Post by Cato on Apr 19, 2023 1:57:47 GMT -5
DESTRUCTION IN THE DEPTHS
| Cato's PL: 97,000 |
How?
That question had echoed in Cato's mind for months. How had Lottus, the most untamed of Saiyans, become a Super Saiyan so easily? How had it not been her, or Vocado, or even the erstwhile queen Amara? How had it not been the absentee Taori, or any one of the great warriors that had been scattered across the galaxy? How had it been the man she had been within inches of defeating? The man she had pledged her allegiance to, only to change her mind at the last moment..? How had it been Lottus? Why had it been Lottus?
Her stomach twisted with guilt. It was to Lottus that she had pledged her loyalty. It was Lottus who she followed. She remembered the eve of the invasion, when she spoke with Brumal--treated with Vocado. She remembered her anxiety on the eve of battle, her exhilaration when the battle began. And then, somehow -- someway, she strayed. She abandoned her obligations, turned on the man she had named friend--and fought instead for the status quo.
It had cost her months of time in quiet recovery. It had cost her lungs, which still needed the aid of a crude machine to fulfill their basic functions. Most importantly, it had cost her the truest friend she had ever known. A friend who could no longer count on her, who could never name her friend against. A friend she knew would kill her if he had the opportunity. It had cost her Lottus. Yet, beneath the depths of the old city, whose name had been lost as easily as the dead that lingered beneath its ruined streets--a pair of tired eyes open. Purple eyes, beneath a mane of unruly violet hair.
Cato had stewed too long.
A blast of yellow-white ki shattered the skyline in the old Tuffle capital, as a sleeping warrior finally awakened--bitter, but not broken. She clasped the hilt of her blade and touched down on the city-street, ignorant to the war that yet raged upon the planet Plant. She didn't know whether it was Lottus, or Vocado, or Amara, or even Taori who deserved her vengeance
All she knew was that Plant thirsted, and her blade had scarcely tasted blood.
Cato stops being AFK!