Solarah's POV*

"Ive Been dying for this Vacation for months! Nothing gonna stop me now!" A young very athletic lady chimed loudly to noone while loading her trunk full of camping gear and started running through her invertory. She was going on this camping trip and she was going alone, no one to argue with and no one to wait on , just a sress free, no aggravation, solitary peace with nature. She knew the perfect place too. She had discovered it while hiking with friends of her job last year.

'You Deserve this' she thinks.

'You work too much and never really do anything for yourself and besides, its not like your boss was practically shoving you out door'.

She distincfully remembered her boss saying, "As head of Capsule Corps and your Boss I order you to take a break!"

And that was the end of it.

" But Enough! Nature...Awaits!" Solarah Chimes out loud and climbed into her car.

As she sped off towards her destination she screams, "This is going to be Awesome!"

Piccolo's POV*

All was peaceful as he meditated above the waterfall in his Solitary Sanctuary. "Man I could get lost in that sound forever." The Lone warrior said aloud as he dropped out of his meditation to the banks of the stream that bled from the waterfall. Feeling slightly parched, he knelt down and stared at the green face that started back at him, he then reached in and scooped up the water, bringing it to his lips. the water was so cool and refreashing.

His Peace however, came to a sudden end as he felt a familiar Ki approaching. 'Gohan' He thought as a smirk played at the corner of his mouth as he rose to stand and waited. ' The boy was the only one who ever came to find me just because'. he thought.

Mostly because he partly raised and trained him, 'No boubt the boy wants to train' Piccolo thought as said boy, now man, came into view.

Gohan barely gave enough time to land properly before he was running at full force towards Piccolo.

Piccolo smiled more at his pupil's antics, This was how it always was, Their normal greeting. Play spar, a warm up as you will, before they got into a serious bout.

Throwing a hand up, Piccolo stopped Gohan in mid charge. As much as piccolo would love to continue, he would rather not here.

"Come on, Lets head to desert, I like this place too much for you to loose control and destroy it." Piccolo spoke and took with Gohan behind. When he looked back at Gohan, the brat was actually pouting, "What?" Piccolo asked, raising an eyeridge in confusion.

" I'm not careless Mr. Piccolo." He heard Gohan say. Piccolo turned away and remarked back, "Hmph* all saiyans are careless, but you do show more promise than the others."

And with that they headed off to the desert.

Solarah's POV*

Parking at the bottom of the mountain pass, Solarah figured that it was as far as she was going to get with the car. She got out and threw her camping pack on her back then clicked the car back into it's capsule, she proudly placed it into the front pocket of her pack and patted the pocket for extra measure, then carried on up the terrain on foot. As she entered the dense forest that secluded her destination. She figured it would be about a three hour hike to reach the waterfall, "No problem...Right?" you asked yourself and smiled.

Piccolo's POV*

Hours Later.

" Gohan, You Still have a habit of exposing your back!" Piccolo Growled and struck his pupil hard across his back, Sending him to the ground.

He watched as Gohan returned to his feet and simply looked up at him. 'What's he up to?' Piccolo thought as he eyed him back cautiously.

Suddenly Piccolo felt a Ki behind him. Caught off guard much to his dismay, Piccolo went to whip around and block but before he could bring his arms up to block, Gohan's split form Ki blasted him to the face, sending him hurrling to the ground as well.

Groaning, Piccolo peeled himself out of the ground and stood up. After popping his neck and dusting his gi off, he looked at both Gohans and actually marveled His friend for a moment, then he looked down and snorted as a smile played across his lips.

"Brat! I must either getting weak, Old, or slow for you to gain the upper hand on me like that". Piccolo said gruffly and crossed his arms across his chest and looked back at Gohan. The demisaiyan teen walked up to Piccolo and patted his shoulder with a smile and replied, " Or maybe I had the best teacher."

"Are you aiming for brownie points?, That'll get you know where with me and you know it." Piccolo tried to sound menacing but he knew it fell a little short. Inside Piccolo was estatic that Gohan was surpassing him. "However, I do see that you are getting better at your split multiform, careful that you don't use up too much ki while using it." He schooled Gohan and watched Gohan shrugg and merge back into one.

