Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dragon Ball X: A Love Story ❯ Chapter 6 ( Chapter 6 )

Dragon Ball X

A Love Story

Chapter 6:

"Does this shit mean when we get settled down, when our mate dies, or one of us dies, will be get all super depressed?" Zoel asked looking to Zane. Both were sitting perched at the end of the bed Trunks had laid down on. He had been silent for quite some time, the only noise he was making was ragged breathing.

"Dunno." Zane said shaking his head. "It happened to Vegeta when Bulma died, but he climbed out of it. I wonder how he is doing now? It was Alex who shook him out after all."

"Good question. Maybe he knew, and that is why he left." Zoel mused to himself.

"Maybe, it depends." Zane said after a moment of thinking. "Bulma wasn't tore up when Vegeta died when we were kids remember? ChiChi wasn't tore up over Gokou either."

"So maybe only those with Saiya-jin blood feel it." Zoel said. "I remember Vegeta telling us something about Saiya-jin mating rituals when we were younger, but it is hard to remember now that I finally need to remember that stuff. Said something about how there are three stages, and that if you get to the third stage and your mate dies, you will waste away and die."

"Remember how Mirai Zoerinthian said his father killed himself after Alex was killed in the future?" Zane asked. "Maybe Cornairio remembered that, so told us to watch him."

"I hope our Dads find the Dragonballs quick. I don't want to watch Trunks try and kill himself all week."

"No kidding." Zane nodded.

"Hopefully my human genes are strong enough that I will die not too soon after whoever my wife is. That is a very shitty way to go." Zoel said.

"Amen." Zane nodded taking one more look at Trunks. He had taken of his glasses and was staring through glazed eyes at the ceiling, the occasional tear rolling over his cheek. Ever since he had broke down in the reception room, he hadn't said a word since then. All he had done was quit crying and space out completely. Probably didn't have the energy or tears left to. His respirator system was audibly backed up from the effort.

"This guy is a total mess." Zoel said shaking his head.

"Uncle Trunks! Wake up!" Zane said, grabbing the older Demi Saiya-jin's leg and giving it a shake. "We should leave. We gotta get you all prettied up for when Alex gets wished back."

"I don't think he believes us." Zoel said wistfully. It is like our words aren't even sinking in.

"He isnt even paying attention to the fact that we are talking about his wife coming back. Poor guy." Zane said shaking his head. "Well lets beat this Popsicle stand and go find Grandpa. I want to make sure he isnt a total wreck too. Zoerinthian will be fine by himself. I am sure the doctors will keep him nice and docile for a while. Besides, Grandpa Gokou is still here."

"Okay. Help me get Trunks on my back." Zoel said. Zane moved over and lifted the listless Trunks and lifted him onto my back.

"Man. Talk about dead weight." Zane said grinning for a moment.

"Not funny dude." Zoel said before stepping forward and leaning to the side with his shoulder to touch Zane. The trio disappeared from the hospital, leaving a nurse that had thought she had heard them wondering where the voices had been coming from.

"Hey Grandma. Mind if we crash here?" Zoel asked softly. ChiChi was not having a good night. And was looking jumpy and irritable.

"No. Go ahead." She said softly, looking up at her grandson. "Where is your grandfather?"

"He is at the hospital with Zoerinthian still." Zoel said stepping inside. ChiChi noticed the expression on Trunks' face.

"What in the world is wrong with him?" ChiChi asked more in awe than shock. Nothing about this family seemed to faze her anymore.

"Alex is dead, so he is going through that Saiya-jin withdrawal thing." Zane replied.

"NICE GOING you moron." Zoel said sliding Trunks down on the couch. He spied a pair of bright eyes across the room and heard a gasp. ChiChi blinked.

"Alexander is dead?" ChiChi asked quietly.

"For the time being Grandma. Don't worry about it. Our Dads are out fixing that at the moment." Zoel said tightlipped. Zane and Zoel looked to the girl sitting in the back of the room.

"Nice going you idiot. I had just got her calmed down too. It wasn't easy." A familiar raspy voice came from the wall. Standing against it was Vegeta in his typical pose, looking deeply unhappy.

"Go figure, seeing as you look like you came from hell yourself." Zoel said with a smirk, sitting next to Aiko whom had resumed weeping.

