Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Life of a Demon ❯ Chapter 10

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A/N To those of you who were wondering - I am not dead. Not yet anyway *dodging heavy inanimate objects being thrown at her*. I'm very sorry for not updating. Here is a nice, long chapter and I have three more that only need to be edited. I'll try to post them all before next Saturday, considering I may not be able to post an update after that for a while (karate tournament) Who knows?

Chapter 10

Gohan was frustrated. He wasn't irritated because there was no sign of Kibito. He wasn't even angry about being stuck on this planet, not as angry about it as before. And Demon definitely didn't care about killing the android or anyone else who stood in his way. The reason for his head ache was his own illogical behavior.

He stayed with the human.

When he saw the tears run down the woman's cheeks Demon couldn't help himself. He stayed. Now, the woman was happy. Demon was spitting mad.

Presently, they were still at Capsule Corporation and his mother was talking to the blue haired scientist. The rest of the creatures were mostly at ease and running around doing their business. Main building needed major repairs, according to the blue haired scientist. Demon didn't realize just how much damage he actually did. According to the report Bulma received damage was excessive. She was glaring daggers at him ever since. Apparently she got over her fear of him - as long as he didn't come too close.

It looked like everyone but his mother and Prince Vegeta, Demon finally found out the name of the alien, were wary of him. Not that he minded or cared.

Chi-Chi, his mother, was happy now. Demon signed. He couldn't take her tears for some reason. That's why he stayed at Capsule Corporation.

"Will you stay? Promise me that you will stay." His mother asked him. Demon stubbornly kept his mouth shut. He had no desire to live with these humans, even if he was related to one of them. But than a salty scent hit his sensitive nose and he saw Chi-Chi's eyes fill with tears once again. Demon hated to see this particular woman cry.

"I will stay with you… for now." Demon promised, immediately regretting it. He was getting soft. It stopped his mother from crying and it did put different degrees of shock on everyone's faces.

Demon smirked. He will stay. But there were no rules to constrict him. He could do whatever he wanted. Different ideas were running through his mind as he looked over the humans.

His smirk became purely evil. It didn't make anyone in the room feel better or safer being around him.

After realizing that he is going to stay Bulma took her best friend aside, and away from Demon, for a private chat. She, of course, didn't realize that Demon, who went to lean against the wall farthest away from everyone, could hear every word.

"Chi, are you crazy? What do you think you are doing? Inviting him to stay? He is dangerous, if you didn't notice. He just threatened to kill us all." Bulma went on and on with reasons as to why Demon shouldn't be invited to stay. Demon himself wholeheartedly agreed with the woman.

His mother had different ideas. She immediately proceeded to give them all to the blue haired scientist in a rather loud voice. People on the other side of the universe could probably hear parts of it like "my little baby" and "he stays with me".

Demon, standing as far as he was, almost winced at the volume. Quickly getting his senses under control Demon continued to stand there, thinking over what he should do next.

After listening to the conversation Demon understood that his mother still didn't realize what he was. Chi-Chi held on to the illusions about her little angel with a death grip.

She will see how wrong she is with time. Demon decided. He could stay with her until Kibito shows up or he grows tired of waiting. Which ever one comes first.

So now, couple hours later Demon was quietly standing by the wall while everyone else were going about their business. Vegeta was ignoring him. Bulma was still deep in conversation with Chi-chi and the other two humans were trying hard to enter the conversation. Females were too absorbed in their exchange to acknowledge anyone else in the room.

Demon, with his inhuman hearing could hear them perfectly as they mentioned something about dragon balls and making wishes. It looked like Vegeta also caught the conversation with his exceptional hearing. He hissed at his mate to shut up, sanding a pointed glare in Demon's direction.

Gohan was intrigued. What could be so special about some balls of the dragon? It must be pretty important to the humans. Noting the speed with which the blue haired woman shut up, it was obviously significant detail that humans didn't want him to know about. Horrified glance in his direction confirmed his assumption.

Heavy silence was broken by Chi-Chi. "Are you ready to go home?" she said looking expectantly at Gohan.

He made a show out of extending his deadly claws while still leaning against the wall. That brought back the silence. Studying his claws for a moment longer Demon slowly started moving towards his mother.

