Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Life of a Demon ❯ Chapter 1

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Life of a Demon

Gohan wanted his daddy! He was trapped in the strange machine. He was smart enough to understand that it was a machine that he was currently in. The scary man with long hair locked him inside and flew away.

Gohan was scared. He was sure that his father would come to get him. That didn't calm his fears any. He wanted his daddy.

Gohan, with his superior senses could hear a fight going on in the distance, but he couldn't see anything from down the crater where this machine laying.

He just wanted to go home.

He didn't want to see the evil man again.

Gohan wanted to be with his daddy again.

But it wasn't meant to be.

The child couldn't hold back tears any longer. The boy was alone and scared. He was banging his little fists on the window and crying out as loud as he could. That didn't help.

He couldn't stand being locked up. So he'd done what any proud member of his species would do. He went berserk.

Little boy didn't see what came in contact with his fists, nor did he pay attention to what he was trying to crush. He just wanted out.

He wasn't strong enough to cause serious damage but he did activate the pod.

It was set to return to its home planet, not that Gohan new about it nor cared at the moment.

He calmed down enough to realize that this strange machine was moving. Moving up. Fast.

Little boy was forced into the chair by the force of gravity. His ears started to hurt and then the ringing in his head started.

He couldn't cry anymore.

He couldn't even think.

It hurts was the last conscious though Gohan had before passing out.

***

Space pod was discovered and taken in by a strange ship that was floating somewhere between Earth and Vegita-sei.

Gohan never woke up during his accidental journey, that's how the pod was designed, and the owners of the ship decided to keep it that way.

Ship that found Gohan was carrying nearly extinct race of insect-like creatures. They were physically weak race whose planet was purged by saya-jins, but mentally there was no one in the universe smarter.

They were short, green creatures with four eyes, six limbs (they used four of them to move and two to press buttons on their computers) plus large amount of little brown appendages that grew from their backs.

They were also completely defenseless against any kind of attack.

They were the weakest race in the universe…

…but their knowledge new no bounds.

***

"What is that thing?" Jahassiansaakk, the assistant to the head scientist was asking his superior.

"It's a hybrid" something close to a smile appeared on its green face "and it's perfect!"

The other made a choking sound.

"It's hideous! It has only two eyes, at least I think those are eyes, it doesn't have enough limbs, the skin color is wrong and it even has fur in places! It's the ugliest thing that I have ever seen!"

Now the head scientist, Haarssiansaall, produced a unique sound that was recognized by the others as laughter.

"Of course it's ugly! But what I meant was that it's perfect for our purposes!"

Now Jahassiansaakk and the rest of the scientists looked equally interested. Dark brown, limbs that grew from their backs started moving and making clacking noises.

Recognizing the excitement of his colleagues Haarssiansaall continued.

"We can finally finish our experiment. This hybrid will be a perfect subject. If it works, then we will have a solution to all our problems. We will have a perfect warrior. It will become the strongest being in the universe and we will be the ones to control it."

Little green beings could not hide their agitation nor did they tryed to.

"We tried to do it before, on our own volunteers. There were three of them and each one came out worse than the other."

"It was a complete failure!"

"We can't risk it again!"

They were talking all at once now. Each one had their own opinion that they wanted to share and no one wanted to wait for their turn."

Everyone went quiet as soon as Haarssiansaall started to speak again.

"What choice do we have? We are running out of warrior-bots to protect us. Soon we will be out of resources to repair and manufacture them. Sooner or later we will have to land somewhere to restock and as defenseless as we are now it will be suicide to even attempt it without some kind of protection. No, we don't have a choice! This hybrid is our last chance at survival."

After hearing words like "defenseless" and "suicide" every creature in the room become deadly quiet.

The elder continued his little speech.

"After years of hard work and research we finally came up with a process to create a perfect warrior, a superior being that had all the qualities to become the strongest fighter in the universe. We have tried it on our own people, but it ended in a disaster. First volunteer, after our modifications, became so disfigured that it was physically impossible for him to survive on his own. Second volunteer was perfect for our purposes, but as soon as he hit the atmosphere of our ship his body began to decompose. Third volunteer was the closest we ever came to success. He was truly, the strongest creature born of our race, which is not saying much, but he went insane. We had no choice but to terminate all three of our subjects. We lost many precious warrior-bots in the process. But our efforts were not wasted."

Holding out a pause for effect Haarssiansaall continued.

"I believe that this time it will be different. This creature will survive and it will become the strongest. We will finally be able to take our rightful place as the rulers of the universe!"

The conversations started again, but the head scientist was not willing to listen.

"We will begin the preparations immediately! Get the creature ready."

***

"Did it work?" the personnel were impatient to see the results.

"No, it didn't work!" Jahassiansaakk let out a frustrated sight "he still looks the same!"

"It worked!" Haarssiansaall was ready to shout in happiness, but he suppressed the urge and began explaining instead "appearances can be deceiving! This creature is now the strongest being in the universe. His body can now hold and process unlimited amounts of power and his learning capabilities are… well… the best in the universe. This creation is a perfect warrior. His body can take much damage and his potential is unlimited."

Haarssiansaall was very proud of this little alien. He wanted to share his genius with everyone. The old scientist wanted everyone to know what he did.

"Because I don't really know what kind of creature he or it is I left his reproductive system and some of his characteristics as they were before. I also left its growth cycle intact. If it's as young as I think it is…"

Jahassiansaakk interrupted before Haarssiansaall could finish his sentence.

"Did it wake up yet?"

After receiving negative response the young assistant continued.

"What if it goes insane, just like the last test subject did?"

"No, everything is perfect. Nothing can go wrong!" Haarssiansaall answered his friend a little uncertainly "You will see!"

Now the old scientist was drowned in the sea of questions. Haarssiansaall answered them all with a proud tilt to his higher appendage.

"What are we going to call him?" the youngest scientist asked.

That stopped all the conversations and every insect in the room turned to look at the offender. "Eyebrows" were raised. "Heads" were shaken in disapproval.

But Haarssiansaall took the question seriously. "I will wait. I want to study its behavior first."

***

The transformation and genetic enhancement was done flawlessly.

Gohan slept through it.

He wasn't allowed to wake up. Poor boy didn't even realize what was happening. Everything was done in highly controlled environment. Little green beings took no chances.

After everything was finished Gohan didn't go through any drastic physical changes. His height stayed the same and he still had two eyes and five limbs, counting his two hands, two feet and one tail. His skin was a little darker than usual. It looked just like a tan. His tail was now completely black but just as furry as it was before. Gohan now had sharp claws on both his hands and his feet, his ears were pointy, his teeth were sharper and his eyes changed color. Gohan's hair was left almost unchanged; it just had a strange tint to it that varied with light. His eyes were now larger and were greenish color that would change with Gohan's mood.

Other than that Gohan looked like a humanoid. He was now a genetically improved being which sole purpose was to fight, kill and destroy.

A/N Sooo, what did you think? Comments, questions, flames - email me (or review). Feedback is appreciated.