Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Dragonscales ❯ Weariness ( Chapter 5 )

There is a certain weariness that comes with knowing defeat is imminent.

 

Strange, that it is weariness that settles into my bones instead of fear, desperation, or hope for a miracle.

 

Was this how he felt the moment he knew, without a whisper of a doubt, that he would lose? During that torturous hour, was it ki blasts and bone-shattering blows that wore him down, or the mere knowledge that it was the end?

 

They told me it was a shot through the heart that finally killed him. But I think he died long before he stopped breathing.

 

Today, I await defeat, knowing what will happen when I tell him of the secret growing inside me, testifying to his weakness with every feeble heartbeat. His cold reply will open the mortal wound.

 

I wonder if he will recognize the weariness in my eyes, and remember his own end, before he deals that blow.