Family Time (part 2;PL)

[Serori Yakedo-Satsumaimo]

The next morning Serori woke up earlier than everyone, she needed to in order to stop her parents. She lay in bed, waiting on the rest of her family to wake up.

It wasn't long before they did, the Redthew family always got up early. Serori heard them all get up, talking, cooking, then eating breakfast. They wouldn't wake Serori up, as she had just flown in to Earth. So she lay there in peace until she heard her father and brother leave the house, and her mother bustling around. When Mrs. Redthew entered her room to change into some work befitting clothes, Serori knew it was time to act. She didn't know how much time she would have to start her plan, or if the two males were at the dojo yet allowing the plan to be safe. But it had to be initiated now.

Serori tiptoed out of her room. She lacked the girth of the Redthews and thus was able to move about silently. She went to e each of the windows in the house, placed her hand on the metal latches, and used super concentrated ki to melt the latches. There was no way anybody would ever be able to get through those windows. Serori proceeded to do the same to all of the doors that led outside, except for the back door. Nobody used the back door, not for years. It was almost melded shut from the lack of use, it would take a great force to push it open.

When Serori had finished, she hid in the kitchen, waiting for her mother. She soon came in,and busied herself around the kitchen, cleaning this, putting that away. She never saw Serori once, which was just what she wanted. Serori knew people only saw what they wanted to see, so she could have hid slightly more visibly and still not have been seen. Mrs. Redthew was finished with her busy works, and reached for the door. When the handle didn't turn she tried again, and again, till she put her whole weight into it. Serori heard the door creaking under the strain, and knew it was time to reveal herself.

"Hello mother. Are you going somewhere?"

Serori' mother jumped. She turned towards Serori, visibly shaken. "S-Serori,I thought you were still asleep! Why don't, uh, why don you just, just, your brother and father are waiting for you in the dojo, and..."

It was Serori's turn to interrupt her mother. "I heard you and dad talking last night."

"I d-don't know what..."

"You are planning on leading an attack force against my Lord Suki, while i was asleep, though not necessarily in my bed."

A look of panic briefly played over her face. "Y-you must be m-mistaken, I was j-just going in town."

"I cannot allow you to attack Lord Suki. He is my employer, and he will slaughter you all like animals! You mustn't do this!"

"Meredith, that is exactly why we need to get rid of him. He is a danger, a threat. He must be stopped!"

Serori stepped up to her mom, and wrapped her arms around her. It had been many years since she had gone by that name. It brought back many memories. "Mother, please don't do this. I love you, father, and my brother. I don't want you to die. I'll buy you all pods, you can all go live somewhere nice, and forget about Suki...please..."

"Meredith, we can't."

"Mother, I beg you. Take my offer." Serori began stroking her mother's hair.

"I told you, we can't."

Tears streamed down Serori's face. For a moment she was quiet, then she whispered, "Then you leave me no choice...I'm sorry." Her hand was right beside Mrs. Redthew's temple, and before there was a chance for any reaction Serori shot a small needle of ki through her mother's temple.

Tears poured as blood spattered across Serori's clothes, on the kitchen tale, and ran down her mother's blank expressionless face. Serori lay down her mother's body, and started to clean the kitchen. She grabbed a sponge and daubed the bright red blood off her mother's face. She changed her mother's shirt into a clean one, she'd be damned if she was going to put her poor mother into the ground all bloody.

While she was cleaning, Serori realised that her parents really hadn't called her Meredith once the entire time she had been home.They had called her Serori. But how would they know about that name? She hadn't chosen it till several months after arriving on Vegeta. And her family had no television set...Or at least not when she had left. For as Serori continued tidying up, she saw a new T.V. Serori had no way of knowing what the Earth news had to say about Suki, but it couldn't be anything good, especially not after the destruction of Central City. And, upon further inspection, she saw her parents had an interplanetary receiver. They must have been watching the vegtean news. Serori deduced that this was how they knew about her Vegetean name. 'I hope they don't believe all the lies they must've seen on T.V.' Serori thought, but so far all the evidence pointed to the contrary.

She picked up her mother's body, felt the stiffness in her limbs already setting in. Serori needed to bury her soon, while there was still flexibility in the body. She walked to the back door and peered at it. The door looked sturdy enough, solid. It was definitely going to take some effort to get it open. With her mother still in her hands, Serori took a step back and rushed the door with her shoulder. It didn't budge. All she'd mange to do was just injure her shoulder. Serori let out a curse and set her mother's body down. She took a couple of more steps back this time, and ran at the door once more, this time kicking it. It splintered off the hinges, with barely any sound, which was all as well, Serori didn't need the rest of her family's attention just yet.

