" Destiny's Road
"
Written By: Isabel
Disclaimer: I don't own the guys.
Rating: NC17 Violence, Language, LEMON
Arcatica was destroyed by King Vegeta. Years later
the planet sends its finest warrior to destroy King Vegeta, but the
warrior falls in love with one of the enemies.
CHAPTER 15: THE RESCUE
Kylar heard Kuilian's mental call; they were near now, just on the
other side of the shimmering defensive shield. Kylar turned his slate
gray eyes up to the dark night sky. A light night breeze gently blew
his blond hair into his eyes.
*Kuilian,* He thought silently, *Give me a moment and I will have
the shield down.* He paused, *I will need to talk to you once Arianna
is safe, at your earliest convience, please?*
He felt Kuilian's acknowledgement. His troubled gray eyes continued
to stare up at the night sky. It had only been a few minutes ago that
Iterias' young squire had brought him the terrible news. Kyetta was
comatose. She'd been severely beaten, her jaw had been broken and
her small body was covered with ugly darkening bruises.
Kylar sighed and turned to face his second in command, "Birtah?"
He called.
An Arcaticain male with one eye scarred over stepped up in front of
Kylar. "Yes sir?" The male asked gruffly.
"Take the troop over to the control tower field grounds, start
exercise pole position 4, I will be over in just a moment. There's
something inside of the control room I must take care of." Kylar
said, turning to look over at the glittering defensive shield.
"Is it anything you will need help with sir?" Birtah asked.
"No Birtah," Kylar said. "I should be able to handle
this on my own, thank you anyhow."
Birtah nodded his disfigured face and walked away, to lead the troop
over to the control tower. Kylar sighed and turned to follow him.
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*It is done,* the thought entered his mind and Kuilian
turned his forest-ocean eyes to look at the shimmering field. It was
shimmering no longer, the shield truly was down.
Trunks came up to stand next to him, "Is it down?" He spoke
out loud, in benefit of the others. The rest of the group's eyes turned
to look at them. Vegeta and Gohan moved up next to them. Krillin looked
up from where he and Android 18 sat against a tree.
"Yes, it's time," Kuilian said, he turned to look at everyone
else. "We must go now, Kylar will not be able to keep the sheild
down for long." He looked back at Trunks' friends. "Some
should stay here, to keep on eye on our backs, just in case anything
should go wrong."
Trunks turned to face his friends. His father would insist on going
along, you couldn't keep him out of a battle. "Krillin, could
you and 18 stay here? And perhaps you too, Goten and Gohan. Kuilian,
my father and I should be able to handle this by ourselves. Besides,
the less of us there are, the less the chances of us getting caught."
"And what about me?" Pan asked.
"Stay here, please Pan. They would rip you to shreds if they
caught you." Trunks said, refusing to look her in the eyes.
"That's if this isn't a trap to begin with," Vegeta mumbled
beneath his breath.
"It?s not Father, and you know it!" Trunks glared at his
dad. "Are you ready?" He asked, looking over at Kuilian.
"Yes," He answered and moved ahead, Trunks right along with
him.
They walked through the threshold, were the force shield had been
just mere moments before. Kuilian turned to watch as the non-Arcaticains
passed through. Nothing happened, the shield was trully down. He left
out a breath he'd not known he'd been holding.
*We're through,* He thought.
He felt the silent acknowledgement and just moments later the shield
crackled back to life, with them on the other side. *No turning back,*
he thought.
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*Iterias?* He heard his name called in his head, he'd
been dozing, but was now fully awake. *Yes,* He answered.
*We are through,* He heard Kuilian's voice in his mind. *We're on
our way to get Arianna, please make certain the way is clear.*
Iterias nodded his head grimly, things were not going well in his
camp. *First Arianna fell in love with the enemy, and then the brutal
attack on Kyetta, his brother's mate?.What was going on in his encampment
anyhow?* He wondered darkly, looking up at the ceiling of his quarters.
He punched a button on the arm of his chair. "Celeste?"
He called, waiting for the communications technician to respond. She
didn't disappoint him, a few seconds later her groggy voice responded.
"Yes sir?" She queried.
