Gohan, I'm sorry about this dragging you in to it all."
"Hey, I save the world. It's what I do. I'm used to it. I've been doing this since I was a kid."
I rubbed the back of my neck, it hit me suddenly I couldn't control the authors, not completely.
"Who do I think I'm kidding I can't control them all." I sighed. "I have powers, I have magick even, but what makes me think I can control every other author who has entered this world? Gah I should know better than this. Babity messed up, and so have I."
"Look lets just get to the others and see if they're okay." Gohan said taking my hand.
I looked at it and blinked looking at him, I blinked again his hand was so warm. He smiled at me.
'Oh Goddess he's soooo cute!!' I thought. 'Man, I'd follow him off a cliff.' I followed his lead back to where we sensed the others were.
There was a noise on the ground behind us and Gohan turned round and looked at the guy- the one I had kicked with the gun, he was now holding that gun again. The man fired off one last shot and Gohan fired a blast at him. His energy attack obliterated this
guy, his gun and the energy blast from the gun. Gohan had killed so many. Me, I had only just punched and knocked guys out, Gohan had done the killing. I looked at him, yet he didn't seem like a killer, his features softened and he looked at me.
"You okay?" He asked.
I nodded dumbfounded. "Fine." I said. "Lets go." I added hurriedly.
Gohan looked at the ceiling collapsing and he looked at me. "EVERYONE GET OUT THIS WHOLE PLACE IS COMING DOWN!!!" He shouted pulling me along with him.
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