Author's Note:

This story is currently being revised, all chapters with names instead of Chapter 1, 2 ect. have been revised in some way shape or form. Mostly things added, but rarely i take things out. Thank you and enjoy.

Mistress of Wishes

Chapter 1: Introductions

The silence caressed her like a tangible thing once the last of the screams had faded into the echoing atmosphere. The unnatural stillness stretched on, and though it had been only a few moments it felt like hours to the immobile figure as the soft hands of the wind caressed her dark violet tresses. A particularly strong gust flung the strands carelessly over the cloaked shoulders of this creature as the shade entertained thoughts of feeling the hands of the recently deceased in the intangible air, but she soon dismissed it. No spirits lingered here, for they had all been absorbed. Taken before their time by a creature that was not meant to be.

Callously she shrugged her emotions away, none of these thoughts were her concern. Slowly the cloaked silhouette began slow, smooth movements towards the ominously quiet city where, only hours before, life had been bursting forth.

The shape of this creature's bodice was lost in the infinite folds of a concealing cloak, dark against the relatively pale tone of the beast's skin. As the setting sun ceased its dramatic illumination, the creature could at last be deciphered as female, a delicate jaw-line, violet, accented eyes matching her tresses in both depth of color and beauty. The calm was not broken by anything so sloppy as a foot fall as this incarnation of physical beauty made her own way to the city.

Abandoned clothes twitched forlornly in the breeze, the small hisses they emitted seeming to speak to the female.

Left us…Alone…Abandoned…

The mantra drifted in and out of existence as deep violet eyes scanned the terrain, seemingly unmoved by such a tragic scene. The incidents that took place here were none of her concern. The only reason this cold being had ventured to this plane was to escape those who sought her out. Her hunters had seemed hesitant to pursue her to this slightly familiar place. Not that their cowardice was any fault of theirs, this area made even this creature of ice tense in anticipated worry. Whatever had done this…would it still be hungry? Would it make an attempt upon her life as well? Or would it add yet another hunter to the chase? Mentally the beastess shook herself.

Do not be ridiculous, why would it waste time and energy chasing something it would never catch? This thing may be ravenous, but it is far from stupid. Something strange flashed across her senses and slowly the female halted and turned her head toward a tall, slender viridian colored creature, with black patches waylaid across the skin, and a chiseled chest. Something along the lines of a beak served as its mouth, and its eyes were a bright magenta. A long, lithe snakelike tail tipped with a wicked barb ejected from two seeming wings, almost cockroach like in their build. The aura surrounding the creature was stupendous, and the female had to rethink her previous assumption of him never catching her.

But then, what more could he possibly want, with all that power?

"Out for an evening stroll, are we?" Questioned the creature in a low, husky voice. Her eyes did not leave his as she sized up this potential opponent. His gaze held hunger in it's depths and she felt a sudden chill.

"One could say that, if one wished." Replied the cold-seeming female as the wind picked up once more, tousling her cloak and pulling at her hair before calming once more into a gentle tug. The green tail twitched slightly and she tried not to physically flinch.

"I suppose one could say a lot of things. But what do you say?" A smirk was plainly evident on the creations beak, and though she was still uneasy the female could feel one tugging at her own lips as well. It had been such a very long time since she and humor had met.

"Yes. A stroll." Why not? She added sarcastically within her mind as her once wary eyes danced with amusement. A gleam caught in the magenta orbs of the creature across from her, and its tail twitched once more.

"Tell me, how did you escape my notice? You do not seem to be the type to hide." And I would not be so sloppy as to overlook a meal. The female could hear the unspoken words in his voice as it's beak parted in a malicious smile.

This creation presumes too much. Again the corners of her mouth twitched upwards in an amused grin. A record: two humorous smirks in less than thirty seconds. She really ought to visit Earth more often.

"It is impolite to judge a stranger." The female pointed out, allowing the hilarity to color her once cold voice. The unkind smile upon the lips of the Creation broadened.

"Well then, please forgive my rudeness and allow for introductions. I am called Cell." He bowed mockingly to the warming beastess before him.

