It has been almost forever since I have updated my story. Truly, I am
sorry. I could offer excuses, but that is not likely to make anyone feel
better, least of all myself. I am happy to say though, I will finish this
story. It just might take me awhile! ^_^
Ryu Kifujin
The Third Dimension By: Ryu Kifujin
Prologue 1 - one day before this story
"Well?" The shadows shifted as the figure moved. "Did you get it or not?"
"Yes, sir. It was not easy with her being so old and all. Not to mention the fact she didn't want to tell us." The jet-black hair spikes fell across his black eyes as he shook his head.
The angles of the other set of eyes deepened. "Is she dead?"
"ME? Not kill someone? Come on, Yasai, you know me better." He pointed to himself.
"The king is going to have our neck." Yasai shook her head.
"It's not like he doesn't already want them, and for how long has he tried to get our necks and failed. He never could find us to begin with and if he ever did we are ready for him." A savage grin spread across his face.
"Yes, but is it enough? We don't know and in order to know we had to ask her. You understand right?"
"Yes."
"We have to stay a few steps ahead of him. Let me see the prophecy."
Prologue 2- a few hours after prologue 1
"Was she there?" a hard voice asked.
"No, sire." Came the reply from a bowed figure. The Black locks of hair ran down his neck and his head remained bowed and muffled the sound.
"THEN where the hell is she!!!" The sound echoed off the chamber walls in the throne room.
"She's dead. We found her as a blood mess on her own floor. Even the guards that are posted there 30 hours a day didn't know anything was wrong. They only noticed when she didn't come out for breakfast this morning."
A stunned silence hung over the throne room, where no one dared to move.
"DEAD!!" The sound pierced everyone's sensitive ears. "I what those guards executed. They are of no use to me if they cannot guard a simple oracle!"
"Sire, There is one more problem."
The King raised an eyebrow and listened.
"We don't have a clue as to who did it."
Story part 1
The green grass had the early morning dew on it, and the darkness was beginning to lift from the shady sky. All through the capsule house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. well almost.
"Will you hurry up! We don't have all night!" A voice from the darkness was sharp.
"I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying!" The sound was softer than the latter. "I can't see where I am going! Why again are we doing this?"
"It's so boring, remember? There's nothing to, but homework, chores, and.well work! I thought you wanted to go on an adventure?"
"Yeah, but you have robots and stuff to do all your work." The smaller one pointed out.
"Humph! So! It's still boring around here!"
The latter sighed and continued through the dark. "Isn't this considered stealing?"
"No of course not, I told you we were borrowing it. It's not like we are going to hurt it, and we will bring it back."
"You sure have a funny way of looking at things. I wonder what my mom will say."
"Nothing, she won't know."
"I don't know, she seems to know everything."
"Did you find the door yet?"
"Ah, found it!" There was a faint squeak from the door and the purple and pinks rays from the rising sun came across the floor and up the wall behind them.
"About time! What took you so long!" His purple hair swished as he turned his head into the light.
"I don't know the inside of your house as well as you do. Hey, your dad is not going to up this morning is he?" The figure paused at the door, where his hair's shadow fell familiarly.
"No, mom told him to train in the evenings."
"Phew, I really didn't want to run into him."
"Don't tell me your scared of him?"
"Well."
"Humph! Let's get going!" The taller figure pushed past the latter into the light from the door, and more light bathed the room they left. The light reviled the simple furnishings of the room they left that included a sofa with end tables and lamps. In one corner was a TV on a beautiful stand that made the light shine just enough to cause the screen to look on. "Coming?"
"Yeah." The second walked through the doorframe, and together Goten and Trunks moved toward a different capsule house. ****** She's sleeping, Good. I will be able to get some extra training in before she wakes up. Vegeta scanned the room and grabbed a pair of bike shorts that were hanging over a chair. He slipped into them and jumped out the opened window into the morning sky. ****** "Got the key?" Goten questioned Trunks when they reached the other side of capsule corp.
"Yeah." Trunks dug in his short's pockets to produce a plastic card with lines on it. "Here, push it in the slot to get the door open."
"Right."
There was a loud click and the door swung open on the gliding hinges. The morning light bathed the room too. The room consisted mainly of large computers and robots that were turned off for the night. There was one desk that had coffee rings on the edge and paper stacked everywhere. Some threaten to fall off the edge.
"There!!!" Goten pointed to something hanging on the edge of the top of one of the smaller computers.
