Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Sins of the Past ❯ Welcome to My World ( Chapter 18 )

Chapter 18

Welcome to My World

The ticking of the clock was loud in the quiet room, interrupted on occasion by Abraxious's distant howls.

"What are we going to do about him?" Pheas asked, looking at Sousan.

Sousan raised his head from his hands; "Amma will take care of it when the time comes."

"She doesn't have the strength."

Sousan tossed a knife on the table; "She'll have to use this."

"Wait a minute!" Bulma cried, "You're going to kill him?"

Sousan and Pheas turned and looked at her with dull eyes. "That's what they both would want." Sousan told her.

"She's the only one who can control him." Pheas explained, "When she's gone…" he couldn't finish, and instead left the table and went to look out the window.

"This is ridiculous! You're all acting like she could die at any moment. The bleeding has stopped, she should be fine, given time." Bulma cried.

"It may look like the bleeding has stopped, but it's only internalized. Without a proper doctor, she will bleed out and die. If Aescapulus was still alive, she might have had a chance, but there's no way to get a doctor here in time." Sousan told her, all emotion gone from his voice.

"We could take her to a hospital." Trunks offered.

"The doctors here wouldn't know what to do." Pheas told him without turning around, "You seem to forget we're not from Earth."

"The dragonballs." Bulma said, excitedly, "We could find them and wish her back."

"No!" Sousan cried, shoving away from the table so violently the chair he was sitting on fell over, "I will not allow you to dishonor her sacrifice further by bringing her back."

Pheas left the window, and came to stand next to Sousan, "They don't understand." He told him softly.

"The body has to be intact, right? That's what Amma said, wasn't it?" he snatched the knife off the table, "I'll burn her before they have a chance." He glared once at Vegeta, who stood away from the others, watching them emotionlessly. Then he stormed from the kitchen, knocking the door from its hinge in his anger.

Goten leaped up and quickly followed him out the door.

"What was that about?" Bulma asked Pheas, who had taken a seat at the table.

He ran a hand across his face; "It all has to do with the culture they are from. Amma offered her life for another's. It would be wrong for you to change that. It's not your choice." He glanced at Vegeta out of the corner of his eye. He turned back to Bulma; "Neither of us would let you do that, no matter what your intentions were."

"So you're just going to let her die?" Bulma couldn't believe what she was hearing.

"It's not for us to change." Pheas told her, leaving the room.

"And she said we were insane." Bulma muttered shaking her head.

Abraxious's howling was the first thing Amma heard when she became aware of what was going on. She knew she had been in and out of consciousness, but she wasn't sure of how long she had been out. The room was dark, and she had no idea what time it was. "Ab, get Sousan, and tell him it's time." She whispered, knowing she didn't have long, but she couldn't leave Ab behind.

He looked at her uncertainly for a moment, but finally rose and shuffled from the room.

She closed her eyes, and tried to concentrate on holding onto consciousness. It wouldn't be long and it would be over. It wasn't even so painful anymore, she was just tired, so tired.

She felt someone enter the room, but was too tired to even open her eyes. She stretched out her hand for the knife Sousan would have brought, "Where's Ab?"

Instead of a knife being placed in her hand, something small and hard was shoved into her mouth. "Eat this." A gruff voice told her.

It was either choke or chew, and she was forced to eat the bitter bean. No sooner had she swallowed than she felt a warm callused hand against her cheek. The pain and fatigue were fading, but she was overwhelmed by emotions, and quickly sat up. "Why did you do that? I already let you go."

He shrugged, "I was tired of listening to that creature of yours howl. Besides, I wanted you healed when I give you the punctured lung I owe you."

She shook her head, sadly, sitting back on the pillows, "I was wrong about you." She said quietly.

His brows furrowed in confusion, "What do you mean?"

"I thought I would find something that would surprise me, but you're still an asshole."

He continued to glare at her.

"Don't get me wrong, there's no crime in that, so you're still free." She grinned at him, "And you still lost the bet, even worse now."

"We will settle this later, but you will have a punctured lung."

"You're forgetting the fact that I took a bullet for you, buddy."

"I don't remember asking you to do that. I could have handled that just fine, obviously better than you did."

"With the double vision?" she sneered, "As I remember you were so drugged up, you couldn't even stand without help. Or am I thinking of someone else? See I seem to remember having Goten pull the TIC off that guy so he wouldn't die."

"You may keep whatever delusions you feel necessary." He told her in a dismissing tone.

"I'm so glad I have your approval." She told him rolling her eyes.

"I'm telling you she's better." Goten voice drifted into the room from the corridor.

"Look, kid," Sousan's voice sounded tired, and tense, "I don't know what you think, but she's not going to get better."

The door opened and Goten paused only a moment before rushing forward to leap on the bed and throw his arms around Amma. "I told them you were all right, but they wouldn't believe me."

"Hey, don't squeeze so hard, I'm still banged up here." Amma said, trying to loosen Goten's grip on her.

Sousan finally managed to enter the room, and close his mouth, "What happened?"

"It was a miracle." She told him in a hushed voice, "I thought I was dead, and then there was this bright light and angels, and now I'm fine."

"Cool." Goten breathed.

"She's delusional." Vegeta snorted heading to the door.

"She's full of shit. That's for sure. I suppose that's your way of saying you're not telling me?" Sousan asked.

"Does it matter?" she caught Vegeta's eye as he was leaving and nodded her head slightly in way of thanks.

He tipped his head in answer and raised two fingers to her as he left the room.

"Wait a minute," she said to Goten, "Did he just flip me off?"