He was trying to intimidate her. The only thing he accomplished was proving to Bulma, Yamcha and Krilin that he can not be trusted. Demon could almost smell the fear on them while his mother was not impressed. Vegeta - the alien, did not project anything. Vegeta was reserving his judgment and Demon noted the fact. With a nod to the older men Demon made a move to take his mother into his arms.

Before he touched his mother, Bulma interrupted him, still worried about his earlier display. "NO, wait" now, after getting everyone's attention Bulma continued with more confidence. "You can always stay here, Chi. I don't know if this is such a good idea for you to leave…" with him Demon finished her sentence in his mind, "You don't know what might happen." He can go berserk on you and kill you without a thought, was probably what the blue haired woman was thinking.

"Oh, nothing will happen. Cell is dead. Earth is safe and I want to go home with my baby." Chi-Chi was completely missing Bulma's point.

It didn't look like Chi-Chi was going to change her mind. No matter what he thought about his mother, Gohan couldn't help but feel respect for the woman. She was strong and very stubborn creature with a loud voice. She also believed in him. She was wrong, of course, but she was willing to fight for what she believed in and Demon respected that as much as he could respect anything.

Bulma finally had nothing to say to her friend. Assuming that the conference was over Demon picked Chi-Chi up as he intended earlier, put up a ki shield around them and flew up. Colorful curses followed him as he blasted through the ceiling and two more floors. Demon smirked, pissing off the blue haired female greatly improved his mood.

Chi-Chi was too shocked by Demon to say anything. She wasn't used to flying and her son flew fast. Just as she was thinking about that, Demon picked up speed and altitude to the point of everything becoming a blur. Chi-Chi was ready to have a heart attack, yell at her son or just faint.

To her credit, Chi-Chi chouse the second option: "Stop it right now, mister! STOP!" She didn't even finish yelling the last word when Demon became motionless. The first shout brought him to an immediate stop. It took him a while to comprehend what his mother was yelling about over the running in his ears. Once he did, he ignored her command.

"Where is your home?" He asked in a calm voice. Her breaking his ear drums was no reason to get angry, Demon was telling himself.

Chi-Chi slowly took a look around, pointed her son in a right direction, describing how her house looked like all the while protesting over their method of transportation. She couldn't get another word out because the world became a blur once again and then they were there.

Chi-Chi, after being set on her unsteady feet, weakly went into the house to cook dinner. Demon was amused by her reaction. She didn't like flying much. He was curious to know what else she didn't like.

***

~Flashback~

Demon was coming back from saving the king. It was a messy business and now he needed time to wash off grease and blood that got on his clothes. The rebels apparently decided to test this new bodyguard. They send five of their best warriors to kill him and maybe even get rid of the king in the process.

Demon realized that the whole thing was a test.

He passed...

The five rebels were dead. He realized that there was a way to settle everything peacefully. The king himself ordered his new employee to get the attackers alive, but Demon didn't do it.

He killed all five of them. It was better this way. Demon had no doubt that the five would-be-assassins will never leave the palace alive. The king wanted them caught only because he wanted to personally torture and kill them. Demon heard enough stories about this particular ruler to know that for a fact.

So, when all five of the rebels attacked him in the throne room Demon killed them. First two went down immediately, their throats ripped to shreds by Demon. Then, the boy was attacked from both sides. He didn't even bother to dodging whatever weapons they were planning on using on him. Slashed with elongated claws the assassins were dead before they hit the ground.

The throne room was full of people. Nobles, servants, guards and of course the king himself were in the room. Their usual chatter was interrupted by the arrival of the five assassins. Even if Demon wasn't there the king was never in any danger from this particular threat, considering the number of guards in the room. No one was worried. Nobles were amused and the king wanted entertainment.

After Demon killed the four men no one, except the king and a number of guards, was amused anymore. The silence was deafening. Blood was shocking. A high born royal lost the content of his stomach and three ladies fainted.

Demon was not taken seriously by the court. Only the king knew of his reputation and what he was really capable off. The rest of the planet saw him only as a half breed with a strange name. Now, after the boy slaughtered four men, many realized that he was called 'Demon' for a very good reason.