The computer was small, but really high up. Several boxes were beneath it. The object Goten pointed to was silver and circular. The top was green with darker green lines that covered it. The compact had a small button on the top that reminded you of a capsule.
"Your right!" Trunks jumped and floated to the top of the computer. His long fingers rapped around the dragon radar. "Got it." Trunks raised it above his head and waved it around.
"Alright! Let's go find them! ****** The white lettering blinked on and off on the control tower. 350g flashed across it along with a warning that Vegeta didn't heed. He sat and began a warm up after setting his clock to let him know when he had to leave before she woke up. ****** The sun jumped to the sky and morning was upon everyone.
"How many have we got?" Goten yawned looking at Trunks as he counted how many where in his hands.
"Three more! Only three more and we will have our wish!" Trunks looked excitedly at the dragon radar. "There's one in this direction, come on!" Trunks pointed and they disappeared at a fast rate. ****** Chi-chi snorted. Gohan had gotten up early to work on some of his studies for class, but she was not worried about that. She had a large breakfast to make for whenever he finishes his studies and her lazy husband wakes up. Which reminded her that Goten would be coming home soon, he had spent the night over at Capsule Corp., much to her dismay.
Chi-chi began by throwing a large pot of boiling water on the stove and cutting some fresh fruit up. ****** Bulma rolled over as some wind from an open window hit her in the face. Now why is it open- She stumbled out of her bed and closed it. After climbing back in bed and falling half-asleep did it finally dawn on her as her eyes popped open, Vegeta. ******
The two boys looked around on the ground for the last dragon ball they needed which was in the area, but were having no such luck.
"There! Look there!" Goten point to a gofer hole in the ground. "Maybe it's down there."
"Are you kidding? Who would put one there?" Trunks muttered, but Goten stuck his hand in and began to feel around for it.
"I can't reach far enough." He complained after a minute and began to dig around the hole to make it bigger. Trunks stood by watching. ******
Bulma jumped out of bed, and grabbed the closest article of clothing that would cover her nightgown, which just happened to be Vegeta's 'Bad Man' button down shirt. It figured that he left his clothes around so much.
She had told him to train during the day and evening, but not in the mornings to keep some of the neighbors from waking up. It had to be like 6:00 am and he did have a habit of blowing the gravity room up now and again. He complained that she could just add a sound proof barrier to it, but she had been so busy. Maybe it would be easier to add the barrier then to try and keep his training in the mornings canceled.
Sighing, she quickly raced down the stairs, and then her 'mother sense' picked up when she passed Trunks's bedroom on the bottom floor. She paused and looked into see two forms on the bed, but there was something fishy. Where were the pillows?
She walked quietly into the room and then quickly pulled the blanket off the bed. She found just what she thought she would: pillows. She had to find out where those boys had gone. She would ask Vegeta, he would know with ki and all. Besides she had been going in that direction anyway. ******
"Here's one! I feel it!" Goten pulled his hand out "But I can't grasp it. Man, is that hole deep!"
"Let me try!" Goten moved to let Trunks reach his hand in.
There was a screech from Trunks as his pulled his arm out and looked at his throbbing hand. "Why that little.grrrr.animal that bit me!!! Trunks pulled back with the hand that was not throbbing and blew the whole area up revealing a network of elaborate holes beneath the ground.
Goten, who was holding the radar, suggested " Maybe we should dig in the dirt. The radar says it's farther down."
"Wait there it is!"
****** "Trillion two hundred and sixty six, Trillion two hundred and sixty seven, trillion two hundred and sixty eig-" Vegeta suddenly stopped his warm-up finger push-ups, and his ears pick up. Ah, shit. She woke up. Hearing her footsteps coming closer he turned the gravity and lights off. Sitting in the shadows, he hoped to scare the crap out of her. If he couldn't get his kicks out of Kakorot; then he would have to settle for this. Besides he was already in trouble. ******
Bulma approached the gravity room. She could have sworn that she heard the hum of it from around the corner, maybe Vegeta had gone elsewhere. No.Where else would he be if not in here? The Kitchen?
Grabbing the handle on the door and double-checking to make sure the gravity was off she pulled on the door. It smoothly came out of place, and she noticed that no light came out the door, so the lights must not be on. After the door opened completely she took an unsure step inside.
It was dark and the only light was that which came from outside, but the door quickly was closing behind her. Funny she had the feeling something was preying on her.. Watching her every move. That was silly! Vegeta was not here! He had to be else where, he would not waste his training time to pull a stunt. Would he? She reached out with her hands to feel in front of the now pitch dark room. She hoped to find the light switch on the console along with the gravity controls.
