Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Strong as Super Saiyan 2 ❯ Maiden/Intermission ( Chapter 11 )

Chapter Eleven - Maiden/Intermission

Whenever they stepped inside the concert arena, Yamucha immediately started looked around for the ticket booth, saying, "I swear, they change these places around too many times."

"Yeah, I know," Trunks answered. "Although this is a good lineup they've got going here: Metallica and Black Sabbath. And the opening act." A light chuckle. "Me and Gohan-san used to love Iron Maiden "

Whenever Trunks looked over at his chibi koibito, the boy looked like if he had been torn from his thoughts by anything rambunctious, he probably would have been so startled that he would have cried until all the nervousness was out of his system.

"Gohan," he said, in the gentlest voice he could muster, so as not to startle his love.

"Yeah, Trunks?"

"Th..that doesn't still bother you, does it?"

"What?"

"My former relationship with Mirai."

"No, not really."

"You're sure."

"Trunks, whenever it does bother me...all I have to do is think about the fact that you two never bonded, or took the ultimate step of lovemaking."

Upon hearing this, the older boy walked over to his boyfriend and put his arms around him, smiling and saying in a low voice, "I love you so much, Gohan." Gohan smiled as well and wrapped his arms around Trunks' slim waist, which he inherited from the prince of all Gothicness himself.

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Meanwhile, a group of "maggots" (a.k.a. chibi Goths), had been watching the whole incident, the oldest amongst them being a gothic teenage girl that happened to be obsessed with gay guys. She smiled at the scene before her, as her boyfriend commented on the situation.

"Hey, babe, how much you wanna bet the sick bastard got that kid drunk?"

"Oh, shut up, you asshole," she bellowed in at him pure rage. "Koi, can't you see that's a romantic, totally consented situation? You'd most definitely lose this bet "

Before her boyfriend could think of a good comeback, Chester Bennington interrupted them by saying, "Look kids, why don't you quit arguing about a couple of gay young men, and read about a bunch of super-gay dead men?" The lead singer of Linkin Park then dropped the newspaper in front of the fourteen-year-old, and the young girl mentally read the headline:

GOOD CHARLOTTE'S TOUR PLANE CRASHES

She smirked in sweet satisfaction as she continued to read on:

"Police and firefighters found the wreckage last night, and have discovered the fact that nearly all of the band members have been killed, except for one, Benji, who was found unconscious amongst the rubble wearing his Slipknot t-shirt and Murderdolls embroidered blue-jeans. Upon returning to consciousness, when we interviewed him about how he felt about the loss of his band mates, he merely sneered and said, "Well, at least now that those [homosexuals] are out of the picture, I can go pursue my dreams to either be in the Murderdolls or be in the next big hardcore metal band, since Slipknot are breaking up."

The gothic girl's friends simply stared at her strange dance and continual screaming of the word, "Death " Whenever her boyfriend questioned her behavior, she replied, "Most of Good Charlotte are dead, yes I fuckin' hate those faggots "

Her boyfriend stared at her confusedly, pointed at Gohan and Trunks, and exclaimed, "But you were swooning over those two faggots?!"

She laughed maniacally and said, "Baka, there's a big difference between gay guys and Good Charlotte!"

"Actually, I can see a lot of truth in that, babe "

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Whenever Yamucha got back after giving the ticketmaster the tickets, he said, "C'mon, lets get the mid-section, we're meeting an old friend of mine there "

As they walked towards their seats, Trunks asked, "Hey, Yam...if you know my mom, why'd you get only middle row?"

"Well see, my old friend is kind of famous, and he's got backstage passes..."

Yamucha then winced as Trunks let out a black metal scream and yelled, "Haha, fuck yeah "

Finally they got to their seats and sat down, listening to Iron Maiden playing "Fear Of The Dark."

