Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ The Red Baron ❯ Brother vs Brother ( Chapter 33 )

The Red Baron

 

Brother VS Brother

 

Shadow looked toward the battered and beaten Red Baron, the hero that he once called brother. Now with the power of Sin Shenron flowing through his body, it seemed that any hope of getting through the day was slipping for the Red Baron.

 

Shadow's dark aura of energy covered the entire area. The sky had gone completely dark, not a cloud in the sky. And it was Josh that knew the story of the great dragons and their origins. Once, many centuries ago, the world had slipped into darkness when a great and powerful dragon's powers were abused and negative energy was released in the form of seven dragons.

 

Before the world could be destroyed, a powerful warrior by the name of Goku, the great ancestor of the late Master Janus, was able to defeat this great evil and restore the purity of the great dragon, Shenron, and the seven mystical Dragon Balls that were all but a myth now.

 

But seeing the power before him, Josh, as well as the Red Baron, realized that that myth was more than just a myth. It was real and it was now being used against them.

 

Shadow began to power up as he yelled into the very darkness of the sky he created and summoned the powers he had himself and combined them with the evil spirit of the shadow dragon. But even as he became quiet and the wicked trembling of the Earth subsided, there was a sense of concern in his eyes.

 

“Well, you may be in luck, my brother. It appears that for whatever reason, I am unable to draw the full power of the Shadow Dragon as quickly as I had hoped. But I am not worried. You death will be no less painful.”

 

The Red Baron picked himself up from the ground off his knee. He was favoring his sides which had not healed much at all from his battle with Suzin. It caused him great pain to pick himself up form the ground but he did it nonetheless. This was no time to show his weaknesses.

 

But as he stood up, he did not prepare to fight. In stead, he stood firm and straight, as if he had no intention of fighting. The fact was, he didn't.

 

“Andy…don't you remember who I am? It's me, Carlos. Your brother. We've been looking for you everywhere.”

 

Shadow smiled and brushed his long hair back.

 

“Are you stupid? What makes you think that I care, my brother? Can you not see that I am Shadow now, not that pathetic excuse of a human I once was?”

 

The Red Baron face filled with a quick look of shock that he tore away from almost as fast, but it had been seen.

 

“Oh, you weren't expecting that, brother? I am not longer human. I have taken in the powers of my new master, the Dark Baron, and have become a part of him. I am his Shadow and as such, I am neither human nor demon. I am power.”

 

“But you can't just be gone, Andy. You are my brother, don't you remember? What did they do to you? What the FUCK DID THEY DO TO YOU?”

 

The Red Baron began to show a tear again. Shadow saw it and could only laugh out loud. And he kept laughing as the Red Baron struggled with himself on what he should do.

 

Still inside the warehouse, The White Warrior was looking straight into the eyes of the man who had literally set up the way she would be born into the world and he role in it.

 

“It's because of you that I have to live this life. It's because of your presence that so many people I have known have died and that so many people that I will never know have died. It's because of you I am bound to this life that is far from a life.”

 

The Red Baron stood erect without and feeling of sorrow in his heart for the girl's anger toward him. With his right hand, he put his hand up, index finger extended, and waved it around, as if saying no.

 

“Tsk Tsk Tsk, little girl. You shouldn't complain so much. In fact, you should now be paying homage to your new master. The master of this world. Because soon, I will have all the power necessary to conquer this plane and all others that I choose.”

 

“Not on my watch, bastard.”

 

The White Warrior jumped at him with lighting fast speed and threw at him a powerful punch. But it didn't work. Without so much as flinching, he put his hand up and caught her fist and held on tight.

 

The Whit Warrior didn't waste time being shock and tried to pull out of his hold. To her dismay, he was able to hold on rather tightly without so much as moving while she struggled. To break off his grip.

 

Desperate, she began punching and kicking with he free limbs to hit him off of her. Amazingly, he was able to dodge each and every attack, moving super fast, and still holding on to her fist.

 

Tired of her moving, the Dark Baron began to grip harder and harder on her fist and soon, she stopped and was forced to get on her knees as the Dark Baron slowly began to crush her fist. The White Warrior tried her best not to scream but she was slowly losing her ability to hold it in.

 

The Dark Baron looked down at her with a small smile on his face.

 

“Face it, Snow White, you can't beat me. Not here, not anywhere, not with anyone. You are alone here and nobody will be able to save you. You will be the first human I get to kill today.”

 

The Dark Baron pulled his left leg back and with tremendous strength, kicked her straight in the gut. Letting her go, she flew across to the other side of the warehouse and into a group of Soldiers of Death.

 

As soon as she hit the ground, the group pounced on her and soon, she was out of site. She struggled and yelled as the Soldiers of Death began to beat and kick and bite at her, trying to tear her apart.