There was a small scratch behind her and she quickly turned around only to see nothing move in the darkness, not that she could see anything if it was moving anyway. This was getting ridiculous. Why was she so jumpy? She reached out in the direction of the sound and felt nothing. Turning around quickly, so as not to lose her sense of direction to the console, she ran into something solid. It was smooth to the touch and very warm, it also had well defined lines. She began to feel higher and ran into someone's shoulders. Huh?
Vegeta lit a ki ball so only his face was visible, "Boo."
Across the lot.
Mrs. Briefs spoke to her husband, "Did you here that? It sounded like a scream?"
Mr. Briefs replied, "Yes, I thought I heard that too."
"How charming!" ******
Yasai read over the prophecy for the twenty-ninth time. Damn. It just made no since. They shouldn't have killed the oracle so soon. Here goes number thirty:
Whens energies fries
Turtles flies
Rivers fires
Waters dries
Times Cries
Thens Lions Dies.
Frustrated Yasai very nearly crumpled the paper in her hands. What a dumb Oracle she didn't even have proper vocabulary. Who ever heard of everything being plural? It didn't even answer her question.
Just then the dear warrior she had wanted to talk to came in the darkened room. "You haven't seen the prophecy yet have you, Daedalus?"
The boy shook his head, and Yasai gladly handed over the paper. After reading seemingly five or six times he looked up into Yasai's dark eyes.
And laughed. "I guess it will never happen then. He's too strong for us. I mean who every heard of turtles flying. Or get a load of this." He looked down at the paper, " 'Waters Dries' water is always wet!"
Yasai glared at him and he stopped. "Don't forget your place boy."
"Sorry, sire. I only thought it was funny. It won't forget again."
"Good, now go and find Acacetus, and ask him if he wants to play a game of jisatsuosama." Yasai smiled the game would slow her frustration.
******
Holding the last ball in his hand Goten shouted happily and grinned covered in dirt. Anticipation of the adventure ahead hung in the air around Trunks and Goten.
After laying all seven of the Dragon Balls in front of them they afforded themselves another smile. The blown gofer hole was a nice place to put them all.
"Come forth Dragon and grant our wish!!" Goten and Trunks Chimed together, and on command the sky began to darken.
The Third Dimension By: Ryu Kifujin
Prologue 1 - one day before this story
"Well?" The shadows shifted as the figure moved. "Did you get it or not?"
"Yes, sir. It was not easy with her being so old and all. Not to mention the fact she didn't want to tell us." The jet-black hair spikes fell across his black eyes as he shook his head.
The angles of the other set of eyes deepened. "Is she dead?"
"ME? Not kill someone? Come on, Yasai, you know me better." He pointed to himself.
"The king is going to have our neck." Yasai shook her head.
"It's not like he doesn't already want them, and for how long has he tried to get our necks and failed. He never could find us to begin with and if he ever did we are ready for him." A savage grin spread across his face.
"Yes, but is it enough? We don't know and in order to know we had to ask her. You understand right?"
"Yes."
"We have to stay a few steps ahead of him. Let me see the prophecy."
Prologue 2- a few hours after prologue 1
"Was she there?" a hard voice asked.
"No, sire." Came the reply from a bowed figure. The Black locks of hair ran down his neck and his head remained bowed and muffled the sound.
"THEN where the hell is she!!!" The sound echoed off the chamber walls in the throne room.
"She's dead. We found her as a blood mess on her own floor. Even the guards that are posted there 30 hours a day didn't know anything was wrong. They only noticed when she didn't come out for breakfast this morning."
A stunned silence hung over the throne room, where no one dared to move.
"DEAD!!" The sound pierced everyone's sensitive ears. "I what those guards executed. They are of no use to me if they cannot guard a simple oracle!"
"Sire, There is one more problem."
The King raised an eyebrow and listened.
"We don't have a clue as to who did it."
Story part 1
The green grass had the early morning dew on it, and the darkness was beginning to lift from the shady sky. All through the capsule house not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse. well almost.
"Will you hurry up! We don't have all night!" A voice from the darkness was sharp.
"I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying!" The sound was softer than the latter. "I can't see where I am going! Why again are we doing this?"
"It's so boring, remember? There's nothing to, but homework, chores, and.well work! I thought you wanted to go on an adventure?"
