Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ A Saiyajin's Heart ❯ Chapter Thirteen: Aaloka? ( Chapter 13 )

A Saiyajin's Heart

Chapter Thirteen: Aaloka?

By Selenity Jade

Rated: M

 

Disclaimer: I own Galan and Company. No one else. Don't sue.

 

Beta: W-chan - Thank You!

 

Pairing: Buruma/Vejiita

 

AN: 03/04/08 - Updated

 

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Vejiita touched down outside of his home silently. His face was impassive as he glanced over the dead warrior and the unconscious mate of Kakarotto. The other Saiyajin, however, rushed over to his mate and picked her up gently. Shaking her lightly, he whispered soft words to her that Vejiita tuned out.

 

So, Galan had kidnapped his mate. Again. The fool. He glanced at the warrior that lay in a pool of his own blood. He walked silently over to the warrior, blinking at the large, gaping hole in his chest. Did Kakarotto's mate do that? Or... his mate? It didn't seem possible that his frail, weak mate could gather enough power to do that. Then again, he knew the other female couldn't either.

 

"Vejiita!" Kakarotto called, motioning him over to the fool and his mate. He padded softly to them, noticing the loud harpy was starting to come to. "I can't sense Buruma anywhere," the fool told him.

 

Vejiita snorted, crossing his arms. "Galan took her."

 

Kakarotto gave Vejiita a hard look. "Don't you care?" he hissed.

 

Vejiita snapped his eyes to the warrior in front of him, glaring hatefully. "What I feel is none of your business!"

 

"She's you're fucking mate, Vejiita! And she's carrying your child!"

 

Vejiita blinked, startled.

 

"That's right. She's pregnant, Vejiita. I could smell it today when you brought her over to my house. Don't you care that your mate, your child, might die?"

 

Vejiita snarled. "I do not care about the fucking brat. Now stop asking stupid questions!"

 

Kakarotto stared at him until realization dawned on his face. "Oh! I understand!"

 

Glowering at the fool, Vejiita snorted. "Understand what, fool?"

 

"You're angry."

 

Snort.

 

"Very."

 

"Hn."

 

"And you're hiding it."

 

"Hn."

 

"Why?"

 

His mate could die. But he only snorted again in response.

 

Vejiita's head snapped up as a feeling of being watched overcame him. He snarled at the man who floated above them, an amused smirk on his face. "Galan," he hissed.

 

"Vejiita, Goku, how nice to see you."

 

Vejiita snarled again, floating up to the man. "Where is she?"

 

"Ms. Briefs? Oh, she's fine. Unconscious now, but fine."

 

"Unconscious? If you so much have touched her-"

 

"Oh, I didn't even lay a finger on her. She fell unconscious after killing Cherry."

 

Vejiita felt a proud smirk pull at his lips.

 

"I came back to ask you something actually, Vejiita."

 

"Hn."

 

"How did she do it?"

 

"Do what?"

 

Galan sighed. "She shouldn't have been able to do it. She had a power level as comparable to yours for awhile there."

 

Vejiita blinked once before suddenly laughing aloud. It was beginning to fall into place. His sudden power drain, how she could have killed someone, everything. And with that knowledge, came the certainty that he could find her. "That is what happened!"

 

Goku frowned slightly. "What?"

 

Vejiita smirked arrogantly at both of them. "She took ki from me, idiots."

 

"Say that again, slowly, Vejiita, because it still makes no sense," Goku stated in confusion.

 

Chuckling, Vejiita crossed his arms, and stuck his nose in the air. "She was probably very angry and drawing on her ki, not finding enough, she probably sought for more, taking mine. That is why I dropped out of Super Saiyajin."

 

Both blinked, mouths hanging open. "Is that even possible?"

 

Vejiita snorted. "Only if you have a bond, apparently."

 

"Huh?" Goku asked, scratching the back of his head.

 

"Nothing, fool. But this is very good," Vejiita stated with a wolfish grin. "I can find her now, wherever you have taken her. And I will kill you all."

 

"But, Vejiita, if she took that much ki... she should have exploded..."