 

The Dark Baron laughed and was about to turn away when a flash of brilliant white light burst from within the group of soldiers. With the stunning display, a powerful force of energy ripped through the group of soldiers and they vanished, being destroyed. And out from the light stepped forth that fully powered White Warrior and all her elegance. She stared straight into the eyes of the Dark Baron.

 

“No, Dark One, I will be the one you kills you this day. I will not allow you to hurt anyone ever again.”

 

The Dark Baron, still with is smile, went into a fighting stance.

 

“If that were true, then why are you here waiting for me to kill you?”

 

The Red Baron, still dealing with Shadow, was not focused in the least bit on what was happening inside the warehouse. Due to Shadow's influence, he was unable to see the burst of light even as close to the warehouse as they were.

 

The Red Baron tried to talk sense into his demonic brother again.

 

“Please brother, come back to me. Come back to me and mom and dad. You have to come back. We love you.”

 

Then, unexpectedly, Shadow's eyes became sympathetic. The look of rage and hate disappeared and he looked at this brother with compassion, as if he had just wakened from a long sleep.

 

“Ca…Carlos?”

 

The Red Baron looked with desperation as he heard the words of his brother coming out.

 

“Andy?”

 

Shadow's dark aura that was immediately around him faded away and he smiled.

 

“Carlos!”

 

“Andy!”

 

The Red Baron powered down and walked toward his brother just as his brother began to do the same. They met and they smiled and embraced each other. The Red Baron was almost weeping with joy.

 

“Andy. We though we had lost you. We though you were…you were…”

 

“Dead? No brother. I was merely under his control. I couldn't get out of it. He sent this big mold of black stuff at me and all I remember after that was black and darkness. I was afraid, Carlos. I was afraid.”

 

Andy began to cry and like the big brother he was, Carlos held him close and comforted him.

 

“It's okay now, Andy. We're going to get you out of this. We're going to beat him and we're going to take you home where you belong. And to think, we made that big hole in the cemetery for nothing.”

 

They laughed together. They both laughed almost too loud. The Red Baron was happy to have finally found his brother. It was almost too good to be true. It was such a great thing.

 

Josh, Devyn, and Dawn also were looking in the distance. They had tears in tier eyes as well, all knowing how hard it had been for Carlos after his brother's supposed death. And now things were looking up again.

 

The Red Baron didn't let go of his brother just yet but he told him.

 

“Now that you have those powers, Andy, you can help up take out the Dark Baron and finish this up.”

 

“Ya! That would do it! But I just have one question Carlos?”

 

“Ya? What's that?”

 

“How stupid are you?”

 

The red Baron eyes opened really wide really fast and let go of his brother but kept his hands on his shoulders. As he pulled away, he saw the face of Shadow return on him and he smiled with pure evil. The Red Baron did a double take and asked:

 

“What?”

 

Almost before he could finish he sentence, he felt a great sting of pain, a pain of great proportions. Then he stumbled onto the ground on his legs and held his gut like if he let go, it would fall. Shadow had shoved his knee into the Red Baron's gut and almost pierced him. Not being transformed, the Red Baron was vulnerable as a normal human and the attack had almost taken him out.

 

“BARON! You are a fool! My master was right about you. You are the stupidest being ever to cross the Earth. How do you not see it? I AM NOT ANDY! I am Shadow now and I always will be.”

 

The Red Baron's tears returned for both the pain and the grief of the words stabbing at him once again.

 

“The brother you knew is dead, Baron. I have taken his body now and I now use it to harbor both my power and the power of the Shadow Dragon. And because of your foolishness, you have sentenced yourself to death.”

 

Brining out his long claw-like nails, Shadow attacked the Red Baron once again.

 

“SHADOW SLASH!”

 

Combining his power and energy, he delivered a powerful cutting attack again the Red Baron, untransformed, and sent him flying across the ground. The attack had nearly killed him. This front body was filled with four large cuts that weren't completely bleeding but hurt like hell. The Red Baron's shirt had been torn off and he body was covered in bruises and cuts form that single attack. Worst of all, the Red Baron was hardly moving.

 

Shadow, no longer hiding his true self, slowly made his way toward the Red Baron.

 

“And now my brother, once again your goody-goodness has become your greatest flaw. If you weren't so merciful, you might have actually stood a chance in this fight. But now you are nothing more than a run over dog, Baron. And I will enjoy being the one that takes your life.”

 

The others were as far as they could get without being to close. They tried to call to the Red Baron, to try and get him to wake up, but there was no use. He just didn't' seem to move. And with Shadow coming closer and Josh not having lots of juice left, there was nothing anyone could do for the Red Baron but watch.