Gohan (both mirai and sugai) liked this song particularly for the three blistering solos, and the guitar fills that joined in with crowd chanting, which he'd heard on their greatest hits album. By the time the solos ended and the guitar fills started, little Go-chan was interrupted from his half-trance by Yamucha yelling, "Hey guys, my old friend is coming over "

Gohan and Trunks immediately turned around to see the last person they'd suspect to be Yamucha's old friend:

The man in his late twenties who went by the name Corey Taylor then greeted Yamucha with: "Hey maggot, how you been doin', man?"

"Corey, `sup my brotha "

"S'okay, buddy, I'm a little black myself."

Yamucha then preceded to give Corey the finger, then said half-offensively, "So faggot, what have you been up to?"

"Oh, the usual... Workin' on some stuff with Sour and the `Knot, tryin' to keep Joey's gayness in order..."

"Ahem...try to watch the comments...the gay kid's the son of a friend of a friend of mine," Yamucha said in defense of Trunks while trying to clearly state that he hated his friend's friend and wished not to speak of his name.

Corey looked over at Trunks and said, "Oh hey man, wassup? Nice to see your people taking interest in heavy metal, it's very flattering."

The gay kid in question smiled and said, "You're welcome."

Corey then looked at the spiky, black-haired kid and asked, "Who's this little maggot?"

Trunks then smiled proudly and replied, "My boyfriend..."

Corey then started to laugh as obnoxiously as Yamucha would ever do, and said, "That's funny...but seriously... He's your little brother, right?"

"No, my boyfriend," Trunks said with a serious look.

Gohan then piped up, "Yeah, we fuck and everything...mmph "

Trunks had covered Gohan's mouth desperately with his hand, shocked by what his love had said. He immediately yelled, "GOHAN WHAT HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT USING BLASPHEMY? "

As soon as Trunks released his hold on Gohan's mouth, the younger boy sighed and said, "That people are disturbed greatly by, or don't like hearing it," he said in monotone as if reciting a contract or newspaper.

By the time both boys looked at Corey again, the gothic man now had a greatly disturbed look in his eyes. Desperately Yamucha sputtered out, "They're not human " and Corey turned his gaze to his old friend and raised an eyebrow in confusion. Not wanting to give a super-long explanation, Gohan used instantaneous movement to appear in front of the Slipknot frontman, and burst into Super Saiyan. Corey stared wide-eyed at the shimmering, golden, omnipotent being as Yamucha explained calmly, "They're descended from the Saiyajin race, and Saiyajin mature relatively early in proportion to the high ages that they can reach."

Corey stared at Yamucha and said, "Well I believe it after all this shit."

"You see, Corey, they are like perfect beings almost..."

Corey then smirked and said, "Well I believe that too, as they both have impressive muscle definition for a teen and a little boy."

Gohan then scowled and said defiantly, "I'm not a little boy "

Corey then smirked at the kid's semi-inflated perception and said, "That's true...Yama did say your race matured early in proportion to your average life span."

Corey walked over to his long-time friend to have a friendly chat with him, while Gohan and Trunks watched the rest of Iron Maiden's performance, whom were currently playing "2 Minutes To Midnight":

Kill for gain or shoot to maim

But we don't need a reason

To Golden Goose is on the loose

And never out of season

Some blackened pride still burns inside

This shell of bloody treason

Here's my gun for a barrel of fun

For the love of living death

The killer's breed or the Demon's seed,

The glamour, the fortune, the pain,

Go to war again, blood is freedom's stain

But don't you pray for my soul anymore.

2 minutes to midnight,

The hands that treaten doom.

2 minutes to midnight,

To kill the unborn in the womb.

Then they started playing "Caught Somewhere In Time", which caused Corey to yell James Hetfield style, and say, "Dude, this song's off the first Maiden album I ever bought, which was when I was about thirteen, I think." Corey listened to the beautiful guitar/bass intro that started off the song. Beautiful intros like that usually meant that you were about to listen to a Maiden epic; and indeed it was an epic...

