Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Lost in the Darkness ❯ Pleasure from Pain ( Chapter 3 )

Lost in the Darkness

Part 3

Pleasure from Pain

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Bardock gave a desperate cry as Yabet began to beat him and his sons. Turlis was screaming in pain, and Kakarotto was laying in a pool of blood. Bardock gave a wild shout and threw himself into the path of the whip as it was aimed at Kakarotto once again. Kakarotto was already out cold and would die if the beating continued. Turlis wasn't fairing mush better, and Bardock wondered if they had been bought to die.

Yabet laughed as he watched Bardock try to shield his sons in his desperation, trying to save them. He would have to stop soon, before they died. Master Sharpener the fourth wouldn't be happy is his brand-new slaves died the first day he had them. He would stop, just as soon as they were a little bloodier.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Bardock thought he was dead. At least he would have thought he was dead if he didn't hurt so damn much. That and he didn't see the "light at the end of the tunnel" thing that every one else claimed was there. With a moan of pain he tried to sit up. A woman sighed.

"You idiot. If you sit up, you'll only hurt yourself more." She scolded, pushing him down. He soon realized he was laying on a pallet of straw in a small hut. (Personally he'd've called it a shack, but who's looking?)

"Wha-?" He half said. "Where?" The word sentence had no meaning at the moment.

"Your in a little hut out behind the main house. You were beaten." The woman stated calmly. Bardock's vision came in to focus and he finally got a decent look at her. She had pale green skin and short royal blue hair. "My name is Alanya, should you care."

"How are my sons?" He managed to slur out, sounding a bit drunk.

"Well, their alive, and that's about all I can say." She replied. "One's out cold, he's having nightmares, it seems. Nothing we do helps. The other is sleeping."

"Which is having nightmares?" His speech was still a little slurred, but not nearly as bad as before.

"Um, I don't know. He has the lighter skin of the two." She shrugged.

"Kakarotto?" Bardock called. "Wake up, boy."

He heard a small whimper and a cry of pain. "Tousan?" A little voice said, sounding scared. "Kakarotto won't wake up! He just won't! I've tried everything! And I can't HEAR him!"

The last remark really worried Bardock. Saiya-Jins have limited telepathic powers, usually only with their mates, but twins, and identical twins especially, could feel each others emotions and, on occasion, thoughts. Thoughts were limited to identical twins, and feelings were linked to twins in general. Any way, one of the few reasons one twin couldn't feel another was death.

"What do you mean you can't feel him?!" Bardock cried frantically. "He's not dead is he?!"

"No, Tousan, I don't think so, but he's blocking me- or something." Turlis replied.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

He was dreaming. That's all there was to it. There couldn't be anyone like her on the planet, or the UNIVERSE for that matter. She was like an angel.

White light surrounded the girl, her silky black hair fluttered around her face. Glittering chocolate eyes made him go breathless. The girl's red lips curled up in a gentle smile. She held out one pale hand to him. "Kakarotto, you can't die yet. Go back, love. Go back." Her voice was entrancing, musical in tone, and the sweetest thing he'd ever heard.

"I can't. It hurts to much." He cried in despair. "Please. Let me stay here with you."

"You can't." She told him sadly. You'll meet me, someday, if you live, but you can't stay here."

"What will happen if I do?" He asked, watching her from curious onyx eyes.

"I shall die of heart break." She pleaded one last time. "Go back, Kakarotto, please. Go back."

White light surrounded him, it was warm. Someone was crying, calling. They were calling his name. With one last look at his angel, he went back.

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

"Kakarotto!" Bardock called. "Kakarotto! Please! Come back to me, boy! Wake up!" Hot tears feel down his face to splash on his youngest son's forehead. "Please…" He pleaded. "Come back."

Bardock smoother his son's mussed hair. It was just like his, spiking wildly in every direction imaginable, with bangs falling on his forehead and into his eyes.

Kakarotto's dark eyes fluttered. Turlis gave a cry of happiness. "I can hear him! I can hear him!"

His eyes flickered open. Bardock wrapped Kakarotto in his arms and cried into his hair. "Gods, I thought I'd lost you. Don't you ever do that again!"

"I won't, Tousan, I promise." He muttered. Turlis grabbed his hand.

::I couldn't hear you. What happened?::

::I don't know.:: Kakarotto told him, thinking about his angel again. ::But I know I saw an angel.::

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

Alanya watched the reunion with teary eyes. She knew someone had called the boy back to this plain, but if it wasn't his brother, who had it been? There was no answer to the question. "Alanya?" A man's voice called.

