Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Cell's Breakout ❯ Succumb to the Darkness - Part II - ( Chapter 7 )

Author's Note: OK, just to let you all know, this is a direct continuation of the last chapter-I was going to add all of this to Chapter Six, but I decided it was too long as it was and made it a new chapter...yadayadayada...etc. *takes out her tape recorder and presses "play"; it immediately says, "I don't own any of the regular characters you'd find in the show or manga Dragon Ball Z. They are copyright of Akira Toriyama. Cyris, Laura, Sita, Nyome, Dora, Meah, and Valerie are KASH Copyright."* Ah, the joys of modern conveniences! Oh! Er…Enjoy!~KASH

An evil smirk slowly swept onto Cyris's lips, and she pulled Jessica so close to her face that the tips of their noses touched.

Cyris's voice lowered. "And do you remember...what I said?"

Suddenly, in an instant almost too fast for Jessica to comprehend, Cyris's pupils slit vertically, almost catlike, and the oddly high-pitched, raspy cackle came to her ears as she said, "Now you shall become part of me-the perfect warrior!"

The last of the color left in Jessica's face swept clean away, and let out a small whimper, not enough force in her body left for a scream. She just stared, horrified, into Cyris's insane looking eyes.

"Hey! Cyris, cut it out!"

Cyris suddenly felt someone grab her forcefully around the shoulders from behind, giving her a stern shake.

And then, Cyris's world began spiraling around her. She immediately dropped Jessica from unnerved, shaky hands, and felt herself spin around, meeting a pair of fearful black eyes.

"What are you doing?!" Gohan demanded, staring into Cyris's blank expression, still holding onto her shoulders.

No...It burns...Let...go..I...I can't...

'Stop it!!'

"Whu-" Cyris sputtered, hearing the child-like voice echo through her thoughts.

"Cyris?" Gohan said questioningly, his expression becoming more concerned, and worried.

'That's ENOUGH!!'

Cyris's head flopped backward, but she still kept her dazed sights on her holder, her mouth opened slightly.

"...Guh...Go...Goha-"

Her knees buckled underneath her, and she dropped like a two-ton weight toward the floor.

Luckily, Gohan caught her at the last instant, looking, what you could say, extremely freaked and confused.

"...guh...guh..." Cyris barely whispered, her eyes clouded and glazed. She gazed up at Gohan lazily, trying desperately not to slip into the darkness creeping around her...

And then...she saw him.

The image slowly overlapped itself over Gohan's delicate features...A boy...with upwardly spiked golden hair, a single thick strand hanging down over to the side...blood streaming down his face from a gash on his forehead...many little scratches and bruises...and his eyes...metallic green...hauntingly green...

Cyris barely parted her lips, and the words slipped past them.

"...Gohan...ssssaiyann..."

And then...everything around her...went black.

Gohan just stared down in bewilderment at the unconscious figure in his arms, his mind racing.

Saiyan...? But how could she...

"Jesus..." Jessica said, getting shakily to her feet, her complexion almost pure white.

Suddenly, a girl with straight, shoulder-length dark blue hair broke forcefully through the small crowd, and immediately bent down next to Gohan. Before he had any time to ask, the girl put her fingers up to Cyris's neck-checking for a pulse-and snapped her head up to Gohan, her yellow, mysterious looking eyes darting him over.

"What are you doing just sitting here?! Get her to the Nurse's Office RIGHT NOW!" she barked, a spark of anger catching her eye.

"Gah! O-OK!! I'm going!" Gohan sputtered quickly, picking Cyris off of the floor and hastily scurrying out of the now silent cafeteria.

The blue-haired girl got to her feet, gazing after Gohan until he disappeared through the doorway and was out of sight.

She then whipped around to a still baffled Jessica, and said forcefully, "What did she say to you?"

"What's it to you?" Jessica snapped back, and glared into the girl's laser yellow eyes, her mouth line thin.

The two girls just stood there, silent, staring holes into the other's eye sockets.

