Gravity
By: Rena "Sama" / 'the light'
8-5-04
Disclaimer: I don't own them, so don't sue. I may not broke anymore, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna give some lawyer my money!
[ ...words.. ] denotes thought.
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Chapter.00 (prologue)
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Pink energy cracked, and snapped, and danced through the air. Wind and ki scoured the
Earth, and ripped at the rock formations jutting out around us as it was gathered into a ball of certain death.
I looked between the bringer of that death, and the panicked man in front of me.
"You have to put this on right now!" he commanded edging closer to me, holding a peculiar
looking earring in his blunt fingers. His trembling hand mirrored the waver in his voice, the desperation
of his usually indomitable spirit.
"Bejiita!!" the asshole screamed again, thrusting the earring towards for the third time.
"Go to hell Kakarotto! I'm not putting that on!!!"
It dangled there, gold and gleaming. I squinted as the light from his ki illuminated it, making it
difficult to look at. As though it were a small sun he held out for me, glowing with the hope of beating this
abomination, to avenge all those who have died at his hands...To get back my beautiful wife, my sweet boy
that were taken from me...
[ But it would cost me. More that sacrificing my life had. I just didn't know it yet. Idiot. ]
Buu grunted and snarled not far away from us. Fed up with smacking us around, tired of our futile
attempts to beat him, to kill him, tired of our endless squabbling over this small trinket from the gods. Our
only hope, the key to his destruction, but oddly enough, the source of my worst failure.
Somehow, the promise of victory made the piece of jewelry that much more radiant. Made the
thought of being bound to that sorry excuse for a saiyajin just barely tolerable.
"We've lost our old race Bejiita! Lets not lose this one too!!"
He continued trying to convince me to go slong with his plan. Yelled in my ear about birth rights,
and protecting our new families, our new world. Saying for the thousandth time that 'Buu can't be beaten
that way,' and that we had the bruises to prove it.
"Rrr." I snarled at him, baring some teeth. Like I always do when I don't want to admit that he's
right. And he is. I'd already reached the decision in my mind, but he changed it. I Hated him even more
for knowing exactly what to do before I even had a clue. One step ahead. Again. He was right, and
there was no denying it. The dust, and mountain debris fell to the ground as I stood up with my new
found resolve, though looking back at it now, it seems like I was just giving in.
"K..kakarotto are you sure this will work?" I yell more disbelieving of that fact that I seriously
considered going along with this.
"It's the only chance we've got!" I was afraid he might say that.
Ki crackled loudly as Buu drew ever closer. Insane look in his black eyes with glowing red pupils.
Disgusting. Another sneer. One last simple task I was able to do while I still had my freedom, before I
held out my hand.
"All right!! Give it to me!!"
"Bejiita!!" he said in an energetic squeal of a voice as he tossed our last hope to me. It glimmered
and shined more brightly than before as I fastened it to my right ear as quickly as I could. Buu and his ki
rushed towards us, tearing up more of the landscape, not that there's anyone left to enjoy it. His mocking
laughter heard clearly over the ruckus and destruction created by that much ki in one place.
I felt the ring pierce my ear. It's on.
"Is...is that it?!" I yelled wondering if the process could really be that simple. That my life as I
knew it could be altered so quickly, so easily.
"Yea!... Thank you... Bejiita..." he said just above a whisper. I give him an odd look. He seemed
far too happy about the arrangement, even for him.
[ Why hadn't I seen this coming? ]
The earring luminesced. I felt something strange coil and pull in my abdomen before I
was thrown forward by some unseen force. "What the...?!!" I was dragged towards Kakarotto at an
alarming rate. The wind whipped through my hair and flaps of torn clothing as I dug my heels into the
dirt to slow the pace, already having second thoughts about this. Kakarotto, in a similar state, careened
toward me, giving absolutely no resistance at all. The closer we got, the stronger the pull, and the harder I
fought it. The closer we got, the happier he looked. Smiling like everyone we knew wasn't dead,
or that Buu wasn't a breath away from killing us a s well. How can he be!?
What a strange man he is. Always was. Probably always will be.
I grit my teeth, preparing for the inevitable impact. Just before we collided, time slowed.
Sound was muffled and indistinct. The world was cast in that blue hue emitting from the earring on
my right lobe. Kakarotto, unaffected by the change, just smiled at me. A small enigmatic smile.
Only enigmatic because for all the times I've called him a simpleton, I never quite knew what he was
thinking.
Kakarotto, forever the unanswered question.
Bathed in blue light, with the strangest look on his face. Like someone who finally understood
what they could not before. Like someone who had found what they were searching for. Like someone
...enlightened. I suppose the expression only seemed strange to me because I've never felt that
contentment he has seemingly attained so easily.
And again, I hated him. Because I felt none of that. Everything comes easily to him.
My brow furls, as my lips pull back into another sneer. Why did it have to be him? My mind was
a swirl of confusion, anger, and doubt. His coal black eyes bored into mine with a strange calm fury. I
had the strongest urge to look away. But I didn't. His eyes sofened and his smile broadened as he
wrapped his thick arms around me and erased what little distance there was left between us. I was
pulled to his chest with a small grunt. My last thoughts before we started to meld was how small
I suddenly felt, and how warm he was. He practically burned. I literally felt myself sinking into him.
So warm it made me shudder... How odd.
[ Asshole. Don't think this makes us friends... ]
"Be..jii.t-" he began, but stopped before our bodies ceased to be. Before everything that
made me me, was pulled apart one molecule at a time and merged with that of Kakarotto.
Hope came in the form of one gold earring.
But so did despair.
I just didn't know it yet.
Continued?
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