Chapter Two: First Meeting

Light filled the damp space stirring the sleeping inhabitants. The frantic sounds of beeps snapped Tarble out of the deep, warm sleep he was in only moments ago. He eyes snapped out to see soft pink flesh that his head was resting on. He tried to back away only to have the arm holding him pull him closer. His panicked eyes moved to Be'atrix, he brought a finger to his lips to silence his friend, before looking up at the face of whoever was holding him. Long black hair framed the face of a sleeping boy. From the look on his face; nothing seemed wrong with the boy, but from the first view Tarble got when he woke up, the boy must be starving. He wasn't sure where this boy had come from; he would have notice signs of another living on the planet besides him and wild life since he's walked all over the planet over the last three years.

When the eyes of the sleeping boy suddenly open; Tarble screamed and scrambled away from the other boy, backing himself into a corner. "Who are you? W-what do you want from me? I haven't done anything" Trable managed to get out without stuttering too much as he watched the boy before him. Brolly blinked watching the boy who had backed himself into the corner. He looked so timid and scared of him and all he did was wake up.

"Nothing, I just needed a place to crash for the night and you looked like you where freezing so I spent the night here" he said dully noting the moving machine that had moved to the boy's side. "Brolly, that's my name." He added narrowing his eyes in the machine that hid further behind the boy who made a squeak like nose and flinched further from the larger boy. "Relax I'm not going to hurt you unless you give me reason to"

"T-t-tarble...that's m-my name, and this is Be'atrix...m-my friend" he stuttered. Brolly sighed running a hand through his hair, not sure what to do to put the boy at easy. "We're going hunting for breakfast...d-do you want to j-join us?" Tarble asked nervously still not sure if the boy was going to hurt them or not. From the look on Brolly's face, the boy got that he was feared by the pair.

"Sure, though I've never hunted before..."

"I can show you, it's not hard so long as you're quite on your feet" Brolly chuckled at the boy's eagerness to teach him something even though this boy feared him. The boy's tail swished though the air happily behind him going back and forth. Brolly backed away from the timid boy so he could move to the stairs to get out so he could lead the way.

"Tell me Tarble, how long have you been on your own?" he asked looking away from the boy to the light of day. Once again there was the sounds of beeping coming from the machine that caught Brolly's attention, causing him to look back over at him.

"I know Be'atirck but he hasn't tried to hurt us so there's no reason to be rude." Tarble hissed to the machine trying not to let the other hear him, not noticing that they were being watched again. The machine beeped back something. "fine, stay here then, I'll be back before night fall" Tarble sighed turning to head out only to notice the funny look he was getting from Brolly. "Long enough from the look of your face, it's why I built Be'atrix...It beats talking to myself all the time." Tarble whispered, a blush playing on his face.

"Well you don't have to worry about that too much; you have another friend now to drive the loneliness away. Though I might not be around all that often but when I can, I'll come visit." Brolly said with a smirk.

"Can't I go with you? I promise I won't get in the way." Tarble asked desperately Brolly chuckled closing the distance between them gently putting a hand on Tarble's small shoulder. As much as he hated Paragus; the man kept him sane, Tarble had the machine he built, but from the desperation in the boy's eyes, it wasn't the same. Brolly silently vowed he was going to make sure his father was never going to find Tarble. The boy was just to fagile to be near a brute like his father.

"Sorry little one but you don't look like you can handle living a life as a mercenary. Come on, you said you were going to teach me to hunt. I have to leave this afternoon" Brolly said softly. It wasn't something that he was use to doing but the power he felt was nearly intoxication. Here he was free to himself; he had someone who needed him not for his power but for his personality. He wasn't a pawn here. Tarble shyly took Brolly's hand in his smaller softer ones, leading him outside. Brolly noticed the boy was still shaking but left it alone, figuring the boy was just excited.

He fallowed the smaller boy into the wood, past the hill he landed on the night before into the denser part of the forest. It wasn't so much of hunting as it was checking traps, and gathering fruits, berries and teaching Brolly all he had taught himself over the three years he had been on the planet. They came to the last trap to find a raptor like creature, hanging upside in a net, feet bound together, jaws tied shut. The creature didn't look too please about being caught. Tarble made his way up the tree and onto the branch above the creature. He hung himself upside down and broke the neck of the beast with his hands.

Brolly didn't know what to say. He hadn't expected this small boy who seemed to be afeard of his own shadow and yet he had no problem killing an animal. "You're scared of me but you have no problem killing that creature, why?" he asked Tarble blinked, looking at him, blushing again. He lowered the body down to the ground before he reset the trap.

"Because the creature is food, and well it still bugs me that I had to kill him, I'm not going to starve if I can help it. You...you're an unknown, there is nothing stopping you from killing me. You have more than enough power to do so. I'm not exactly like the rest of the race; I'm not a fighter nor do I have much of a power level which landed me to be exiled from the home world and dumped here to fend for myself." Tarble muttered softly quickly working on skinning the creature and taking the large slats of meat that he wanted before walking away from the carcase leaving the rest for the scavengers to eat.

Brolly fallowed the other away from the body to an area that Tarble always used for cooking. Within minutes a fire was started and meat was started to be cooked. Brolly just watched the boy work not sure what he could do to help the boy. He felt bad that the boy was doing all the work.

"Tarble...you said you where exiled, only the king could have done that why not just keep you at the bottom of the third class of the race?" true he didn't grow up on the Planet Vegeta but he had been taught the laws and rules of the race.

"Because it would tarnish the royal family name, so my father did the only thing that he could do, send me away." Tarble said like it didn't really matter much. Brolly on the other hand couldn't help but stair at the boy, before him, not believing his ears at what he was just told. He was going to say something when Tarble passed him the larger piece of cooked meat. "Eat up; you're going to need your strength if you have to go back to do work for my father." Brolly flinched, perhaps the boy didn't know that the race was dead and the home world was destroyed. He didn't know if he should tell the boy about it or not.

"It's my father's personal mission that I have to go do...the home world and most of the race is no more. I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news."

"Don't worry about it...I can't say I'm sorry to hear about the unfortunate demise of the race... a race of all warriors had to get knocked off sooner or later." Tarble whispered looking at the half eaten piece of meat. Neither knew what to do, awkward silence hung between them. "What's it like? Traveling among the stars?" Tarble asked softly wanting the break the silence the hung between them. Only it did the opposite effect.

"I never really took the time to stop and think about it, I'll let you know next time I come back. How does that sound?" he asked looking at Tarbel with smile, trying to put the other at ease.

"It had better be a good story if I have to wait for it"

"I promise you little prince, I'll make it a good one if you promise not to forget me"

"How does one forget the stranger who appeared during the night next to me?" Brolly laughed. Tarble had a point; he didn't get many visitors he would have to contend with. He stood up and stretched. Not use to having a meal that large. Tarbel stood, putting the fire out by putting a large steal pot over the small fire cutting of the flame's air supply. "Stay safe, while you're out among the stars" Tarble whispered before walking away from Brolly, not really ready to watch him take off. It was too powerful of a trigger for memory for when he was dropped off on the planet. Brolly watched Tarble's back till it vanished into the woods before he took off to return to the planet his father was on.