"What is going on? I want to see Zoe!"

"Uh.. We are staying here because it is safer for everyone that way. The D.E.A. know where we all live, so we are staying in large groups. Zoerinthian is fine, and at the hospital with his grandfather."

"What about Alex? I saw her with Vegeta and saw her get shot by those men! What is wrong with him?" Aiko asked gesturing to Trunks. Zane had done his best to make him look like he was sleeping, but when he had closed Trunks' eyes, they had shot back open.

"Alexander is dead." Vegeta said shortly as if answering the same question for a persistent child. "But the boy is alive. As for what is wrong with my son, he is suffering from withdrawal."

"From what?"

"His wife. You will learn that when Saiya-jin mate, they mate for life. When their mate does, so do they. They waste away until their bodies die because their will to live has been broken. They will die, unless that will can be restored." Vegeta explained in a quick voice. "Since Demi Saiya-jin range in extremes, there is no telling how you and Zoerinthian will react when one of you dies. So far, the human component has yet to suffer withdrawal."

"What do you mean?" Aiko asked with wide eyes.

"When Zoerinthian finds out that you are pregnant with his child, he will know he is bonded to you. It isnt a matter of love. It is honor. He knows that." Vegeta said quietly. Zane and Zoel looked at each other with wide eyes and big smirks, despite themselves.

"Zoerinthian is gonna be a DADDY!" They said together and laughed.

"He knocked her up! I knew it!" Zane said in the middle of a little dance. Then he hit the ground.

"You insufferable brat!" ChiChi yelled scoldingly. "Cant you see the poor girl has been traumatized enough by all that has happened to her, finding out she is pregnant and then that wretch over there without needing YOU TWO to add to it!?"

Zane muttered apologies from his new spot on the floor while Zoel tried to look repentant without smiling too much. Vegeta managed to keep from smirking and look insulted.

"I saved her life you unbearable woman." Vegeta snarled.

"Pah! You suck at it! My GOKOU would have done it without scaring the poor girl."

"Your KAKAROT is a retard and so are all of his spawn. Luckily some of them have my blood so that they will at least have some chance at being semi normal."

"As if being Saiya-jin in any amount is normal.." Zoel muttered under his breath as ChiChi whirled on Vegeta, frying pan in hand.

"You bastard!" ChiChi spat. "This is all YOUR fault anyways."

Vegeta managed to look surprised, more so since he didn't understand what she meant. A look of satisfaction crossed her face. He lifts his hand and clapped it together as if to signify that was her mouth. She huffed and stormed into the kitchen.

"Ignore them Aiko. All bark and no bite, those damn Saiya-jin are." ChiChi muttered under her breath as she stomped off. Vegeta cunningly pretended he didn't hear.

Zane and Zoel turned to look at Aiko who was wide eyed in shock.

"What all did Zoe tell you anyways?" Zoel asked with a raised green eyebrow.

"H-he told me about some aliens.. his name.. how Alex and Vegeta were always fighting and his hairdresser."

Zoel and Zane blinked at each other. "He still goes to that hairdresser?"

"Shit, I would, have you seen what that woman is packing?" Zane grinned and gestured at his chest as if squeezing a pair of breasts. Zoel laughed at him as if that was hysterical.

"I am sure Zoerinthian would be deeply unhappy if he heard how unpresentable you were in front of his woman." Vegeta said with a grin for a moment. Zoel and Zane looked to each other.

"What is he gonna do? Throw hospital food at us?" Zoel grinned for a moment. "But yeah. Sorry Aiko. We are slightly crazy."

"I blame Kakarot." Zane said crossing his arms, mimicking Vegeta who pretended not to notice.

"You retard. You don't even have any of his genetic material. You have no excuse you dumbshit."

"Kakarot isnt the only crazy Saiya-jin on this planet. In fact, all of the full blooded Saiya-jin are crazy. Haven't you noticed?"

"Good point." Zoel said thoughtfully.

As the two continued on in their conversation, Aiko relaxed and laid back. Vegeta made himself damn near invisible and the others forgot he was there, which is how he liked it. Eventually he wandered into Gohan's old room and was quiet. Assumingly napping.

