BY: NikkiD
EMAIL: Tanela13@hotmail.com
AUTHOR'S NOTE:
Ohayo! It's me again! NikkiD (You know, like Mickey D for McDonalds). Great news! I am opening a huge fan fiction site in the summer! It will take a while but I plan to have it finished by the end of August. If you have been keeping track of my fan fiction then you would have read "Achy, Breaky Heart", "Clothing Catastrophe" and "My Only Love". I hope you have been enjoying my fan fiction so far.
This fan fiction is, of course, is about Dragon Ball Z and like the others has my fan fictional character, Tanela. In all my fan fictions she plays Piccolo's zany wife. This short fiction is a Drama. It is staged just after the battle with Cell. In this fan fiction you will read about how everyone (including Tanela) reacted to the battle with Cell and the sudden death of Goku. I had a hard time with this one. I'm not so good at writing dramas as I am at writing comedies and satires. The toughest was writing the dialogue between Trunks and Vegeta. Talk about a headache! Not that I hate writing about Vegeta, it's just that he can be such a complex character sometimes. *Sighs* Oh Well. I hope you enjoy it. See ya!
~NikkiD
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Far up in the sky, high above the Earth, flouted the grand palace of Kami's Lookout. Standing on the edge and gazing downward was Tanela, wife to Piccolo, the last Amazon alive. She stood there, a sentinel as she glared downward. Tanela's powerful armor was dented and scratched and her eyes dead, filled with feelings of loss and sadness. Tanela shook her head in disgust and remorse, her long blue braid of hair dancing in the wind.
Goku was dead. He sacrificed his life again in a desperate attempt to save the earth. And now he was in the Next Dimension, now unable to be wished back. Tanela snarled. The battle with that damn Cell has cost Earth's most valiant hero. Because of that disgusting monster Gohan and Chi Chi were in shambles. Tanela stomped her foot. Baka!, Tanela thought to herself, Why did you have to die?! Why? Tanela sighed, shaking her head again.
Tanela and all of Earth's heroes felt the reeling loss of the kind-hearted Saiyan in they knew so well. Everyone expressed their grief and shock in different ways. Gohan cried while Piccolo placed his hand on the boy's shoulder, his own head bowed in grief. Krillyn also cried, his sobs making his small but lithe body shake while Number 18 stood next to him, her beautiful but unemotional face surprisingly solemn. Vegeta and Trunks where downcast and Trunks's eyes gleamed with unshed tears while Vegeta seemed to have lapsed into a deep silence, not answering to anyone. Yamcha, Tein, and Chao-zu disappeared into the wilds again but not before shedding their tears upon the desert sands. Everyone grieved. Tanela herself has been crying herself to sleep, her husband gently holding her as her tears trickled down her cheeks in a nonstop stream.
Thank goodness Piccolo was spared! Despite the guilt she felt for thinking such a thing, Tanela was deeply relieved to have to be morning Goku's death, and not her own husband's, although her heart went out to poor Chi Chi and Gohan, for this would be the second time they lost dear Goku.
Tanela let her mask fall for a moment to smile, glancing back to see Piccolo flouting in the air twenty feet away from where she stood, meditating. He had just returned from Gohan's house. He had spent the past six hours there, talking and counseling the boy. As though he felt her gaze Piccolo briefly opened his midnight eyes and smiled back at her, his eyes glassy. Tanela knew that Piccolo would miss Goku in a way that not even she could understand. Piccolo and Goku where once enemies, sworn to kill each other. But now all those feelings have been forgotten, and the two had fought together, side by side. Never again would Piccolo see that face, that face of pure innocence. All because of that monster, Cell. Tanela snarled to herself, turning away. Damn that monster to hell!
Her eyes gleaming once again with remorseful tears, Tanela looked up to the sky, it's color mirroring the color of her eyes. "Oh Goku... if you only knew how much we miss you." Tanela whispered to herself, the tears slowly seeping down her face.
"I think he does." said a deep voice she knew so well. Tanela turned to see Piccolo standing a few feet behind her, his face etched with pain and sorrow. Ever since Tanela could remember Piccolo has always been the type to conceal his feelings. But when he merged with Kami he had slowly begun to open up a bit more. Show more, feel more. Tanela had to admit that she was grateful.
Tanela wept quietly, her lips trembling. "You think so?" she asked, her musical voice a mere whisper.
Piccolo nodded. "I know so. I doubt Goku will go through even one day when he won't miss us Tanela. We will always remember him."
These words were meant to comfort but Tanela felt as though her very soul would shatter into a million pieces. "It's not fair! Why did Cell come here anyway?! I thought we gave up fighting after Freeza!" Tanela screamed hatefully, her power level soaring as it always did whenever she became angry.
Piccolo for a moment hesitated, still unsure on how to act in these type of situations then ignoring his stubborn pride he put a gentle hand on her shoulder, his touch calming her a bit. "So did I. It would seem there will never be a end to it."
Tanela moved closer to Piccolo's side, feeling him tense up and then after a moment relax again. "It will never end." Tanela answered, her voice filled with dead certainty. "I will miss Son Goku. He had so much honesty and innocence in him."
Piccolo looked down to his feet and sighed. "He was noble. I envied that."
Tanela nodded, closing her eyes as she saw flashes of Goku's face in her mind. Sobbing heavily now Tanela hugged Piccolo close, hearing his hearts beating. Tanela sniffed and hugged him more tightly. "Will you miss him?" Tanela asked quietly, knowing he would but wanting him to say it out loud.
Piccolo held his wife and looked upwards to the clouds, sighing. "We will all miss Son Goku."
THE END
That's it for Part One!