If you had the time to lose

An open mind and time to choose

Would you care to take a look

Or can you read me like a book

Time is always on my side

Time is always on my side

Can I tempt you come with me

Be Devil may care fulfill your dream

If I said I'd take you there

Would you go would you be scared

Time is always on my side

Time is always on my side

Don't be afraid you're safe with me

Safe as any soul can be... honestly

Just let yourself go

[Chorus:]

Caught somewhere in time

Caught somewhere in time

Caught somewhere in time... oh oh

Caught somewhere in time

Caught somewhere in time

Caught somewhere in time... oh oh

Corey sang along to the chorus in his almost perfect impression of Bruce Dickinson, which was right after an awesome solo. Corey's favorite thing about this song, however, was all the solos... Solo after blistering solo, the two guitarists playing them back and forth, followed by their third guitarist's riffs. Iron Maiden still ruled, whereas Slayer now sucked.

And Maiden were proving it again, as they were now playing their new song, "Wildest Dreams", and they continued to play their greatest hits all night long, finishing off with "Run To The Hills".

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Upon intermission, Trunks thought he saw someone's familiar hairstyle in the audience, and went to go investigate. Once he caught up with the hairdo, he was shocked to see who it was...

"T-tousan?"

"Yes boy, what do you want?"

"I...didn't know you liked rock music. I thought it would seem like a-"

"Ningen thing to me?"

"Yeah, exactly."

"Well you thought wrong, boy."

Trunks just stared over the railing at the audience while thinking of something else to talk about with his father. Finally he looked over at the full-blood and said, "So Tousan, what band here do you like the most?"

Vejita looked over the railing, raised his eyebrows in concentration, and said, "Well boy, I like all of them quite a bit, but I would have to say I like Metallica the most."

Trunks then smirked and said, "It does seem like they'd suit you, father."

Vejita was about to say something, but then James Hetfield came on the microphone.

"Hey, fans. How you doin', it's been a while since we've played here in Tokyo. Just give us a few minutes, we're still settin' up. Then we'll play some good shit, some new, some old, both with a sound so us. We have a couple new songs, you may have heard them; they are fucking awesome."

James started to turn away from the microphone stand, but then he turned back and said, "One more thing: Yeeeeeeeeeah!"

And everyone cheered...

Whenever Trunks and Vejita were done screaming out their James Hetfield impersonations, the younger Saiyan quickly grabbed his father's arm and said, "C'mon, there's someone I want you to meet!"

Vejita grunted and said, "Hell no, I'm staying right here, where I'm close to the band!"

"Well, I guess I'll just have to bring him to you, then " Trunks said before running off to find Corey.

Vejita waited impatiently for about a minute, wondering who the hell his son wanted him to meet, before he saw them with someone who looked about in his late twenties/early thirties. He focused on the long-haired figure to see if he recognized him, but once the man turned his head, the Saiyan prince immediately knew who it was.

Vejita wanted to go give Corey a hug, but decided that since he did not like receiving physical affection (except from his wife, of course), then he did not want to give it out, either. He merely waited until Corey got in front of him, and shook his hand.

"Tousan, this is-"

"I know who it is, boy "

Trunks winced at his father's voice and said, "Corey, this is my father, the Prince of all Saiyans."

Corey smiled and said, "Nice to meet you, Vejita. I've always wanted to meet an alien, or even cross-breeds. You're from an ancient warrior race, huh?"

Vejita half-smiled as usual and said, "Yes, that's right. Who told you all of this, now?"

Corey pointed at a certain black-haired human and said, "That would be my good friend, Yamucha!"

Total, complete shock crossed Vejita and he asked, "How long have you two been friends?"

Yamcha then replied, "Me and him go way back. Ever since he formed Stone Sour way back when..."

Vejita then retaliated, "Well I'm quite jealous. Why didn't you ever tell me?"

"`Cos I didn't like you then, Vejita. Remember what happened the first time we met?"

Corey then spoke up and said, "Um, I hate to interrupt you two reminiscing about getting off to a rough start, but I think the show's about to start, it's been twenty minutes."