"I want the Delta wing evacuated and all it?s guards moved to
the Western perimeter. Sound Code Axtron Alarm, I have reason to believe
that the encampment may be under attack." Iterias laughed to
himself, *How true that is, but the attack is not coming from the
Western perimeter...far from it.* He made sure to have all guards
pulled from the wing that Arianna was being kept in and that all available
warriors were being routed to the Wester perimeter, far from where
the actual invasion would occur shortly.
*It is done,* He thought silently to his brother. *The way in should
be clear, as should your excape route.*
*Thank you Iterias,* Iterias was shocked by this unknow voice. *I
thank you for all you have done for Arianna and myself.*
Iterias instantly knew to whom he was talking. *Trunks?* He queried,
but already knew the answer. The reply was an affirmative. *Good luck
to you my brother.* Iterias said. *We will hold off the attack as
long as possible but once it is known of Arianna's excape, the warriors
will want justice. I will not be able to hold them back for to long
after that. You must get as far from here as possible.* He received
an affirmative response again and broke the connection after that.
The less he knew the better?
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The door opened on its well-oiled hinges, not making
a sound. Arianna looked up bleary eyed, the sudden harsh light wreaking
havoc on her sensitve eyes. "Block that light, quickly!"
She heard a familiar voice shout. Immediately the harsh light was
diminished and Arianna could make out the silhouetted shapes of a
group of people standing in the doorway to her cell.
"No," She mumbled, fearing that it was Pinath returned to
finish what he had started earlier that day. "Please no more."
She pleaded. Her body convulsed with silent sobs, her mind cried out,
seeking the comfort of Trunks? . *Hurry, please!* Her mind shouted.
*He's come back and brought a group with him....I won't survive this
again, I can't.*
"Shh," The familiar voice hushed, a gentle hand stroked
her cheek, attempting to wipe some of the grime and dirt from her
face. "It's just us, no one else. Your alright my love."
Arianna turned her face so she could look up into the face of the
speaker and her heart almost stopped.
"Is it really you?" She whispered, hoping beyond hope that
her eyes and senses were not playing tricks on her and that the apparition
standing there before her was real. "Are you real?"
"Yes," Trunks answered, "And we're getting you out
of here." He said as he started sawing away at the bindings that
held her hands and feet fastened to the disgusting thing that was
trying to pass as a bed.
The sob that erupted from her chest tore Trunks apart. *If only I
had listened to her in the first place she wouldn't be here now. Wouldn't
have gone through the shit that she had if only I had listened to
her.* His mind cried.
Arianna lifted her free hand to caress his cheek, *Shh,* her voice
flooded his mind like a cool balm. *My love, it wasn't your fault.
I shouldn 't have hid the truth from you. If you are to blame than
so am I.* A single tear fell from his eyes and fell, landing on her
face and mingling with the tears that were flowing down her own cheeks.
*It wasn't your fault, don't blame yourself, please.*
The last of the bindings came free and Trunks picked her up from the
'bed' and turned towards his father and Kuilian. "Let's get the
hell out of here!" He said, heading out the door. The two fell
into line behind him. *This was way to easy,* Trunks thought to himself.
*Way to easy. From what Kuilian had told me, it should've been a lot
harder than this. Were are all the guards at?*
*Called away.* Her soft voice flowed through his mind. He looked down
at her, cradled in his arms. A smile split his face then. She smiled
back up at him. He noticed, outside of the dark and dank room that
she had been locked in, that her entire body was covered in darkening
and diminishing bruises. He swore softly underneath his breath.
Setting her down on her own feet momentarily, he took his jacket off
and wrapped it around her nearly nude body, then he picked her back
up and carred her out of the immense Command Ship and towards the
shimmering Defensive Shield.
*Kylar?* Arianna called out with her mind.
*Yes my lady,* his brusque voice echoed in her mind.
*We're ready, drop the shield again.*
The shield dematerialized in front of them. Trunks stepped through
with Arianna in his arms, not looking back, but he knew his father
was following him, Kuilian would stay behind, to go and find out what
had happened to his wife.
In the distance, he heard the shouts of the Arcaticain Army, waiting
for an enemy that wasn't there. *Did they truly realize that the shield
had just gone down, or do they just think it was a power cycle?* Trunks
wondered to himself, he didn't give much thought to it though.
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Arianna sighed a breath of relief. Finally after all
that she had been through, she was away from that evil place. Finally.