"Yeah, but you have robots and stuff to do all your work." The smaller one pointed out.
"Humph! So! It's still boring around here!"
The latter sighed and continued through the dark. "Isn't this considered stealing?"
"No of course not, I told you we were borrowing it. It's not like we are going to hurt it, and we will bring it back."
"You sure have a funny way of looking at things. I wonder what my mom will say."
"Nothing, she won't know."
"I don't know, she seems to know everything."
"Did you find the door yet?"
"Ah, found it!" There was a faint squeak from the door and the purple and pinks rays from the rising sun came across the floor and up the wall behind them.
"About time! What took you so long!" His purple hair swished as he turned his head into the light.
"I don't know the inside of your house as well as you do. Hey, your dad is not going to up this morning is he?" The figure paused at the door, where his hair's shadow fell familiarly.
"No, mom told him to train in the evenings."
"Phew, I really didn't want to run into him."
"Don't tell me your scared of him?"
"Well."
"Humph! Let's get going!" The taller figure pushed past the latter into the light from the door, and more light bathed the room they left. The light reviled the simple furnishings of the room they left that included a sofa with end tables and lamps. In one corner was a TV on a beautiful stand that made the light shine just enough to cause the screen to look on. "Coming?"
"Yeah." The second walked through the doorframe, and together Goten and Trunks moved toward a different capsule house. ****** She's sleeping, Good. I will be able to get some extra training in before she wakes up. Vegeta scanned the room and grabbed a pair of bike shorts that were hanging over a chair. He slipped into them and jumped out the opened window into the morning sky. ****** "Got the key?" Goten questioned Trunks when they reached the other side of capsule corp.
"Yeah." Trunks dug in his short's pockets to produce a plastic card with lines on it. "Here, push it in the slot to get the door open."
"Right."
There was a loud click and the door swung open on the gliding hinges. The morning light bathed the room too. The room consisted mainly of large computers and robots that were turned off for the night. There was one desk that had coffee rings on the edge and paper stacked everywhere. Some threaten to fall off the edge.
"There!!!" Goten pointed to something hanging on the edge of the top of one of the smaller computers.
The computer was small, but really high up. Several boxes were beneath it. The object Goten pointed to was silver and circular. The top was green with darker green lines that covered it. The compact had a small button on the top that reminded you of a capsule.
"Your right!" Trunks jumped and floated to the top of the computer. His long fingers rapped around the dragon radar. "Got it." Trunks raised it above his head and waved it around.
"Alright! Let's go find them! ****** The white lettering blinked on and off on the control tower. 350g flashed across it along with a warning that Vegeta didn't heed. He sat and began a warm up after setting his clock to let him know when he had to leave before she woke up. ****** The sun jumped to the sky and morning was upon everyone.
"How many have we got?" Goten yawned looking at Trunks as he counted how many where in his hands.
"Three more! Only three more and we will have our wish!" Trunks looked excitedly at the dragon radar. "There's one in this direction, come on!" Trunks pointed and they disappeared at a fast rate. ****** Chi-chi snorted. Gohan had gotten up early to work on some of his studies for class, but she was not worried about that. She had a large breakfast to make for whenever he finishes his studies and her lazy husband wakes up. Which reminded her that Goten would be coming home soon, he had spent the night over at Capsule Corp., much to her dismay.
Chi-chi began by throwing a large pot of boiling water on the stove and cutting some fresh fruit up. ****** Bulma rolled over as some wind from an open window hit her in the face. Now why is it open- She stumbled out of her bed and closed it. After climbing back in bed and falling half-asleep did it finally dawn on her as her eyes popped open, Vegeta. ******
The two boys looked around on the ground for the last dragon ball they needed which was in the area, but were having no such luck.
"There! Look there!" Goten point to a gofer hole in the ground. "Maybe it's down there."
"Are you kidding? Who would put one there?" Trunks muttered, but Goten stuck his hand in and began to feel around for it.
"I can't reach far enough." He complained after a minute and began to dig around the hole to make it bigger. Trunks stood by watching. ******
Bulma jumped out of bed, and grabbed the closest article of clothing that would cover her nightgown, which just happened to be Vegeta's 'Bad Man' button down shirt. It figured that he left his clothes around so much.
She had told him to train during the day and evening, but not in the mornings to keep some of the neighbors from waking up. It had to be like 6:00 am and he did have a habit of blowing the gravity room up now and again. He complained that she could just add a sound proof barrier to it, but she had been so busy. Maybe it would be easier to add the barrier then to try and keep his training in the mornings canceled.