"I am called many things, but my original name is Icés." She returned the gesture only more genuinely than the one called Cell. "I assume you wish to devour me, much in the fashion of these unfortunate souls?" A delicate hand emerged from the infinite folds of her obsidian cloak and gestured gracefully to the empty clothes.

"Oh you are a clever one, aren't you?" Cooed Cell. "I take it you will excuse yourself from the meal?"

"No. I believe I wish to stay, if only a little longer." She replied, "if, indeed, you wish to consume me you shall not find it easy." The young female shrugged out of the cloak, which fell harmlessly to the cement and revealed a long flowing dress which matched her eyes and hair. The dress hugged her upper figure tightly and released its tight embrace somewhere around the midriff, and hung to conceal the remainder of her body.

"Fancy wear, for a stroll through the city." The two of them exchanged humor once more, but the female did not deign to reply. Instead she took up a fighting stance and allowed her smirk to plaster itself more prominently across her features. Without warning the Creation called Cell charged at Icés who swiftly leapt to the side and brought her leg around, only for the viridian creature to dodge her kick and part his beak in chortling laughter as he glanced up his opponent's skirt.

The female's mouth drew downward in an annoyed frown, but she made no comment, instead concentrating on dodging the next attack thrown at her. Unfortunately she was just a little too slow and huffed out a quiet exclamation as he made contact with her, before bringing her foot around once more and plowing it into the side of this creatures head. He flew a little ways before catching his feet on a nearby sky scraper and propelling himself at the female hard enough to crack the building behind him.

Again the beastess leapt upward, her eyes narrowing as the green creature called Cell followed her, a strange type of ki surrounding him as he matched her leap and then overtook her.

He possesses flight? How…? She dismissed the thousand questions raised by her mind, and smirked on the inside. This planet offers many lovely mysteries, I am glad i chose to return, however briefly.

The female sensed something brush like a feather across her mind, barely able to register above the rushing blood in her ears, but there, nonetheless.

All at once she straightened, effortlessly dodging an aerial kick and leaping a surprising distance back and away from the one called Cell. She was loath to leave such an entertaining adversary, no matter what the cost to her own well-being. But she had stayed too long. The hunters drew near.

"Enough of this playful banter. I thank you for your distraction, and hope to meet again." The female stooped slightly to whisk her cloak from the ground and don it once more.

"Stay safe, One Called Cell." In a swift motion her energy level shot up and a hum began to vibrate throughout the air, the space just in front of her began to move as if heat waves were rising fromt he asphault, and a golden light slowly appeared, like a fiery rip through the worlds. It extended to an elipse twice the size of the female, and she quickly stepped through and disappeared, the portal seeming to wink out of existence behind her. Leaving a very befuddled but no longer bored Cell in her wake.

The android stiffened in excitement as he, too, began to sense the slightly above normal energies comming his way from the walk, and slunk back to blend easily into the shadows as, not two instants after the strange female left, several men approached. The men wielded a strangely glowing and vaguely spherical device. They seemed to be arguing quietly amongst themselves, and Cell's sensitive ears picked up their conversation.

"She was here hardly thirty seconds ago! Grab the Rift, and open it back up! We'll get that bitch this time!" Growled a man dressed in strange brightly colored and loose fitting clothes. The three cronies behind him pressed several buttons on the eerily glowing object that pulsed with an unknown power. A strange screeching began and the golden portal reopened, only now it was a horrid parody of what it once was. It was half the magestic size and with the edges worn, the very center the color of sickly overcooked eggs and the outsides like withering bannana peels.

Sensing an oppurtinity to feed on slightly more powerful than average ki, Cell whipped his tail around and stabbed the largest of the four while they were distracted.

Idiots. Chuckled the android silently as the other three released startled screams and rushed through the decrepit portal, disappearing the same way Ices had.

"Very…interesting…" Purred Cell his memory banks racing to record this day, the information might come in handy after he has absorbed the androids. He would like to meet that female again some day when he ruled the universe and teach her a lesson in true power. His beak quirked up in a cruel smirk as he disengaged his tail from the clothes of the man, grunting irritably and swinging his tial from side to side to dissuade the clinging fabric from his barb.

Finally having achieving his goal, the andriod's trademark smirk returned, and he turned to continue his quest for the androids.