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Chapter 5: The Horror Continues

I smirked at Goten's lifeless form in front of me. It was so obvious that he could not see it coming: the painful stab of the katana sliding through him. Even though my mom would be coming home in an hour and a half, I had to cover up the devious crime that I had just committed.

I picked up the dead child by the scruff of the neck and jumped out of the open window. As soon as I found an open area, I held Goten's neck firmly, staring at his pale and lifeless face. Somewhere deep inside of me, a faint voice was inquiring, "Why the fuck would you do this shit to your little brother, Gohan? This is not what you were meant to be." However, that voice was too faint and quiet that I could not hear it, so I just ignored it. With the other hand, I held it close to Goten's face with the palm facing outward - energy encircled forming a small energy ball. My eyes widened menacingly as I shot the blast straight at Goten's face, vapourizing him completely and causing ashes to rain down on the earth below.

With that deed done, I realized that there was nothing else for me but to climb back inside my room and rest for the next day.

However, just as I was starting to turn around, I heard a loud roar of a helicopter above me. Shit, I thought to myself. It sounded as if someone got called in, but how would they know where I lived? I did not know what to do next: run off like a fucking coward or stay and destroy the stupid bastard who was about to put my evil actions to an end. My heart was racing as beads of sweat started to roll down my forehead.

Then, the decision started to become clear. I may have been a hybrid, but I still had Saiyan blood no matter how much of it was within me. There was one option I had: stay and fight the fucking bastard who was trying to confront me. There was a good chance that whoever it was was not a Saiyan but a mere, weak human being. I chuckled to myself as I thought, This is going to be easy. In an attempt to fight whoever it was, I drew out one of my katanas that I had brought out with me just in case someone would confront me just like they are in this situation that I was facing at the moment.

Sure enough, the helicopter landed in front me, and a young girl, who seemed to be close to my age, climbed out of its window. This young girl was tall and thin and had short, black hair. She wore a pair of black fingerless gloves, a pair of black shorts, a pink tee-shirt, a white jumper, and a pair of black and yellow boots. There was look of vengefulness in her eyes as she stood with her hands on her hips.

"What the fuck do you want, bitch?" I asked as I poised the katana in front of me, ready to defend myself at any given moment. She closed her eyes and smirked. "It is that simple, ninja," she replied confidently, "I am going to make sure that your evil actions are finished once and for all!" I winced at her reply. How the fuck did she know that I was the one who attacked those numerous cities and towns?

"Who are you, you bitch?" I snapped as my hands tightened around the hilt nervously, "How the fuck did you find out that it was I who slaughtered those innocent people?"

"First of all, ninja, stop calling me a bitch or you will live to regret it. My name is Videl, and it was my cleverness that found out that you are the one who attacked those poor and innocent people. Think about it, you bastard. Your sword for instance: the ninja who massacred in numerous towns and cities had a sword exactly like it. From here, I can see that there are bloodstains on that sword. Want to know where those bloodstains had come from? The blood from innocent people, you dumbass! Also, you have the same clothes as that ninja. You see, those two facts are clear and simple: you are the ninja who attacked those innocent people, and I'm going to turn you in even if it kills me."

I growled at her furiously. Her cleverness would turn out to be a problem for me. It did not matter anyway - I was still going to rip her to shreds once she would try to arrest me. No one that weak would stand up against me, a hybrid that was so experienced with fighting and was an expert when it came to agility. However, there was something about her that was holding me back. Why couldn't I attack her?

"Well, ninja," she asked while she was going into a fighting stance, "are you going to fight to hold your ground against me or surrender and allow me to take you in? What is it going to be, you fucking murderer?"

My eyes showed a sign of confusion. What was happening? I wanted attack her and then kill her with one sweep of my katana, but why can't I do it?

You can't. You are so weak near her. Damn that voice! Now, I can hear it loud and clear. Now, it is time to repent and accept the consequences. No! I must kill her! This was my revenge against my father for all he had done to me! Once I kill more people, my revenge will be complete. You are so blinded by the past, Gohan. It is time to open your eyes and repent.

Shit, no matter what I said and tried to do, I could not fight away this voice that kept on getting stronger and more audible every time it spoke. Once you have accepted whatever she is about to do to you, everything will become clear to you. The end of the line is now, Gohan.

I finally managed to block out that weakling voice that was telling me to go back to where I was before and snickered like an insane freak at the young woman before me, still having my katana poised for battle. "If it is a fight you want then it is a fight you will get, bitch," I told her as I wrapped my head cloth around my head.

At that moment, I could sense fear in her. She knew what was going to happen. From the head cloth, I could see her stepping back with fear in her eyes every time I walked towards her, katana raised for a deathly strike. "Good bye, bitch," I whispered as I ran towards her. She screamed a blood-curdling scream and shut her eyes tightly as she perished under a single, deadly sweep of the sword. To get rid of the bloody body, I fired a weak energy ball at the body and then fired a kame hame ha wave at the helicopter, disintegrating the body into ash and dust and the helicopter into heaps of rubble.