Sighing, she quickly raced down the stairs, and then her 'mother sense' picked up when she passed Trunks's bedroom on the bottom floor. She paused and looked into see two forms on the bed, but there was something fishy. Where were the pillows?
She walked quietly into the room and then quickly pulled the blanket off the bed. She found just what she thought she would: pillows. She had to find out where those boys had gone. She would ask Vegeta, he would know with ki and all. Besides she had been going in that direction anyway. ******
"Here's one! I feel it!" Goten pulled his hand out "But I can't grasp it. Man, is that hole deep!"
"Let me try!" Goten moved to let Trunks reach his hand in.
There was a screech from Trunks as his pulled his arm out and looked at his throbbing hand. "Why that little.grrrr.animal that bit me!!! Trunks pulled back with the hand that was not throbbing and blew the whole area up revealing a network of elaborate holes beneath the ground.
Goten, who was holding the radar, suggested " Maybe we should dig in the dirt. The radar says it's farther down."
"Wait there it is!"
****** "Trillion two hundred and sixty six, Trillion two hundred and sixty seven, trillion two hundred and sixty eig-" Vegeta suddenly stopped his warm-up finger push-ups, and his ears pick up. Ah, shit. She woke up. Hearing her footsteps coming closer he turned the gravity and lights off. Sitting in the shadows, he hoped to scare the crap out of her. If he couldn't get his kicks out of Kakorot; then he would have to settle for this. Besides he was already in trouble. ******
Bulma approached the gravity room. She could have sworn that she heard the hum of it from around the corner, maybe Vegeta had gone elsewhere. No.Where else would he be if not in here? The Kitchen?
Grabbing the handle on the door and double-checking to make sure the gravity was off she pulled on the door. It smoothly came out of place, and she noticed that no light came out the door, so the lights must not be on. After the door opened completely she took an unsure step inside.
It was dark and the only light was that which came from outside, but the door quickly was closing behind her. Funny she had the feeling something was preying on her.. Watching her every move. That was silly! Vegeta was not here! He had to be else where, he would not waste his training time to pull a stunt. Would he? She reached out with her hands to feel in front of the now pitch dark room. She hoped to find the light switch on the console along with the gravity controls.
There was a small scratch behind her and she quickly turned around only to see nothing move in the darkness, not that she could see anything if it was moving anyway. This was getting ridiculous. Why was she so jumpy? She reached out in the direction of the sound and felt nothing. Turning around quickly, so as not to lose her sense of direction to the console, she ran into something solid. It was smooth to the touch and very warm, it also had well defined lines. She began to feel higher and ran into someone's shoulders. Huh?
Vegeta lit a ki ball so only his face was visible, "Boo."
Across the lot.
Mrs. Briefs spoke to her husband, "Did you here that? It sounded like a scream?"
Mr. Briefs replied, "Yes, I thought I heard that too."
"How charming!" ******
Yasai read over the prophecy for the twenty-ninth time. Damn. It just made no since. They shouldn't have killed the oracle so soon. Here goes number thirty:
Whens energies fries
Turtles flies
Rivers fires
Waters dries
Times Cries
Thens Lions Dies.
Frustrated Yasai very nearly crumpled the paper in her hands. What a dumb Oracle she didn't even have proper vocabulary. Who ever heard of everything being plural? It didn't even answer her question.
Just then the dear warrior she had wanted to talk to came in the darkened room. "You haven't seen the prophecy yet have you, Daedalus?"
The boy shook his head, and Yasai gladly handed over the paper. After reading seemingly five or six times he looked up into Yasai's dark eyes.
And laughed. "I guess it will never happen then. He's too strong for us. I mean who every heard of turtles flying. Or get a load of this." He looked down at the paper, " 'Waters Dries' water is always wet!"
Yasai glared at him and he stopped. "Don't forget your place boy."
"Sorry, sire. I only thought it was funny. It won't forget again."
"Good, now go and find Acacetus, and ask him if he wants to play a game of jisatsuosama." Yasai smiled the game would slow her frustration.
******
Holding the last ball in his hand Goten shouted happily and grinned covered in dirt. Anticipation of the adventure ahead hung in the air around Trunks and Goten.
After laying all seven of the Dragon Balls in front of them they afforded themselves another smile. The blown gofer hole was a nice place to put them all.
"Come forth Dragon and grant our wish!!" Goten and Trunks Chimed together, and on command the sky began to darken.