Bulma was pouring a smelly liquid she called *Hydrogen Peroxide* or
something like that, on some of the far larger bruises and cuts. The
ones that had drawn blood. She winced and nearly swatted at the Earth
woman, "That shit hurts!" She growled, almost purred.
"It the only way you know it's working." Bulma said in her
no argument voice.
Arianna glared at her but said nothing further. She turned her head
to find out where Trunks had disappeared to. He was sitting over near
his father, the two were talking about something important, Trunks
kept on looking over at her and would quickly look away again. *Men!*
She thought.
*I heard that!* Trunks said, his voice caressing her mind. She blushed
and smiled to herself, but Bulma must've caught the blush and secret
smile cause she bent down to ear level with the young Arcaticain female.
"You love him?" Trunks' mother whispered in the alien cat's
ear.
Arianna turned her forest-ocean gaze up to her mother-in-law, she
nodded her head, "Yes," she confirmed. "Very much,"
her soft voice dropped to a whisper. "I'm sorry for all the pain
I've caused. I never meant for any of this to happen."
Bulma smiled, actually smiled at the young woman. "You make him
happy, that's all that matters to me." She winked at the cat,
"And we know it wasn' t you that attacked his sister."
Arianna gasped, looking over at where Bra sat talking to a dark haired
girl and a blond. Pan and Marron, her best friends in all the world.
"I will kill Pinath for what he did to her!" The young cat
vowed, looking directly into Bulma's eyes.
"It's not your fight anymore," She heard his voice over
her shoulder and spun around to face her mate. "Don't concern
yourself with it Arianna, you just concetrate on getting better. You
get well, Father and I and the others will take care of Pinath. For
everything that that bastard did to both you and Bra. He will pay,
you'll see."
Arianna paled, her eyes nervously darting from one face to the next.
"What are you planning on doing Trunks" She asked. "You
can't go up against him, not near the encampment, it would be suicide.
You'd all be killed."
"We're not going to do anything yet. We're going to wait. At
least until your better." Trunks said, smiling down at her.
She looked around the meadow clearing, at each of their faces again.
The tents set up just outside of the clearing, within the safety of
the woodlands. Three charcoaled holes burned into the earth with circles
of stones surrounding each one, the campfires. Although completely
burnt out now. It was like the camping trips she used to take with
her brothers and parents on Arcatica, except then there had been no
danger of being discovered, the danger of fighting. The child within
her must've sensed her fears for it moved, kicking her hard. She winced
in pain, dropping her eyes down to the ground, covered in soft grass.
"Are you alright?" Trunks asked, seeing the pain that momentarily
passed across her face.
"Yes," She lied. "But shouldn't we get moving? Staying
here is dangerous. What if they are looking for us right now, every
second that we are not moving is a second closer they will get."
Trunks sat down next to her, taking her hand into his. "Your
brother said he would hold them off for just as long as he could.
You must trust in him and believe they are still waiting for an attack
that will never come. You must believe that they do not know you are
missing yet."
She silently nodded her head. "I will believe because I want
to."
"Good," he said and kissed her on the forehead. "Now
then, Mom is going to finish disinfecting those cuts, so why don't
you be a good girl and hold still for her, huh?"
Arianna glared at him, "Sure, but only if I can use this vile
stuff on you next!"
Trunks laughed and walked away. "Not on your life, you'd enjoy
it way to much."
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They had gone this way, he could smell the stink of
their Saiyan blood. Arianna was with them too, he could smell her
too, the sweet smell that her body gave off, it was almost intoxicating.
A growl escaped from deep within his throat. *She will be mine, and
once I find them, I'll force him to watch as I rape her and remove
his bastard child from her belly then I'll force her to watch as I
kill him!*
The ground moved quickly beneath his measured gait, his huge cat feet
moving with unnatural speed over the forest floor. The battalion of
twenty-five soldiers that had accompanied him on the hunt moved just
a stealthily as he did. They would have the traitor and her coconspirators
in a matter of hours, and then they would all pay for what they had
done, especially the lavender haired youth. That one would die before
sundown!
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Arianna sighed in her sleep, Trunks arms wrapped securely
around her. He still did not know of the fact that he was to become
a Daddy, but she would tell him soon, when his mind wasn't so full.