Gohan stretched and then looked off, watching the sun as it descended closer to the horizon, then all at once turned back to Piccolo, "Well I have to go now, Thank you for training with me Mr. Piccolo, I have alot of exams to get ready for, I'll try to come see you more often ok?...see you" Gohan waved goodbye and then turned, heading off to Mt Pazu.

Piccolo simply stood and watched Gohan fly away, he reminisced about the time he took him from his screeching Harpy of a mother and trained him for a whole year. Piccolo smiled at that 'I'd gladly do it again if I could.' He thought as he headed back to the Waterfall.

Upon arriving back to his place of tranqulity, he quickly realized that someone else was there as well. Piccolo landed at the top of the waterfall and looked down at the human that now invaded his place. With being around enough humans, he quickly realized that this human was a woman.

'Great, Just flipping fantastic, a woman is all this place needs' Piccolo grumbled inside. He had half a heart to just leave, but his curious side got the better of him, and he started to wonder what a woman was doing all the way out here all on her own in the first place. He then drifted soundlessly down the side of the rocks and hid behind one, 'I will simply observe and make sure she doesn't do anything stupid.

Closer observation revealed her features to him, She was a little shorter than Gohan, with reddish brown hair pulled into a braid that hung to the middle of her back, She wore this orange top that left little to the imagination as it showed off her toned stomache, Piccolo could feel a lump rise up in his throat and as she moved about, the muscles would glide beneath the skin ever so gracefully, he had to forcefully swallow the lump then, and he suddenly felt warm, he couldn't stop his eyes as the traveled lower. She wore Tan shorts that showed off her toned yet slender long legs.

Piccolo pulled at the collar on his cape as he felt the heat rise. ' What the hell is wrong with me?' he tought as he watched her pull her pack off and start digging through it. Finally she pulled a canteen from within, she unscrewed the cap and as she brought it to her lips, Piccolo subconsciously licked his own. Piccolo watch the muscles in her throat move as she drank. All he could do at this point was stare.

He continued to watch her from the rocks as she put her canteen back in her bag and start on clearing the area of small rocks and loose limbs. He found himself creeping closer, down to the tree line out of sight. She appeared to be setting up camp, 'Interesting...Wait! what?!, No not interesting, she needs to go!' He growled inside at himself 'I feel Gohan has made me too soft' Piccolo continued in the thought as he watched her.

After he watched her pull various objects from her pact he came to the conclusion that she was indeed setting up camp. She had just finished setting up a place for a fire, then started on her weird shelter. Suddenly she reminded him of when he kidnapped Gohan and forced that pampered brat to fend for himself while he kept and eye, 'Hmph and she comes out here willing to do it on her own.' Piccolo thought as he continued his ever careful watch over her.

Solarah's POV*

After the tent was set up, Solarah scanned the area, and then the sky, 'only a few of daylight hours left, Id better get started on that fire.' she thinks as she headed off into the woods, unknowingly to the pair of eyes that followed her as she walked away.

Piccolo's POV*

When she was far enough away, Piccolo then ventured into her campsite and looked about her things and just simply observing.

He peered into her tent and and huffed at the fact that she would need such a thing, still his curiousity carried him on as he eyed the weird contraption that laid perched up against a tree near her pack. he picked it up and marveled at the lightweight nature of it and ran a finger up the sting that ran taunt from one end to the other. "What is this thing?" he asked as he put it back in its spot and then eyed her pack.

His senses suddenly triggered that she was nearing, so he quickly returned to the treeline and the shadows to hide and "observe".

Solarah's POV*

Solarah emerged packing a small bundle of branches and twigs for her fire and headed for her ring made of rocks. As she set it up she began to feel like someone was watching her. She looked over her shoulder but saw nothing. ' Come on girl, your out here alone, get ahold of yourself' she scolded her nerves and went back to building her fire.

Piccolo's POV*

' Wow she almost seen me!...she literally looked right directly in my direction.' he thought as the peered cautiously then around the large trunk of the tree he was hiding behind and realized that she had went back to what she was doing. he sighed and silently crept away from her and her campsite.

'Maybe if I leave her alone, she will leave tomorrow...if not... then I'm just going to have to make sure that she leaves tomorrow.' he thought as he went back to the top of the waterfall and there he kept a distance eye on her at all times.

