DBI The begginings; Chapter 11
Pikkoro-kun wa.....Osoroshii desu ne? Himegami-chan wa, tsuyoi desu...
(Piccolo,.Its scary here, isnt it? Himegami be strong...)
Himegami and Piccolo walked down the frightningly
long hall, as its corridors and winding passageways seemed to
take them on a neverending journey straight to hell. It was damp
and musty, and smelled of sweat and tears...Something obviously
was sacred about the shrine though,...becuase when they began to
see the very sillouhte the door, they were in complete awe. They
saw before them the most spectacular thing they had ever seen in
thier lives; It was a giant crystal door, pure red, and shining
like the very suns that gave the planet life.It was perfect in
every aspect.......even fit for the gods,....or goddesses....
"I don't like it here,.." wispered Himegami under her breath. "Its so homley and miserable....dismal to say the least.."
"Mmmhmmm,.." muttered Piccolo under his breath.
"Sou desu.."
As they finally reached the door, they noticed an NEF, dressed in a red robe, on the side of the door. Piccolo and Himegami stopped in thier tracks.
"Uhmm,.sir..is this the shrine?"
The NEF looked at Piccolo in surprise.
"THE SHRINE? YOU REFFER TO THE MOST HOLY TEMPLE AS 'THHHHEEEE SHRINE?'"
"-?!--he didn't mean it, sir!" said Himegami, getting in between the way of Piccolo and the very angry NEF.
The guard was infuriated, and to be honest, non of the children new exactly why...
Taking his hands, he reached out for the children and caught them by thier heads.
"LET GO OF ME!" said Piccolo, trying to fight off his grip.
The NEF kicked the door open, while dragging them behind. The door rattled and boomed through the silent crowd of Nameks worshipping thier deity. As they were dragged down the corridor,.the rows of bowing nameks stopped and watched the two children getting carried and led down to 'her'. Himegami's eyes darted wide open, as thousands upon thousands of tiny, sunken eyes followed her down to her doom. When the NEF got to the end of the eilse, he dropped the two children, and took his hands upon thier faces, forcing them to look up at a statue of what looked to be an angel..
"BEG FOR YOUR FORGIVENESS!" said the NEF preist,...forcing his fingers into the heads of the scared children.
"uuhnnnnnnn....forgive us..." they said in shattered unison
"SAY IT LOUDER! YOUR TWO SOULS ARE FOREVER DAMNED HERE UNTIL YOU BEG FOR FORGIVNESS! NEVER TALK TO HER IS SUCH A SIMPLE AND AVERAGE FASHION! SHE IS YOUR CREATOR, YOU SIMPLE ASS!"
"WATASHITACHI WA MATTAKU DESU! YOUSHA DESU!!" they said, shaking and trembling.......
"SAY IT LOUDER!" he said, kicking them onto the ground, making them crawl to thier hands and knees...
"WATASHITACHI WA MATTAKU DESU!"
"Feh!" he said, slapping their powerless bodys onto the ground...
"With attitudes like that,..you will not stand a day here..." said the preist, as he left the room in a flutter...
As thier pain stricken bodies lurched to get up, the trainees that were previously praying began to gather about and murmur about the strange account that they had just witnessed..
"That never happened to ME...those two are trouble makers....." they would say.
"Poor souls,..the others like that were sent to the terrible trio (to die)...." others yet would say,..feeling some kind of sympathetic sorrow for the newbies.
Namek children came up to them, pushing thier way to see the children that were damned....
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"WHAT HAPPENED HERE?" said a voice, piercing through the anarchy.....
.....it was Apollo......
As he came up to the battered bodies, he shook his head and smiled a bit, chuckling to himself..
"Ally-oop!" he said, hoisting them onto his shoulders.
Children flocked around like wild geese to see what had happened.
"Who are they? Are they okay? what happened?" Questions tumbled around Apollo until they seemed to choke him.
"Nothing to see here,....pray that this will never happen again....." said Apollo, grimicing at all the people who had come to look and laugh at others pain.
"What a ton of LOSERS!" said one portly child, who was elbowing at his friends.
"Don't laugh at a scar never felt,.." said Apollo, as he carried them out into the health ward...
As they sat up on the hard, metal table, chills would randomly play across thier spine, like a million Hiroshima bombs going off inside them.
"Don't worry about it," said Apollo. "It happens every once and a while,.......Situation; some newbie screws one thing up, and they are seen as a rebel,...it'll wear off soon enough..." said Apollo,..preparing bactine onto leaves.