Something tickled at the back of her mind and she pushed it away,
trying to go back to a peacefull sleep. The nuicense continued, becoming
more urgent. Something was going to happen, something bad.
"Trunks," She whispered, gently poking at the sleeping form
of her lover. He groaned something and pulled her closer to his chest.
"Trunks," She shook him gently. Again he just mumbled something
and stayed asleep.
*TRUNKS!!* She yelled into his mind.
That woke him up. "What," he asked, groggily grinding his
fists into his sleep-dazed eyes. "What's wrong?"
"I don't know. It's just a feeling I have, like something bad
is about to happen. I think we should start to pack the camp up."
She said, the worry evident in her tone.
Trunks left the warmth of their tent and went to rouse the rest of
the troup. With in half an hour they had most everything packed away
and was just preparing to move when the first energy bolt smashed
into the tree near to Arianna's head. She jumped back while screaming
at the same time. Trunks turned from the tent he was just putting
into it's sheath to see what had made his mate cry out and he saw
twenty something Arcaticains in Feral form just emerging from the
far side of the meadow.
The lead form, a huge hulking black male turned his dark eyes towards
Trunks, his mouth just starting to open wide. "Look out Trunks!"
Arianna screamed, she herself going to Feral Form.
Trunks dodged at the same time a blinding bold of energy grazed past
his head. He quickly whirled around to face the giant panther, sending
his own valvo of energy blasts at the cat. The huge beast easily dodged
the tiny missiles and took aim at Pan and Bra.
Arianna quickly intercepted, taking the blast meant for Pan and Bra
right in her front shoulder. She went down hard in the dirt and stayed
down. Bra ran over to her immediately. "Arianna! Arianna, are
you ok?"
"Yeah, I'm fine. Just got the wind knocked out of me, that's
all." Arianna answered, slowly getting to her feet. Her forest-ocean
eyes sought out the large black cat. He stood not eight feet away,
with his back turned towards her, fighting agaist Trunks.
A Mystic Energy Disc flew past her head and embedded in a near by
tree. The Arcaticain warrior who had sent the dangerous projectile
called it back to him and sent it forth again, this time aiming for
Gohan. "Duck!" She yelled to Gohan as she leapt over his
head and caught the destructive disc in her mouth. She flug it back
towards it's master and watched as the warrior took off running in
the opposite direction. If he had been in Feral Form he too could've
caught the disc once she had flung it back to him, but he was stupid
and was using his human form. He could only call the Disc back, he
couldn't catch it if someone else flung it to him. Stupid man anyhow.
"Arianna watch out!" Soemone screamed from behind her and
she turned around just in time to see an Arcatician in Feral Form
hyper-jumping towards her. *Two can play this game.* She thought,
as she too started to hyper-jump towards the unaware male. Within
two jumps she was underneath him and brought her head up to summersault
him through the air. Where he landed, she didn't really care.
Trunks glared at Pinath. "So, finally me meet." Trunks said.
"Yes, you Saiyan filth. This will be the last time, cause once
I'm done with you, they won't know what you use to be or who you were."
Pinath said, growling low in his throat the whole time. "I'm
going to enjoy this, once I' m done with you, I'm going to take Arianna,
and it's going to be nice and slow so she can enjoy everything that
I'm going to do to her." He spit in the dirt, just shy of hitting
Trunks' boots. "She won't even remember you once I'm done with
her."
"That's what you think." Trunks shot back. "She can't
even stand your touch. It repulses her. Almost as much as your looks
repulse me!" With that he lunged towards Pinath, sending a power
burst towards his face and quickly somersaulting over the startles
cat's back. In one smooth motion he landed heavily on the surprised
beast's back. Pinath began bucking, like a wild bronco, trying to
dislodge his unwanted passenger.
"You wouldn't make a very good Bronco, you know that?" Trunks
quipped, kicking the enraged cat in the stomach.
Pinath roared, the sound deafening. "I'll kill you once I get
you off my back you disgusting excuse for life!" he raged, swatting
at thin air.
Arianna watched as her mate and Pinath fought, she couldn't help the
smile that came to her face. Pinath was becoming enraged, *Careful
Trunks,* she warned, *It won't be long before he upgrades to the Rage
form. His strength will increase as will his stupidty.* She started
laughing but quickly quit as Pinath did exactly what she had warned
about, he up graded to the Raging Feral Form.
