Part 1 of Chapter 21
*****
I stood outside the castle with Kakuna and watched as the tallest spire began to slip into the castle. I suddenly realized that Toby was there underneath the spire.
"TOBY!" I screamed as I rushed towards the crumbling castle! Kakuna grabbed me and put me into an arm lock. I screamed as I struggled to get free! "NO! TOBY'S IN THERE!"
"If you rush in there you're going to get crushed too!" she cried as she held me back.
"Let me go!" I screamed as I felt my power jump up to the next level. I was a SSJ4. I had made it to SSJ3 while fighting Jeice and Captain Ginyu with Kakuna, but this was amazing, jumping two levels in one day?
*****
I held her, for all I was worth, resisting the urge to knock her out. I know it sounds harsh, but I was ready to. I knew better than to let her go and injure herself. I would never forgive myself if I let anything happen to her. Tobias would agree with me. He would want her alive.
Slowly, I release her, allowing her to study the new state of transformation she'd taken. I stare down at my own furry arms, remembering when I'd reached level four on my own a long time ago (Only in my stories from the other world though).
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I hissed as I fell, my body slowly dropping down to my third level transformation state. I was going to die after a fall like this but suddenly I felt arms around me and I looked back to see a very battered Jeice holding me up.
"Are you alright, m' Lady?" he asked and I smiled at him. A genuine smile.
"Yes, Jeice, I will be, thanks to you," I whispered as I wrapped an arm around his neck. "I think you're going to receive a very large reward for this." I winced as we flew towards where the ship was waiting for us. This was not good.
"Thank you, m' Lady," he said as he half carried me to the ship.
"You earned it," I whispered as I limped to the Medical wing.
*****
"No, we can't leave him behind! I know Toby is alive!" Mabelle screamed.
Tobias doubled his efforts and walked up the hall, seeing daylight.
~ A little more just a little more. ~ he thought, his thoughts hazy, and his vision obscured by fatigue and blood. He stumbled outside to see them gather in the courtyard looking around. Mabelle let out a shriek when she saw him. Lady Icer's men lay dead
everywhere, and he could see the Ginyu force lying among them. Only Jeice was missing.
*****
Toby was a mess and I whimpered as I rushed towards him. There was a terrible gash over his forehead and I could feel how low his energy was. Man, was he going to be strong when he healed from this.
*****
I lowered myself into the tank and placed the mask over my face. I watched as the green liquid filled the tank. I would need to come up with some form of payback after I healed. After, but I would have my revenge, I would have my revenge!
*****
"Toby!" Mabelle cried, and ran up to him, hugging him. Tobias let out a small hiss of pain but wrapped his arms around her. The building shook and Gohan hurried over to them, his shirt torn off, and a few scratches on him. J'dee and Kakuna looked exhausted but all right.
"Here." Gohan said, and popped a senzu bean into Tobias mouth. Tobias chewed and swallowed, and his wounds healed, the last to go was the slash on his face. He ran a hand over it to make sure it didn't scar, and thankfully, it hadn't.
"We've got to go now, this whole building is coming down!" Gohan said. Tobias nodded, and picked up Mabelle in his arms. They blasted off and flew for a bit, and then stopped to watch the building collapse.
"Its over, its finally over." Mabelle whispered. She drifted to sleep in his arms. Tobias nodded to himself. Yes it was over and now he had to take care of Lady Seru, but that would come much later. He needed to rest first.
"Thank you," he said, and Kakuna smiled.
"Hey, it was fun!" she said, and a smiled curled on Tobias' lips.
"J'dee." he said, and she turned to him.
"Yeah?" she asked.
"Thanks. I think I'm gonna have a barbecue at my place tomorrow to celebrate. You're all invited," he said. They grinned.
"You would do that? Feed all these Saiyans?" Gohan asked, surprised. Tobias nodded.
"Sure. It'll be nice to get together and relax, you know?" he said. Gohan nodded, and grabbed J'dee's hand.
"Let's go. You have to get some sleep for school." he said, pulling her towards his home. J'dee sweatdropped.
"But tomorrow is Saturday!" they heard and Tobias chuckled as they flew off.
"I guess I'll be there too. I want to catch up with Mabelle." Kakuna said, and blasted off for Capsule Corp with a wave. Tobias sighed, and held the sleeping Mabelle close to him as he flew for home.
*****
I flew home, glad to have the fight over and done with. The wind in my face felt great once I'd lifted myself into the air, concentrating on the idea of curling into bed after a nice hot shower.
