Dragon Ball/Z/GT Fan Fiction ❯ Through A Mirror Darkly ❯ Restoration And Resolutions ( Chapter 7 )

Vegeta stood surveying the damage around him, it was nothing new…the dead lying about, bloody and broken. The living barely alive and moans of terror mixed with pain filling the afternoon air.

He walked away from the two kitsune girls who were hovering over the girl who looked like a photo negative of himself and heard the one called Mariko mutter a few odd words and her her sister take up the strange chant, their hands held towards the hurt girl.

"We have to fix what's broken inside first, sister." Mariko said, as she gestured with her hands towards their friend, who had sunken into a blackness to escape the pain and did not move as the two fox girls spoke over her in hushed, anxious voices, "You work on easing the strain on her heart…I'll mend her insides…"

"Then we can close the skin over the gap." Kyoko agreed, her hands warming up with the inner power of healing she and her sister shared. She placed her palms upon Toshi's chest and felt the faint flicker that was her life force as her heart beat beneath her touch. She consentrated for a moment and placed her other hand upon the girl's forehead, adjusting herself to the strange blood which now coursed through her cousin's viens.

She could feel her twin working to knit flesh and muscle back together and dared not look up from her own task. Had she glanced towards Mariko she would have seen the dark kitsune's face drenched with sweat and her eyes closed tight in consentration.

Vegeta paused as he stepped over a body, wrinkling his nose in distaste at the sight of the head severed and laying, grinning a lurid, mocking death-grin, a few feet away, and turned back as he felt an odd sensation in his stomach that felt like a bunch of bugs were eating through his skin. He quelled the sudden urge to clutch at his gut and turned back towards the girls.

She's fighting us!

The voice in his head was not Toshi's. It took a moment for him to realize that no one had been speaking to him, however indirectly. He saw Kyoko and Mariko exchange a look across Toshi's body and understood that he had accidently caught a message being passed from one to the other.

Move past her barriers…she has to let us by to finish our work!

I cannot force her, you know that! That would do more damage than good…

"What's this?" Vegeta asked, stepping up to them, arms akimbo, "The girl fights like a true warrior in the battle, but gives up when she's being healed?!"

Kyoko looked up at him, her hands trembling as she held them over her cousin, she spoke in a voice that shook with the effort it took to form word; "S-she is afraid of letting us into her mind, past her mental walls, in order to f-finish healing her…"

"She is just being stupid!" Vegeta dropped to the ground and took ahold of the girl by the shoulders, shaking her roughly, Mariko screamed and flew backwards, her bushy tail flayed out in shock, "Stop this nonscence you stupid girl and let them finish healing you!"

Toshi moved her head a bit, her stomach didn't feel so bad now, for some reason. Has she the strength to reach down she would have felt the blood which had been seeping through the bandages had ceased to flow and, in fact, she was nearly all mended but for a few small things…such as her strength and the pain…

"…V-Vegeta…?" She mumbled her twin's name, smelling him near, feeling him near. Her eyes fluttered open a bit and saw his face scowling down at her. She didn't have the energry to start another quarrel and slipped back into the comforting darkness, her head lolling backwards on her suddenly unsupportive neck. Vegeta laid her back down and the kitsune girls swiftly took up where they'd left off.

She's too weak to struggle…

We can finish this now…she'll be all right!

Kyoko looked over Toshi as Vegeta and he saw something akin to gratitude in her dark eyes for a breif moment before she twitched her ears and looked away. He ignored her and pretended not to notice Toshi breathing more easily or the grip of ice which had been holding his chest in constant pain as she lay near death on the ground surrounded by fallen bodies.

"Toshi!"

Vegeta looked up at the sound of the voice and saw that Piccolo and Mara were returning. She carried Elena while Piccolo had the other woman safe within his strong arms. Not that the older women were very heavy.

Elena and Helena probably wieghed no more than one hundred pounds a piece, perhaps even ninty. It was Elena who had cried out upon seeing her eldest daughter's child sprawled out on the blood soaked earth next to the flaming buildings and sreaming people seeking their loved ones among the rubble.

Piccolo and Mara landed with their burdens near Vegeta and Helena and her twin-soul raced towards their granddaughter upon being set on their feet once more. Elena fell to the ground and took the girl's head onto her own lap, stroking her bony fingers lovingly across Toshi's brow, she kissed her forehead and tears dripped upon her granddaughter's face.

"Elena, She's okay now," Helena said, sitting on the other side, next to Kyoko, she took her other granddaughter's hand in her own, "Kyoko and Mariko have healed her. Can you not see? She merely rests now…"

"I know that." Elena said, "I was just so afraid when they said…"

Toshi opened her eyes and smiled softly at the two dear faces leaning down over her in concern. She spoke their names in her mind and then turned her head towards Vegeta half an inch. Elena gasped and raised her hand to her mouth, taking in the sight of the second stranger she and Helena had seen this day.

Child! Helena spoke softly in her mind, her voice like a soft snowfall across her mind, soothing and brisk all at the same time, Can it be? Your twin-soul…?

"Grandmothers…" Toshi whispered, "Mara and I…did a double…"

"A double summoning?!" Elena cried, suddenly angry, "Do you know how dangerous that is?! We could have lost you forever!"

"Y-you could have…lost me…today…" Toshi tried to laugh but it came out more like a cross between a choke and groan.

"I'm glad your going to be okay, Toshi," Mara stepped foreward, her green skin seemed to glow and her antannae bouced a bit on her brow, "Because I've come to a decision."

Everyone turned to her and waited, wondering what the odd looking female was about to reveal. She took a deep breath and said; "I am going through the glass. I want to see what Piccolo's demision is like…"

"And I have to get back!" Vegeta said, suddenly worried about his family, "Bulma's going to be sooo pissed!"

But Mara shook her head at him, slightly amused, "No she won't be." She said, "We didn't tell you…I guess it slipped our minds…time runs a bit different here. What seems like several hours to you here, you mate back through the mirror only knows a few seconds have passed…You haven't been gone as long as you might think."

"Regardless," Vegeta said, "I wish to return."

"When Toshi feels better," Elena said firmly, "You may not leave without her."

I had no intention of…He thought as he glared down at the old woman, But, what about Bulma…and his children…? Where do they fit into all of this?