A Hurt Soul, Chapter #08
Summary: Cell’s Revenge on Gohan after he defeats him has catastrophic effects on Gohans mind. Can anyone save him?
Author’s Notes: This was based off a dream I had. Will be A Truhan don’t worry about that though it might take a long time. (I don’t really have that much time to be writing this, especially when you consider the other three fics I’m writing). I have revised it a little since I first posted it elsewhere. Be nice please but do tell me how to improve. Now on With the Fic.
Chapter Title: The Collar
The entire house was in and out of Gohan’s room the next morning waiting for him to wake up. Mirai was nearly always at his side. Piccolo stood in the far corner of the room to observe.
Gohan started thrashing about noon. After a few minutes of flailing legs and arms he finally stopped and opened his eyes. “Ugg, huh? What happened?” Gohan said while looking around confused. Goten jumped up and ran out of the room screaming, “Gohan’s ‘wake!”
Chi-chi screeched and ran straight to him. She surrounded him in a hug. “My baby is okay. You aren’t hurt are you? You are ok right?”
“Yes, mother, I am fine. Will you let me go?” Gohan started to wrestle his way out of his mothers hold. She was trying to keep him in the hug. Gohan jerked his shoulders down and the silver collar ran up against his mother’s arm as she was trying to get a better grip.
Gohan stiffened as a jolt of electricity began running through his body. Chi-chi backed away as she felt an electric shock go through her arm, though it was only a twinge.
Gohan however started whimpering and curling himself up into a ball. Then it stopped as suddenly as it had started. Gohan just sat there panting and shaking. Eventually, some water was shoved into his hands, which he drank slowly and cautiously.
At about that time, Vegeta was being dragged into the room by a certain purple-haired chibi and another very loud chibi.
“Gohan’s ‘wake” Cried Goten happily. As he ran over to Gohan to give him a huge hug, he smashed into the glass of water, which then went crashing into Gohan’s chest, covering him and Goten with water.
Chi-chi went over to them to get Goten out of the room for a change of clothes saying that Gohan had a change of clothes in the closet. Bulma went over to get them because Gohan was clearly not going to be getting them himself. She walked over to him with the shirt and gently got him changed though it was rather slow going due to the fact that he was really tense and shocked from the electricity from earlier.
Gohan blinked, “What was that?” He whispered.
“I don’t know.” Mirai stated nervously. Vegeta walked over to Gohan and asked to look at the collar. He examined it, though he did avoid touching it, because he knew what that would do to Gohan.
“I know what it is.” He finally said. Standing up and talking to Gohan he said “ It is called ‘Rechrere’ in saiyago, which would mean something like a ki collar. It is used to diminish the ability to use and feel ki. It was outlawed decades ago on the intergalactic market.” He shook his head, ‘I don’t know where this guy got one, but I haven’t seen one in a while.”
“Do you know how to get it off? And why on earth would someone use it?” Bulma asked.
Vegeta sat down, still shaking his head. “Usually, slavers would use them to control saiyan cubs so that they could be sold to those who would use them as servants. The slave trade is actually what it was created for. But my grandfather sent out troops to find and destroy all the slave traders and to recover all the cubs. They didn’t get all of them but they caught enough to nearly stop the trade entirely.” Vegeta shuddered “That creature must have found this in an antique shop or something. They aren’t very easy to find, or cheap for that matter.” Vegeta looked rather glum, well as glum as Vegeta could look, but he really didn’t like talking about this subject. “I should be able to get it off, but it might take awhile.”
“Thank you, Vegeta, I just want it off.” Gohan said dejectedly. He didn’t want to have a collar on his neck for any period of time. Besides with the collar on he couldn’t defend himself. Vegeta nodded and sat down next to Gohan to start trying to get off the collar.
Vegeta and Gohan spent most of the night trying to get the collar off, but they had to give a few hours into it. Gohan still had school and Chi-chi was insisting that he go.