Briefly, my mind drifts else where, sensing Mirai Trunks' confusion from earlier. I'd left him all alone, wondering who I might be and why I would care to be there when he woke.
I woke him after all. My cheeks flush, an image of him standing before a full body mirror adorned in only a towel around his waist. This bond is strange. I'd done nothing to initiate it, but it's there. It's almost as if I'm seeing him through his eyes.
His eyes blink rapidly, and for a moment I do believe that he is aware of me hovering within his subconscious. My name is upon his lips. "Kakuna?"
Who'd told him who I was? He must've asked Vegeta. I laugh aloud, twirling and diving through the air like a butterfly. Am I quite possibly in love with a cartoon character? It's unusual to say so, but it isn't impossible. I always admired Mirai Trunks from my world. I always knew Vegeta would never be mine. He belongs to Bulma, lucky woman.
If I can't have Vegeta, why not chase after his future world son? I giggle, covering my mouth in reflex, although I know no one can hear me.
The lights of West Capital City come to view and I know I'm not too far from Capsule Corp.
I can feel Trunks trying to press into my mind, his thoughts afire with questions. Who are you? Where do you come from? Why can I hear your thoughts and you hear mine? Why, why?
At last, I arrived, my senses detecting his presence. I shift my gaze to one of the many balconies, one in particular being found to my interest. He stood, awaiting me, a smile accentuating his beautiful face. Ah, Mirai Trunks, such a babe he is.
Quietly, I lower myself to his level, hovering several feet from him. Neither of us spoke, both studying one another. I sniffed the air around me, catching his scent beneath my nostrils, my body trembles, tail lashing erratically behind me as I drew closer to him.
He seemed to be taking note on my sent as well, our instincts over riding any form of humane dignity. He reaches out, catching my waist easily and pulling me forward.
"Who are you?" he breathes huskily, blue eyes glazed.
Gawd, of all the times for my Saiyan hormones to kick in! On my first day too. I never knew getting near Trunks could do this to me, but apparently he is equally affected.
I'd found my life mate at last. For so long I'd wondered if I'd ever find the right man. Apparently, he's standing in front of me, pressing full lips against mine, forging a battle I know that he'll win in a heart beat.
I suppose all questions will have to be answered in the morning ruefully. No one's loss I suppose, I giggle delightfully as I found a lavender tail hooking around my waist. How will I tell him that by the mere sight of me, his body has automatically fulfilled what
science could not cure. The growth of his tail.
Go me.
*****
"Why do you want to go to Capsule Corp?" Gohan asked me as we flew back there.
"I left Tiger there- again!! She's going to be so mad with me."
Gohan chuckled. "You sounded just like Yam- er.. him when he leaves Puar behind."
I sighed. I couldn't have Yamcha. I could never have him and that bugged the hell out of me. I looked at Gohan. A question then popped in my head something I had always wanted to know.
"Gohan?"
"Hmmm?" He looked at me.
"Why do you wear glasses I thought Saiyan sight was suppose to be like mondo perfect and stuff?" I asked. "Oh did I just say mondo?!" I exclaimed. "Noooo I'm turning in to a Krillen."
Gohan laughed at me.
"It's not funny." I pouted. "Don't laugh...."
"Sorry." Gohan still chuckled though. "It's just amusing."
"I'm amusing?" I quizzed and looked at him.
"You're different. One moment you can be as serious as anything the next you're worried about a tiny thing like saying mondo and you're vain. I've never meet a vain Saiyan before, apart from Trunks." He smirked. "And Goten." He added.
"I am not vain." I grumbled crossing my arms as I flew.
"You took an entire hour in the bathroom this morning."
I huffed. "Lets just pick up Tiger and head home."
"Home." Gohan repeated with a smile and nodded at me.
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Tobias laid Mabelle on the bed, but he wasn't tired himself. On the contrary, he was feeling jazzed. It was like his blood was on fire with passion and he could not put it out. His power was much stronger, but he also felt this Saiyan like content. But now another Saiyan instinct was striking him full force. The urge to mate. Tobias growled to himself, and walked outside, and sat down on his porch. Mabelle had chosen to put the garden along the back and side so he had a clear view of it and the lake. The moon was just rising and it was only a half moon. Thank Dende for that.
*****
I opened my eyes and looked around. I was in the bedroom of Toby's, our cabin, I looked around and sighed, there I went and fell asleep again, that was getting to become a bad habit. I smiled as I looked out the window at the larger portion of my garden, it was
still in ruin, I'd have to work on it tomorrow morning, but I'll worry about that tomorrow. I giggled as I noticed that my rose bushes were sitting outside, well those would have to be taken care of too.