"I doubt thats ever happened before...." said Piccolo,.feeling sorry for himself and STILL not knowing what he did wrong...
Apollo's faint smile faded into a bittersweet frown.
"Oh,.it has..."
"Oh yeah? To who...." said Piccolo, mildly mocking Apollo.
As he slammed the bottle of bactine into the counter, he slumped over, leaving the room in complete silence..
"........like me............."
Himegami stood up slowly and bowed at Apollo,.making the faintest sound of rustling....
"Sumimasen, Apparo-san"
Apollo smiled. "Its okay,..it happens to the best of us...." Apollo took the leaves and turned toward Piccolo and Himegami in a sort of happy stuppor.
"Okay,.so which one of you are cut?"
Piccolo looked at his arms and head. "Nothing here.." he said, smirking as if trying to poke fun at Apollo.
"Himegami looked around, and noticed the tinyest splotch of purple blood on her hand."
"I have a little one," said Himegami..pointing at the minor cut.
Apollo smiled devileshly.. "Good,.then I can show you why I HIGHLY advise NOT getting hurt here..."
As he took on of the leaves,.he delicatly placed it on Himegami's wound....
on direct impact,.Himegami's eyes widened as she stayed completly frozen.
"OUCH!" she said, taking the leaf off and clasping her hand.
"What a baby!" said Piccolo. "A little cut and you go insane!"
Himegami clawed at Piccolo's cheek,.leaving a thin line of pierced flesh behind her.
Apollo smiled. "Well,.now YOU'LL know why too," he said as he slapped a leaf on his face...
"SON-OF-A-BITCH!" said Piccolo, tearing off the leaf and pressing on his face till his skin turned light green.
Apollo smiled. "Its made of consintrated bactine,...works like a CHARM for getting infections away,.but it hurts like non other,...I advise you not to use it too often...."
HImegami rubbed her hand. "I'll say,........" she said.
Apollo smiled as he placed the bactine on the counter.
"Well," he said, scratching his back, "I suppose your ready to go to the temple and do it RIGHT this time?"
"Do what right?" said Piccolo and Himegami.
Apollo sighed. "The preist there is very pushy about respect, and very devoted to Hi shoujo. He thinks that if people do not pay the DEEPEST of respect to 'her', then those people are damned. I know its silly,...but he's really bitchy about those things..from now on, say 'may we enter the ever holy shrine of Hishoujo-sama? It will get you many miles in life, believe me."
"That's stupid!" said Himegami, stomping her little feet in the health ward.
"I know," said Apollo, "But this is run by Comunisum,so whatever is said by the boss, is put into action around the training camp."
Oh, said Piccolo, as he walked out of the ward, following Apollo and Hime down to the temple.
"Oh,..its YOU two again.." said the preist, with his hands folded across his chest.
"Um...uhn...May we enter the ever holy shrine of Hishoujo-sama?" they said, looking at the floor and scuffing thier feet on the stone floor.
The preist smiled. "So, you little deamons DO have respect... Keep it that way...." he said, slowly opening the doors again.
Apollo followed them inside of the empty temple. Light spilled through the ellagent stained glass windows, as the image of the hi shoujo projected onto the floor.
When they got up to the statue, they could barley lift thier guilty heads up to look at it.
Apollo took thier shoulders.
"Now kneel and pray...silently..."
As they kneeled, they thought inside of thier heads about how ridiculous this was...It was a STATUE for crying out loud,....Its not like it was god or anything......or was it?.......
After a minute or two, they stood up. "Now what?" said Himegami.
Apollo stuck thumbs-up. "Your done with praying...Now you have to go into training....."
"Oh really? That dosen't sound too hard!"
Apollo laughed...
"Yeah, dosn't SOUND too hard,....."
"-?! What does THAT mean exactly?" said Piccolo, looking stearnly at Apollo,..tapping his foot out of annoyance.
"That means that you shouldn't be TOO cocky around me,..little boy...."
Piccolo looked angerly at Apollo. "Hey, asshole! You dragged me in here, made me go into this uncomfertable,..thing....and embarrased me when it wasn't nessicary! I think that YOU shouldn't be so cocky!"
Apollo frowed his bittersweet face again. "Whatever. Just come with me, and don't screw up anymore,..or you will experince a hell WORSE than embarrasment and bactine....