Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Through A Mirror Darkly ❯ Through The Glass ( Chapter 4 )

He had been meditating for the past three days. Secluded in his favorite spot in the mountians, far from the distractions of others, Piccolo spend his hours in the sun and deep within himself. It always comforted him to seek solace within and he drifted away, once more, into the welcoming void.

It had been several days since the voice had last called to him, summoning him out of his reverie with the rudeness of youth and making him growl in spite of his control. He'd followed that voice inside his head to it's source and had seen who it was who was intruding on his mediations.

He'd closed his mind to her. Shoved her out and rejected her. That his actions may have seemed cruel did not bother him. She had no right trying to force her will on him in the first place!

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"If this doesn't work, Toshi…" Mara was saying, but she was all ready beginning to take on aspects of her twin, as was sometimes the case, some are born looking like their other selves while others took time to change.

Mara's complexion had taken on a greenish tint and the silvery-black hair that fell over her face had changed to black with dark green highlights. A wisp of bangs hid an emerging annatae from sight.

"It will, Mara!" She said to her friend, "Look! You're already changing! You know that means it will work! He won't deny you a second time! Trust me!"

"Are the mirrors ready?" Mara said instead of answering, her new form was hard to get used to, scents and sounds seems sharper, more clear, "We only have this once chance, Toshi, after that…"

"I know." Toshi said gravely. She knew as well as anyone that to do a double summoning and be rejected…they risked being thrown into the void forever…scattered…as their people called it. She shivered. Such a fate was worse than not finding your dark self at all!

"All right…may as well begin…" Mara said, facing her own mirror, as Toshi faced her's, palms outreached touching her glass image, she began the anceint chant; "Light to light, Dark to dark, Hear my plea, Come to Me."

Toshi took up the chant, feeling woozy, her tail still at her side, the mirro she faced began to fog over; "Mirror to mirror, shadow to light, soul to soul, make it right…"

"Thee to me or me to thee, We summon you forth! Thee to me! Thee to me! Thee to me!"

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Vegeta gasped as he felt something tugging at him. Goku laughed and asked what the trouble was, landing a clean blow to the other's jaw and watching as the shorter man stumbled backwards in mid-air.

"Vegeta?" He asked, "What's wrong? Your acting weird again…"

Vegeta didn't answer instead he looked down at his hands, covered as they always were in the white gloves he wore, and saw, in shock, that he could see through them to the ground below! He shook his head in confusion as the world became fuzzy, came back into focus and became fuzzy once more. Kakkarot was yelling at him now, making his head ache more than it all ready was.

"Vegeta! What's happening to you!" He was yelling, "Y-Your fading out!"

Vegeta shook his head again unable to answer. He felt helpless and disoriented and those feelings shoved up his anger like nothing else. He screamed and tried to use his ki to remain solid, teeth clenched with the effort.

"N-No!" He screamed, shaking with the force of his will, "I won't let this happen!"

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"Thee to me! Thee to me! Thee to me!" Mara and Toshi cried, tears streaming down their cheeks, feeling the effort it was taking to get their twins to accept their fate. Toshi was having a particularly difficutl time. But whatever strength her twin possessed, she too possessed and fought back like a galestorm! Feircely pounding herself into him, her hands and face towards the glass….

"It's not working…" Mara whispered, pausing in the chant, Toshi growled and did not answer. She was close. She knew it! A moment longer…

"Thee to me! Dammit! You know I can force you! Thee to me!"

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You know I can force you.

The words echoed in his mind. They were different from the voice who had been seeking, calling and pleading with him over the past…however long he couldn't really say. But he felt and could also hear the familiar voice in the background, stuggling to slip past his mental barriers.

He looked down at himself and saw, much to his dismay, that he had begun to dissolve, his physical body fading from sight. He could see right through himself in some areas. Piccolo didn't know what was happening but he did not like it. Not at all!

Thee to me! Thee to me!

He heard the chant in his head and it became louder and more demanding. He could hear the one he had rejected louder than the other, now. He struggled to remain whole and build his mental walls back up, as they were knocked down relentlessly.

"Why are you doing this?!"

Thee to me! Thee to me!

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"It's working, Toshi!" Mara cried, as her hands felt more than glass beneath them, "It's really working!"

"Of course it is!" Toshi whispered, sweat drenching her face as she felt her own hands clutching something, Palm to palm she felt the hands pressed against her own and curled her fingers about them, tugging, "Thee to me! Thee to me! Thee to me!"

"Thee to me!" Mara continued, her hands wrapped about the flesh she felt, suddenly, pressing palm to palm against her own. Her image had shimmered, vanished, became the image of a powerful, green-hued being whose annatae and ears resmebled her own, now. He was scowling at her through the glass, his ebony eyes stark against the contract of his face.