I wondered where Toby was and then I felt him sitting outside the cabin. I smiled as I was about to go out and talk to him when I thought of how worried I had been. I slowly walked over to the corner of the mattress and sighed as I knelt down next to it. Could I go through with this? Could I give myself up to a person I've only know for three days, barely? I nodded as I thought about how he had looked at me when Lady Icer was holding me hostage, he hadn't cared about what would've happened to himself, he only cared about me. I nodded to myself as I lifted up the edge of the mattress and scooped out the lingerie and the box of condoms. I put the box on the table half hidden behind the clock. I opened the window and snuck out, cutting off seven of the largest blooming roses. I crept back into the cabin and smiled as I slipped out of my ruined tank-top, bra, skirt and I slipped on the sexy outfit. I went out into the cabin and gathered the candles that Toby had used for dinner the other night and I began to crush the roses, letting the petals fall to the floor and I slowly placed the candles around the bed. I smiled as I went out to talk to Toby.
*****
Tobias reached under the porch-swing he was sitting on and pulled a box out. He had bought it when he went to get his supplies the first time, and it was something he did some times only every six months but he found it was nice to smoke tobacco outside, under the stars. He filled the pipe and lit the tobacco, puffing away from it a bit. The pipe was an old fashion one, like the one his Grandfather had. Tobias could smell the tobacco, so much like cigar smell that it soothed him.
"Tobias?" came a voice. Not even turning, Tobias answered Mabelle.
"I'm okay," he answered the unspoken question if he was all right. He heard her breath a sigh of relief.
"I didn't know you smoked a pipe, you do know they cause cancer?" she teased. She still hadn't come into his line of vision and he didn't turn around.
"I do like once every six months or so. I find that on a beautiful night, a having a pipe under the stars seems so peaceful. It tastes fine every once and a while." he said, and gently tapped what was left on the railing, smacking it out. He tucked it away in the box
and popped some gum in his mouth to make his breath smell okay.
"What is it Mabelle?" he asked, finally turning to face her. What he saw made him stare in shock.
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*Vampire Goddess Jekyll*
Eve woke up with an enormous headache. She opened her eyes and blinked to the light. She heard singing birds and looked to the sun. Seeing that it was just above the horizon, she figured it was morning.
She tried to push herself up with her hands, but a splitting pain raced through her whole body and she fell flat on her face. She groaned and looked surprised to her arms. They were covered in blood!
"What the-" She mumbled as her eyes fell on a piece of glass, that was sticking into her left shoulder. She lifted her right hand with the intention of getting the glass out of her shoulder when she felt little sharp things piercing in her skin. Her eyes slowly went to her arm and she gasped surprised. There were thousands little pieces of glass in her arm and blood welled up from every cut.
"How did that get there?" She wondered. A little flashback told her the scene with the computers and she closed moaning her eyes.
"This is hell! I know it! I'm dead and this is hell and I shall suffer the pain of glass for all eternity!" Wait a minute! This is hell?! But I saw the sun, light... I heard birds! Hell must be very different from how I thought it would be, or maybe... I'm not dead!
Her eyes shot open and she quickly took her surroundings in. She was on an open grassy plain. Somewhere in the distance was a little forest. It looked odd. Unnatural almost... like it was drawn, but she chose to ignore that fact for the moment.
Eve decided that she would face the pain and stand up. The pain shot though her body and she could feel that there was glass in every part of it. "Damn, this bites!" She hissed.
She searched around for a lake or something, so she could wash the blood away and remove the glass, but there wasn't any in the neighborhood. "DAMMIT!" She yelled angry and kicked against a stone, which sailed over the grass and landed with a loud thud on the ground. Eve frowned and walked to the stone. Every step was rather painful and it took a long time, but she reached it and grabbed the stone. She let it fall and again it made a loud thud when it came in contact with the ground. "How odd. Why does it make
so much noise?" She grabbed it again and studied it from every side. "Hey, now I kind of think of it, it doesn't even look real!" She looked around again. "I don't get it! Why didn't I notice it before? This place looks totally.... totally... euh... animated! That's it!
Animated!" Eve smiled to herself, very proud of being smart enough to figure that out. Okay, Jek, you're in an anime. Don't freak out! Be calm. Think calm. It's very normal to be animated...... who am I kidding! WHOEAAAAAAAAAH! Ack, what am I doing! I'm
screaming in my thoughts!!!! Am I trying to look like Krillin or something!
