Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Gama's Blood Crystal ❯ Blood Crystal ( Chapter 15 )
Chapter 15: Blood Crystal
Goku frowns, thinking and looking around at everything. He shakes his head at Gohan."I don't know. I don't sense anything." He looks down at the woman he was about to pick up when the buildings started blowing up around them. "But I think we should get these 2 out of here."
Gohan nods his agreement and the 2 quickly jump off the podium they were on and run away from the crowded streets. Just before they were able to get out of harm's way, several masked men wearing ragged cloaks suddenly ran out in front of them and stopped them. "Hold it right there."
Goku and Gohan stopand immediately place the 2 women they're holding in more secure positionsin their arms. Goku looks at them seriously; his version of a glare. "Leave them alone. They couldn't have done anything to deserve this."
The man who had spoken first stares at them for a moment. "You're helping them." He says incredulously.
Goku and Gohan look at each other, but the man in front of them drops his defensive stance. "My name's Armand." He says as he takes his mask off to reveal a face that he has a bandage on one cheek. "And those are my wife and sister-in-law you're holding there."
He steps forward and reaches out to get the woman from Gohan's arms while another man heads over to Goku. Goku and Gohan look at each other again and then both hand over their burdens to the men. As soon as the women were safe in the disguised strangers'arms, the initial man looks at both of them and smiles. "Thank you. Even though we were already trying to save them, we all are grateful that you still helped them out. It's good to know sane people still inhabit this planet."
He looks around quickly as the masses continue to panic, turning serious. "But you might want to get the hell out of here before the cops arrive. They'll arrest everyone they can get their hands on, trying to figure out who blew up the buildings." He nods at them before running off with the others into a nearby alley.
Goku and Gohan look at each other again. "At least not everyone's like this." Goku says, Son-grinning.
Gohan smiles at his dad. "Yeah. Now let's get back to the others."
Goku nods his agreement and they both turn around, searching out the others' ki's.
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He ran along swiftly, staying in the shadows to keep any prying eyes off of what he was carrying. Up ahead, all he could sense of the others was that they were on the edge of the city and very far north-east. An explosion from earlier on in the day was interfering with his senses, but he could see alot of smoke coming from in the same direction as where he had last felt them, so he didn't really care.
He looked down at what he was carrying and thought back to before.
He had woken up in the woods just out of the city and hadn't had far to walk, despite how deep into the city he was by this time, before his good hearing had picked up the words `Gamanian Witch'. He may not have seen the girl before, but he had heard everything that had gone on and so had immediately headed in that direction. Arriving on the scene as the crowd was setting her on fire, he was about to charge forward when he noticed how high up she was and then heard her laugh. He decided to wait until the crowd had departed rather than risk getting noticed and lose what surprise he could throw onto that Shadow guy.
Looking back up, he had to admit that he was actually impressed by her. As far as humans go, not many were willing to go thru pain like that to get themselves the hell out of that kind of mess. He'd walked up to the makeshift cross she'd been nailed to, reaching it just as she was pulling her feet free and then jumped up and caught her before she'd fallen more than 2 feet.
He glanced back down at her again, worry etching his features. If it weren't for her shallow breathing, he would've thought her dead. He knew he would have to get her some help before rejoining the others.
Looking around for anything that might look like a hospital of any kind, he was suddenly forced into a battle stance when a shadow ambushes him.
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Trunks and Vejita were on a rooftop on the nearest building that wasn't collapsing. Scanning the ground below them, they soon spot Goku and Gohan, and them giving their recently saveds to some disguised people. The 2 men both scan the ground for any sign of Saria. Vejita looks over at Trunks, but the boy already is shaking his head in disappointment.
He looks over at his father, saying "Let's get to the others and then continue looking for her."
Vejita nods once and jumps off the roof, deciding to leave the boy alone for once, rather than taunt him and hear him whine. Trunks quickly follows, and the 2 gracefully land on the ground and are standing in front of Goku and Gohan almost immediately.