Several hours into the night Piccolo was snapped out of his meditation by a weird sound. He instantly flew down to the woman's campsite and searched for her. He found her asleep in her odd shelter but was twisting and rolling around and whimpering like she was in pain.

Piccolo looked at the door of her domed shelter and found the zipper. He then ever so gently pulled it up and opened it just big enough for him to reach into. He softly placed a hand on her forehead and she instantly stopped as if his touch had soothed her somehow. 'What am I doing? I shouldnt even began to care about this person of whom I have never met and yet here I am tring to calm her demons...Something is most definately wrong with me and until I figure out what that is?, I should keep my distance of her.' Piccolo growled inside as he withdrew his hand and Silently closed the zipper back. He took off into the night to clear his mind.

Solarah's POV*

Solarah stretched and yawned as the first signs of morning light crept in through the mesh windows of her tent, Last night was very peaceful and she had three more to go. She slowly un wrapped herself from her comforter and unzipped the door to her tent. The air was crisp and a low fog drifted about the ground. "Perfect time to go hunting." She said aloud and crawled the rest of the way out of the tent to stand up.

Solarah stretched and moaned happily as she felt the sleepy joints and muscles wake up and the occasional pops from her knees and shoulder could be heard. Then she happily bounded over to her bow and quiver, and then headed off into the woods for some rabbit or deer.

'Piccolo's POV*

He watched from afar as she began her morning. It was when she picked up that weird, curved object with the really tight string that he felt a curious urge to follow her...and follow her, he did, if only to find out what she did with it. He found her stalking a deer like a lion would and he watched as she pulled soundlessly from her back, a long slender peice of wood with a sharp metal point at the end, on the other end was red feathers.

' Could it be a weapon of some sort?' he asked himself inside as he crept closer. before he realized it he was literally behind her and was watching every move she made as she pulled back on the string. He quickly took notice, the taunt muscles in her arms as she did this and the shallow breathing and she aimed the metal pointed in towards her prey. She hadn't noticed him yet and he suddenly realized that he was admiring her, instead of trying to make her leave. Without thinking he used his ki at the same time she had decided to shoot, to push down on her elbow and caused her to fire up into the air while using his extremely quick speed to escape without her even realizing he was there. when he got far enough away he stopped and listened for her.

Solarah's POV*

"What the Hell was that just now? I felt something push my elbow down but nothing is there." Solarah spoke as she searched the area for any type of reason as to why she felt something touch her. After coming up empty handed she shrugged and went to find something else to hunt. ' It must be where I have been cooped up in the city for so long that I have forgotten what the wilds feel like.' She thought and strolled away, leaving a humored Namek who was bound and determined to end her happy get away.

A couple hours later she returned to her campsite with three rabbits, and couple of quails and a bag full of berries and nuts. She was set for at least today and maybe tomorrow if she rationed them properly. Solarah sat down on the edge of her camp and skinned, defeathered her quarry, then set to cleaning them and digging a hole deep enough for the remains that she wasn't going to eat, like the inneards. That strange feeling of someone watching her, washed over her again and this time it brought with it a sense of chill. This made tiny goosebumps rise and she quickly looked around, but again, found noone or any thing there so she just shook her head and continued in her work.

Piccolo's POV*

'She did it again...it's almost like she is sensing me but that's crazy...Humans like Krillin, Tein, and Yamcha trained for years to even be able to sense Ki, and she doesn't look like she's trained in Martial arts...let alone be able to sense me even from here up on the waterfall... Coincendence...that has to be it! and when she leaves the campsite again... That's when I will make her leave...for her safety...for being out here where things like to eat her... Tch!' He rationalized as he waited patiently for the opportune moment to strike.

He sat down under the trees at the top of the waterfall and went into meditation while he waited.

At one point he was rudefully broke from his meditation to the site of her almost naked form swimming in the pool that the waterfall poured into.

All he could do is stare at her with his mouth open as she moved gracefully beneath the water's surface. Her hair flowing behind her and her very toned body as it moved without flaw as she swam to and fro. Realization sank in that he was gawking at her, so he instantly growled and turned away with even more resolve to make her leave.