"This is not good!" Eve sighed. "Okay. Symptoms: Acting goofy and animation. So, I'm in an anime. No big deal! Gotta find out in what anime I am: Angelic Layer, Ranma 1 �, Inuyasha, Dragonball, Tenchi Muyo... oh please! Don't let it be Pok�mon!!! Not Pok�mon!!!"
She shook her head at the thought and glanced to the piece of glass in her left arm. She bit her teeth together and tried to pull it out, but it was too stuck and it hurt! She was afraid that she would pass out from pain if she pulled harder.
"Damn! Why couldn't I be in this anime as my alter ego: Jekyll? That would be much easier!"
The minute she'd said that her body started to shake. "What the-"
She saw dark spots in front of her eyes and it felt like someone was pounding on her jaw.
"Ack..." She said and fell on the ground. Her head was spinning and the pain from her shoulder was nothing compared to the pain she felt in her head. Her heart missed a couple beats and finally... it totally stopped.
She blacked out.
***
Jekyll sighed and turned to her other side. Bad idea! "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" She yelled and jumped up. She looked to her arm, the subject of her pain, but the sun seemed too bright for her eyes. She closed them and ran on instinct to the forest. There in the shadows, she opened her eyes and looked to her arm.
The bloody wounds were gone! She frowned slightly and turned her arm. No sign of a wound.
"That's odd." After checking her whole body she found out that all the cuts and glass were gone... and she noticed that some tight fitting leather clothes replaced her blue jeans and shirt.
"Hmm... that sure looks like what Michael Jackson was wearing in 'Bad'........... Nani? It IS what MJ wore!!!!" She blinked surprised and leant against a tree. "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH" She yelped and looked to her arm again. "What the hell is going on!" She pushed on the flesh of her arm and felt the pain again.
"NANI!!!!!!! That glass is still in my arm!!!! Under the skin!" She stared open-mouthed to her arm and stroke carefully over her other arm. The glass was definitely in it. Now it's even worse!
"This sucks..."
She bit thoughtful on her lip and jumped surprised in the air. "Whoeaah... Why do I keep hurting myself!!!" She stroke with a finger over her lip, which was pierced by her 2 fangs.
Think, think, think! I'm exactly like I am on Internet and in chatrooms. That means that I'm a vampire, I probably can fly, I know hypnosis, I have good eyes, smell and hearing, I can change into a wolf or bat and I don't have any ki. I don't have a ki? Ack, this could be dangerous for me! What if I'm in Inuyasha or the Dragonball world! They could think that I'm an evil villain!
"This is NOT good. No, not good at all! And I have to find a doctor or someone who can remove the glass out of my body."
She sniffed some air in, looking for the right smell. "There." She said to herself and turned to where the right smell came from. "There's a city! I'm thirsty and I have to get me some sunglasses... oh and a doctor..." She levitated up and flew with closed eyes to the city.
***
*Seisetsu*
Blake woke up to the sound of the shower from the next room and he sat up slowly and sighed. He'd been dreaming hadn't he? He looked round his surroundings and recognized the room from yesterday. He was still in his dream... He looked down at his hands and saw they were still animated flesh.
"It's not a dream..." He got up and walked up to the dresser and looked at his animated reflection staring back at him.
The door opened and he looked at Krillen who stuck his head in. "Oh good you're up, there's some food on the table if you're hungry. Or if you want to wash up you can wait till Eighteen's finished in there," He sighed, "Which could be a while. Then take the
bathroom after she's done." With that he was gone again.
Blake ran his hands through his hair and he blinked. 'Wait Eighteen in the shower?' He grinned to himself. One peek couldn't hurt... could it, unless she hurt him. His mind filled up with hentai thoughts of Eighteen. 'She could kill me in a second or beat me to a pulp...' Then more images filled his head and he grinned. 'That's one way to go...'
Blake slipped in to the hallway an he looked at the bathroom door, Krillen and Master Roshi weren't around, and Blake seemed surprised by Master Roshi not hanging round the bathroom door like the old pervert he was. Blake pushed the door slightly open and looked in. He couldn't help it. This was just toooo tempting.
There was steam filling the room and there she stood Eighteen in the flesh her back to the door standing in the shower, she was washing her hair and Blake quickly shut the door quietly though. 'Well, that was a quick thrill.'
Blake let out a breath. He could look again and no one would know... c'mon what teenage guy obsessed with Dragonball Z wouldn't want to peek in on Eighteen. Blake pushed the door open again slightly and took another peek. There she was still in the shower. 'This has GOT to be a dream!' He thought. He tried hard not to laugh at the excitement.