Tears still flowed freely as she grabbed a shovel and started digging into the ground. It was a little clearing slightly off the house grounds that Serori used to go to when she was little, and play pretend. Now it would be her mother's burial site. Once the hole was big enough, Serori used Ki to clean up the edges, make it smooth. She gently lay her mother inside the hole, closed her eyelids, and folded her arms over her chest. Serori kissed her forehead, and gave a last farewell before pushing the earth over her. Serori gave a quick "sermon," saying a few words to her mother that needed to be said. Afterwards, she went back inside, to do a little meditation. She hoped that her dad wouldn't have to be like this...maybe he would take her up on her offer.

[Serori Yakedo-Satsumaimo]

After spending an hour on meditation, to clear her thoughts and mind, Serori changed into something that would be better to fight in. She did not, however, change her shorts. They were fine to wear, and permitted movement. She left the house out of the backdoor again, and picked a rose from near the door. She walked over to her mother's burial site, and planted it next to the now filled hole she had dug, before proceeding to the dojo.

Serori's father and brother were both already in the middle of a spar, like she thought they would be. She took off her shoes in front of the door, bowed, and then walked in. Waiting on the wall, she watched them both fight, until her brother conceded. They bowed to each other, and then Serori stepped forward.

"Good morning father, good morning brother."

"Good morrow to you as well!" The male duo chorused together. Serori noted that they really did look just like each other, it was uncanny.

"Shall we begin a lesson?" Serori asked. Nothing in her voice betrayed her actions from earlier this morning.

"Yes, let's go ahead," Alex replied, but his dad spoke up before they could begin.

"No, not just yet. Serori hasn't even warmed up yet." Mr. Redthew was looking at Serori, but trying to look out the window as well, almost inconspicuously. Serori noticed, but didn't show that she did. She also noticed that he had again called her Serori. But maybe she could still convince him...

Mr. Redthew pulled out two training dummies, one for him and Alex to practice on until Serori was warmed up. She dropped to the floor, and did her usual push-ups and sit-ups, then went into her warm-up form. Once she had finished, she turned to her brother and dad, and they turned to her. She could feel their power, and, though stronger than the average human, they were each about half as strong as Serori.

Before the trio bowed, her father spoke up again. "Serori, what is that red stain on your pants?"

She kept a straight face, looked down, pretended to try to wipe it off. "Oh, I must have dropped some strawberry jam on myself this morning. I'll was it off when we're done."

Her father's expression changed briefly, too quick for Serori to notice, though she did see him glance out the window again.

The three of them bowed to each other, before taking up defensive stances. One of them would have to make the first move, though all of them were second move people. Serori took the initiative, and shot a blast of ki at her father, before back-flipping at her brother, and bringing her foot down at his shoulder. Both of them blocked her, her dad sending two more ki blasts at Serori, and aiming a punch at his son's ribs, while he was distracted with grabbing Serori's foot and throwing her to the left. He took the punch, and aimed a well placed kick at his dad's arm.

Serori rolled when she landed, and reached for her katana. Then she remembered that she'd left it in her room. Instead, she sufficed with shooting seven ki blasts, three at her dad, and four at her brother. Her dad had taken the kick to his arm, and had tried another punch at his son's head this time. Alex ducked, swept-kicked his dad, tripping him. He turned to Serori, just in time to dodge two of the blasts, shoot down one, and took the fourth. The three aimed at Mr. Redthew missed completely. Alex returned fire with a ki wave, which Serori rolled out of the way of.

Their dad had sent a kick at Alex, who jumped over it, before getting back up. He attempted to grab Alex in a headlock, but Serori had run up between them, and kicked them both hard in the chest. They both went flying into the walls. When they stood up, they glanced at each other, nodded, and both went kaioken. This put them together at a collective powerlevel of 3 times Serori's base. They both rushed her, Alex leg-sweeped, and her dad slammed his elbow into her stomach. Serori lay on the ground in pain, before going kaioken herself. Equal to them now, she kicked upward from the ground, pushing herself up with her hands, and landed the kick on her brother's chin. She twirled around in time to see her dad glance out of the window again. Taking the chance of his distraction, Serori grabbed her dad's arm, tripped him, and then threw him at her brother, who was just getting back up. They both went out of Kaioken, so Serori did as well, to keep it fair.

The fight continued for the whole day, before Mr. Redthew, panting, held up his hand. It was dark outside, and he said that today's training was done. Alex was going to go back into Satan City, to stay there for a few more weeks. They said goodbye as he departed from the dojo. After Alex was gone, Mr. Redthew asked, "Serori, have you seen your mom today?"

Without skipping a beat, Serori had a reply. "She said she was sick. Why do you ask?"