"Riul? I thought you were out in the fields." Alanya turned to him with a frown.

"I was, but it is late. Who are they?" He finally noticed the three in the corner.

"They're new." She replied with a frown. The tall man had pale blue skin, and dark green hair. His black eyes watched his wife closely. Her amber eyes narrowed in a scowl and he smiled.

"I love you, Lana." He smiled. She grinned at him. A baby began to cry.

"I hear you. Calm down, baby. I'm coming." She lifted the tiny baby off of the pallet in the corner of the shack. He looked like his father with his mother's eyes.

"How's my little Zarbon?" Riul grinned. The baby laughed. Alanya smiled, pride etched on her features.

"So, why are we here?" Bardock asked Riul with a slight frown.

"I don't really know. You'd best ask my darling wife, here." He shrugged. "I'm a bit curious myself, to tell the truth."

"Riul!" Alanya sighed. "He's new and they just went through the `rite of passage'. I couldn't just leave them out there, him and his boys."

"Boys? What boys?" Riul took a look of confusion.

"Are we chopped liver or what?" Turlis demanded. "I didn't think we were that small!"

"Holy Mother Theresa! You look exactly alike!" Riul gaped in shock.

"I never would have noticed had you not told me." Kakarotto remarked dryly. Riul laughed.

"I have little doubt of that, boy." He snorted. "it's nice to see new blood in any case."

Bardock raised an eyebrow at Riul. "Was that meant to be a joke?"

"Actually, there was no pun intended. Now, on to more important matters." Riul abruptly changed the subject. "Where are you staying?" He looked at Bardock.

"Why are you looking at me as though I know? I've been out cold for the past four hours." He stated, his tail twitching in agitation.

"And why, exactly, were you out cold for four hours?"

"My sons were half dead and I was trying to save them. There just happened to a whip in the way."

"That doesn't tell me much."

"I'm Saiya-Jin. We're not exactly known for our wonderful conversations."

"That explains more than the first sentence."

Alanya rolled her eyes and went over to talk to Turlis and Kakarotto. They'd probably talk to her without using riddles and whatever other confusing thing they could think of.

"Hey you two. How do you feel?" Alanya asked with a tiny smile.

"Um, well, I can't say this hasn't been a painful experience." Turlis admitted.

"I couldn't tell you. I wasn't awake for much of it." Kakarotto told her with a grin. "Who's the kid?"

"This is my baby Zarbon. Isn't he cute?" She laughed.

"Can he talk?" Kakarotto asked.

"Sort of. He's not very good yet."

"Say Kakarotto, c'mon, say it. Kakarotto…"

"Kaka!" Zarbon squealed. "Kaka kaka kaka!" Kakarotto sweatdropped. "Maybe when your older."

Turlis raised an eye brow. "Yeah. A LOT older."

"You're not being nice, turnip head!" Kakarotto swatted at his twin who laughed.

"I know, Carrot brain!" He retorted.

"Beats being a turnip head!" Both boys began to laugh as though that was the funniest thing they'd ever heard in their life. Alanya sighed and looked at her son.

"I hope you don't act like them when your older." She sighed. ~And I hope I'm there to see it.~

~*~ ~*~ ~*~

The master decided to leave them with Alanya and Riul to live, much to Riul's disgust. Well, not disgust exactly, but it was slightly irking to him. There was little room in the tiny shack, and three more people made it even smaller. The two families got along well enough, but even the nicest of people can get on your nerves.

Turlis and Kakarotto adopted Alanya as a foster mother of sorts and had begun to call her Alanya-Mama, Riul, in turn, was Riul-Papa, and that shocked every one. It wasn't that he wasn't nice to the kids, he just didn't spend a whole lot of time with them.

Life was hard on the plantation, especially for Bardock who hated being told how to live his life.

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Six months after they arrived, during harvest, the heat shoot to one hundred degrees in the afternoon. The slaves began refining the word modesty, it was so hot in the field. They wore as little as possible and water was never running short. It was a good thing it wasn't a drought year. It would have made work impossible.

Zarbon had recently turned a year old and he was in the fields beside his parents working as much as he could in the blistering heat. The Saiya-Jins weren't nearly as affected because their planet was mostly desert to begin with, and they worked harder than everyone else so that the others didn't die of heat stroke.

That was the year the summons came. Riul was to be sold.

(A/N) Sorry. I had to do it. Don't hurt me! It's only a little cliff-hanger! Veggie's up next in the chapter thingy. What's gonna happen to his daddy? Mwahahahaha!

*Ahem* Forgive my mindless insanity. I was momentarily possessed and the devil made me do it!

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