This is my first attempt an any sort of Fanfiction so I hope people'll cut me a lil' slack... I went for the mind-numbingly cheesy romance thing - hope that's not too bad.
I wasn't one to watch 'the adventures of Superman', I never liked the story of 'Sleeping Beauty' and I sure as hell never 'broke a nail'.
I was never into the whole 'damsel in distress' thing… seemed kind of pathetic, y'know?
Born and bred to be a hero in my own right, where would I find a man who could do anything I couldn't?
Where would I find a man stronger than my father? With more 'chutzpah' than myself? Someone smarter than my mother?
Where would I find someone who cared enough to be my 'knight'?
I fended off suitor after suitor, some left with black eyes, some with bruised egos and then there was Sharpener who left with both… several times.
Some called me 'picky', Erasa said I had 'unrealistic expectations', some said I didn't want to be caught by the 'burly man with pure intentions'. I didn't.
That, however, did not mean I didn't want to catch him myself.
It was during senior year when my eyes began to open, when I brushed away the clouds of cynicism which had been obstructing my view of the world. It was on a cool summer's day that I finally opened up my guarded heart, that I saw a suitor I didn't want to swat away or cuss to the ground.
Sitting at the base of a tree just outside of the school sat Son Gohan, resident nerd.
I eyed him suspiciously as I had done so for the three days since his arrival at the school, something was off about this one.
Guys with grades like his weren't swooned over by the 'cool' girls, were they?
Guys who looked like him, didn't care about grades in the first place - did they?
A guy like him wasn't supposed to have such a presence, such an aura… such power - were they?
He rose his head from his book and for a instant, our eyes met. His penetrating black eyes saw right through me.
Frozen. For the first time in my life I was… frozen.
I used to tell people I would never need to be 'rescued' but I was wrong. He saved me from the pain from my past, the demons that threatened our future, he saved me from anything and everything.
I used to tell people that no man would ever be my 'knight in shining armour' and I was kind of right. He was only half.
I used to tell people that I'd never be the 'damsel in distress' and I never thought I would be. But with him, it feels natural, it feels romantic. As hard as it is to say… I would gladly be that 'damsel' but only for him.
Please read and review - I need to know whether I should continue writing...