His muscles bulged beneath his leathery skin, his body increasing
in size by four times. *Oh Shit!* Arianna swore beneath her breath.
*He's still not match for me,* she said to herself snidely.
Pinath swung his head around, gripping hold of Trunks calf. Trunks
screamed as he went flying through the air, landing near where his
father was just dispatching of a pissed off Arcatician male. "How
nice of you to join me son." Vegeta said, looking down at his
son lying in the trampled grass.
Arianna watched as Trunks' sister unleashed her own energy ball towards
the beast that had just literally tried to take a bite out of her
brother. "Bra!!" Arianna screamed, quickly grading up to
the Raging Feral Cat, her feet carrying her quickly towards the young
girl.
Trunks couldn't understand what was going on and watched as the woman
he loved barreled down on his sister. It wouldn't be till after it
was all said and done would he understand what was happening.
Trunks powered up, sending all of his power and energy into one ball
of energy so powerful it would shred anything it came into contact
with. He sent it flying towards Arianna before she could reach his
sister, a single tear coursing it's way down his cheek.
He watched as the ball of energy reached her at the same time she
reached Bra and flung her to ground, taking both his energy ball and
the one that Pinath had sent towards Bra directly to her exposed stomach.
She cried out in pain, her body reflexively clenching into a little
ball, trying to protect her baby. Bra groaned and crawled out from
beneath Arianna's limp body, she had returned to her human form, a
dark red mark beginning to form on her exposed stomach.
Pinath began to laugh, the sound mocking. "I hope that kills
your wretched bastard child!" He continued to laugh, until he
fell to the ground, a knife sticking out of his back. Pan slapped
her hands together, a smile playing across her lips.
"What did he say?" Trunks asked, walking up to Arianna's
lifeless form. "My child? Did he say my child?" Trunks asked,
looking around to all his friends. Hoping someone would have the answer.
"Yes." The voice came from out of the depths of the woods.
"She is carrying your child."
A tall man stepped out of the depths of the forest, his dark blue
eyes staring into Trunks' bright blue ones. He ran a hand through
his dark brown hair. *I am Iterias, Arianna?s older brother. I am
only sorry we have to meet under such terrible conditions my brother.*
The thought popped into Trunks' head and his gaze dropped down to
where he held Arianna's limp form in his arms.
"She can't be dead," Trunks moaned, his voice thick with
unshed tears. "She just can't be."
"She's not, but is severely hurt. She powered up like she did
because she knew how much power the cowardly one had put into his
attack, the only way the child would survive was for her to up-grade
the way she did. She wasn ?t counting on your attack though."
"I didn't understand what was happening, I thought she was going
to attack Bra." he hung his head sadly, "After alls that's
happened, I should' ve known better, should've trusted my heart."
The tears began flowing from his eyes, coursing down his cheeks to
land on Arianna's closed eyelids.
"Will you allow me to take her back to the camp so she can be
tended too?" Iterias asked.
Trunks quickly looker up, his eyes narrowing. "NO!" He shouted.
"Not after alls she's been but through there, no way!"
"Most of what happened, happened because of the cowardly one.
He influenced many. He wanted Arianna but she wanted you, he became
furious and began twisting the stories of her involvement with you,
mostly so they would suit his own purposes. The truth is coming out
now and most of my people would like to forgive you Saiyan's for what
happened long ago, and they would like to ask for your forgiveness
in our actions against you and Arianna." Iterias' dark gaze took
in the surrounding group.
"It is not easy for my kind to do what we are about to do."
Iterias said, turning his gaze back to Trunks.
Trunks looked up at him, "I know this to be true. Arianna was
a proud one, is a proud one." he looked over at his mother and
father. Bulma nodded her head, Vegeta just glared, but he didn't shake
his head no, that was a good thing. "Will the baby be alright?"
Trunks asked.
Iterias didn't answer, already he could feel the child's life-force
ebbing. Possibility was if they didn't get back to the camp soon,
both mother and child would die. Iterias promised himself he would
not let that happen. "You will have many questions, I'm sure.
I'll answer them when we get my sister to safety."
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