"Yeah Jessica! What did she say?" wined a redheaded girl to her right, looking up at her anxiously.

"Man yo-whadshe say? C'mon man!" said a boy who stepped up behind her.

Then the girl with the blue hair smiled mischievously, a twinkle in her mysterious eye. "Hmm...Interesting," she said coolly.

Jessica's face went blank, her eyebrows forking only slightly.

"Jess! What did she say?!"

Jessica glanced behind her, saying, "Nothing. Just some weirdo asking for more details, really," she smirked, shrugging.

But when she turned back to look in front of her, the mysterious blue-haired girl was nowhere to be seen.

...What the blue Hell is going on around here?

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Mrs. Knox, the short, sandy-haired school nurse, sat at her desk, drumming her nails slowly on the desk's cold, wooden surface.

There had been absolutely no one to come into her office today, and she was seriously thinking about just taking the rest of the day off-seeing as how it was so incredibly dull thus far.

SKT SKT SKT

Mrs. Knox lifted her head up lazily at hearing the loud clapping of footsteps echo through the empty hall, gazing at her office's glass doors with mild interest.

SKT SKT

KER-FWAM!

Her eyes focused just in time to see a tall boy suddenly run into the thick doors, stick to the glass for only a second-similar to that of a fly splattered up against a window-, and take a wobbly step back, looking dazed.

She immediately gasped at the sight of the figure in his arms, abruptly stood from her desk, and scurried to the door to let the boy inside.

"What happened?" she said quickly as soon as he'd made it through the door, her hazel eyes darting over the unconscious girl that lay in her "rescuer's" arms.

"I-I dunno! One second she was fine, then she started muttering stuff and just fainted!"

"Set her down in here," Mrs. Knox ordered sternly, opening the door to her infirmary room near the back of her office.

Gohan did so, walking in and setting Cyris down gently on the cushioned bench against the wall.

Mrs. Knox bent down next to Cyris and checked her wrist for a pulse. She then put her hand on the girl's forehead for a moment. Her expression darkened.

"God, she feels like she has quite a fever! You! Hand me an ice bag, pronto!" the nurse barked, pointing to a tiny freezer in the corner.

Gohan leapt over to the freezer, almost ripping the door off its hinges, and quickly retrieved a small ice bag, handing it to the nurse's expecting hand.

Mrs. Knox immediately set it gently across Cyris's forehead.

"I-Is she gonna be all right?" Gohan stuttered worriedly, staring down at Cyris over Mrs. Knox's shoulder.

"Yeah," the nurse answered, getting up and walking to the sink in the connected bathroom to wash her hands, "My guess is that she passed out 'cause of the fever."

"Fever..." Gohan repeated absently, gazing back down at the unconscious Cyris.

Her cheeks and her forehead had become a light red, but the rest of her skin color had drained away to almost white.

"Geeze," Gohan muttered, his eyebrows raised.

He just couldn't help but wonder...what in Kami's name had happened to make her so upset to blow up at Jessica Jasawitz, start muttering things about saiyans-which worried him most of all-and then black out? And where could this "fever" have come in out of nowhere? It just didn't seem to make any sense.

"Excuse me."

Gohan snapped out of his mind wracking and turned to the short nurse in the doorway, who had her arms crossed over her chest and her lip curled slightly.

"You can go now, you know," she said airily, lifting a thin eyebrow.

"Oh! Uh-huh, right..." he laughed nervously, scratching his head.

"But this time, try not running into the door, will you?"

Gohan sweatdropped, looking sheepish. "Right..."

And with that, he hurriedly scurried out of the small office, making sure not to slam into the door on the way out, and back down the hall.

Mrs. Knox sighed, planting her hands onto her hips and looking across the small inventory room at the out-of-consciousness Cyris.

"Sometimes the boyfriends just don't know when to leave, do they?" she chuckled, mostly to herself, turning and shutting the door behind her.

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"Tell them to STOP IT!!"

The smirk on Cell's face quickly diminished, his magenta eyes widening with intrigue as he turned to face the young half saiyan.