 

Vejiita chuckled and shook his head. "No. She was never in any danger of exploding."

 

His rival shook his head. "Fine, whatever you say, Vejiita." He glanced at Galan. "Can you tell us where she is?"

 

For a second, on instant, Goku saw a small guilty look pass over his face, before the slightly amused and open mask was in place. Goku smothered a grin. So, the guy isn't all bad, hm? "I cannot."

 

"You don't want Buruma hurt," Goku stated, standing up with is wife in his arms. She was fine, only a bump to the head that knocked her out. She was silent throughout the exchange, her head still throbbing. "You feel badly for having her involved." At Galan's wince, Goku suddenly gaped. "You like her!"

 

Vejiita growled in warning. "Where is she?"

 

Galan suddenly lowered to the ground, and hung his head slightly. "Fine," he said wearily. "But promise to not kill me any more. I won't be able to come back again..."

 

"We promise," Goku put in quickly, causing Vejiita to glare at him.

 

"Ms. Briefs was taken to a ship that is orbiting Chikyuu," he stated dully.

 

"She is alive, or I would have felt her die. Is she... well?" Vejiita demanded.

 

Galan winced. "When my boss found out you had mated... she was very, very angry. She ordered Cherry, Kiwi and I to capture her and bring Buruma to her. When we did... Ms. Briefs will not survive much more. The only reason she's alive now is to get to Vejiita, but my boss... wants her blood. Badly."

 

Vejiita snarled, stalking towards Galan, but his rival's hand on his chest stopped him. He snarled at Goku, but stopped advancing and instead allowed himself to pace angrily.

 

"Galan, who's your boss?"

 

"Her name is Aaloka."

 

Vejiita's head snapped up, and to Goku's shock, he paled. "Not possible," he stated, almost sounding hopeful.

 

Galan looked over at Vejiita in sympathy. "Yes. The very same one."

 

Vejiita unconsciously began to power up, his hair flashing back and forth from black to blond, before he suddenly took off. Goku frowned, but didn't move to go after the angry Saiyajin. He glanced at Galan. "Who's Aaloka?"

 

Galan looked at the vapor trail that Vejiita left. "Someone that Vejiita had thought dead a long time ago. It is not my place to inform you of what my boss's relationship to Vejiita is." He glanced at Goku. "But that blue-haired mate of his... I like her, she has done nothing to Aaloka, and nothing to deserve what will happen to her. Her only crime is to have captured Vejiita's attention."

 

Goku frowned. "She's pregnant."

 

Galan nodded. "I know. But... she won't be for long. Aaloka means to kill the child soon. That is why..." He sighed and looked down. "I am not powerful. I just have the unique ability to spontaneously clone myself from a single surviving cell in the right circumstances. My consciousness, memories, everything stays with me through each new body. Aaloka has cells of mine, and that is how I can resurrect myself. But when she finds out that I betrayed her, if I'm completely vaporized like Vejiita enjoys doing to me, I will be dead. I'm asking you to spare me, and to keep her from killing me."

 

Goku nodded hurriedly. "That's fine. Vejiita might not like it, but he'll live."

 

"Goku-sa?" Chichi asked suddenly from his arms.

 

The large warrior looked down at his wife. "Chi?"

 

"Kick that woman's ass, would you?"

 

Goku grinned. "I would, but I think I'll let Vejiita have that honor."

 

The woman looked a bit suspicious. "Do you think he even cares that she's taken? He was perfectly calm."

 

Looking towards the direction of the Saiyajin no Ouji's ki trail, Goku shook his head. "He wasn't really calm, Chi. He was dangerously angry. I think... he's separated himself somehow. Like multiple personalities. Any emotion or thought that was dangerous to him, dangerous to his battles, to his revenge, he locked away. It got to the point where he doesn't even realize he's doing it, I think. It's dangerous, that separation, but I think it was his only way to keep his sanity while with Furiza. He pushed the dangerous rage into that other side of himself, instinctively knowing it was dangerous to himself, or more likely Buruma, and he didn't even feel it. Now, though," he said softly, his eyes unblinking as he stared at the sky, "I think he's afraid for her, and the rage he feels... is overwhelming that separation of himself."