Blake shut the door again softly and he started to walk down the hallway. 'I saw eighteen NAKED and I lived!' He thought and grinned to himself. 'Talk about lucky...' He then blinked suddenly his mind processing what he'd seen. 'I saw her naked...' he then passed out in the middle of the hallway.
***
Blake felt a prodding in his side and his eyes fluttered open to see Eighteen jabbing him with her foot, she was now fully clothed and the excitement had worn off, 'Does she know?' he thought to himself. 'I'm so dead!!'
"Is he okay?" Krillen's head popped in to view.
Blake blinked and he sat up. "I'm fine." He said quickly and got up and ran off down the hallway. "JUST HUNGRY!" He called back over his shoulder.
Blake grabbed some food and he rushed outside to eat it in solitary. He let out a sigh. "Damn me and my stupid male hormones." He grumbled to himself as he gulped down large portions of sushi.
Eighteen stood in the doorway watching his back and she looked to Krillen.
"He could be changing, Krillen."
"What do we do when he changes?" Krillen asked.
Eighteen looked at him. "I don't know." She replied. "In this form he's no match for us, but the minute he changes, we could be in for some trouble, that Lady Icer was strong, but him, he could get even stronger." She remarked.
"He wouldn't hurt us right?" Krillen asked.
"Not me. You perhaps."
"Hey, why me?" Krillen asked panicked.
"Cause you're married to me. Think about it since I arrived a Capsule Corp yesterday all he's done is eye me up. I know when I'm being looked at Krillen."
Krillen sighed and he looked at her. "Fair enough. Is that why you let him sleep half the day away?"
"Just in case he changes." Eighteen finished.
"Which will be when?" Krillen prodded.
"What do I look like a psychic? I don't know."
Blake was oblivious to Eighteen and Krillen watching him, he was too busy eating he may not of been a Saiyan but when he felt like it he could eat like one, what teenage male couldn't?
He felt a stirring inside of him and he stopped eating for a moment as he felt a pain numb his arm, then spikes began to form piercing through his skin, he blinked in shock and looked at the spikes.
'I'm dreaming again.' He told himself mentally. 'Aren't I?'
Blake looked up to see Turtle staring at him. The elderly Turtle backed away from him and Blake looked at his arm again.
The pain felt suddenly real and Blake doubled over grabbing on to his arm and he felt his skin begin to stretch and come off like something inside of him wanted out. It was evil, it was cold, and it wanted to have some fun.
***
*J'dee*
I landed at Capsule Corp and I ran inside, there was still some light left, not much, the sun was setting. I had another mission to jump right in to, the past. I sighed and ran in to Bulma's lab, "Have you fixed it yet?" I asked Bulma hurriedly.
She looked up and shook her head. "I'm sorry not yet." She said. "I'm trying though."
I watched as Tiger jumped off the bench and she ran up to me and I scooped her up and put her on my shoulder. Gohan looked at me. "You got Tiger now lets get back."
I looked at him, "But Gohan-" I began.
"The chicken." He reminded me.
I smacked my forehead. "The chicken!!" I exclaimed. "Damnit."
"I'll see you two later." Bulma said smiling at us.
I frowned. 'What's going on here?' I thought to myself, 'first Goten, then that look Tobias gave us and now Bulma, he's married!' I told myself, 'and he's my teacher!' I blinked at the last one and grinned. 'Oh wow cool I've always wondered what that would be like.' I added in thought then I mentally scolded myself.
Gohan grabbed me by the arm and he pulled me out of Bulma's lab. "Gak!" I exclaimed and rubbed my arm. Gohan looked at me.
"That didn't hurt did it? You're a Saiyan."
"It hurt when I wasn't expecting it." I grumbled to myself.
I walked out and let out a sigh there still was that feeling of a disruption in the air. Another author needed help. I rubbed my temples. 'Will this ever end?' I thought to myself as I walked outside and felt the sting of the cool air hit me and I rolled the sleeves
of my gi down.
I looked behind me feeling someone with that sixth sense but I couldn't see anyone. Gohan went to fly off and I stopped him. 'Someone's here.' I thought to myself.
Gohan looked round. "I don't sense anyone."
I stopped and looked at him and blinked realizing he'd just read my mind. Gohan looked at me with that Son clueless look, not knowing what he'd done that'd caused me shock. He'd obviously heard me like I'd spoken it out loud and thought I had.
'This is so not good.' I thought to myself distracted from the disruption in the air.
"Wait a minute, I can hear you." He said shocked seeing that my mouth didn't move with that last comment. I looked at him, I had no idea when this had happened. Man, I was going to be murdered by Videl.
"And I repeat myself. This is so not good."
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To Be Continued...