Author Notes: This is a fan fiction. It is not created in association with any of the owners of the Dragonball franchise.
This story does not use fanon.
This story does not contain any DBZ characters. It takes place somewhere in the same universe as canon, and is kind of based on Dragonball, but on a different planet, with similar, but different characters, and more grils.
I finally wrote an entire long story! (^_^)
I wish I could make this into a comic, but I don't know if it's good enough to bother.
On a small blue-and-green marble, floating through space, far, far away…
A small saiyan girl stood in awe before the hoard of treasure in the room she had just come across. Foods of every sort lay stretched out on long, polished stone ledges. She saw hoards of colorful vegetables and fruits, and the scent of cooked meats made her mouth water. She longed to taste some of everything, and she flew forward, about to try some fat bird legs...
She opened her eyes suddenly and found herself slightly cold, in a curled up position, hugging her tail between her legs. In her dream she was wearing some kind of soft, colorful material, but in reality she was naked, lying on bare ground. She must have kicked her fur blankets off during the night and woken up.
"Mmaaaaw," she yawned. The girl decided to just wake up since it was almost bright out anyways. She shivered as her hands and knees touched the cold ground not covered by her blankets, and picked one of them up to hug herself with.
"Hmmm!" She yawned as she stood up and stretched out her tail behind her. Her small triangular shelter was made of logs leaning against each other at the top. Animal hides on the roof, and a ditch dug in front helped keep it dry during rainstorms. She stepped to the entrance and sighed as she looked up at the night sky. There were few clouds in the sky that night. The moon was perfectly round and reflected a strong light into her eyes. She felt a shiver throughout her body as her pulse sped up and all the hair on her body stood rigid. The girl gasped, and dropped her blanket, losing herself in the mysterious light of the moon.
Nearby, a 16-year old girl was snuggled up inside her sleeping bag, when she bolted up for some reason.
"Huh… it's still dark. I wonder why I—"
RRROOOOAAAAAAAAAARRRR! The young woman froze. Her heart began to race and a bead of sweat rolled down her face. "W-what was that?!"
The ground seemed to shake and she heard various loud splashes and stomps. She was terrified, and she pulled her sleeping bag tight around her, her eyes nervously scanning the wilderness that she could see through the window of her tiny 1-woman tent.
"N-now Ruby, think rationally… It's probably just a bear. O-of course. Bears don't normally attack humans, r-right? I left all my food in the boat, so if I just stay here I should be—" CRASH!
"Eeeek!"
Elsewhere, the guilty creature ran, flew, and swam around. Animals of every sort awoke and scattered about. The birds flew away to the perimeter of the island, while the rodents scurried into their deepest holes. The fish swam for survival as they were tossed about in giant waves that crashed into trees and rocky cliffs, and washed up on the shallow beaches.
A massive, really big, giant ape sat on the shore of the lake near her shelter and played with boulders in her hands, smashing them together and grinding them into gravel on the ground. She was getting pretty bored, and waiting for the moon to set so she could go back inside her makeshift house. Just then, she sensed a faint energy in the surroundings that she found interesting, as it felt pretty different than the animals on the island that she was used to hunting. She hopped up, and flew over the trees towards where the energy was coming from.
She spotted a small colorful object on the ground… It was blue, and looked like a tiny house made out of skin. Then she held back a gasp as she saw the creature in front of the structure. It was a human! She had long, bright-red hair. She was wearing clothing – a pink vest with a zipper and several pockets, blue jeans short-shorts, and black ankle boots. She was facing away from the saiyan, who, despite her giant size, landed silently, and crouched down to get her face closer to the ground in order to see the human clearly.
"Well, whatever that was, I guess it's gone!" the teenager hesitantly decided that the danger was past, and reasoned that she wasn't going to be getting back to sleep. Besides, the faintest traces of dawn were approaching, so she pulled her vest jacket on over her undershirt that she slept in, put her boots on, and crawled out of her tent, bringing out her backpack and a device that looked a little like an old Nintendo Gameboy.
"Now I can track down this signal! I'll just pack up my—" she suddenly tensed up with her hand in the air in front of her, grasping the stake she had just pulled out of the ground. She heard a soft rustle of branches and grass behind her.
"—tent…?" she croaked, slowly turning her head to look behind her. She found herself looking into the glowing red eyes of a gigantic were-monkey. The moonlight made it easy to see every curvature of the creature's face, whose snout was as tall as her entire body. She felt a warm breeze from its nostrils. It seemed to be grinning maliciously at her. Her eyes widened, as did her mouth.
"Grawr," It said to her.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
The teenager screamed and bolted away. Screaming at the top of her lungs, she ran as fast as she could away from the scene. It only took 2 seconds for the giant ape to decide to react. A gigantic hand planted into the ground by the fingertips in front of her, like a wall. The force knocked the human onto her butt, still screaming as another giant hand cupped in front of her, scooping her up into the other hand.
"Hnggr!"
"WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING! PUT ME DOWN YOU FREAK!" She was afraid to move around and fall out of the hands, since she had been lifted pretty high up already. The curious ape was trying to get a good look at her. "Hey! Did you hear me?! I said, put me down! Down!" She gestured as well. The giant ape seemed to pay no attention to her words, and started to walk away from her campsite, but a few moments later its eyes suddenly widened a bit in surprise, and it did put her back down. The morning sun had risen, and the fearsome monster began to shrink. The redhead caught her breath as she watched the fearsome monster turn into a very small little girl with shaggy black hair.
"Na?" She sat on her bare bum and looked up at the redhead.
"W-w-what are you, you freak?" The city girl backed up defensively. "You're one of those strong mutant people... oh, what did they call them?" Her foot fell on her tent, and she lost her balance, falling over on it. "Huwah! Oh, that's right, a saiyan..."
"Na?" The naked child ran over to her.
"What do you want? Are you alone out here?" The kid just tilted her head and made a confused sound. "Is 'nah' all you can say? Do you understand me? No, that's just wonderful. I need to pack up my tent." The older girl started pulling the stakes out of the ground. The child saw what she was doing and pulled one out for her, sniffed it, and then handed it to her. Ruby frowned and snatched it out of her hands. The teenager stuffed her tent into its casing, and put it in her backpack. She pulled out a rectangular handheld device with a screen and a few buttons on it. She flicked a switch on the side which turned it on. After studying it for a minute, she turned off to start walking in a direction. "Nah!" The wild saiyan perked up and ran after her to walk by her side.
"Shoo, shoo! Don't tell me you're going to follow me?! Get lost kid, do I look like I have time for babysitting?" The kid didn't understand her, of course, and kept following her. "Sigh, it can't be helped. I'll just ditch her when I get off the island." The wild saiyan was curious as to why the teenager's face was buried in the handheld machine. She grabbed her wrist and pulled her down a bit. "Nuh!"
"H-hey, watch it! I built this radar with my dad! Don't break it!" She scolded and smacked the child on the head.
"Na?"
"This is my summer homework here. I gotta study the cause or source of the unique radiation that we discovered. It's the weirdest thing!" Her mood started to lighten as she started talking about science and rambled on. "The signal points to seven small, distinct sources throughout this planet, and we haven't the slighest idea why! Apparently he's too busy with work, so I have to journey around the planet in the forest because I'm 'young and healthy' or something. I'll bet he's hardly working this summer as well!"
"Na?"
"This signal gets more specific the closer I get... as if the source was a small object... I just passed it? Uwah!" The teen cried out as she tripped on something under the leaves on the ground. She fell on her face to the side of the saiyan, who noticed a small object come rolling between her legs, and picked it up with her tail.
"Nah?" she held a small object in front of her, wiping some wet dirt off of it. It was a pearly white orb, no larger than a billiards ball. There were two small purple stars in the center that seemed to be easily visible no matter which angle she turned it.
"Thanks for your concern, I'm just fine!" the redhead grumbled sarcastically as she stood up and brushed herself off. "Nah!"
"Give me that! What is this? Wait, what if..." she trailed off, and brought the radar in front of her eyes, testing the location by holding the ball and the radar and moving around. The dot on the screen moved with her, confirming her hunch. "This object is what was detected by my locator. I think, maybe... there could be more of these things at the other dots? How strange, it must be some sort of magical artifact. But the energy is not detected by a scouter..."
"Nah!" The saiyan girl grabbed her elbow excitedly. "Ah!" The teenager yanked her elbow up. "I need to get out of here... The sooner I get rid of this weirdo, the better. Oh, no... No, you're not going to follow me, are you?" She groaned. "Naah?"
"You're really annoying! Don't you have any clothes? Yeah, clothes!"
"Yeah, cloves!" the girl repeated.
"Cloothes," the teenager yanked on her vest for emphasis. The child stood for a moment and stopped following her, then suddenly darted away.
"She's gone? Yes!" She broke out into a sprint towards the shore of the island. Just as she got to the beach, the saiyan child returned, and flew down in front of her. She huddled a fur blanket around her body to cover it up. "Ah! Oh, there you are again, eheh... I, uh... That's very nice kid, I need to get going. Gotta finish my 'homework' so I can make it to all the hot college parties!"
"Nah!" The saiyan child shouted in excitement, ignoring the older girl and flying ahead. She hopped into the boat parked on the shore, and stepped around in it, tapping parts of it in delight.
"Wait up pint-size! That's mine!" The redhead yelled, running after her! "I swear to god, don't you dare break anything! Get out of there, come on," she tried to tug the girl's arm and get her out of her boat. Just then, something flew down from the sky from the direction of the ocean, leaving a smokey trail. It landed behind the two girls and made a big explosion.
"Aaaah!" The girls cried out as she fell onto the sand. "What's going on!?" They looked out towards the ocean and noticed a larger boat out in the water.
"Nah!" The kid shouted excitedly at the other boat. From the deck of the larger vessel, several men appeared, looking out. "How you doin', city girl? Noticed you spending lots of cash back at the harbor! Why doncha come on board and spend some on us? Oh, and hand over the keys to that motorboat too." The saiyan hopped into the air and flew towards the men.