"That's the way," he snickered, the sinister smile spreading back upon his lips. "Let it all go!"

Gohan's muscles began to expand, and his golden hair beginning to point upward. Suddenly, he let out an earsplitting scream, his ki level skyrocketing, causing the very ground beneath him to quake and split violently.

"Incredible..." Cell awed, just as another wave of ki and dust swept across the plane.

And finally it stopped, the last winds dying down, dust still lingering through the dry desert air.

Everyone stared anxiously at barely visible form of the young saiyan in the dirt cloud that his energy had created, absolutely still, waiting for a next move.

Ever so slowly, the dust slowly parted, to reveal Gohan in his newly transformed state.

The innocence that always lingered around him was now gone, replaced with an emotionless look of the battlefield. All but one strand of his yellow hair, which dangled over his left eye, was now spiked upward, and flickering ki bolts surrounded his small body.

"I can never forgive you for what you've done," Gohan snarled, his hot green eyes narrowed, and he began to slowly close the gap between the bio-android and himself.

Cell held his ground, but his already wide eyes widened more as he watched the boy come to a slow halt in front of him.

A victorious smirk slowly spread back onto his striped cheeks, regaining some of his composure. "At last, you've come out of hiding," Cell said in his usual playful, though taunting manner. "Now the game will really get exciting!"

Suddenly, almost too fast for even Cell to tell, Gohan's hand swiped through the air, ripping the small bag of Senzu beans out of the villain's hand.

"No games."

"Wha..." Cell quickly looked down at his milky-white hand, seeing that the bag he held was now in the young Super Saiyan's grasp. "How did you... The Senzu beans! How did you get them?!"

Cell made an abrupt grab to reclaim them, but Gohan teleported out of the way to the nearby cliffside, where one of the seven Cell Jrs. was positioned.

With a smirk much like his sire's, the miniature bio-android leapt out at him, but had no luck in even touching him.

Gohan quickly moved to the side, and hit the Cell Jr. hard in the small if his back, breaking him apart. What was left of the tiny android crashed to the ground, and exploded into a tiny cloud of blue dust.

"After all the time we've spent trying to kill these thing he does it in one blow!" Vegeta gasped, with a slight snarl in his tone.

"Gohan!" Trunks exclaimed. "You're amazing!"

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Gohan shot another anxious glance toward the classroom door, which was just out of his reach.

Videl had raced out only moments before, after receiving an urgent call on her wrist communicator that the mayor was being held hostage. And, since her father hadn't showed up, she took up the task.

Gohan had tried to sneak his way out to go along as well, but Miss Beakman had denied his request to leave for the "restroom" and told him to get back into his seat.

So basically, he was stuck.

I've got to get over there before it's too late! Gohan growled mentally, glancing again toward the door.

"Zee and zy larger, saner brood of female, male. Zee in zy athletes, moral, spiritual; South, North, East, Vest. Zee and zy moral vealth and civilization until vich zy proudest material civilization must remain in vain," Miss Beakman read aloud.

Brows furrowed, Gohan looked again to the door, then back to his teacher, absent-mindedly beginning to tap his foot on the floor.

"Zee and zy all supplying, all-enclosing vorship-zee in no single bible, savior merely, zy saviors countless, latent vithin zyself, equal to any, divine as any."

His foot starting to tap ever harder, Gohan took another quick look in the door's direction.

"Zese! Zese in zee certain to come today I do prophesy! Well, Mr. Vitman vas certainly very-"

"Earthquake!!" Eresa suddenly shrieked, finally noticing that the entire room was rumbling violently.

Gohan blinked, noticing the shaking as well, and looked down at his tapping foot.

"Children! Children! Please, don't panic!" Miss Beakman said over the yells and hollers that filled the room. "Everyone get on zee floor and cover your necks vith your hands!"

All the students quickly dropped to the floor and got under their desks, doing as their teacher had told.

Gohan got up out of his seat, and the rumbling immediately stopped.