It took Demon longer to kill the last rebel. After seeing the bloody demise of his friends, the warrior in question was standing horrorstruck watching the corpses. His eyes met with the blank gaze of the boy. Demon slowly made his way over to the survivor. The king was calling out for him to take the rebel alive, but Demon ignored him.

The lone warrior was ready. He raised his mace-like weapon as if to throw it at the boy but Demon was too fast for him. The weapon didn't even leave his grasp when the boy caught his hand with his own clawed one. Demon's grip was painfully strong - older warrior had no chance of getting away all struggles were useless.

Demon, still holding on to the hand with the mace, struck the helpless warrior without wasting any more time. Quickly finishing him off, Demon turned to look at the frustrated king.

One glare was enough make sure that the great ruler kept all his comments to himself.

After the bodies were removed Demon spend the rest of the day figuring out how these assassins got into the palace in the first place.

They bribed the guards, killed the watchmen and came into the throne room full of nobles and guards for what was apparently a suicide mission, was discovered a short while later.

When everyone was happy and his duty was done Demon was finally on his way to his quarters. Covered in blood and gore from his little fight Demon desperately needed to clean up. While walking down the hallway where his place was located he run into an unexpected obstacle -- June.

Little June became Gohan's shadow ever since she met him. She wouldn't leave him alone for anything and kept chattering and asking him questions. She tried to follow him wherever he went and left him alone only when it was absolutely necessary.

"You're alive!" little June run straight into Demon's arms startling the people in the hall. Guard, coming back from a patrol, grabbed his weapons but one glare from the boy in his directions and any hostile thoughts were forgotten. June was oblivious to everything except her hero. She didn't even notice the dark brown spots that appeared on her beautiful dress from the hug.

"I was worried about you!" June was smiling widely at Demon.

Demon was a little surprised that princess cared about him enough to be worried but he explained it all by the belief that June was special. "Nothing can hurt me." was Demon's response. He gently tried to detach himself from the little girl. "I have to go."

But he didn't get far. All movement stopped when a salty scent reached his nose. It was coming from June and he couldn't stand the smell. When hybrid looked closely at the girl's face he immediately saw the reason for it - tears. They were streaming down her cheeks. Demon caused enough pain in his young life to know what the tears meant, but he couldn't understand it. What did he say to make this humanoid cry? Now she will go and complain to her parents or better yet -- security. With his luck they will make him angry and he will kill them all. But the worst part was that he didn't WANT June to cry.

"I was so-o worried and they said that you are going to die. They said some horrible things about you. I can't believe it… They said that warriors will come and that you will run." June couldn't stop talking "I don't want you to go." She was sobbing into Demon's chest again after covering the distance that separated then in one running leap. Her words were muffled by his dirty shirt. "They said some horrible things about you. They called you names. They were so mean!"

Demon took a deep breath and started calming the anxious girl down. "Everything is going to be fine." It was a first time in his life he said those words to another being and meant them. "Stop crying." Demon really hated to see June cry. He didn't want her to be depressed, Demon realized.

He had no choice. He had to make it all better.

"Don't cry."

June sniffed and took a shaky step back still not letting go of Demon's shirt. Her face was wet with tears as she looked closely at her hero still not noticing the blood stains.

"You are not going to leave me?" She send Demon a suspicious look as if trying figure out if he could be trusted.

"No," was Demon's answer.

"My father will let you stay. You are his bodyguard." June was thinking very hard "But what if you get hurt?" Her eyes were filling up with tears again "I don't want you to get hurt."

"Nothing can hurt me." Demon said it again, a little more forcefully, willing June to believe him. His words did convince her somewhat - she wasn't about to cry anymore. Before little princess decided to start crying after all Demon changed the subject.

"Who said mean things to you?" Demon wanted to have a private talk with those people.

"My nani, the woman who takes care of me, she and her friends… they… they told me not to talk to you anymore. They said that my father will not like it. They were so mean." June was upset again.

Demon frowned. Whatever those people told June was probably the truth. Other than that, he really didn't care what they said about him. But, they upset June. He was going to have a little chat with them, Demon decided.

"Don't worry about it," was all Demon said aloud. "Trust me. Forget everything they told you. It is not important." His words had the desired effect. June was as happy as ever. She started her usual chatter about everything and nothing. All the bad things were already forgotten by her little mind.