Later on in the evening he was about to go nuts as he waited. Finally when she cleaned up the campfire spot and then ventured into the woods to retireve more wood he found the moment he was waiting for and wasted no time in entering her campsite.

"Maybe if I hide her things, She'll leave," Piccolo grumbled to himself as he strolled by her tent and picked up her pink pack and strange weapon, then turned back towards her tent. A smirk pulled at the corner of his lips as he rose up his hand and sliced through the suprisingly weak material, shredding it, grabbed all her food except the nuts and berries, then took flight, back to the top of the water fall. He found one of the the tallest trees that jutted up above the treetops and hung both her bag and weapon on the branches, then returned to the treeline opposite of where she ventured off to and waited.

Solarah's POV*

"This should be enou...?! WHAT THE HELL?" she exclaimed and dropped the branches and wood at her feet. She stared in disbelief at the conditions of her campsite. The tent was completely shredded and her entire pack as well as her bow was missing.

"SERIOUSLY?!" She exclaimed loudly and dropped to her knees feeling lost and angry.

"OK...I need to calm down...I'm only miles from the nearest civilization with absolutely nothing, the meat is gone and I have no shelter...NOTHING!" she yelled at the top of her lungs. Piccolo sniggered to himself as he waited for the inevitable.

Solarah closed her eyes and took a long deep breath, then another, and another.

"Ok you can do this, use your brain." She coached hersalf as she looked to the sky again, "Its getting too late to try and hike back to the highway, so I'm going to have to rough it for the night."

She then started pulling everything from her pockets and found that on her person she had two paracord bracelets, a knife, a pack of gum and a lighter...Snorting she thought, 'Well, at least I can start a fire, and with the bracelets unbound and tied together, I can tie each end on those two trees and throw my Queen size comforter over it and make a tiny tent...I'll just be sleeping on the ground. Whatever it was that took the meat and my pack left the berries and nuts so I do have alittle food...but first I'll need to move my campfire closer to those trees and get it burning. She thought and got doing just that.'

Piccolo's POV*

Piccolo stood and watched her work. He couldn't believe what was unfolding before his eyes. After she got the fire started she went and pulled a large pillowed blanket from the shredded remains of her shelter and then returned. He watched as she nothed deep grooves in the two trees and pulled off the bands from her wrists and unwound them till she had two ropes and comensed in tieing the ends together to make one and then tieing one end to the first notched tree. 'What is she doing?' he questioned curiously as she walked to the other notched tree and then back to the first. She contined to walk around the two of them about three times and then tied them firmly. Then she threw the comforter over it and placed rocks about the edges and thats when he realized that she had created another shelter for herself. He watched as she sat down on the ground and nibbled on the berries and nuts in the now failing light. He felt bad now for some reason that was unknown to him, Maybe it was because instead of her just leaving, She continued to invade his space. Soon she was crawling inside of her tiny shelter and Piccolo could tell moments later that she was asleep.

Piccolo silently ventured up to her sleeping form and studied her more closely 'Against the odds that was giving to you, you still managed to camp here...Perhaps there is more to you than I thought', Piccolo thought as he studied her face, her hair fanned her face and she using her arms as a pillow while laying straight on the ground. Her features were soft and gentle in the fire light. All he could do was stare at her, she sighed and he rose and eyeridge and leaned closer to her. Her scent began to fill his senses and he instinctfully inhailed, bringing her scent deeper with in.

'She smells like ...Flowers...the purple ones that grow around here', He thought as he found that he couldn't tear his gaze from her.

He watched as her eyes danced beneath her eyelids, 'She appears to be dreaming', Piccolo thought as he leaned back away from her and slowly rose to his feet. He would leave her be for now. However as he turned to leave, a whimper came from her and he turned to look at her. She had curled into a ball and was now trembling. He looked to the fire and noticed that it was dying, so against his better judgment he picked up a couple of the branches and placed them the tiny flame and used his Ki to help the flame catch the wood. After it started to flicker across the new wood, Piccolo then flew off to the top of the waterfall. He took pity on her, if she was bound and determined to be there, then so be it. 'Perhaps in the morning she will go back to where she came from and then this little fiasco can be forgotten.' He thought as he continued to watch her sleep from afar. Before to long he decided to meditate.