Crash! Lightning flashed around the landscape as heavy rains flooded the atmosphere. I stood over the rubble of the aircraft, watching for anyone else who had dared to challenge me.

That was until an energy wave caught me off guard. "What the fuck!" I screamed as I dodged the blast that came my way. Realizing that the blast had been shot from above, I looked up towards the sky. There, ready to shoot another Big Bang Attack, was Vegeta. "You!" I shrieked as the other Saiyan sent yet another blast at me, which I had dodged immediately.

"I saw what you did, Gohan," Vegeta accused as he grounded himself. "I thought you would have surrendered to your emotions and to your inner-voice, but you chose to go the hard way. Prepare for battle, hybrid! I am going to do what your father should have done when he was still alive." He had a point: my father even tried to kill me when he was still alive and abusing me. There were even a couple of times when he had almost succeeded. However, I wasn't about to let that get to me.

"Cut the shit, Vegeta! Even if I hadn't massacred many towns and villages or killed those people, my father would still kill me when he was still alive. This is to make him pay for everything that he had done to me! All the emotional and physical scars that he had inflicted on me! He must pay for the times when he had fucked me up for the past 12 years! I had warned you, Vegeta, to never get in the way of my revenge! But you never listened to me, didn't you, you fucking weakling?"

Taking offence to my insults, he charged at me, screaming, "How dare you say such shit!" With lips curved into an evil and insane grin behind my headcloth, I took off into the sky with an idea in mind. Surprised, Vegeta followed suit, cursing and throwing energy attacks at me.

I led him to his home city, West City, and stopped in mid air. Smirking, I knew that this was a terrific battleground where innocent people would be killed in the crossfire of our battle. Chuckling, I grounded myself in the midst of towering buildings. An innocent passerby, who was accomplishing a crazy task of walking in the storm, stopped as soon he saw me. Drawing my sword, I turned around and, with a quick motion, drove it through his chest.

Once he grounded himself seconds after, Vegeta was enraged when he saw the body at my feet. "Traitor," he hissed under his breath, "What kind of sick bastard would do such a thing? Having a battle in my city—what are you trying to prove, Gohan? You insane son of a bitch!"

I stuck a hand in one of my pockets, pulling out a capsule, which contained the container of kunai that I had prepared a few months ago, and threw the capsule up into the air in front of me where it had exploded. I opened the container and fastened a few kunai stars to the clasps on my chest, and then I took a few more out into my hand.

With a devious grin forming on my face, I asked Vegeta if he was ready. He got into a ready stance, nodding and making a beckoning gesture with his index finger.

In several quick motions, I threw the razor-sharp stars towards Vegeta in a sideways motion, but he dodged those. I did not care about that however, because I had a plan. This was going to be my final strategy of taking care of my father's old rival once and for all. I threw some more at him, which he had dodged swiftly.

The second after a few more tries, I released the container of smoke bombs from its capsule and threw one at him so quickly that he very narrowly dodged it--it exploded a couple of inches away from him, letting out a gusts of purple-gray smoke that had blinded him instantly for a short time. As he was screaming and covering his eyes while the smoke was clearing, I teleported behind him, took out one of my katanas, and stabbed it through his back. He gasped and cried in agony and pain as the sword's blade ran through his chest and blood trickled from the corners of his mouth. "You…bastard! How…could…I lose…to…a no-good…insane…freak like you?" He hissed as he grasped the blade of the sword that was sticking out of his chest.

"Think about it, Vegeta," I replied as I breathed into his hair and brought a hand towards his back, forming an energy ball from the palm, "My hatred towards anyone makes me stronger. See you in hell, Vegeta." In that instant, the complete energy ball shot out my hand, disintegrating the only remaining survivor of the Saiyan race.

(The following is not in Gohan's point of view)

The storm continued to rage on as Gohan edged his way along the streets of a now damaged West City. He saw a few teenagers in front of him trying to get out of the rain, but when they saw him they shrieked and hurried for cover. However, he did not really care about them that much for he did not feel like killing anyone anymore.

As soon as he reached the heart of the city, he took the same katana that he had used to kill Vegeta, Videl, Goten, and that passerby with and shoved the bloodstained blade through his chest. Even though it hurt so much, the once tenderhearted hybrid, which had suffered a tremendous amount of hurt throughout the past 12 years of his life, never showed his agony as he collapsed onto the rain-drenched concrete in a lifeless heap, blood mixing with the pounding rain.

A/N: Well that is all, folks. I hope you enjoyed that story. Sorry that things are going quite slowly with these stories as I am working on other things at the same time, like those videos for instance. Check them out on youtube under the channel name, "kanekoaikawa". In the meantime, I will do my best to get the next chapter of "Torn in the Darkness" up for you all. So until then, take care everyone and have a happy new year.

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