"Tell me about Zoe." Aiko said finally, feeling brave enough to try and enter the conversation. Zane stood up.

"You do it bro." Zane said, "You kids want anything to drink?"

"Water." Aiko said with a smile.

"Vodka." Zoel said with a smirk, laughing at his own joke.

"Two waters it is." Zane said rolling his eyes, no laughing at the joke.

"Well. Zoerinthian is uh.. unique." Zoel said kind of uncomfortable like.

"I know that silly." Aiko said smiling.

"Well, he had it a little rougher than Zane and myself, raised with the particular individuals he was raised with. His mother preferred to spar with his grandfather all day while his father worked. So generally he hung out here with Gokou or with us two. His parents didn't really start paying attention to him until he entered high school."

"This was on top of the traumatic experience of watching one's family slaughtered in front of you." Zane said returning with the waters. He handed Aiko hers and Zoel his.

"Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who is telling this story?" Zoel demanded. "Anyways, Alex and Vegeta were pushing the kid to train with them more and be a bad-ass Saiya-jin like them, while his father and Grandmother Bulma was pushing him to do well in school and take after them and run the family business."

"But you see, Zoe wasn't liked very much in high school. All the girls liked him because of his looks, meaning all the guys instantly hated him. And once the guys started to hate them, their respecting female companions hated him two, spreading the joy around." Zane added on.

"It eventually got so bad that senior year, Zoerinthian finally got to date this cheerleader type he had been eyeing like an idiot all four years, and asked her to the prom. But he went to her house after fighting with us one day - over her mind you - and caught her in the sack with her actual boyfriend." Zoel explained further.

"Zoerinthian, who had been pretty damn near blind when it came to her, saw that we were right, and had chosen her, a worthless tramp over his cousins and best friends. His academics were in the shitter and he had alienated his mother and grandfather by neglecting his training." Zane continued. Zoel nodded.

"Ever hear of Northwest town?" Zane asked.

"Yeah.. that suburban town west of North City right? The one that had the firestorm… not to long ago.."

"Well. It wasn't a fire storm, and there wasn't anyone not hurt. Zoerinthian had went ballistic, killed the cheerleader and her jock boyfriend, then torched the town. They were restored with the Dragonballs and the memories altered so it would be a firestorm, but Zoerinthian knew what he did." Zane said, getting quiet. "All that guilt and loss snapped that kid like a twig."

"He went home and killed himself alone in the bathtub. His grandfather found him an hour later when he noticed his power level slipping below even a human level."

Aiko dropped her jaw and thought about it for a few minutes.

"Hey, hey, hey! I aint done yet! Don't be getting all sad and teary eyed yet." Zoel said bluntly then reached over and rubbed her shoulder. "Naturally, that wasn't gonna sit well with anyone. But we had a problem on our hands. We had a dead kid and the Dragonballs had already been used. Not to mention they cant bring back someone who died of natural causes or took their own life."

"So us kids became the heroes of this story. Alex took us to the future where the technology was advanced enough they could bring back someone who had just died back to life as long as their brain was intact. Good thing Zoerinthian didn't blow his brains out with a gun." Zane said with a grin at the last part.

"He never vas de sloppy type, zat Zoerinthian." Zoel added in a fake French accent resembling the hairdresser's. "Of course, nothing is never that easy."

"Never." Zane agreed nodding his head.

"We found the bad-guy-from-the-future sitting in a restorative tank. Somehow after the big fight that we were mere kids for, he survived and crawled back to the future. While Zoerinthian was busy waking up, we told Alex, who of course since she is as paranoid as she is, HAD to kill him instead of slip discreetly back to the past."

"Bad idea." Zane said nodding, looking grave. Zoel in turn became more animated.

"So she decided to take Mr. Bad ass who can kill us at any moment he damn near pleases on her own."

"Bad idea." Zane said, nodding again. Zoel nodded to him.

"That is when the three Mirai versions of us three showed up and brought our Dads from this time with them to kick the living shit out of him, to make sure he was dead this time. Of course, they all lost."

"Very bad idea."

"Shut up Zane." Zoel said. "Anyway, lying in a pool of my own blood."

"And probably feces and piss."

