received medication for his heart disease. The mediccine failed to cure him and he died. Piccolo and Kami
have fused in threat of the androids. Cell has not visited this time, as of yet. Dende is the watcher of
Earth. MiraiTrunks has gone back to the future to fight his own battles. He does not help the Z Fighters in
this time line. I think that's all. Any time you see "Pikkoro" or "Pikoro" it's being used as a term of affection
for Piccolo. I believe Saiai is the only person to use this line.
Disclaimers: Standard disclaimers apply, I don't own any of these characters,
ect. ect. except the ones
I've created, such as Saiai, Kyoui, blah blah blah. The others belong
to Akira Toriyama and both the
Japanese and American TV compaines that broadcast them, and any others
that I don't know about. I am
not making any profit of this site. This is a personal site of my stories
I've written. Please don't steal them
and say you wrote them. These are all ©Shara Nameth, 2000. Email
me if for some reason you want them
on your site.
Author's Note: "Saiai" is Japanese for "beloved" and "Taka" is Japanese
for "hawk" or "falcon"
Chapter One
Piccolo glanced down at the girl clinging to him. She was frightened,
rightly so he guessed. She had just
awakened to find herself over the shoulder of the 'Green Daemon' high
in the air, with her last memory
being that of the android Juunana-guu knocking her into a wall. She
was scared of Piccolo, but her fear of
being so high forced her to wrap her arms around Piccolo and hold on
as tight as she could.
"Come on, Piccolo-San," Gohan called as he flew ahead of Piccolo. He
also had a 'passenger'. The girl's
little brother was clinging to him. The little boy was only 5, and
gave no indication of fear. He looked
around in wonder.
"Look Sissy! Look at that bird!" he cried as they flew, pointing. He'd
been grabbed by Gohan as he sat
next to his sister, who'd already been knocked unconscious.
"Yeah, Taka, I see it," the girl said quietly, trying to calm herself.
She looked at Piccolo's face, then back at
her brother on Gohan's back. "Hang on, Taka," her protectiveness playing
over her fear.
"Don't worry, I won't drop him," Gohan told her. "Your name is Saiai, right?"
She nodded, still watching her brother worriedly. "Who are you? And where are we going?"
"I'm Gohan. You're flying with Piccolo-San."
Saiai looked at the green face. "Piccolo-San?" she asked doubtfully.
"Piccolo, to you," he replied. He didn't understand why they couldn't
just save the boy. They didn't need
the girl, only her brother. But Gohan had insisted, and Piccolo didn't
feel like arguing with him when
Juunana-guu and Juuhachi-guu were 2 feet away in mid-attack.
"And we're going where?" Saiai asked, slightly calmer then before. She
looked back at Gohan and her
brother, doubting she would get anything out of Piccolo.
"We're going to Capsule Corp to see Bulma. Then we're taking you to Master Roshi's," Gohan explained.
"Why?"
"We need your brother," Piccolo said. Saiai stared at him, protectiveness taking over her face.
"For what? He's only 5. He can't possible help you in whatever you're
doing," she pleaded.
Piccolo said nothing and kept flying. 'This girl is going to be more
trouble than she's worth.' Piccolo
thought to himself. He seriously doubted they would convince the girl
to let them use her brother without
threatening her. The androids had done enough of that, he didn't want
to save her from them, then
present her with exactly what she'd left. Even though he came off as
cold and uncaring, he wasn't.
Perhaps in the
beginning he was (I mean, come on. The guy wanted to take over the
world.), but Gohan had seen past
that and inside his heart. No one had seen him that way. It had given
him reason to change. He still
appeared cold and distant, but those that had known him long enough
could recognize his emotions.
"Why do you need my brother?" Saiai asked again.
"Let's eat first," Gohan said, as he and Piccolo set down on the Capsule Corp lawn. "I'm starved."
"Eat?" Saiai asked, confused. First she was thrown into a wall by some
really cute guy. Then, she woke
up to find herself high in the air over the shoulder of a tall green
alien. She'd twisted and crawled her way
around Piccolo until her arms were wrapped tightly around his waist.
He'd looked at her with a look of
disgust and annoyance, but had allowed her to get into the position
most comfortable for her. And now,
this guy, Gohan he said he was, was suggesting they go eat.
Bulma opened the front door and came out. "Hi, Gohan. Piccolo. This
must be Saiai and Taka, right?"
Gohan nodded. "Good. Come on in. Lunch is ready." She turned and walked
back inside. Gohan followed,
while Piccolo went the opposite way into the forest. Saiai held her
brother, watching Bulma suspiciously.
Gohan turned to Saiai. "Don't worry. We don't want to hurt you. Come on." Gohan smiled at her.
Saiai stared at Gohan doubtfully, but her hunger finally won over and
she led her brother into the large
building after Gohan.
