Disclaimer: Don't own DBZ

AN: More of my self-challenge....0.0 I hope to achieve the hight of non-yaoi/yuri oddity soon...thus I strive to find couples not even considered by Different Dragonball.....so....any suggestions would be nice....

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Defender

Chapter 1: Return.

The bloodied man stumbled up from the ruins of the cliff.

Slowly, he shifted his gaze from his left to his right, taking in the sight of it all, emerald sky, turquise grass...yes...he knew this place all TOO well...this had been the place he died....

Then how was he living now?

He dusted off his tattered and ruined cloak, he noticed a storm rolling in the distance....a storm like that could not be natural...so he decided that's where that traitor, Vegeta, must be.

Now the choice was..did he attack him now? Or wait?

Unconsciously, he glanced in the sky, then spat a violent curse...the bloody three suns of this planet made it impossible for him to tell whether he's been dead mere moments, or for days....only the continued existance of this planet proved that it had not been long.

" Still...I daren't return to master Frieza unprepared...." He reasoned...he had died once already, and he was in no hurry to experience such a thing again...yet it seemed no choice but to after Vegeta...perhaps his head would help appease the wrath of his master, that, beside the final dragonballs.

" Then it's decided." He muttered to himself, begining to fly in all haste towards the disturbance.

But, what if Master Frieza was there? No...he would only turn back if he were...no danger....

Suddenly, golden oblivion encompassed him, litterally blowing him to peices.

' I'm dying again..' Was his last thoughts, before blackness consumed me, and then he was lying on his back, in severe pain.

Staring up at a blue sky, through a thick canopy of GREEN leaves...

Where was he?

He tried to sit up, but pain shot through him, causing him to fall, uncerimoniously, back to the ground with a thump, and a loud yelp.

How could so much of himself hurt so much...all at once?!

He forced himself to take deep-measured breaths...he would pull through this.....find out where he was...and kill Vegeta.

" And who are you?" Came a cold voice from slightly above his head.

He turned his head slightly, causing jolts of pain to sear through him to look at his assualter.

A very tall , blonde, woman, was glaring down at him, peircing, icy-blue eyes looked down at him, as if weighing whether it would be worth it to kill him or not.

He swallowed painfully, and managed a hoarse whisper, tinged with the panic he felt, " Wh-wh-wh-wh-who are you???"

A small look of surprise registered on her face, as if she was startled that he did not instantly recognise her.

Not a good sign.

Her surprise melted into a small smirk, " You can just call me death."

Swallowing nervously, he pleaded pitifully for his life, " Please...don't...don't kill me..."

Surprisingly, her malivolent smirk faded, and she leaned down to say, " I'll just leave you to my brother......He'll have fun, no doubt."

He really didn't like the sound of this brother.....

" Please don't...." He begged, he'd rather be killed outright than be 'played with' first....

She made a disgusted face, then finally sighed, and said, " Oh fine, if it will shut you up....but I must know your name."

" I-I-It's....Zarbon..." He said, teeth nearly chattering with anxiety.

" Hm." She said, crossing her arms, " Well....since I'm not going to kill you yet....why should you call me death?"

Confused on whether that question was rhetorical, Zarbon remained silent.

" Yes, yes, you can cann me 18....if I speak to you first, anyway." She said, smirking.

With that, she hefted him lightly over her slim shoulder and carried him off.

Where was he going?.....He was none-too-pleased with how she carried him, either....

He suppressed a sigh, what had he got himself into???

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AN: I know, very short, but it's a vague idea, what do you think?

R&R

Yusagi Sombermoon