 

Chichi blinked. "How do you know that?"

 

Goku looked down sheepishly. "Vejiita's destroying things wherever he went. Lots of things. I don't think they're people, or a city, thankfully. But even if he was, I wouldn't want to be the one to stop him."

 

"You're stronger than he-"

 

Goku shook his head. "He's powerful, Chi. He'll always grow in power. He's a better fighter than even I am sometimes, you know. But his time with Furiza stunted him... and all that power is... invisible to him."

 

"What happens when he stops separating himself?" Chichi asked.

 

"Either he'll go insane... or he'll heal. The first is disastrous for us, and maybe even Buruma. The second... he may finally surpass me."

 

Chichi and Galan frowned thoughtfully at Goku as he continued to stare in the direction Vejiita flew off in. "What will happen if Aaloka kills his mate?" Galan asked suddenly.

 

Goku looked at him soberly. "We all die."

 

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Vejiita suddenly lowered to the scorched ground. He had decimated hundreds of uninhabited islands in his rage. He wouldn't have even bothered with the uninhabited part, except that the knowledge that if he did get his mate back, and she ever learned of his temper tantrum, she would hate him if he had wantonly killed humans.

 

That would kill him, just as surely as her death would. He sat on the ground, one leg extended, the other bent at the knee, and his arm rested lightly on it. Now that he had realized their bond was strong enough to allow her access to his power, maybe... he could talk with her.

 

He closed his eyes and grounded himself, just as if he was meditating. Having achieved that, he reached into himself, finding that link, that bond with her. The piece of his soul, which was linked with hers and sought her. Sought her emotions, her thoughts, and sought her ki. Just like speaking to another Saiyajin, only he had to delve deeper to reach someone without the telepathic abilities his race had.

 

:Onna.:

 

He could feel surprise, fear, confusion, and a slight dull pain. :Vejiita?: she returned tentatively, and Vejiita had the feeling she was doubting her own sanity.

 

:Hai, Onna.:

 

:How?:

 

:Our bond. Do you remember how you killed that man?:

 

He could feel her guilt over the death; feel her pain and regret, her fear, and self-loathing.

 

:Onna, push that away right now. Feel bad later,: he told her sharply. :You drained my power when you did that. I want you to tell me, have you seen that female?:

 

:Aaloka? Yeah, I've seen her. Vejiita... please, come get me.:

 

:I will, Onna. Did she hurt you?:

 

A slight hesitation, then a weak, :No,: reached him. And he could feel her deception.

 

He growled softly. :Do not irritate her. She is very, very dangerous.:

 

:Who is she, Vejiita?:

 

He winced slightly. :She is an old... employee of Furiza. A torturer and a favorite of Furiza's. She was one of the people Furiza had to condition his warriors.:

 

:What? What does that have to do with you?:

 

:I was under her... care for an entire year, Onna. And I was the only one she could not break completely. That angered her and amused her at the same time. She grew to have an... obsession with me during that time. I thought Furiza killed her years ago. Apparently, I was mistaken.:

 

:Vejiita?: she ventured, concern filling her mind, causing him to wince again. :What did she do to you?:

 

He growled, pushing away the sudden memories that pushed their way into his mind, but not soon enough because his mate gasped, and pity, concern, and a great pain filled him. And it was all hers.

 

:Vejiita...:

 

:Not now, Onna,: he told her. :You cooperate with her, and I will get you out of there, understand?:

 

:Vejiita, she said I was pregnant... Am I?:

 

Vejiita clenched his fist. :Yes.:

 

:She wants to kill it. Vejiita, you can't let her-:

 

:Onna, shut up! I will come to you, I swear.:

 

He could feel a sudden fear from her. :Vejiita, I want to tell you something... in case I die.:

 

:Onna, you are not going to die, so save it,: he snarled back at her.

 

:I love you, Vejiita. I love you,: she whispered into his mind, and all of a sudden, his mind was filled with pain, her pain, physical pain. And he blacked out.

 

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AN: (WINCE) Ouch, I suck O.o;

 

Japanese:

Chikyuu: Earth

 

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