"All right!" he said triumphantly, running down the stairs and out the classroom door.

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Cyris's eyes snapped open, feeling everything around her shaking violently. She instinctively leapt to her feet and stood into a fighter stance.

As soon as the rumbling quickly faded, she began to slowly scan the area around her, still keeping her stance.

...Keep healthy posters...Food pyramid...a refrigerator...connected bathroom...a cushioned bench...

"A...a health clinic?" she said questioning, furrowing her brows.

But...had it been another dream? No, it couldn't have been! This time it was just too real! The images were still fresh in her mind...vivid...everything she remembered so clearly! She could still smell the dry, dusty desert air in her nostrils, feel the hot winds blowing across her skin.

And the anger... The fury of seeing them picked off one by one. Killed by that...that horrid brat! Oh, she would make him pay dearly for what he'd-

The breath caught in the back of her throat, and the hair on the back of Cyris's neck prickled.

"What the Heck..." she murmured. "Wha...what am I...thinking?"

Cyris's pulse was pounding in her eardrums now, and she could feel the tips of her fingers twitch. She quickly pulled out of her stance and stood up straight, glancing around the small room a second time.

"And how did I get here?"

She knew something happened...she remembered a face...a pair of blue-gray eyes, terrified eyes.

The school cafeteria! That's where it happened! So that meant she was obviously in the school's health clinic.

...But why?

Cyris stared sternly down at the floor, trying her hardest to bring the events back to her...

An evil smirk slowly swept onto Cyris's lips, and she pulled Jessica so close to her face that the tips of their noses touched.

Cyris's voice lowered. "And do you remember...what I said?"

Suddenly, in an instant almost too fast for Jessica to comprehend, Cyris's pupils slit vertically, almost catlike, and the oddly high-pitched, raspy cackle came to her ears as she said, "Now you shall become part of me-the perfect warrior!"

Her hands instantly flew up over her mouth to keep herself from screaming out.

"No..." Cyris said through her hands. "No No No..." She shook her head vigorously as she chanted, absently taking steps backward toward the door.

A short yelp escaped her when her back finally hit the door to the infirmary room, surprising her. After a moment she leaned back into it, and slowly sank down to the floor, feeling dizziness overcome her ability to remain on her feet.

The vision of Jessica's horrified expression kept coming back to her...haunting her. Over and over again. And those words...that had come out of her very own throat...

"Now you shall become part of me-the perfect warrior!"

"No...it couldn't have...It couldn't have been me..."

But deep down she knew, that it had been her. The thought made her feel nauseous, and her head was swimming in a sea of endless images from the cafeteria...of Jessica's petrified face.

"What's ha-happening to m-me?" Cyris managed to choke out through a trembling voice, her shoulders and hands shaking.

"...I have to get out of here."

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Mrs. Knox scurried down the hallway back to her office, flinging open the glass doors.

She'd been in the Teacher's Lounge for only a second, just to steal a cup of coffee, when the freak earthquake hit. She'd left her only patient alone in the office, and with an earthquake, God only knows what happened while she was gone!

Having trouble catching her breath, the school nurse finally reached the door to the back room. She latched onto the handle, and hastily opened the door.

And her eyes instantly fell unto an empty bench in the back of the room.

Mrs. Knox blinked in bewilderment for a few seconds, her lips parted.

"She's...gone?"

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Well, there you all are! Chapter 7 is finally DONE! *trumpets sound in the background* ...What the...? *looks around, blinking, and sees nothing* Umn...O...K... Ehem, anyway, I'm SO SORRY it took so long to get this chapter done! This was a really hard spot for me, and with high school and all, well, can you see not my plight? I hope you'll forgive me and continue reading! I'm hoping to get at least 100 reviews at the completion of this fic. So, my wonderful reviewers, KEEP WITH ME! There will be more sooner than this last chapter! I SWEAR! Things should REALLY be picking back up now.

And thank you all again for sticking with me. Life's really screwy right now. @_@

~KASH