She ignored his look and, with one last cry, pulled him through the glass to stumble into herself. She glanced over just in time to see Toshi yanking her twin through her own mirror, and realized how alike her friend's hair appeared, save for it was light and his dark, to her twin's. She struggled to a sitting position and shoved her hair out of her eyes, her annatae twitching at the touch of her hand.

"What happened?" Toshi's twin asked, gaining his feet and taking up a fighting stance, the other, Mara's, stood back to back with him, glaring at them, "Who are you? Where are we?"

"It's okay!" Toshi cried, standing face to face to with Vegeta, "My name is Toshi. Haven't you heard me calling to you, Vegeta?"

"Calling?" Piccolo gasped, facing the female who looked, oddly, like a namek! If that were even possible! "It was you! Wasn't it? You were the one in my head!"

"Of course!" Mara cried, tears streaming down her cheeks, "After all this time…Toshi! I can't believe it really worked! I can't believe it!"

"What worked?" Vegeta cried, "I don't know what's going on here but…"

"Vegeta, wait a minute…" Piccolo said, looking at Mara for a long moment. The girl stood there, unblinking, waiting. "There's something…something about her…I don't know what…"

"She's your twin soul, doofus!" Toshi cried, "God! How dense can a person get! Can't you tell just by looking at her that you were meant to be together!?"

"Impossible!" Vegeta cried, now looking at the girl who seemed to be his mirror image, only slightly smaller, of lighter hue and of course, female. She raised her eyebrows up at him and gave him one of his own smirks, "You…you look like a saiyan…"

"Of course I do!" Toshi said, "Sheesh! Do we have to spell it out for you morons! We look like you because, in a way, we are you!"

"Don't call me a moron, you little…!" Vegeta raised his hand, ready to slap her silly, but she mirrored the action and he paused, taken aback. She'd raised her hand at the exact same time he'd raised his. It was as if she knew…knew what he was about to do…even before he knew it himself! The feeling was unnerving.

"We have to make a decision…" Mara was saying, crossing her arms in the same manner as Piccolo, next to her, her face taking on his expression, "Are we to remain here…in thisworld…or go on to otherworld with them?"

"I say we remain here, for awhile." Toshi said, circling Vegeta and enjoying the fact that he was, after so long, finally with her. She was overwhelmed with joy. She could not cease her smiling, "And show them off…besides they might want to stay here with us…"

"No way!" Piccolo cried, "We are not staying here!"

"You have no choice, big guy." Toshi smirked, tossing her head to one side, arrogantly, "You are in our hands now, both of you. There's not a damn thing either of you can say about it!"

Vegeta fumed at the uppity little girl before him and he narrowed his eyes, wanting so badly to attack her and make her pay for her tone of voice, but he didn't. He didn't know why, but he felt that if he attacked her, it would like hurting himself and that was just too stupid to contemplate. Besides, she was starting to remind him of someone…

Dare he even think it? She was starting to remind him of…himself!

"What is this place?" Piccolo asked, after calming down enough to allow the girl to try and explain things better, "It looks…familiar…but, not."

"This is called thisworld." Mara said, as they covered the mirrors and turned them over, facedown, on the grass, "It's a mirror world, the complete opposite of your own plane of exsistance. We call your demision otherworld because…well, it's other than ours…"

"We each of us have a mirror self," Toshi took up the explainantion for her friend, "A twin soul, a dark self, not dark as in evil, just dark as in...the opposite of light, see…" She touched her hair and tail and then reached out to touch Vegeta's, "You are my dark twin to my light self…"

"What about Piccolo and Mara?" Vegeta asked, looking at the two, "Neither of them are darker than the other…"

"No," Mara said, "But look, see? My skin is a shade darker than his…and my hair is dark as well…"

"Yes, I think I understand." Vegeta said, nodding, "So you are Piccolo's dark twin and I am Toshi's?"

The girls nodded, breathing a sigh of relief that they were at last, getting through to them!

"Our world is populated with twin souls." Mara said, "As you will see when we show you around tomorrow…"

"But if this is true, how come…?"

"There aren't many twin souls and dark siblings in your plane?" Toshi finished Vegeta's query, "Because not many on your plane know about dark siblings or how to call them forth."

"This is just getting more and more confusing…" Piccolo said, still looking at Mara, "I don't know what to believe!"

"Don't worry," Mara said, touching his arm gently, her fingers sent small electical currents up and down his arm, "Everything will become clear, you'll see."

Vegeta shook his head.

Well, he thought and caught Toshi's look, at least I found out where that voice was coming from!

You're gonna find out a lot more than that! Toshi's voice in his head spoke loudly, and when he glanced back at her, he caught his signature smirk on her lips once more.

"Well, I'd say things about about to get interesting." Piccolo said almost to himself.

"As if things weren't interesting enough." Vegeta answered, scowling.