"Want to see the painting I drew?" June looked hopeful, her cheeks shining from drying tears.

Demon signed, his shower will have to wait.

~Flashback~

***

"Gohan. Gohan! GOHAN!" Chi-Chi yelled for her son. She was in the kitchen making breakfast.

"I'm here," Demon said from behind her, startling Chi-Chi into almost dropping her frying pen. Demon didn't need to sleep more than couple of hours. Sleep wasn't a requirement for his well being. During the night Gohan explored every corner of the little house and than settled himself in one of the chairs to meditate and wait for the woman to wake up.

As soon as Chi-chi woke she immediately went into the kitchen to cook breakfast. She didn't even notice her son sitting in the shadows until he spoke up.

"How did you sleep?" the woman was cheerful and a bright smile was big enough to split her face. She required a response so Demon said a simple 'fine' and tried to go back to meditating.

His mother had other ideas.

"Tell me more about yourself." Chi-Chi wanted Gohan to talk. "Tell me more about your life in space. How was it? Did you enjoy it? Will you… will you go back?"

Gohan was thoroughly ignoring his mother. He didn't have to answer any of her questions.

Chi-Chi wasn't offended. She reached her own conclusions and decided to continue to talk herself.

"Well, I have never been to space, but my husband, Goku, did visit another planet." After noticing that Gohan was paying attention Chi-Chi continued. "He fought the evil tyrant, Freeza, on Nemeck. Bulma, Yamcha, Krilin and Vegeta were there too. Well, it's a long story. Would you like to hear it?" taking Gohan's silence as a 'yes' Chi-Chi continued. "It all started when…"

***

The food was good, Gohan admitted. He consumed large amounts of it without even noticing. The woman cooked enough to actually satisfy his appetite. That didn't happen often. Gohan was forced to carry a concentrated food container in his ship in order not to starve.

Chi-Chi told Gohan everything. It took a better part of the day but he didn't even notice it. Chi-Chi went about her business as usual and Gohan was right behind her hanging on her every word.

After a while Gohan started asking questions and was openly showing his interested. His eyes actually went back to their original shade of midnight black. His troubles were temporarily forgotten.

"The Dragon Balls can grant any wish?" Demon was excited.

"Yes, pretty much"

"Can they bring back the dead?" was Demon's next question.

"Yes, of course," Chi-chi misunderstanding the reason why Gohan asked her the question continued, "Don't worry. Your father will be brought back."

Demon ignored the woman. He was lost deep in thought. He could bring people back from the dead. He could wish for anything! At that moment a phone call interrupted his train of thought.

It was Bulma. She got into a habit of calling her friend almost every hour and now Chi-chi was annoyed with Bulma almost as much as Demon was. At some point, he was ready to go to the 'Capsule Corp' and stop the distraction once and for all. Unfortunately, knowing that it would make his mother cry stopped him from doing it. He was becoming soft.

This phone call was different from the others. Bulma was saying things that were not meant for his ears. These humans still didn't realize how superior his senses were, not that he was complaining.

This time Bulma was telling her friend to keep a close watch on her son. Apparently, they were going to do something, may be even use the Dragon Balls, and didn't want Demon to interfere.

Demon smirked. He could make any wish he wanted. Anything he desired would be his. He could not let this opportunity go to waste. He was going to get his hands on the Dragon Balls and there was no one who could stop him.

His wish will come true.

A/N this is just a transition chapter. After the next chapter I will skip a couple of years and Gohan will grow up. Now, a couple of things will happen before then and I need your opinion on what I should do. I don't want to give anything away, so just tell me if you want a big fight sceene or if you want me to skip it. It will not have a big impact on the story ether way. I'm a little indecisive about it, so I thought I'll ask ^_^

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And did I mention how grateful I am for all the reviews I have gotten? I have a total of 71 reviews!

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gaul1 Thanks! Gohan will definetly improve his relationship with some… people…

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Ash I don't want to give away anything but I can tell you one thing right now - there will be NO dorky Gohan. And Videl is in chapter 13

TheShadowPanther Sorry, but Gohan is not going to walk away from his mother. At least not yet. But he will stay evil to the very end!

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Nightelf Thank you! You are right, Demon and Nightcrawler are similar - never noticed it before.

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