"What are you doing, those are pirates, you idiot! Thieves! Bad men!"
She did a little tumble in the air and looked over the men. "Na?"
"Hey, what's with this little brat?"'
"I dunno, get rid of it!" One of the men opened fire on her with a handgun. A few of the bullets hit, and she cried out and fell into the water. "Geh!" The teenager cried at the morbidity of the scene. Then, the girl shot back up out of the water, leaving her cover behind, so she was naked again, but mostly unharmed. The bullets left a few bruises on her. "Hrrn!" She grunted angrily at them.
"Wh-what, why isn't she dead?!" The redhead gawked. The pirates had a similar reaction. "It's still just a kid! I got this, bro!" said a rough-looking man with short blond hair and several days of stubble. The girl locked eyes with him and before the man could react, she was in front of his face. She kicked him in the chin at full power. The man flew across the deck, and hit the back of his head hard on the opposite railing, barely saved from falling overboard by the dented metal, but instantly losing consciousness.
The angry saiyan did not hesitate and moved to perch on the rail. She quickly took a glance at the two other pirates and rushed a kick to the chest of a thinner, brown-haired one who was drawing a gun. She followed it up with a punch to his face, putting him out of the fight. Meanwhile, she sensed the third one approaching her from behind. He made a grab for her tail, but she grabbed his wrist instead, crouching down and flipping him over onto the other man. Still holding on, she hopped backwards and flipped him back over the rail of the boat, dropping him into the water.
She felt for energies around the ship, but she sensed none besides the four humans she could account for, so she hopped into the water and swam back to the beach. The teenager was rethinking her opinion of the child, She's really strong. Maybe it would be useful to have her along to protect me from guys like that. "Nah?" the child was standing in front of her and looking up with innocent eyes that seemed to be trying to guess what she was thinking. Then again, she's like freaking Tarzan.
"Can't you say anything else other than 'nah'? How about a name, huh?"
"Nah?"
"Ugh, no. Sigh. Like this. I'm Ruby. Ru-bee," she gestured to herself, patting her chest for emphasis.
"Ruubee!" the kid repeated, putting her hands on Ruby. "Yes, Ruby." The girl blinked and thought for a second. She moved her hands to her own chest, and said. "Nah..."
"YOU CAN'T NAME YOURSELF 'NAH'!"
"Na... Nama?"
"That's a bad name for a girl! How about 'Namale'."
"Namale!" she repeated, seeming to like it. Not bad, not bad at all, Ruby thought of her name generating abilities. "That's your name now, Namale. You can change it later when you understand things better." She put her backpack down into her boat and started pushing it into the water. The child ran up and grabbed the edge of the boat. Ruby looked at her and hopped into the boat. Namale lifted the pointed end of the boat about an inch off of the sand, and pushed it towards the water, dropping it with a splash. She then used flight to land inside the boat with a 'thud'. "Careful!"
Ruby pulled the ignition cable, which started the engine on her third try. The little saiyan yelped in surprise when the engine roared to life. Ruby looked at her, a glint forming in her eyes as she pivoted the boat around so that the tip pointed away from the shore. Without warning, she accelerated the boat straight up to its top speed, and they were off! Namale knelt down on the floor and gripped the sides, frozen like a terrified cat. As the boat reached full speed, she gradually sat up, and put herself onto the seat. Straightening her back, she looked around in amazement, feeling the wind whipping on her hair.
"Nah..." she said to herself, looking at the wake of the boat and the vast ocean surrounding them on all sides, trying to see her island which was already far out of sight. Ruby threw something at her face. Namale picked up a soft white cloth. "It's called a T-shirt. Put it on over your head, like this." Because Ruby was adult-sized, the shirt was oversized on Namale and did the job of covering key areas. Ruby went back to driving the boat while the saiyan felt the softness of the foreign material on her body, amazed. Suddenly, she became very interested in what Ruby was doing. "Nah!" she prodded, as if she wanted to drive the boat.
"No no no... don't touch that. Sit still will ya, I need to check our direction. Namale began to experiment with the lever behind Ruby's back while she got out a device from her backpack that looked like a screen attached to a headphone with a keypad on it, and flipped the earpiece around so that the buttons were in front (like a tablet).
"Nah?"
"This is a scouter. I have the iScouter 4 with 5G and GPS, so it's easy for us to navigate on the ocean. Hey, hey," she shooed the girl's hands away from the control. "A little to the right," she mumbled as she adjusted the direction. "Perfect."
"Ah!" Namale pointed into the air where some seagulls were flying around.
"They're just birds."
"Nuh!" She hopped out of the boat and started chasing the seagulls in the air. "I'm not slowing down for you!" The saiyan was not listening and shot an energy blast at a bird that was a ways in front of her. Ruby watched in surprise. The girl caught the dead bird in the air and hopped back into the boat. "What do you think you're doing with that—eww…" She looked away in disgust as Namale started plucking the feathers off of the bird and cleaning it with her bare hands, then setting it on the metal floor of the boat and roasting it by induction using her energy. "I immediately regret my decision," she complained, rubbing the bridge of her nose with her fingers.