Credit for Dragon Ball series goes to Akira Toriyama
before you read chapter 1 I just want to say that I wasn't going to make the character Maple into a demi shinjin at first
but I was going to make her 100% human, but new ideas came
and well you know ideas do tend to change.
one day on planet earth of universe 6, a car breaks down in the middle of a the road
"oh come on! you can't be serious! of all days you had to breakdown, it had to be today."
a muscular aged man with a mustache said as he look under the hood of his car
his daughter who was listening to some music on her I-pod
but stop when she heard her old man in a bad mood
"dad is everything okay? is something wrong with the car?"
after she asked, he let out a heavy sigh
"I'm afraid so Maple, I'm afraid the old girl just gave out...now how are we gonna make it in time to sell all those eggs, not to forget the vegetables and fruits."
hearing this Maple felt sorry for her father but then got a idea "I could take them dad! I don't mind and plus if we don't get them there soon they could go bad."
Maple's father looked at her while cleaning some sweat from his forehead with a small cloth while holding his straw hat in another hand
but before he answered her request, he place the cloth back in one of his pockets and place his hat back on.
"I'm not sure Maple, you remember the last time you carried that much...you scared the visitors who came to our little home town some years back,
those who have seen you carry that much before will not be as phased as those who aren't use to it and it might be best to just call your uncle
and have him come over with his truck and-"
but sadly his words never were heard by his daughter who was now carrying three big baskets that were too huge for her, down the road with no problem
"that girl...let's hope no outside folk are here this time, we can't afford another freakout like last time."
a half a hour later, Maple made it on time to meet with the man that runs the shop that buys her families eggs, vegetables, fruits and at times meat.
"well if it isn't Maple, how are you this fine day? wait where's your father, doesn't he normally drive here with those huge baskets?"
"yeah but the car broke down so I volunteered to carry them here."Maple said with a smiles at the old man who has been a friend of her family for years
"well at least this time those people from the big city didn't catch ya doing something like that this time, I tell you when you first did that when you were just a baby we didn't know what to think a two year old picking her own father up like that shouldn't be real."
"dad thinks it was the milk mom drank, thinks it is the reason why I came out kind of abnormal."
after she called herself abnormal, the man chuckles "well call it what you will, but you are something else that brought joy to friends and family."
something else that brought joy was a understatement, it might of been cute and funny when she was little
but now that she was a young woman it was less cute and more scary
she couldn't even get a guy to like her because how she was
and she was going to head to college but knowing that her father wouldn't allow her to go to a place so far away
where she couldn't go two minutes without showing that she is not normal was out of the question
then her father decided it would be best to stay home and take a online college but every one she tried to enter had rejected her for some odd reason
she never even went on a date before,
having guys scared of her or not looking at her like she was a girl but just one of the boys was a little tiring,
so she kind of gave up trying to make the local boys see her as a girl
though the other reason why no guy took any real attraction to her was because she didn't look human enough for them
she was born with light green skin, her hair was very long and a white color (but at the moment it was black because she had dyed it black),
her eyes were a light blue, her ears were something off of a fantasy book or video game or heck even a anime
it look like she had half elf ears, those half elves that you read about or see on a video game or anime and they are the offspring of a human and full elf
she made sure to hide them by keeping her hair down at all times, as for her skin...the reason why it doesn't look green at the moment
was because she uses orange tan for her skin to make her look a little bit more normal
her parents didn't know why she was born like that, before her mother was ready to give birth
and she was only a week pregnant at a time
she almost had a miscarriage with her
but after she ate a small golden apple she found,
she was fine and was feeling much better but...even though she was able to carry Maple through the next months,
it didn't save the other baby...
Maple's father said that the doctors said that her mother was suppose to have one baby but after the miscarriage
Maple's mother took a bite of the golden apple for comfort food after losing the first baby,
and when the the doctors check her one last time before they would let her go home
they had found out that there was another baby, and it must of been a twin of the one that she lost.
they made sure to help her as well as try to keep her from going through another miscarriage
so she wouldn't lose the twin of the one she had lost already.
Maple couldn't help but feel bad that she lost her twin, she didn't even know if they were a boy or girl
but if they were still here today she knew she would love to tell them her troubles
the thought of having someone to open up to was something she wish she could do with a sibling but sadly she lost her twin that day.
and even though her parents loved her no matter how wrong she came out, she couldn't help but feel like she was too strange and not much human
plus the looks she got all through her life made her feel worse, like she was freak
and sure not everyone made her feel like a freak and treated her like she was normal
like old man Raisin, he was so nice and didn't care that she didn't look 100% human and even scold her for tanning her skin all the time
as well as dying her lovely snow white hair black
his words not Maple's own words, him calling her white hair lovely made her feel embarrassed as no one besides her parents called her hair lovely.
"well I really must go now Mr Raisin, hope to see ya next week at the festival!"
"ah yes the festival, hope you get picked by my grandson you know he is home for break from college maybe you will run into him there?"
oh right his grandson, he got into the college that Maple wanted to go to but she wasn't able to go because of what was keeping her from going...
it was kind of sad that Mr Raisin thought that she and his grandson would be a good match
but sadly that wasn't going to happen because they never really got along very well and when his father
and grandfather weren't looking he would be very cruel and mean to her
"maybe, I mean I don't think he would pick me but we will see wont we."Maple said
as she didn't have the heart to tell Mr Raisin what kind of person his grandson really was like to her
and it was most likely he would pick another girl instead,
the festival was a special event where a boy would pick his future wife
though some didn't take it too seriously and would laugh it off
then go marry someone else later on, but some took it very serious and would stay with the girl they picked.
but she knew that she will not be picked just like the first time when she was of age to pick one of the many girls picked but ended up not being picked at all in the end
even if she thought it would be different the next year of the festival it was the same as last year when she was sixteen
which was the age of a girl when they come of age of being picked by a boy around their age to be his future wife.
all guys walking around her and picking another girl
as she got home she was met with her mother
"oh hey mom I'm home, is dad back or...wait what is that?"she stop asking if her father was back when she seen what her mother was holding in her hands
"it's your dress for the festival next week and I know you might not want to talk about the whole 'boy picking you thing' but I have a very good feeling that you will be picked this time not like last year or the year before that...isn't the dress lovely? I think it will go nice with your hair, well as soon as we get that hair dye out first so your hair and dress will match!"
the dress was a white color and would go down to her knees, it wasn't too short or too long but the color of the dress was all wrong
"but mom all the girls will be wearing orange or yellow because the festival is in the fall,
to match the falling of the leafs and wouldn't me wearing a white dress be kind of out of place?"
"not if you let your hair be white again then it will match it perfectly."her mother said in a sing song voice, oh boy she wouldn't let that go
and something told her that she wont stop until she agreed to have not just her hair be white for the festival but her skin being light green again.
"look how about this, I will have my white hair show and I will stop tanning and let my skin go back to being light green,
but only for that one night but come next day I'm going back to black hair and orange skin, sound good?"
her mother seem to want to say that she should keep her natural born hair and skin,
but she decided to agree with her daughter for now
as she hope to herself that one day Maple will stop trying to hide herself because of what idiotic people say or think
because to her and her husband, their daughter was the most precious and beautiful jewel to them.
to be continued