Zoel turned around and punched Zane square in the jaw. Flying back he grabbed his nose cursing in pain and glaring at Zoel who then acted like nothing happened. "Anyway, I noticed Alex and Goel were still conscious, so I told them to fuse. They blinked at each other all `oh yeah!' like and did it and WON."

"To this day, he claims all the credit." Zane muttered, twitching his nose to make sure it wasn't broken.

"So Zoerinthian came back to life, we lived, and came back to the past. He hasn't dated anyone since other than you. Banged girls sure, but nothing serious."

"Wow." Aiko said. "You guys sure do lead interesting lives."

"Oh I know. But you will be getting a cut of that." Zoel said with a grin. "Nothing is more interesting than infant Saiya-jin."

"Interesting isnt a good word for it." Zane started.

"Shut up moron. She will find out for herself." Zoel said with a grin. Aiko eyed them warily. "But that is all on Zoerinthian. He is only slightly stranger than the rest of us. More quiet, withdrawn. Almost normal or something."

"I know! Normal! I mean Kami!" Zane said as if outraged. "But he still has that Gokou thick-headed, pure-heart, charm shit."

"You are jealous because the chicks dig the thick-headed, pure-heart, charm shit." Zoel smirked.

"Bullshit. Chicks dig the bad assed persona. Not fucking idiots like you." Zane growled back.

"WILL YOU TWO KINDLY SHUT THE FUCK UP!?" Vegeta screamed from the other room. "I AM TRYING TO FUCKING SLEEP!"

***

"Uhm.. almighty Dragon Ball thingies.. we want to summon the Dragon!" Cornairio said loudly. Nothing happened. Cornairio raised his arms in the air and did swooping motions.

"You moron. What are you doing?" Goel asked looking disgusted.

"Summoning the Dragon asshole, what does it look like I am doing?" Cornairio snarled at Goel.

"That isnt how you do it. You have to say it right." Goel said rolling his eyes. "Eternal Dragon of Earth, Shen-long. We summon you to make a wish upon the Dragonballs!"

Lightning crackled in the sky and clouds swooped in from no where. The sky was dark midnight blue, dotting with bright stars faded into a dull, light consuming black, occasionally sporting a wicked looking bolt of lightning.

"Told you dumbshit." Goel grinned as a spear of light erupted from the gathered Dragonballs. The balls emitted a intensely bright glow that fed into the light that shot up. Minute later, a dark green dragon formed from this light. It was huge and nearly took up all the Goel and Cornairio's vision as they looked up at it. Its huge mouth gaped open and saliva dripped from its upper sharp canines to the lower ones, almost as if the beast was hungry.

"You have summoned the dragon and have two wishes." Shen-long replied shortly as if irritated.

"We wish to revive the Saiya-jin Alexander to life." Goel said.

Shen-long's eyes glowed brightly then dimmed. "Do not waste my time. There is no Saiya-jin by that name!"

"Fuck." Goel muttered darkly under his breath. "I thought that might happen."

"What? Why didn't it work?" Cornairio asked with a raised eyebrow.

"We are from the future. We don't technically exist here. When we die, our spirits will go back to the pool in the future."

"Are you sure?" Cornairio asked, not quite believing.

"It is the only thing I can think of."

"I got an idea." Cornairio said. "Shen-long, I want you to revive the Genetically Modified Saiya-jin known as Alexander."

"Your wish has been granted." Shen-long said once his large red eyes quit glowing. "Make your second wish."

"Oo, I had forgot about the G.M.S. titles we had. I thought they were just classifications in the future." Goel said in surprise.

Cornairio shrugged. "There cant be too many G.M.S. around are there? What now?"

"I dunno." Goel said itching his head. "What should we wish for?"

"Shen-long, I wish that Goel and I have the best damn chocolate milk in the entire universe. Two big twenty ounce glasses." Cornairio said with a big smirk.

"Your wish has been granted." Shen-long said. Two golden dots of light formed in the air and the pair reached out for them. As soon as the light touched their hands, the light expanded and became glasses filled with a dark brown liquid. Shen-long disappeared and the Dragonballs shot off across the world.

"Chocolate milk?" Goel asked with a raised eyebrow, drinking some of it. "Wow, this is pretty damn good."

"I was thirsty." Cornairio said with a shrug, downing the glass. "Neat, this glass has a little Shen-long on it."