Chapter Two
Juuhachi-guu watched Piccolo and Gohan fly off with the girl and boy.
"Shouldn't we follow them?" She
asked.
"If you want to waste time going after then, go ahead. They aren't important.
Two miserable human will
hardly make a difference," Juunana-guu scoffed.
"There must be something important about them if they were they only
ones rescued out of this whole
city," Juuhachi-guu replied.
"We aren't going after them," Juunana-guu told his sister as he blew up another building.
"You're the boss," Juuhachi said, with a smirk. She knew eventually
her brother's pride would have to be
swallowed, but by the time he realized this, it would be too late for
him.
Juunana-guu leveled another building, then lifted off with Juuhachi-guu
following. He didn't appear to
have a destination in mind. With Geru and Goku gone, and nearly 85%
of the world destroyed, he just
wasn't sure what else to do. Pretty much all that was left was following
Piccolo and Gohan, but he
refused to admit his sister was right.
Juuhachi-guu followed her brother, mildly amused. "You don't know what
to do, do you? You know you
should follow them, but you don't want to admit I'm right. Your pride
will be your downfall, I can
guarantee that. And I'll laugh when you fall. They'll defeat you, and
it will be because of your pride. I'm
not as full of myself as you, I can admit when I'm wrong. You'll fall,
and I'll live on."
"Shut up," Juunana-guu changed course and headed toward Geru's lab.
"I know where I'm going."
Juunana-guu simply couldn't admit Juuhachi was right.
Juuhachi smirked at her personal success of tormenting her brother.
'How fun torture can be,' she
thought.
Chapter Three
Saiai finished eating her salad. "I'm sorry you had to make me something
else," she apologized again to
Bulma. It was times like this when she felt bad about being a vegetarian.
"Don't worry, it was no bother," Bulma assured her. It hadn't occurred
to her that someone might not eat
meat, so she felt obligated to make something else. She was thankful
there was still food in the house.
Gohan and Trunks had eaten most of it last night as they discussed
new plans for fighting the androids.
"So, why do you need my brother? Why is he so important?" Saiai asked
again, calm and concerned. Now
that she wasn't attached to a seven foot tall green alien high in the
air, she wasn't hysterical.
"Well, the androids have been terrorizing our world for nearly ten years,
as you know. Our friends have
been fighting them, but the androids have won every encounter. Trunks-kun
and I went to Geru's lab and
got his old lab books," Bulma explain. "We looked-"
"Wait, not to be rude, but who's Trunks and Geru?" Saiai interrupted.
"Trunks is my son. He's out right now, delaying the androids, trying
to give us time to find a way to defeat
them. Dr. Geru is the creator of the androids. That's why we went to
his lace. We were hoping to find
anything that might weaken the androids."
"So what's all this have to do with my brother?" Saiai said, frustrated.
Bulma glanced at the little boy, who was now wondering around the kitchen
curiously. She sighed. She
didn't want to tell the girl the truth about her brother. But she knew
she had to. "We looked though
Geru's old labs. We found one that seemed promising. Five years ago
Geru worked with a couple. They
had a son who was quite ill, and had to have frequent stays in the
hospital. Geru promised the couple
that he could take away their son's suffering and spare his life, for
a small price. He was in the early
stages of making androids. He wanted to make one from a human base.
The couple agreed to Geru's
price. The boy stayed with Geru for a week. He was turned into an android."
She looked at Saiai's face, to
see if she understood.
Saiai stared at Bulma, absorbing the story but not connecting it to
anything. "Okay. That's a really sad
story. But what's it got to do with my brother?"
Bulma stared, surprised she didn't understand. "The little boy I told
you about *is* your brother," she
said gently. "Your brother was very sick when he was born. Your parents
couldn't stand to see him in
such pain, so they took Geru up on his offer."
Saiai sat silently for a moment, finally getting it. "My brother...
is an android?"
Chapter Four
Juunana-guu looked around Geru's lab. It was obvious someone had
raided it. He assumed it had been
the Z Fighters.
Juuhachi-guu was still smirking at her brother. "And what was your reason
for coming here? Or were you
just trying to prove me wrong? Even though you *know* I'm right. I
think that's it. You can't admit I'm
right," Juuhachi said, taking sadistic pleasure.
"You're getting repetitive," Juunana-guu told her, attempting to quiet her.
"Perhaps I am. But if being repetitive bothers you so much, I
enjoy it. And watching you fly around like a
lost puppy is so entertaining. Please, dear brother, keep up the show."
Juuhachi-guu smiled sweetly.
"That smile doesn't fit you," he replied, and flew out the opening toward Capsule Corp.
"I don't mean it to," Juuhachi-guu said, and went back to smirking.
"You've finally wised up. Or maybe
your pride is just taking a vacation."