"Hey guys." Trunks says to them.
They smile and Goku says "Hey Trunks and Vejita!"
Vejita rolls his eyes at Goku's never-ending supply of cheerfulness. "Baka. You said you two knew what the girl's ki felt like?"
Trunks is taken aback. "You guys saw her before?"
Goku looks down at the ground sheepishly while Gohan answers "Yeah. We saw her get in her dad's car with him earlier on. Why?" Gohan adds when he sees Trunks glowering expression.
Before Trunks can say a thing, Vejita speaks up. "Later. Just find the damn girl."
Goku scratches his head confusedly and Gohan just nods, clearly wondering what had happened. Concentrating, Gohan searches her out and then turns to the east. "I think I sense her in that direction." His brows knit together in confusion. "Except she's pretty far away." He turns to the others. "That's odd... I think she's in a different city."
They all look at him; Goku and Trunks in surprise, and Vejita with one raised eyebrow. Said Prince stares down Gohan. "Are you sure that it's her?"
Gohan looks at him and then at whoever he was sensing in that direction. "It's very similar to her at any rate. I don't sense her at all in this city."
Vejita then takes a few steps in the direction Gohan had indicated, then turned around in annoyance. "Then what the hell are you waiting for?"
Trunks immediately catches up with him and Goku and Gohan quickly follow, with Goku intelligently (for him) adding, "What about Goten and Piccolo, tho? We still haven't found them and those Gama witches said we should find everyone else first."
Vejita growls in exasperation and Trunks looks surprised and sheepish at the same time. He immediately looks around, obviously trying to sense out his best friend's location. He stops, turning back in the same direction where Saria had been said to have been in.
"He's over in Saria's direction, a couple blocks from us." Trunks says.
Goku then adds "And I think Piccolo's gonna show up later. I can't sense him anywhere."
Gohan half-smiles, knowing how his mentor is. "Yeah, he probably wants to save himself for a surprise ambush. We'd better get going."
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He stares at the small form before him and immediately snaps. "Pan! What the hell are you doing here?!"
The 4 year old girl simply giggles and says "Hi Piccolo! Is my Daddy around here somewhere?" She looks around, thinking she'll see him nearby.
Piccolo just looks at her and growls in extreme annoyance. "Pan, this is not a place for you to be at! It's too dangerous here! How the hell did you get here anyway?"
Pan gives the classic son grin, but before she can say anything, Saria stirs. She leans forward, "Hey, who's that?"
Narrowing his eyes at Pan, Piccolo growls and reaches over to pick her up. She squeals as he says "The reason why your father and everyone else are here."
He looks down at both the creatures he has to watch out for now and moves on.
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For a moment, all she could see was a black void all around her. Then she felt it again. A sharp, burning at the fringes of her consciousness. She suddenly jolts awake, forcing herself to ignore what she knew were just her wounds from being on the cross. She snaps her eyes open and stares at the blurred vision before her. All she could make out at first was that she was covered in white. Snow… Warm snow? She manages to concentrate more fully on her surroundings and abruptly realizes that she isn't on the ground near the cross. Her heart skips a beat, thinking she might've been captured again. She knew that there was no way she'd be able to get away this time in her weakened state.
Suddenly, she hears a little girl's voice right near her ear. Flinching away from the sound, she finally gets her vision focused. She stares up and sees a very young girl's grinning face in front of her. The girl again says something, which Saria can't understand, and is abruptly lifted up from her face. Saria then realizes that she's in someone's arms, and, staring up at her new captor, she gasps upon seeing the familiar and yet completely new, green visage before her.
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Translations/Explanations: < p>First off: Sorry for how long it's been. It's really crazy here and all hell's broken loose in my living situation since my last update. And things are still fucked! So I'm warning you all to not be too expectant for quick updates for a little while longer. But I'll still do my best. Anyways, I send my thanks to Allison for her review. Don't worry, and here's an update for ya. :) O yeah, and hi to trunks1gurl too!
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