"No reason." Her dad had a thoughtful expression on his face.

Just as they were about to go towards the house, Mr. Redthew turned towards Serori, activated his kaioken, and pressed her against the wall. Serori had no time to react, and didn't want to fight back.

"What did you do with your mother?"

"Nothing, dad, I told you, she said she was sick."

"Where did you get this strawberry jelly from?"

"It was in the pantry, some must have fallen when I was making toast. Dad, what is wrong with you?"

Her dad's eyes flared. "Meredith, we don't have any strawberry jelly, we stopped buying it after you left. Now tell me the truth. Where is your mother?!" He pressed Serori harder into the wall. She decided to give him the truth.

"Dad, I heard you talking to mom about taking an attack party against Suki. I knew that if you did, he would slaughter you all like animals! I had to stop her dad, I had to! She wouldn't listen to reason, I offered her a space pod, for all of you, so you could all live somewhere else, forget about Suki! I'm sorry dad, but...I had to, I had to do it! Suki would have killed her if I hadn't."

Her dad's grip lessened, but Serori didn't try to escape. She needed to save her dad. "You...you killed my wife. All because you're in love with a stupid tyrant alien." Anger flared again, and this time, he slapped Serori. She didn't make a sound, just took it. It was less than she deserved. Her father's voice was shuddering. "I'm going to lead that party against Suki, and we will rid the Earth of him. You may think he will defeat us, but not with as many trained warriors as we have."

"Father, he can wipe you from the face of the planet, with just a thought." Serori was slapped again.

"You will not back talk me, do you understand Serori? You have fallen into the trap, I thought I raised you better!"

Serori let out a heartbroken sigh. "Please dad, you can't attack Suki. Just...look, I'll buy you and Alex both space pods, I have enough money for it, look." She took out 2000 Zeni, and tried to hand it to her dad, but he pushed it away.

"You disgust me. You are no daughter of mine." He spat at her feet, and walked away. Serori slid down, crying. Her father had abandoned her. She'd killed her mother. Both her real parents were dead, she was mentally unstable...Is this really how she wanted to live...

Her eyes caught something bright in the sky. It was a full moon. She stared, how beautiful it was...

Things started to change inside her, fur started growing, she was getting bigger.

'No, no, no! I can't!' She tried to force the oozaru down, but it was to no avail. Within a minute, she had transformed, and let out a horrible roar.

'No, no, this can't be happening!' Serori thought. Then realised, she had thought. The jungle beat was there, it was pushing for control, but if she pushed back, maybe she could control it.

Her foot moved of its own accord, smashed the dojo. 'No! I need to control!' She moved her foot back, tried to back away. Then her dad ran at her. The drums in her mind pushed against her conscience. She lost control briefly as her dad flew up at her, and swatted him down. He crashed into the house, and the jungle instincts made her charge up a beam. Right before it fired, Serori regained control, and aimed it at the sky. She didn't want to kill her dad. It wasn't right, this wasn't how it was supposed to be!

the two minds fought over control, crashing through the trees, almost hitting the house. Her dad flew at her again, while she was in control of her mind, and tried to talk to her.

"Serori, I know you are in there, don't lose control!"

Serori tried to speak. "Dad, get...away!"

"You did this once when you were young, I know how to get you out! I'm going to have to knock you out, but you must stay in control!" He started to charge up a Ki beam, activated his Kaioken. Serori saw her brother drive back up, car skidding to a halt.

"Dad...NOOOOOOOOOO!" With that shout, she batted him out of the way again, right before losing control, and shooting a beam straight in front of her. Her dad was out cold, and her brother ran to him. They were both standing right in one spot, as the giant monkey foot came down at them. Alex looked up, gasped, and rolled out of the way, taking his dad with him. Serori missed both of them, and gave a shout of anger. She shot another beam at the house, and Alex flew up at her, shouting angrily, throwing everything he had at her. Serori reached out a hand, and grabbed him. He was struggling, unable to move.

She squeezed him, and he didn't pop so much as go splat. This brought Serori's conscience back to the front.

"ALEX, NO!"

She opened her hand, and saw the remains of her older brother. She let out a gasp, and dropped him. Meanwhile, her dad had regained consciousness, and flown up behind her. He shot another charged beam at her head, and Serori fell forward. Almost blacking out, the Oozaru turned, and fired a beam of ki at Mr. Redthew. He was unable to react in his weakened state, and was obliterated immediately. Serori's mind blacked out, and she fell asleep.

[Jorlaxl]

1150 Power level awarded.

Hopefully.

[Geurin]

Hmmm
We are very off once more on grading. This time I got 2000.

Keep in mind that character development is often as important as combat experience.

So even it again? A nice 1500